Design of a Rockers Style Bike

• Main Authors: Cheng,Min-Yang, 鄭名揚
• Other Authors: Chang, Chien-Cheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3mt87g

碩士 === 國立聯合大學 === 工業設計學系碩士班 === 104 === Taiwan has the highest density of motorcycles. In so many motorbikes on the street, the modified ones are often noisiest, coolest in product form, and of retro and nostalgic styles. Behind the modification, characteristics of individual styles are reflected. In this study, product form features of the modified rockers style bike are explored and constructed. Experts of rockers bikes were first interviewed to select the representative images of rockers bike. Results obtained from the experiments were adopted for the design and development of a new rockers bike. The exploration of rockers style bike was divided into three stages: the pilot study, the formal semantic differential experiment, and the evaluation of final model of rockers bike in important styling images. From the data obtained, image profiles of rockers style bikes, features of highly preferred rockers style bikes, relations between user’s preference and images were analyzed. The results demonstrated that the highly preferred rockers bike featured speedy, neat and unique images. These three images were thereby chosen as the important images for the uplift of user’s preferences in rockers style bike. Finally, a prototype of rockers style bike was built for the evaluation. Moreover, the detailed features adopted in the design were assessed by the subjects to check whether they had positive or negative effects on the important images of rockers style. The final design looked like the highly preferred rockers style bikes in overall shape but different in detailed design. Among them, the features of the shroud and seat cushion had the most evident effects on rockers style bike.