People sit on bikes. People sit on chairs. All bikes have a diamond-frame, but there is an uncountable amount of different chair-constructions and -designs. This idea was the starting point for the citybike project called Rollin’, which the product-designer Moritz Menacher developed as a degree-project for his Industrial Design studies.
The design is rather inspired by contemporary furniture than by sportsdesign. Tubes have been replaced by surfaces which obtain stability from being folded. The frame, which has been developed from folded papermodels, is lasercut from one aluminum-sheet, folded and welded at six points. By modifying the 2D-path of the laser, the geometry of the frame can easily be adapted to the body-measurements of the future bike owner.
'Rollin' attempts to gain a new perspective on cycling in inner cities. The citybike isn't seen as just an appropriate vehicle. It rather becomes part of the direct living environment of its user. 'Rollin' is a shortdistance bicycle for innercity-rides up to 3km. Its lock, which is integrated into the frame, makes the bike unridable when locked and thus unattractive to bicycle-thieves.
