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A bike in a suitcase+

Oct 23, 2006 by Tut in Design , Bicycles | Add your say

Nowadays, we wonder why some businessmen still carry a big suitcase. After all, all they need has shrunk into their laptop, with a WiFi connection powerful enough to make them feel as if they were in their usual office.

But some other times, a suitcase is a niece envelope to keep using. That was the basic idea Gosha Galitsky, a Israeli designer living in Italy, used when he created the bicycle suitcase transformer. “It might not fold to the smallest possible size, but when it is folded, there are no sticking-out wheels, sprockets or cables that can get entangled with other passengers and make them dirty.”

“The delicate (and greasy) components are all enclosed inside the suitcase-like body of the bicycle, forming a neat rectangular package that can be easily dollied using the small front wheel of the bicycle.”


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