Bike designs by Milos Jovanovic

I have seen quite a few bicycle projects on the design portfolio website Behance lately, and I have been saving them into a collection on the site as I find them. Two of the designs that I noticed recently are the ones featured here by Serbian designer Milos Jovanovic. Appropriately named, “Woody” is a wooden city bike which Milos says was “inspired by retro steel frame bicycles” (perhaps he is referring to the older “triple triangle” steel GT frames). See additional renderings of the bike here on the project page.

Milos’ eCycle (below) is an electric bike that was inspired by vintage motorcycles. The battery pack is located in a stylized “fuel tank” , which can be removed from the aluminum frame for rides where electric assist is not desired. Again, you can find additional images, and more information, on the project page at Behance.

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May 13, 2013

Electric bike, Wooden Bike

James

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Electric bike, electric bikes, reader submitted design, wooden bike

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5 responses to “Bike designs by Milos Jovanovic”

Andy

May 13, 2013

The wood bike scares me. I’m not sure that you can make a bike out of wood like that without having larger pieces. Wood and steel/aluminum just don’t act the same for the design to look identical. I’m also chuckling at how the cables end – are they really planning internally run cables inside of wood?

The second bike is yet another “designed for no one” type of bike. A super racey looking bike, except with flat bars and a battery pack as high up as possible? Good luck! I’d recommend taking a second look at those spokes too, as the moment you apply the brakes you will shred the wheel into pieces because there’s no tension on spokes that only go in one direction from the hub.

I’d like to see someone actually design a frame without assuming that proprietary wheels, handlebars, and shifters will be used. Given that even multi-thousand dollar bicycles still use standardized pieces for the most part, none of these fancily designed bikes are likely to get anywhere if they want to also design each part on the bike.

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1. Milessio
  
  May 14, 2013
  
  Where does one find CAD models of components e.g. dérailleurs, brakes mechanisms etc?
  It’s likely much easier to assert that proprietary components are better (which just happen to be easier to model) than spend more hours modelling existing components than the overall design.
  Industrial Designers aren’t Mechanical Engineers, so what do you expect? Especially if they have not specialised in designing bicycles.
  
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  1. Rik
    
    May 15, 2013
    
    You can find (almost) all parts needed to assemble a bike on Grabcad.
    
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  2. Rik
    
    May 15, 2013
    
    Milessio,
    
    Also, if you are working on an actual product rather than concepts, some manufacturers are willing to share their 2D or 3D cad files with you. A phone call to a manufacturer will often save you hours of reverse engineering.
    
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2. Aleks
  
  November 26, 2018
  
  stumbled on this post by accident, and I realize it is an old topic, but maybe someone will find a comment usefull.
  
  Regarding the “woody” – This design is actually a wooden monocoque construction. Wood is few mm thick and just a shell. Freame weigths somewhere between 1 and 2kg (don’t remember anymore). Wood is there to give a certain level of vibration dampening, but what gives frame the strength are several layers of glass fibre and epoxy resin applied over the wood. Cables can be routed inside or along the frame – it does not really matter in the structural sense. The design was physically realized some years ago, and it worked quite well. There was also a version with a belt drive, and a company you may heard of “Continental” ordered one to showcase their belt drive in one of the trade shows in europe. This webpage shows one of the versions that was made (no belt drive on that one though): http://www.dvo-ika.com/imagine.html
  
  Regarding the second bike on the images – the “electric” one – it was just a concept, but that concept was developed further to make it more practical and to make more sense for production. It ended up like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzfe4k9z6CI
  
  There is some real knowledge behind the images above – the only missleading thing is that only early versions are shown without much context, so one can easily assume things that though correct to extent do not really paint a whole picture.
  
  Cheers.
  
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