Innovative new folding bicycle design by Graham Powell

该项目专注于证明一种创新的新折叠自行车设计的概念，这种设计与目前市场上现有的产品有很大的不同。该设计旨在提供高质量的骑行体验，非常快速的折叠，紧凑的行李箱大小的折叠机器和吸引人的美学。通常情况下，大多数折叠自行车只能属于上述四个类别中的一到两个，这限制了它们更广泛的吸引力。如果成功，预计现有的和新的市场机会都将得到仁慈的开发。折叠设计是格雷厄姆·鲍威尔的发明，他是一位具有30多年产品开发和工业合作经验的设计工程师。该项目寻求建立在现有的“原则证明”模型的基础上，进一步开发和证明这一概念，并将其转化为全面工作的原型，以进行彻底的评估和测试。该项目的一个关键目标是证明横向和扭转刚度，特别是在车架设计的特定区域内，可以完全实现。因此，本项目开发的概念验证原型将进行测试，以复制自行车行业安全标准，并进行真实的用户测试。预计在概念验证阶段成功完成后，将准备申请专利。接下来，我们将探讨英国制造业的选择。

The project focuses on proving the concept of an innovative new folding bicycle design that issignificantly different from existing products currently available in the marketplace.The design aims to provide a high quality riding experience, a very quick fold, a compact'suitcase' size folded machine and an attractive aesthetic. Typically most folding bicycles fitinto only one or two of the above four categories, which limits their broader appeal. Ifsuccessful it is anticipated that both existing and new market opportunities may becommercially exploited as a result.The folding design is the invention of Graham Powell, a design engineer with over 30 yearsexperience of product development and industrial collaborations. The project seeks to build upon an existing ‘proof of principles’ mock-up, further developing and proving the concept into a fully working prototype for thorough evaluation and testing. A key aim of the project is to prove that lateral and torsional stiffness, particularly within specific areas of the frame’s design, can be fully achieved. As such the proof of concept prototypes developed in this project will be tested to replicate bicycle industry safety standards along with real-life user testing.It is envisaged that upon successful completion of the proof of concept stage a patent will beprepared for filing. Following this, options for UK manufacturing will be explored.