Industry: Folding bicycle culture leads the continuous innovation and rapid development of bicycle industry.
Since the invention of bicycles, people have been trying to make them smaller and take up less space. Practical and commercialized folding bicycles have completed this historical fate, and their greater contribution is to make the global bicycle industry innovate constantly and develop rapidly.
Folding bicycle is a convenient means of transportation.
The prevalence of automobiles around the world and the disorder of urban construction in some countries have overwhelmed some big cities that were not so forward-looking, and the high loss rate of bicycles has discouraged most people who intend to buy ordinary bicycles instead of walking. Innovative bicycles-folding bicycles are favored by consumers because of their lightness and quickness.
Nowadays, people in cities travel by car, bus and bicycle (including all kinds of two-wheeled vehicles). Usually, the government advocates taking the bus, but because of the traffic jam, because it can't solve the traffic between the station and the destination, sometimes the efficiency is extremely low, and folding bicycles can often make up for this. It is convenient and quick to complete the distance between the two ends of the line. If you are on a business trip in a different place, it is also convenient to use a folding bicycle. For example, when traveling by train, the folded bicycle is not much bigger than a big suitcase. It is convenient and quick to put on the luggage rack, and you can start riding when you arrive at your destination, which saves a lot of trouble.
Folding bicycle is a healthy and environmentally friendly way of sports and leisure.
From a certain point of view, on the one hand, folding bicycles are becoming pioneers of environmental protection, economy and health. Try to take the public transportation system, save time, put an end to the waste of private cars and bring health and vitality to people. On the other hand, it is necessary for a healthy and harmonious society. Riding a folding bicycle is a pleasure in itself: a well-adjusted and properly adjusted folding bicycle, whether riding fast or slow, will relax the rider's mind and nervous nerves on a quiet avenue, mountain road or lakeside trail. Cycling is the most fashionable sport in Europe and America, and Europe has a long cycling history and profound cycling culture connotation. Cycling here actually has the same status as golf.
Like Britain, the Netherlands and Germany, folding bicycles have become very popular because of the developed subway rail transit system. In these countries, folding bicycles are not only used as vehicles, but also developed various high-performance sports folding bicycles, such as Alex in Britain and R&M in Germany. Many people own such bicycles, take them to the suburbs and go on weekends. Because of the small size of folding bicycles, it is completely unnecessary for cyclists to buy an expensive single frame or special handling tools and put them directly in the trunk.
I hope more people will enter the life of folding bicycles.
There are not many international brands of folding bicycles that can be seen in the domestic market. According to the available information, the mainstream brand of folding bicycles in China is DAHON, and other brands such as KHS and R&M are also entering China. Other brands such as Alex, BikeFriday and Brompton have not been seen in China. At present, many domestic factories have invested heavily in the research and development of folding bicycles, and also developed many good folding bicycles, such as Libahuang and Crown King.
We believe that in the field of folding bicycles, it will be more colorful. More internationally renowned folding bicycle brands will gradually flood into the domestic market. At the same time, we also look forward to the continuous maturity and development of well-known domestic brands. Some folding bicycle brands that have occupied a certain market share can have their own unique design concepts. After continuous improvement and perfection, they will have a bright future.
Most people who buy folding bicycles are young men and women, who are concentrated in people with more income, love life and rich information. Many people buy folding bicycles not only for walking, but also for traveling and leisure on weekends. They invite three or five friends, take long-distance buses or short-distance trains to the outskirts of the city, avoid the smoky cycling in the city, and enjoy the fresh air and beautiful scenery directly in the suburbs, which is both exercise and fun.
The manufacture of folding bicycles must strive for perfection.
Road bike and mountain bike are two main streams of modern sports bike (compared with civil scooter). They have experienced a long development, and they are becoming more and more perfect and mature in design, technology, materials and technology. In fact, it is difficult to make a qualitative breakthrough in the technical field. Comparatively speaking, although the folding bicycle has passed a considerable period of development, its development momentum seems to be more rapid. Various brands of folding bicycles constantly update their designs with their own different ideas, and extract various folding bicycles suitable for different purposes and trends, including road type, comprehensive type, travel type, leisure type, commuting type, military type and so on.
From a technical point of view, a folding bicycle with reasonable design and excellent performance seems to need to consider more factors than non-folding standard road bikes and mountain bikes. As a folding bicycle, we must also consider the needs of "folding": how to make folding not affect the overall performance, how to make the folding process more convenient and fast, how to make it smaller and more compact after folding, how to carry it easily after folding, and how to control the weight as much as possible. Moreover, we should also consider all kinds of negative effects brought by "folding" and how to minimize these negative effects.
Many factors in the design of folding bicycles often contain and restrict each other. How to weigh the pros and cons? Therefore, it is not easy to design and produce a perfect folding bicycle. A folding bicycle with good performance in all aspects, high technical content and great technical difficulty, beyond imagination!
Folding mode and diameter of main stream wheel
The basic idea of folding is to overlap and compress the wheel and control system into a frame as much as possible, and reduce the volume as much as possible, and arrange them according to the wheel diameter, 700C, 26 inches, 20 inches, 18 inches, 16 inches, 14 inches, 10 inches, 8 inches and 6 inches.
From the point of view of folding mode, it is mostly in the form of girder folding. Most brands adopt this method, the design is usually simple and convenient, and the folding and unfolding speed is faster. Usually, the products of girder folding are to lower the seat, put down the handlebar, and then fold the girder in half to realize the folding of the whole vehicle.
In addition to this folding method, there are other folding methods. Other folding methods usually aim at not folding the main beam to obtain better strength, such as R&M Birdy and Bike Friday. Usually make a fuss about the front and rear forks, and the front and rear forks are rotated and folded 180 degrees respectively. There are also some combination products. Brompton thus won the title of "the smallest bicycle after folding". With the development of technology, this record is constantly being refreshed. A-bike, which has not been officially listed, is the same size as a handbag after folding.
However, due to the need to fold and balance the adaptability of road riding, the diameter of the mainstream folding wheel is more common from 12 inch to 20 inch. Among them, the number of 20-inch folding bicycles is the largest. I think the main reason is that the 20-inch wheel diameter has become the mainstream wheel diameter in the era of ordinary bicycles, and the standardization of spare parts and supporting production is more convenient. Among the well-known mainstream brands, 20-inch cars are divided into several categories according to their functions, including single-speed ordinary scooters, variable-speed primary sports cars, high-grade highway variable-speed sports cars and off-road vehicles, which meet the needs of different groups of people for bicycles to the greatest extent.
Industry should speed up the innovation of folding bicycles.
Since the prospect of folding bicycle industry is so bright, and since the market of folding bicycle is still expanding, why don't we speed up the development of new folding bicycle products and accelerate the production of more advanced, fashionable, practical and high-quality folding bicycles?