Designer Chia-Wei Chen from Taiwan made a very unusual longboard. It is adapted for city driving, and it has a folding case. Moreover, from a typical case for the cruiser, it is transformed into a circle.
Yes, the weird circle on the cover of this text is the longboard. If you pull beyond its borders, you get this:
The transformation involved 57 parts, united by movable joints. All structural elements are printed on a 3D printer.
The board itself is small. The dimensions are comparable to a penny board:
In general, the idea is interesting. Here at my place is a huge cruiser, and sometimes I want it to be somehow more compact than its size (on the other hand: why did I buy such a huge longboard?).
True, judging by the video, there are certain problems with this longboard: it flexes very much under the weight of the rider. But the rider in the photo does not weigh very much. So I have a few questions about the strength of the structure itself.
Now it is only a concept. But, in principle, Chia-Wei does not cost anything to release a file for printing. It would be interesting to collect it.
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