The Vibrator bike

I’ve sent my first design idea for Vibrator bike to Nick Martin, engineer-collaborator and maker of the BRI’s first sonic trike. We’ll be working together next week to make Vibrator Bike for presentation in Coventry. Yes. It’s our first bespoke bike for the Coventry Sonic Bike Opera for 2021 and next year should also see us making a Companion Bike. Now time to make final decisions on our materials including the 2nd hand bikes we’ll be hacking, the thickness of plywood for the vibrating chamber, the transducer models and frequency ranges to shake it, their amplification and attachment, the power required to run it all and how and of course budgets.

This first design is modelled on the Christiana cargo bike after field research in Berlin and London looking for the favourite model. Also because I’m wanting to get the cyclist involved in the vibratory ride as well as the one being pushed. Note that although this mkI design suggests one reclining body – a sonic bed on wheels? – of course there’s room for lots of children or at last a couple of people if  intimately reclined.