Is it possible to achieve a completely new level of transportation with minimum resources?
Kolelinia is a concept for riding our own bikes on a new type of bicycle-lanes, based on steel wires. It aims to create a new type of transportation experience, and to be installed using a minimal amount of resources.
The Kolelinia midair bike lanes consist of steel cables suspended above city streets at a maximum of 4.5 meters and over pedestrian zones at between 2.5 to 3 meters. Commuters’ bike tires are slotted into a steel furrow up to 14 cm deep and anchored to the two horizontal steel cables, with a third safety cable strung at about saddle height. The butt of one handlebar is also clipped to this third cable. Riders are clipped into the cable system via a special mechanism and a safety harness. The system is not intended to replace ordinary biking, only to relieve congested zones. Of course it is too early to talk about mass use. At the beginning it could be a special designed adventure line or a touristic line in the city.
We are born to move and this makes us alive. Transport is not just transport, it has to be an experience. The quality of this process reflects directly on the quality of our life.
The project Kolelinia was officially presented at the TEDx conference in Sofia
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What about different bikes? Not all have the same handlebar height and width…
Love it! Some additional issues to solve – 1) an improved interface with the bike, with both horizontal and vertical adjustment, to keep different sized bikes centered over the tube, also to attach to bikes that have different types of handlebars – maybe something with velcro? 2) the rider safety attachment and wire must be both redundant and independent of the bike system, so even if the bike system fails, the rider is safe – perhaps an overhead wire to clip into?
the u-shape of the track introduces dramatically increased friction around the edges of the wheels, making pedaling much harder and less efficient
How do you overtake?! 8-)
Please, get familiar with the bicycle dynamics, especially the act of countersteering. Riding a bike on a narrow U-track will be a terrible experience.
Great idea. Pity it won’t work. With the friction dragging one side of the handlebars back the bike would constantly be trying to jump out of the channel. This would also have the effect of throwing the rider off balance to the left. Perhaps two wires either side?
[...] 1959. © Klaus Bürgle Urban Sport, football field in Tokyo. © Marc Lemahieu Martin Angelov, Kolelinia, 2009. © Martin Angelov. Who needs bike lane when you can enjoy a network of suspended steel [...]
is ist possible to cross an river like the Rhein ? There could be system-bike to rent.
What annoys me most about this, is that if they only tried it on a small scale first by trying to cycle along a piece of guttering fixed to the ground, they would have realised what a terrible idea this is. See point above about bike dynamics and counter-steering.
I love the design of creating biking infrastructure…but James Taylor is right, the design isn’t feasible. Additionally…is this really the system we want to put in place to provide the public health incentives for a historic shift from driving to biking? If we start building for bikes, we’ll get bikers……but we can’t continue to let cars have everything, remove bikes from the places people need to go, and expect great numbers of bikers. Replace large road areas with large desirable biking environments…provide a healthy, simple biking environment; everything starts there, necessarily
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[...] roza la ficción, pero imaginarlo puede ser interesante. Se trata de un proyecto ideado por Kolelinia, un laboratorio que se define como un espacio de creación sobre alternativas en transporte, ideas [...]
[...] ideas for bike and transportation enthusiasts to consider. The image above shows his idea for an elevated bike lane that works on the principles of a high-wire walker, but with a few more safety features added. [...]
[...] Kolelinia, creato da Martin Angelov, è un laboratorio per il trasporto alternativo, idee folli e stile di vita in bicicletta. [...]
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