Author: James
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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…
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Rafael Ueberbike
Eurobike kicks off later this week, and I will be following the online coverage to see what is new and exciting in Friedrichshafen (with the help of Google Translate, Cykelportalen.dk is one of my favorite sources for coverage of the show). As always, I will be interested in seeing the Eurobike Award finalists and winners,…
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A look back… and ahead
I mentioned in my post yesterday that I made the decision to resume blogging here at Bicycle Design because I really missed it. That is absolutely true, but today I want to delve a little deeper into my reasons for starting the blog, for ending it, and then resuming it again. As I pointed out in…
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Bicycle Design is back
Call me indecisive, but BicycleDesign.net is back. When I made the decision to formally end the blog in February, I was completely overwhelmed with work and other projects. As important as the site was to me, I simply felt like I no longer had the time to maintain it at the level that I thought…
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NAHBS 2014 at JCT.design
8/20/14: This was originally posted at JCT.design (my personal site) in March. You can find all of my NAHBS 2014 photos here. I had a really great time at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show this past weekend. My son and I drove up to Charlotte on Saturday morning, and we spent the entire day looking at bikes, talking with…
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It’s been a great ride
It is hard to pinpoint the exact reason that I started this blog in 2005. I could say that it was to showcase the work of industrial designers in the bicycle industry, or to give students a place to share their bike related ideas and concepts, or maybe the idea was just to generate discussion…
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Two innovative approaches to bicycle manufacturing
Velo-Design is an excellent blog by French designer Johann Paquelier. If you didn’t already guess it from the name, the topics that he covers are very similar to those found here…basically anything related to bikes, design, and innovation. In a recent post, Johann featured frames by Jaun Muzzi that are made from recycled plastic water…
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Alfa Romeo 4C IFD bicycle
Apparently the Alfa Romeo IFD 4C Bicycle made the rounds on all the auto blogs last fall, but I had not seen it until I received a few images from the folks at Compagnia Ducale. Along with the designers in the Alfa Romeo Style Centre, Compagnia Ducale designed the carbon fiber frame to compliment the…
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Don Bicicleta, a gentlebike from StandBikeMe
The latest bike from Valencia, Spain based StandBikeMe is Don Bicicleta, a gentlebike with tones of personality and a cool mustache.” Don Bicileta looks great, but it is not exactly a new bike. The 30 year old Orbea mixte frame was repurposed by the folks at StandBikeMe into a hip and very unique urban bike.…
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Wooden e-bike by Kasper De Backer
While searching for web images of furniture and lighting from the Masion & Objet show in Paris this afternoon, I happened to run across this wooden e-bike designed by Kasper De Backer. De Backer is a product design student at Howest University in Belgium, and set out to create a sporty, unisex design with rental…
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Primavera and Bike Art in Greece
Soon after I posted Dimitris Niavis’ electric trike concept last week, I noticed a couple of other email submissions from Greece that were sent at roughly the same time. Either it’s a coincidence that all three messages arrived at once, or bikes are a really popular subject with Greek artists and designers at the moment.…