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ReCraft Your Ride: Flower Bike by WOW Bikes
For W Hotels&rsquo; &ldquo;WOW Bikes,&rdquo; Ron Arad designs a bespoke bicycle that reimagines the wheel using nothing but curved sprung steel. And anyone who stays at the hotel can ride it.&nbsp;The wheel uses 18 individual strips of steel that are pinned at various tension points to act together as one single unit. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve actually done very little with the material,&rdquo; Hearst tells Co.Design. &ldquo;When you bend that steel, the way you pin it, you create natural curves. It&rsquo;s almost like a flower.&rdquo; The adjacent &ldquo;spokes&rdquo; create an additional shape that your eye naturally wants to fill in.&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;Displayed on&nbsp;Recraft&nbsp;|&nbsp;Facebook&nbsp;|&nbsp;Twitter&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;
