A novel design of bike accessory, “DrinLock,” created by 2 students from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, had aroused the attention at this year’s German iF Concept Design Award competition.
Kao Hua-Cheng and Chen Chien-Wei from the Department of Industrial Design, NCKU, are the winners of the International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC) which has partnered with iF Design Talents.
“DrinLock is a design about bicycle accessory which combines lock with drink holder,” said Kao who added that the design not only protects your bike from stealing, but also saves the inconvenience of carrying a lock around.
With a simple intuitive operation, the design of combining a drink holder and a lock in DrinLock has exhibits the creativity in form and function as well, Kao said.
“I found on the street some baskets or drink holders of bicycles and motorcycles were filled with trash left by passersby,” said Kao who talks about how he comes up with the idea. “And to carry the lock with you can be another problem, so I think I’d like to solve the problems with design.”
We used some methods to help us searching for solutions, such as the morphological chart which was teaching by Professor Shih-Wen Hsiao, said Kao and Chen.
Chen explained the design, “When you reach the destination, the drink holder could be easily converted to a bicycle lock and then the "lock" could return to the original state "drink holder" by the tightrope spring structure in it when you get the bike to ride.
Chen said the safety of the rider is accounted in the design; therefore, they set up a backward reflector to monitor the condition behind the rider.
The illuminious ingredient has been put on the surface of the cable for the security while riding at night, Kao added.
SOURCE / National Cheng Kung University Taiwan