Month: February 2008
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The TrioBike revisited
About two years ago, I mentioned the Danish designed TrioBike in a post. I liked it a lot when I first saw it and I still think that the TrioBike, which has an optional convertible front carrier for kids, is a very nice cargo bike/trike design. I noticed recently that the Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog…
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Pedal-Powered Snowplow
Some of you may have already seen this picture of a pedal powered snowplow on Trek’s “1 World 2 Wheels” blog a few weeks ago. This machine looks pretty interesting in the still picture, but you really need to see it in action to get the full effect (click the video link from this story…
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Share the Road message on buses
I hope you all don’t mind a bit of an off topic post today, but I am hoping that a few of you readers can help me out. Many of you know that I live in Greenville, South Carolina. I have mentioned several times before that this town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…
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Electronic Dura-Ace
As a comment to yesterday’s post pointed out, I linked to pictures on Belgium Knee Warmers, but I did not specifically point out the shots of the electronic Dura-Ace shifting system that was seen on the bike of Gerolsteiner’s Fabian Wegmann. Shimano’s electronic Dura-Ace group has been in development for a while (check out this…
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Tour of California
It has been a bit of a theme lately, but I doubt that I will spend much time looking for wooden or bamboo bikes on the web this week. Like many of you, my attention this week will be on the Tour of California. Also like many of you, I am not in California to…
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More wooden bikes
In response to my last post about wooden bikes, I received a few links from readers that I want to pass along. Angel sent me the picture that you see here of a bike from Italy made by Tino Sano. Murray spotted a similar Italian made wooden bike that was displayed on a Mediterranean cruise…
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Heart shaped frame
I don’t have time for much of a post today. Since it is Valentine’s Day though, I will at least pass along this picture of a chopper with a heart shape in the frame. This photo was used on the cover of Momentum Magazine issue 26 to accompany their “Love on two wheels” article. I…
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Bamboo Composite frame at NAHBS
I have not found the time to look at many photos from The North American Handmade Bicycle Show yet, but here is something that caught my eye at first glance. Longtime readers may remember my post about Brano Meres and his homemade carbon bike. Brano was at the show this year with a couple of…
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Demon downhill bike
Posts which feature student designs are always popular here on Bicycle Design. I expect this one to be no exception. Ricardo Malachowski, who graduated from Elisava School of Design in Barcelona last year, designed this downhill bike as his graduation project in the Master of Transport Vehicle Design program. The hard points of the bike…
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Bent Ply bike sketches
A few weeks ago I posted a bike, sent to me by a reader, which featured a frame partially constructed from laminated wood. Peter from Velo Vision recently sent me an email and identified the mystery bike as the work of James Coleman, a design student at Loughborough University in the UK. When I first…
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Rest in peace Sheldon
Just over a year ago, I heard that Sheldon Brown had primary-progressive MS and could no longer ride a bike. I was saddened to just learn from Fritz at Cyclelicious that Sheldon passed away last night. I never actually met Sheldon Brown, but I have known of him though his webpages since the mid nineties.…
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Compressor pneumatic bike
I always like it when industrial design students and recent grads send me renderings and descriptions of their bicycle related school projects. Not only is it interesting to see their concepts, but also those submissions make for pretty easy posts on my part (a good thing for busy Fridays like today). A couple weeks ago,…