Month: November 2008
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Last chance to win a Cannondale bike
If you have been considering entering the commuter bike design competition, now is the time. The deadline for entries is just a week and a half away. I have received a handful of entries so far, but your chances are still pretty good. Read the details again here and get to work on your best…
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The Stealth, e2, and the mess in Detroit
A couple of months ago, I posted about the Cannondale Stealth concept bike, which was displayed at Eurobike in September. Today, I noticed a Bike Hugger post that pointed to a Design Llama post about the bike. Several of the commenters to the Bike Hugger post didn’t seem to like the design, which I personally…
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The new bike rack design for NYC
I mentioned the NYC CityRacks design competition earlier this year (and also in a recent post), so I probably should point out the winning design. The “Hoop” rack by Copenhagen based designers Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve will be the next standard bike rack design for New York City. Several other blogs have posted…
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Favorites revisited
Recently someone asked me a pretty tough question- what are my 5 favorite bicycle designs? I didn’t know how to respond; that is almost an impossible for me to answer because of the great variety of bicycle types that interest me. The question immediately made me think of a post from years ago– March 2006…
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People’s Design Award and some stuff you should buy
A recent post at Streetsblog mentioned that quite a few bike related products were nominated this year in the People’s Design Awards, an online competition sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Over 276 products were nominated and, as Streetsblog points out, “five were folding bicycles, and four others were related to cycling.” In particular,…
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Friday links
It has been an extremely busy week and I still am still pressed for time. I do, however have a good collection of links to share, so I will pass as many as I can along in this quick post to close out the week. Tout Terrain has some really nice touring and commuter bikes…
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A new bike rack design
I have mentioned the inverted-U bike rack design on the blog at least a couple of times before. In the NYC racks competition post I said: [the inverted-U design is the] most functional design around. I like some of the artistic, sculptural bike racks that I have seen and I think they have their place,…
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Eric’s Lunatrike
Eric Whiting is an architect in Saratoga Springs, NY who designed and built this recumbent trike. I am certainly no expert on recumbents, but the trike looks nice and features a pretty slick carbon fiber seat/ fender. In addition to the renderings and prototype photos, Eric sent me a 19-page pdf document that included his…