Stand Alone
About this project
The solution involves training wheels that rise when the bike is going above 4KM/hour and lower when the bike drops below 4KM/hour - providing the stability the front rider needs to safely start and stop the bike without tipping over.
The challenge
Adi is 27 years old and has Cerebral Palsy, she joined the team at TOM:Philips as the Need Knower for the challenge. She had been biking for almost 10 years - while she has a great riding partner now, she has fallen on multiple occasions (usually around stopping and starting) and so has her friends.
Who it helps
Roee, a Philips employee is a volunteer at Etgarim, an organization working with adaptive sports in Israel. When he heard about TOM, he reached out to the CEO and asked, “What is your biggest challenge?” With biking being a popular sport, the organization arranges for tandem biking. But “people keep falling off the tandem bikes” and the organization was thinking about discontinuing the sport.
Project details
- Stage: Concept
- Built by the Philips community, Haifa, Israel
- Team: Adi
- 3 downloads
The build files for Stand Alone are free to download from this page - open source, shared by TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers.
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