Bicycle Design

Month: June 2007

  • Friday links

    I don’t have much time today, but I do have several links that I want to pass along, so I will do my best to quickly cram as much as possible into a short post. Pictured here is a shot, by Giovanni Canitano, from the Pret a Rouler fashion show, which took place last week…

  • Update to the Kestrel/ Orbea post

    In response to my “You be the judge” post, someone from Orbea USA left a comment pointing toward an open letter that was written jointly by the top executives at Orbea and Kestrel. Both companies feel that any similar elements on the frames are just coincidental. With the letter, they want to let the cycling…

  • Navitas bicycle trailer/generator concept

    As a final year design student at the University of Derby in England, Paul Smith designed a bike trailer that doubles as a generator. “It’s a pure concept in sustainable transport” explains Paul. The trailer concept, called Navitas, is the first to create its own renewable energy. The rear wheel splits 3 ways to become…

  • Freewheeling in House and Garden

    I was planning to post another student concept today, but I am taking a short lunch and don’t have time to pull it together. In the mean time, you can check out an interesting Australian student design concept over at Spinopsys. I mentioned recently that I am seeing bikes a lot more often in design…

  • Cadence concept bike

    First I want to thank all of you who have emailed me with design submissions in the last month or so. I really do enjoy seeing conceptual designs from students or from anyone for that matter. I have quite a few submitted designs in the queue to post, but I just have been insanely busy…

  • You be the judge

    I was visiting a factory in China last year and saw a very distinctive element from a product that I designed on a competitor’s prototype (it was not a bike related product for the record). As if it wasn’t blatant enough, my product was sitting on the workbench right next to the competitor’s design. The…

  • Folding bike design article

    Mark Sanders sent me a link to an article that recently appeared in the UK based magazine Design Week. The article is about the design of folding bikes, a subject that Mark knows quite a bit about (you will notice that he is quoted several times in the article). For those of you who don’t…

  • Materials in Bicycles Conference

    I mentioned the Materials in Bicycles Conference late last year, but with the 2007 Tour de France set to kick of in London in just a few weeks, it is worth mentioning again. Dr. Alex Moulton, Chris Boardman, Mike Burrows, Cannondale engineer Chris Dodman, and several others are set to speak at the conference, which…

  • Great shots of the new Madone

    I wasn’t planning to post additional pictures of the newest Trek road bikes today, but these shots are really just too good to pass up. Trek’s art director Paul Rogers took these pictures of the bikes at the Milwaukee Art Museum on the event’s opening night. As you probably gathered from my last post on…

  • The JANO dual bike

    I recently ran across the molded plywood JANO “dual bike” concept while I was doing a Google search for something else. I immediately forgot what I had been searching for in the first place as I starting reading about this concept bike that Roland Kaufmann designed, with Christoph Pauschitz as his supporting tutor, for his…

  • The 2008 Trek Madone

    Neil at Road Magazine was at the Trek Launch yesterday and posted the first pictures that I have seen of the new 2008 Madone. See more pictures on Neil’s blog. I like the graphics scheme on this bike. I have said before that I like the graphics on Ridleys and Orbeas because they are not…