"So Mr. Xi, I'm very curious, why did you talk about bicycles to me from the beginning? I was here to interview you, but you brought me to a shared bicycle, which changed my future destiny."

Xi Ming was stunned. This woman was really scary. She was too excited to see her and she had made everything come out of her heart. Now she was actually questioning her in turn.

Cold sweat broke out in my back.

It seems that you should pay attention in the future, otherwise something will go wrong.

"I just said casually that I happened to see that you have a temperament in beauty Hu, which makes me want to invest in your temperament."

"Okay, this reason looks pretty good. It makes me feel instantly charming, hahaha..."

Ximing's cold sweat on his back came to an abrupt end this time.

There are always many crossroads in life, facing the problem of choice, as long as you take a step in any direction, the trajectory of life will be completely changed from then on.

Hu Yiwei was facing an intersection of opportunities, and she made her own choice without hesitation.

Hu Yiwei posted a resignation news on his circle of friends and said that he would run a shared bicycle company.

She was questioned by everyone. Can a young female journalist really do this with the company? It seems that it is not reliable no matter how you look at it.

She replied to her friends in the circle of friends: I may be more aligned. I will take the initiative to reject all those who say they are unreliable. If you say you can't do it, I can't prove it now. Then I will finally do it for everyone to see.

The next day, Xi Ming and Hu Yiwei registered Xiongbai Wasp bicycle sharing company together.

The registered capital is 2 million, and Ximing is fully invested by Ximing, and Hu Yiwei is responsible for the management. She holds 20% of the shares and Ximing holds 80% of the shares. She has the right to advise the company and is not responsible for specific operations.

She, Hu Yiwei, announced the establishment of the company.

Friends in Hu Yiwei's circle all know that Hu Yiwei is determined to make a shared bicycle.

The reporters are all knowledgeable and have a huge network of contacts.

Hu Yiwei posted on his Moments to find bicycle designers, smart password experts, app software developers...

The peers still recommend these top industry talents they know to Hu Yiwei.

Hu Yiwei finally successfully convinced these people to become pioneers of shared bicycles, and they will be pioneers, which is a passionate career for them.

The bicycles we know, 28-bar bicycles, mountain bikes, princess bikes or small-wheel folding bikes, all of them have stable structures, hand-dial rings, car chains, spring seats, pneumatic tires, fenders and car locks. Shared bicycles should not be based on this image. Hu Yiwei believes that it is necessary to design and create bicycles with a strong sense of technology.

Wang Chaoren is a designer in automobiles. Once shared bicycles are invested, there will be a large number and high usage rate. The cyclists have different sizes and wear and tear. Once damaged, the maintenance cost will be extremely high. In the design of the transmission mechanism, the traditionally used car chains are a place where problems are prone to problems.

At the discussion that day, the young boss Xi Zong and President Hu Yiwei all wanted to use bicycles that do not have chains. He is a designer in the automotive field. He chose to use a new transmission mechanism, that is, a chain-free shaft movement. In the automotive field, there are many such transmission methods, and shaft transmission is used for every car.

After thirty days and nights working overtime, Wang Chaoren succeeded.

They applied for the patent of Xiongbai Wasp's shared bicycle, the principle of "bevel gear-two-wheeled vehicle and its transmission system with the transmission system of the transmission device, simply put it: single swing arm and shaft transmission. When stepping on the foot pedal, it will drive the installation shaft system to rotate. After the bevel gear on the shaft system is driven, it will drive the shaft to rotate. The shaft then drives the installation shaft system connecting the rear wheel through the bevel gear, and the rear wheel will walk forward.

From the outside, this is a completely closed system, and the user has no idea about the structure inside. Wang Chaoren said that this can ensure that the gears will not rust for 4 or even 10 years.

This generator is used to power the bicycle's smart locks in order to keep it power at any time.

Smart locks can realize a series of functions such as position reporting, guiding car search, intelligent unlocking, and automatic padlock ending, ensuring "dockless" storage of shared bicycles. This is the most core component of shared bicycles and the biggest feature that distinguishes them from previous urban public bicycles.

