Month: January 2011
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Diesel/ Pinarello urban bike
I have mentioned bikes from fashion brands in the past; the GSUS bike and the G-Star Raw Cannondale are the first two that come to mind. This latest fashion company branded bike, “Only the Brave”, is collaboration between Diesel and Pinarello and is geared toward the urban singlespeed/fixie crowd. About the collaboration, Fausto Pinarello himself had…
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19th century innovation: The Pony Star
A recent Road Bike Rider newsletter featured a link to String Bike, “a Hungarian-made bike that uses cabling (string) instead of a chain as its propulsion mechanism.” You can read more about the concept, and see an animated video on the website. Those of you who are familiar with Archibald Sharp’s book, Bicycles and Tricycles,…
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Picchio carbon bicycle by Nicola Guida
Nicola Guida is an Italian designer who created this racing frame for Picchio, a small manufacturer of racing cars based in Ancarano, Italy. The bike design was his final student project, and Picchio helped him out with the construction of a prototype. See more of Nicola’s renderings (shown with Campagnolo components of course) and a…
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DIY Snow Tires
Here in Greenville, SC, significant snowfall is a fairly rare occurrence. The 6 to 8 inches that fell on Monday morning may not sound like much to many of you, but here in the southeast it was sufficient to shut down the city for most of the week. For me, it was a great opportunity…
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Rael: a road bike concept by Evan Solida
I have posted about Evan Solida’s Cervellum Hindsight digital rearview camera a few times in the past. In a post last August, I mentioned that the concept is moving forward and will be ready to ship sometime this year. Accident recording capability is something that people hoped for in earlier versions of the concept, and…
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Simeli dress guards and other links
Crocheted dress guards have been around for a long time. In the late1800’s, women quickly figured out that rear wheel guards were the best way to prevent flowing dresses and skirts from getting caught in the spokes while riding. Now, a Dutch company, Simeli, is making hand crocheted dress guards for traditional upright bicycles with…
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2010 recap
2010 was a big year for Bicycle Design. In late February, I finally moved the blog from the old blogspot subdomain to the current location at BicycleDesign.net. The old URL had quite a few incoming links, so it took a while for traffic at the new location to ramp up. There are still thousands of…