An industrial design professor and two students at Purdue University created the bike, called Shift. Their design topped 853 entrants from 56 countries to win the $15,000 first prize in the 9th International Bicycle Design Conference in Taiwan. The 16-in.-wheel bicycle looks like a tricycle, but as the bike gains momentum and the child learns to balance, the two rear wheels shift inward to make one wheel, transferring balance from the bike to the child.
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