During the design, they chose solid tires, and the purpose was to be repair-free. Although the inflatable tires are highly comfortable and have small rolling resistance, they will increase the difficulty of later repairs when they are tamped and deformed. Therefore, they abandoned some of the advantages of the inflatable tires and chose solid tires.

In addition to tires, the wheel hub of the bicycle is not very different - there are no dense spokes, but five-spoke wheel hubs. The disadvantage of the spokes is that if different spokes are tight, it will cause the tire to deform. "Die cast aluminum wheels were originally used in the automotive field, but on bicycles, it has become an extremely standardized model. I am not worried about whether the wheels can be loaded on this car, because there are millions of cars, which are super standardized. Just like you shoot a gun on the battlefield, you can't carry bullets, and you have to ensure that every bullet can be launched in a tight fit and ensure accuracy."

Wang Chao calculated that it will take at least 20 minutes for a good-skilled master to replace a wheel with a chain. For shared bicycles, "that is a disaster." The wheels of bicycles use the structure of the car's wheels. Dismantling the wheels has nothing to do with the transmission system. It is as simple and fast as changing the spare tire of the car.

Of course, there are also car bells. Ordinary bicycles use hand-dial rings, while now bicycles are rotating bells. In fact, this kind of bell has always been available, but few people use it. Why? In the eyes of Wang Chaoren, it is due to habits. "The bicycle industry in the past one or two hundred years is too mature, and they think it may be gone." However, hand-dial rings are easy to be damaged. Secondly, for shared bicycles, protrusions should be minimized to prevent people from falling and hurting people, so he chose to use a rotating bell.

Ximing was dissatisfied with the product he made.

It's too heavy, weighing 25 kg!

In the future, Ximing knew that after Mobike's generation was marketed, people's general experience was difficult to ride and difficult. In fact, this was not because of shaft transmission, but because there was a generator on the rear wheel. If you pedal forward, you also need to convert energy into electrical energy, so it was difficult.

However, the "Feng Qingyang" style finally launched by Mobike has been improved on the basis of the classic generation - the motor has become smaller and the efficiency of the shaft transmission power system has been greatly improved, so riding is more than 30% less labor-saving than the previous generation. That model is what Ximing wants, so Ximing expressed his ideas, and Wang Chaoren finally succeeded after half a month of improvements day and night!

It’s not just the bicycle itself that has been changed.

If you want to use shared bicycles, open the mobile app, register, recharge, find a car, scan the code, and unlock the lock, this is a program that must be experienced.

Ximing and Hu Yiwei finally described people riding shared bicycles as "a combination of digital travel experience and physical experience", which actually emphasizes that the experience on the app and the experience of riding in reality are an integral part. "Today, this digitalization is gradually swallowing up physical things, and the meaning it carries will be greater than what you can see."

At this time, using apps has become an indispensable part of people riding a bicycle. In Ximing's view, "The apps seen by others are an interface, which actually compresses countless data and standardized processes into carriers that can be perceived by users. Each application carries all its business flows."

What if someone booked a bicycle but didn't ride it for a long time? How to guide users to ride bicycles that were not used in remote corners for a long time? These are data that needs to be input from the backend. During the design stage, the R&D team considered how to make users become communicators and maintainers, and optimized functions such as real-name authentication, returning cars and taking photos, and reporting faults; and converted distance into time, which not only allowed users to perceive, but also in turn made the design more optimized within the user's tolerance range; even designed many possibilities that arise during use, and found corresponding solutions.

But the complexity of the backend does not mean that people have to see it. "On ordinary bicycles only need keys when using them. If the operation on the mobile phone can be simplified into one step, which is equivalent to traditional unlocking, and the rest is left to the system to complete, then compared to the use of ordinary bicycles, we have not added any burden to riding because of the new form of Mobike." This is the best design effect that designers think needs to be achieved.

After two months of fierce battle, Hu Yiwei and these top designers finally made the product.

Hu Yiwei took the company's products and business plans to go to Yanjing Innovation Works without stopping, and she wanted to meet Mr. Li Kaifu.

Next is an investment of more than one billion yuan. Ximing doesn’t have that much money now, so Hu Yiwei is responsible for financing.
Chapter completed!