Bownanza is an exciting new scheme to promote street food culture in Bromley-by-Bow and across London.
It was created by Architects Dominic McKenzie & Peter Morris with Dan Hopewell and Rick Levene from the Bromley-by-Bow Centre. To find out more or get in touch please email: office@dominicmckenzie.co.uk or peter@petermorrisarchitects.com

Thursday 2 May 2013

Road test of the Delivery-Bike-Van prototype. Mach 1

Exciting to get the bike out of the workshop and on to the road today, if only to see that designing vehicles isn't as easy as it looks! 

What seems very plausible on the drawing board, is in fact incredibly heavy and un-manoeuvrable on to the road. 

The bike looked good in the workshop...





...and all seemed well as Jim from Bikeworks set off on the test drive, but then it seemed to take him ages  to turn back the other way. But he managed it eventually.












Then Peter had a go and eventually managed to turn around and come back the other way. But on trying to park the whole upper part started to go and then - in slow motion - completely tipped over! 


Disaster. It could only mean one thing. 

Back to the drawing board