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The Grasshopper: It Folds Up, It Recharges, It’s Designed in SolidWorks *Update!*

08 Dec, 2008 by Josh Mings in DESIGN
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Ya know the speeder bikes in Stars Wars you always dreamed of riding on? Well, this bike is the next best thing for the moment. Storm Trooper, neat sound effects and wooded terrain sold separately.

The Grasshopper, designed by David Gonçalves, is a collapsible, self-charging, energy-conserving joy-ride that can trasnform into a trolley or stationary bike. It won the Merit prize in the 2008 12th International Bicycle Design Competition and it just so happens that it was designed in SolidWorks.
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Di-Cycle: The Two-wheel Bicycle Designed For Watery Places

11 Sep, 2008 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

Di-Cycle bicycle designNow, think about it folks. When you’re cruising across the rocks, roads and roundabouts on your normal bicycle, you never know when a gaping water hole is going to open up right in front of you. Certain doom.

Fortunately, this bicycle concept, could save you from landing face down in a muddy channel plus make you look kinda cool. It’s making the rounds and just about everyone is saying, check.. this… OUT.

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The Uno: Uni-Motorbike Designed in SolidWorks

01 May, 2008 by Josh Mings in DESIGN

Hold on people, we’re about to tear the fabric of uncool unicycle transportation into a million tiny bits. Ben Gulak has created the first production-ready, gyroscopic- powered, bi-wheeled motorcycle.

The aptly named “Uno” has two wheels right next to each other making it look like the coolest half of a crotch rocket you’ve ever seen.

When I first saw the photos, I knew some sort of CAD software was used. Sure enough…

“[Ben] didn’t know CAD software, but instead used the free Google software called Google SketchUp. Ironically, a salesman came knocking shortly after, trying to sell SolidWorks, a 3-D CAD software package. Ben explained he couldn’t afford anything like that, but he did show the salesman what he was working on. The next day a copy of SolidWorks and a SolidWorks for Dummies book arrived”

- Motorcycle Mojo

That is just plain cool.

The unit is powered by gyroscopic technology that balance you as lean forward to speed up and lean back to slow down. Ya know, like that Segway thing. It weighs a mere 120 lbs and with the current motor configuration can get up to a curb-blurring 25 mph.

One thing is for sure, if you have a good idea you’ve been working on, show it to a SolidWorks VAR. You just might get a free license of SolidWorks.

More about the bike with photos at Motorcycle Mojo!