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<\/a>\nThe Zoombike by Richard Sapper<\/a> was conceived as a vehicle with the same geometric proportions of a normal bicycle.\u00a0These are able to fold easily, quickly and fold out like an umbrella through a press-button system.\u00a0This grants optimal convenience\u00a0for urban transportation, whether on the road, in a metro, tram or bus,\u00a0in the trunk of a car, or in other confined spaces such as\u00a0elevators.\u00a0You can store the zoombike in almost any wardrobe or cabinet or you can even hang it on a coat hook in a small apartment.\u00a0The bike is made of aluminum, has three gears and weighs only 10 kilograms. A lighter magnesium version is being developed.<\/p>\n
The disc wheels allow very low air resistance, resulting in excellent mechanical efficiency.\u00a0Despite the smaller diameter of the wheels, the gear ratios are almost the same as those of a normal road bike.
\nBecause the design is based on aircraft technology, instead of traditional bicycle mechanics, these characteristics can be achieved.<\/p>\n
One of the most successful designers in the world is undoubtedly Richard Sapper. Richard sapper has a big influence on Italian design in recent years.\u00a0Sappers products are accurate, functional, innovative and very complex. One of his main characteristics is “giving meaning to form”, a goal that he often achieves with overwhelming success. According to Ettore Sottsass, Sapper has never produced a bad design. Source: richardsapper.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Richard Sapper’s design ‘the Zoombike’ for Elettromontaggi. The Zoombike by Richard Sapper was conceived as a vehicle with the same\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[8,62,120,119,118],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/artivelo.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Zoombike-Folding-bicycle-vouwfiets-design-Elettromontaggi-2000-1960-SpaceAge-Richard-sapper-2-300x116.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nRichard Sapper<\/h4>\n
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