Generating PDF document

Please, wait a moment

Too much time loading?
Reload the page and try again.

CYTUVA

High speed Skibike

Download PDF

Contact Information

  • Moisés Blanco Caballero
  • Paseo del Cauce, 59
    Valladolid, Valladolid (47011)
  • Send email
  • 983423763
  • 983423310

Basic Information

  • UniversityUniversidad de Valladolid
  • Center
  • DepartmentMaterials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, Graphic Expression in Engineering, Cartographic Engineering, Geodesic and Photogrammetry, Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Process Engineering
  • Investigation Group


Description

This product is a snow or skibike. Its innovation, compared to similar bikes, lies in its design for high speed descents, while the other existing snow bikes are only adapted to acrobatics or slow descents. For this high speed mode, the bike exhibits a longer and shorter shape and design to allow the driver to keep a more aerodynamic position. This weight distribution will allow faster descents, but on the other side it will reduce the bike's manoeuvrability, making its use more complicated than that of a regular snowbike. Carbon fiber was chosen as the best material for this bike's frame, given its excellent resistance-to-lightness ratio. Aluminum was also used for some parts, as it allows us to graft onto carbon fiber easily. These grafts provide higher resistance to friction wear, needed for the different part joints, while its weight, though higher than that of the fiber, is not too high.


Other information

Number of researchers:

3

Development status:

In prototype phase

Intellectual Property Rights:

Patent

Differentiation in the market:

Novelty

Applicability of technology:

Yes

Companies and markets:

Leisure. Winter sports.

Advantages:

Skibike can be adapted to people with different disabilities by redesigning the area of concern, making it accesible to all people interested in the product. A complete ergonomic study was conducted in order to determine Skibike measurements. Intended for a new purpose, it had to be designed from scratch.

Additional Information:

Premio Prometeo 2016 (Award organized by the University of Valladolid).

UNESCO Code:

3327 - Transportation systems technology

Other members:

Sergio Garrido Conde
Javier de la Cal Rioja

Photos

Videos

Other resources

Related projects

SELVIDRON: Acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) to river water mapping and bathymetry

This project develops and designs a water platform equipped by a self-propelled remote control and by a series of sensors that analyse river basins measuring water and its bottom parameters. This system provides data about river basin depth, as well ... Read more >

GIR - Electronic Materials and Devices Characterization Group (GCME)

OBJECTIVESThe group of electrical characterization of materials and electronic devices has developed a set of standard techniques based on the analysis of conduction mechanisms and electrical parameters (capacity, conductance, current, etc.), which a... Read more >

Method to determine angular speed in a mechanically commutated motor by only measuring the current flowing within it

Method to determine angular speed in a mechanically commutated motor by only measuring the current flowing within it (Patent for invention request number 200902143). This method is based on determining the moments when alternating component waveforms... Read more >

Energy recovery of by-products and flows of pressure processes

This research line focuses on the oxidation of organic mass waste using supercritical water. This fluid, over its critical point, exhibits excellent properties as solvent for organic products and, because of them, oxidation occurs in a single homogen... Read more >

This email will be sent to the technology and knowledge transfer office. In your case, it will also be sent to the researcher responsible for the chosen project.
Fields marked with * are mandatory.

I accept the Privacy Policy

CAPTCHA Image

Type the characters shown in the image on the left.

[ Different image ]

close