Conceptual design of children's portable bicycle frame and handlebar

Abstract

Bicycles for children are widely available on the market in various shapes, sizes and types. The currently available bicycles types in the market are the regular bike that cannot be folded and the folding bike. Although the folding bikes can be folded into smaller sizes but the bike still take much space when it stored, especially if desired to stored the bike in a storage or a case and the bike will be stored for a long time This paper aims at generating concept design of frame and handlebar of children's portable bicycle that does not take much space when storage and can be carried easily, using conceptual design method. Six concept variants have been generated from a range of possible concepts by combination of solutions in the morphological chart and the best concept variant has been evaluated and selected based on a set of criteria using Pugh concept selection method.