Conference Bike
Photograph by Noah Scalinon Flickr.
There are two independent brake systems with disc brakes and a parking brake. In the late 1980s in New York he had the idea of a circular Party Bike multi-person bicycle which would make the riders and the spectators simply smile and be cheerful.
Several rental stations use the ConferenceBike Conference Bike but more in terms of attraction and fun and making money. Since 2003 the new ConferenceBike is manufactured in serial production and is distributed worldwide. By the unique arrangement of the seats all riders start conversation very easily.
(In Germany and most European countries, at least.) It is allowed Conference Bike on the streets and is not bound to bicycle lanes because of its width. Lighting consists of a double bicycle lighting system with dynamos.
Later in the Netherlands several three wheeled six-seaters were built which had a multi-angled elliptical outside frame. In Germany it is free of permission by the Technical Control Board (TÃœV), registration approval and tax The concept of the ConferenceBike was developed by the US-American artist and designer Eric Staller who lives in the Netherlands.
The gathered power is then conveyed to the rear axle by a motorcycle chain. The power transmission is completely covered.
A growing focus is the use as a marketing or promotion tool. It consists of standard bicycle cranks, chainwheels, chains and freewheels which are fixed to a shaft.
Now the driving force is gathered by a compact circular shaft. It is tricycle-shaped but has four car wheels, two of them as double tyres at the rear.
The prototype was built around 1989 in the USA and was called Octos . This is called a circular shaft.
It can be used for teambuilding, seminars, and guided tours with small groups over longer distances. All of the three wheelers had a steered single wheel in front and two rear wheels, one of them driven.
As a completely Human Powered Vehicle it has the legal status of a bicycle. In the area of bicycling with blind or otherwise handicapped persons it can provide exceptional experiences and sometimes even amendment.
The arms are arranged in a radial pattern, leaving space to step in between them and mount easily. The ConferenceBike is a 7-seat human-powered vehicle designed in Germany by Velo.Saliko after an idea of Eric Staller. The Conferencebikeis a bicycle for seven people which are sitting in a circle and are looking inwards, towards each other.
The gathering of the driving force was accomplished by bicycle chains which were twisted and joined on a short vertical shaft. By applying several kinds of advertising space the ConferenceBike is on the way to more commercialisation. .
This shaft gathers the driving force from the seven directions of the frame by means of universal joints or cardan joints which connect the sections of the shaft. The ConferenceBike is a social tool , a communication catalyzer which brings people together and creates team spirit.
The saddles can be adjusted in height in a wide range, thus enabling people with a size from 1.40 to 2.00 meters to ride the ConferenceBike. Steering employs a rack steering gear from a car.
It was an eight-seater with outside circular frame and four wheels. Some time later Eric Staller built a three wheeled five-seater with a heart-shaped frame, the Love Bike .
