When the people who made Xbox entered an international competition to design a bike that would meet the challenges of modern life, their 'Denny' mount emerged the winner. It has some fantastic features.
Oregon Manifest, a non-profit organisation dedicated to making the world think differently about bikes, recently ran a competition in the US for design and bike companies to come up with the utility bike of the future.
The idea was to devise a mount that would best serve the way we will our lives in urban environments.
The Seattle-based Teague company, which designed the first Xbox and also does interiors for Boeing, teamed up with Sizemore Bicycles; also Seattle based.
The result was the Denny, which won the competition and which will now enter production for sale to the public.
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We think it’s pretty cool. Have a look at the video and shots below and see what you think.
It comes with handlebars that come off to double as a lock, or can act as a “quicklock”.
There’s a tray up front with elasticised netting for keeping things in place.
The minimal mudguard is our favourite feature, while the electric pedal assist makes this bike suitable for long commutes for those using cycling primarily as a mode of transport.
It comes with electric gears and lights, front and rear, that double as brake lights and indicators. There’s also a rechargeable battery.
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This may not be the exact bike of the future.
But with fuel constantly creeping up in price, cities increasingly gridlocked and cycling gaining ground on every level as the future for transport; it’s bikes like these that are going to turn the cycling movement into a revolution.
The Denny
The winning bike was the product of two Seattle-based companies; Sizemore Bicycles and the Teague design company. Taylor Sizemore designs custom bikes while Teague is a design collective, not limited to the bike game but designing everything from upmarket interiors for planes to architectural and electronic projects.
Looking pretty slick in the daylight. Once bikes like this catch on, as they inevitably will, we are past car peak
The handlebar system doubling as a lock. The bars also 'pop' open, without the need for removal, to act as a lock.
This is a first for a bike we think. It might seem crazy to 'proper bike riders' but features like this and electric pedal assist will get people out of cars and onto bikes. And once that happens, the streets will never be the same again.
The minimal mudguards are a basic design that look at first glance to have improved on a very old concept.
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