Month: October 2005
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A proposal for the auto industry
OK, I know I said I would be back to normal design related posts after the weekend, but something changed my mind. This morning, I read in the paper about two more cyclists who were killed in a nearby South Carolina town. On top of that, I read the comment from Fritz about my last…
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Let’s all be advocates
Today’s post is a little different than my others. Most of my posts have something to do with the design of bicycles. This one is really more about design for bicycles. For some time, I have been involved with local bicycle advocacy issues in the larger cities where I have lived. I currently enjoy living…
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Specialized concept bikes?
These renderings have been circulating on the web for a couple of years now (thanks to Fritz at Cyclelicious for reminding me about them). This summer, a few bloggers picked up on a press release stating that these concepts would be released by Specialized in 2006 as the new Venom line. Treehugger was one blog…
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Salsa’s thoughts on design
Here is a quote from yesterday’s post on Salsa Cycles’ blog (check out the rest of the blog for some great commentary). “Industrial design is becoming more important. It used to be that if a product simply worked really well and did what it was supposed to, that’s all that mattered. Now, it also has…
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My homemade aero bar
I recently sold my old Scott aero bars on Ebay. Though I no longer used them, there was a time when I installed them on my bike every Wednesday afternoon for the weekly local time trial. Of course, as soon as the time trial ended, they came off to sit on my workbench until the…
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New SRAM shifters
You have to give SRAM credit for building suspense around their new shifters. Cyclingnews and VeloNews both now have explanations of how they work, but for me the suspense is not quite over. I think the shifters look pretty good, but I will reserve judgment until I get a chance to try them in person…
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Bike Tripping
I was sorry to read on Bicycle Retailer yesterday about the death of author Tom Cuthbertson at age 60. Not long ago, I bought an original 1972 copy of his book “Bike Tripping” at a garage sale. As the title implies, the book is full of great information about cycle touring and many other types…
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thumbnail sketches
Today I am posting a scanned page from my sketchbook. These are quick “thumbnail” sketches of mountain bikes. Since I sketched all of these just for fun, they don’t all look like they would necessarily work in the real world. Come to think of it, the furniture and lighting ideas that I sketch everyday as…
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An open letter to Grant Petersen
Dear Mr. Petersen, I first remember first hearing of you in the early nineties when you were the marketing director at Bridgestone. At the time, I remember being really happy that you introduced a lightweight production mountain bike without a quick release seatpost lever. The MB0 (zip) soon became my dream mountain bike; in fact…
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A post Interbike post
OK, to be honest this post is not exactly about Interbike, but it is about my recent Interbike web searches. Rollyo is a great tool that I was using last week to search multiple cycling sites for news and pictures from the show. Basically, you can create custom searchrolls that consist of several of your…