Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles

Press Kit

Unique Properties

Urbano is an innovative handle-bar & carrying bag for bikes. It aims to carry heavy weight with bikes comfortably, easy and safely in urban areas. The handle-bar is universal and can fit on to any kind of bicycle. The bar is also designed to stabilize the bag that helps to give the better driving experience to the cyclist.

Dimensions & Packaging

The handle bar comes with multiple width options which depends on the shoulder width.

Tags

Urban, Fashion, Bag, Bicycle, Handlebar

Production Technology

All the materials and production techniques are included in submitted pdf document.

Design Challenge

Observations in London was a bit hard because I had travel around all the city to determine the problems that urban commuters encountering. It was actually fun to take all the pictures and to actually see the problems however it was a bit tiring activity to walk around the city for days.

Project Duration

The project started in January 2018 in Nottingham Trent University. After 3 months of research process, the actual designing process started and lasted for two months. Project ended in May 2018 in Nottingham Trent University.

Operation Flow

The handle-bar can be easily fitted on to any bike. The unique shape of the handle-bar provides space to fit the bag. The bag can be easily attached to handle-bar with the help of the hook and velcro bands. The placement of the bag generates advantages with driving experience. It allows much safer trip with weight balancing and also gives better control with the bike itself which is much needed in urban areas.

Research

Quality literature review, an online survey, semi-structured interviews living in both London and Istanbul and an extensive observation studies are reported in submitted PDF documents. The deep research enabled me to set a design brief to apply a solution for the concerning problem.

Inspiration

The main inspiration of the project comes from urban life-style and its obstacles. With the growing world people are more tended to move to bigger cities and it causes congestion which causes delays in people's daily routines.The project aims to find a alternative solution for urban commuters. The brief is set up after the research process. Highly detailed research process supported with literature review, surveys and observational studies was the key point of the project.

Patents

Copyrights belong to Mert Ali Bükülmez, 2018

Colors of Urbano Handle Bar for Bicycles