Mobike Bicycles: A New World for Aluminum Applications

Inadvertently, in the city life, we shuttle a kind of "special" means of transportation - sharing bikes. The mobike is one of the most familiar ones in this industry. Some netizens joked that you lived in the city in 2016. If you don't know Mobike seems to be OUT!

Why is a small bicycle so attractive? The main reason is that this Mobike bicycle contains many technological elements, including advanced technologies such as aluminum body, solid explosion-proof tires, shaft drives, and Internet of Things chips. Focus here on analyzing the aluminum frame used by Mobike.

As we all know, light, fast, good elasticity is the ultimate goal of a bicycle frame, and the material used in the bicycle frame is generally the following:

Chrome-molybdenum steel frame: Before the 1990s, the bicycle frame was made of chromium-molybdenum steel. Its twisting performance and tensile properties are good. The high temperature during welding will not affect the material. It is cheap, but it is heavy and easily oxidized.

Carbon fiber frame: It is an ideal bicycle frame material because it is light, and it can absorb the impact of the ground and the backlash of the material. The grade of carbon fiber, the higher the tonnage, the higher the elasticity and the higher the price. There are several manufacturing methods, such as the adhesive on the mold, overlapping carbon fiber, heat treatment, solidification, molding and so on.

Titanium frame: The proportion of titanium is 55% lighter than steel and it is not easy to oxidize. In order to increase the tensile strength, titanium alloys such as aluminum and vanadium are mixed. Welding is complicated to carry out in vacuum, and the frame is expensive.

Aluminum frame: The frame made of aluminum alloy is light and rigid. After a special processing, the weight of a frame is only 1 kilogram and the rust resistance is excellent.

In terms of frame performance, the aluminum alloy frame can stand the test of outdoor sun and rain under the same weight. Especially in the rainy south, the aluminum frame is more suitable for Mobike applications. Outdoor environment needs.

However, in terms of actual application experience, there is still much room for improvement in the application of Mobi bicycle aluminum frame. First of all, starting from the official operating costs, the cost of Mobi bicycles in all-aluminium bodies is continuously decreasing. It is understood that the early stage of the production of MOBIC in Jiangsu production, the initial production cost reached 6,000 yuan per vehicle, and later with the increase in production costs fell to 3,000 yuan. Second, starting from the aluminum frame itself, it is indeed light and its performance is excellent.

Therefore, in the future, with the growing market for shared bicycles, the aluminum frame will have a lot of room for development. According to figures provided by the China Bicycle Association, the output of bicycles in China has been around 80 million vehicles per year in recent years. In terms of the shared bicycle market, according to public information, nearly 30 shared bicycle manufacturers, including Mobi, and ofo, have been accumulating The number of shared bicycles in the city has exceeded 300,000, mainly in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Chengdu. According to Wang Xiaofeng, co-founder and CEO of Mobike, Mobike has exceeded 100,000 vehicles in a single city in Shanghai in December 2016, and Mobow plans to complete delivery of 100,000 vehicles in Chengdu.

According to public statistics, the current weight of the small orange car made of aluminum alloy frame is about 25 kg.

With the development of related technologies and the reduction of material costs, aluminum and gold will be applied more to bicycle frames, and the aluminum frame will definitely bring us a better experience. The aluminum market for bicycles should not be underestimated. In addition, according to related sources, the aluminum alloy components used by Mobike bicycles were mainly purchased from Shandong Hangqiao New Material Company.

Mobike, the English name mobike, is an Internet short-distance travel solution developed by Beijing Mobai Technology Co., Ltd., founded by Hu Weiwei, and is a smart hardware that has no pile to return the car mode. People can quickly rent and return a Mobike bicycle through a smart phone, and use the affordable price to complete a short trip of several kilometers. Give Earth Day a “gift” by advocating green travel.

With the Mobike smart phone app, users can use their mobile phones to check the bicycle location and then make an appointment and find the car. You can start riding by scanning the QR code on the body. After arriving at the destination, manually lock the car in the white line area on the street to complete the return procedure.

Mobike bicycles abandoned the fixed car piles, allowing users to park bicycles at any parking area on the roadside where there is a line drawn by the government. Users simply need to lock the bicycle and lock it off. The body lock integrates an embedded chip, a GPS module and a SIM card to facilitate the specific location of the bike on the road.