Wire Bike, An ultra-light bike based on priciple of “Tensegrity”

Wire Bike design photo

Conceived by designer Ionut Predescu, the concept “Wire Bike” offers a new approach to designing a bicycle frame ultra-light based on the principle of tensegrity architecture that allows, when connected by bars cables without directly connecting bars between them to form a rigid system. Discovery!

Original description of the designer

High strength tensegrity frame made of carbon fiber and Kevlar cables. A Balance Between compression and tension elements Is Able to offer a lighter alternative to traditional bike frames by Producing a stiff structure elements WHERE Seem To Float One Against the Other.

Learn more about tensegrity

Terms of architecture, which is the invention of Richard Buckminster Fuller in 1949, the word “tensegrity” is a contraction of the term “tensile integrity ” and characterizes the ability of a structure to stabilize by the forces of tension and compression and distributed it to them trim. The structures established by the tensegrity are stabilized, not by the strength of their individual components, but the distribution and balance of mechanical stresses in the entire structure. And a mechanical system comprising a discontinuous set of compressed components within a continuum of components tense, may be in a state of self-stable equilibrium.

For example, geodesic domes, such as the Geode in Paris (Fainsilber, 1985), are tensegrity structures where tensile forces are rearranged to minimize the distance between two points of the structure.

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It is connected by bars cables without directly connecting bars between them to form a rigid system

the concept Wire Bike offers a new approach to designing a bicycle frame ultra-ligh

High strength tensegrity frame made of carbon fiber and Kevlar cables

Wire Bike design photo