Year: 2014
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2014- The Year in Review at BicycleDesign.net
It is the end of another year, and you know what that means… it is time for the annual recap of activity here at Bicycle Design. Since the blog was inactive for about half of 2014, it is no surprise that traffic was way down. There were 643,288 pageviews in 2014 according to Google…
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CGI Concepts Rev2 Time Trial Tandem
Eric Streeter, of CGI Concepts, created this virtual model of a tandem for time trial racing. One prominent feature is the “split-drive” (seen in the rendering below) which “allows for power to be applied from each rider to the left and right sides of the rear hub independently.” Interesting idea, but the left side derailleur and freehub/cassette would…
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The Derailleur Project 2015 Wall Calendar
A few years ago, I briefly mentioned in a post a website that has since become one of my favorites. Taking its name from the 1967 Cream album, Disraeli Gears chronicles in photographs the history of the rear derailleur, a component that, according to the site, “defines the ‘groupset’ and in turn, defines the bike.”…
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A trio of wooden bikes
As I mentioned in my latest post, there has been a surge in the number of wooden bike submissions in my mailbox lately. I won’t share them all, but today I want to pass along three that I think are pretty interesting. The Tratar bike is the brainchild of Janez Tratar, a 28…
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Grainworks AnalogOne.One wooden bike
For whatever reason, I have received quite a few submissions of wooden bike designs (probably close to 10) in the past couple of weeks. I’ll share a few of them next week, but today I want to pass along just one… the AnalogOne.One custom bike by Mike Pecsok of Grainworks Wood Art. The finish…
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Design and development of the Cylo bike
It is likely that you have seen the CYLO 1 bike, designed by former Nike design director Eric Duvauchelle and his brother Antoine in collaboration with Arro-Studio. The bike was covered earlier this year by several of the big design and gadget blogs and was featured on the cover of the October Wired Magazine issue. With this post though, I…
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Luna 3D printed Bicycle by Omer Sagiv
Artist and designer Omer Sagiv has shared his conceptual bike designs here a couple of times in the past. His latest is Luna, a bike that features a 3d printed nylon frame, fork, and bar/stem assembly. The ability to customize and make design changes without a tooling investment is a big advantage with 3d…
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Douze and Kiffy- a pair of French cargo bikes
I have been traveling for work the past couple weeks, so I am a bit behind on the blog (as usual). Recently though, reader Pierre Fabre shared a couple of interesting French cargo bike designs with me, so I want to take a minute to share them with you. The 4/ A modular cargo bike…
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Arvak, RoadRing, Stromer, Vello and a glimpse into design at BMC
Arvak is a minimalist wooden bike designed by Paul Guerin and Till Breitfuss of Keim. The lines of the frame certainly look nice and sleek, but if the seat height is anywhere near correct, I wonder if I could get my leg over that extremely high top tube. Aside from that though, the hollow frame…
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The University of Iowa Hand Built Bicycle Program
I mentioned the University of Iowa’s Hand Built Bicycle Program earlier this year in a post about NAHBS 2014. That was during my time away from this blog though, so it is likely that the majority of you never saw it. I noticed recently that the Iowa students are gearing up for something new at…
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The Randonneur Chair by Two Makers
Cycle Show 2014 took place this past weekend in the UK, and I saw a few interesting things from the show on Twitter. The Randonneur Chair by Two Makers (Andrew McDonald and Simon Taylor) was definitely the standout though. According to the Two Makers website, the design was “inspired by classic hand-built racing and touring…
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Jens Voigt’s hour record bike and my confusion with the UCI
I have been a fan of the hour record for a long time. Back in the early to mid 90s, I really loved the technological arms race that was happening as Graeme Obree and Chris Boardman swapped the hour back and forth on very different, but equally innovative bikes (not to mention the amazing hour…
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Frenchbuilt concept and a Pininfarina e-bike
Every once and a while, a design on Pinterest catches my attention and I want to find out more about it. Unfortunately though, learning more is often not always as easy as it should be. Many people on the web these days love to share images, but don’t feel the need to credit the designer…
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Bikes on Behance and a little show in Vegas
Lachezar Ivanov is a Bulgarian designer with a few interesting bike sketches and renderings in his portfolio. I just happened to run across his design for a time trial bike (alternate version here) while I was browsing product galleries on Behance. He also has an e-bike frame design that you can see on his Behance…
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BICYCLE : A Great British Movement
I had the chance to watch a very interesting documentary over the weekend called “BICYCLE” : A Great British Movement. “Bicycle” is an independent film, created and directed by Michael B Clifford and produced by Pip Piper of Blue Hippo Media, that asks the question why is the bicycle back in fashion? “It tells…
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UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships took place in Greenville, SC over Labor Day weekend. As I have mentioned before, these athletes are incredibly inspiring …and the bikes, trikes, and handcycles that they use are quite interesting as well. I won’t go into detail about the equipment in this short post, but I encourage you…
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Friday Links
In the past, I would occasionally share a random collection of short links on Fridays. I don’t have much time for a post this afternoon, so it seems like as good a time as any to revive that tradition. Not sure if it will happen every Friday, but expect a quick, unfiltered blast of bike…
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BMC Impec Concept Bike
I had a different post planned for today, but that changed this morning when I saw a tweet from Torgny Fjeldskaar with the picture shown here attached. Torgny is the design director at BMC, a position that he has held for only about 6 months. In that short time though, he already is making quite…