Author: James
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Bike designs by Cero
Cero is a Barcelona based multidisciplinary design firm based with a focus on product design, engineering, graphic design, and programming. I recently discovered them by way of their Behance page, which features a few bike projects ranging from freeride and XC mountain bikes to an urban electric folding bike. On each of the Behance project…
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Min keun Kwon’s &B bike beam projector
Min keun Kwon’s “&B bike beam” is a pretty interesting design concept. Basically, it’s a projector that connects to your bicycle and uses your smartphone to project graphic images, videos, or information. At first glance, the &B reminded me of LightLane, and similar concepts that project a virtual bike lane or sharrow next to…
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Concept bike and HPV by Dennis Redmonds
This time trial bike concept rendering by German designer Dennis Redmonds caught my eye on the Velo Design blog Facebook page recently. Before you ask about the drivetrain details, or point out that the seat height is not adjustable, keep in mind that this is very likely purely a styling exercise. Definitely a nice form though… that could…
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Sno- a concept snow bike by Venn
A cold February day seems like as good a time as any to share the latest concept from the designers at Venn, an Industrial Design Consultancy based in Turkey. “Sno” (as you might guess from the name) is a concept for a snow bike with a ski to replace the front wheel and twin treads…
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3D printed mountain bikes by Adrian Smith
Bicycle frames constructed with the help of a 3D printer, have been showing up in posts here since 2011. In some cases, frame parts are printed directly…as is the case with these SLS titanium parts for Charge frames. More often though, a 3D printer is used to create molds for composite construction, and that is…
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Cargo bikes, a café racer, a wired commuter, and more
If you don’t already follow Bicycle Design on Facebook and Twitter, you are occasionally missing out on interesting designs that never seem to find their way to the blog. As much as I would like to share every interesting concept I see here, sometimes I just get busy with other projects and never get around…
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A list of lists related to bike design
In my year-end recap post a few weeks ago, I listed the 15 most visited posts at BicycleDesign in 2014. Since then, I have noticed a few bike related year-end lists from other sites, so I might as well share them for comparison. Dezeen’s “top 10 cycling designs of 2014” post included bicycles,…
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Smart pedals from Connected Cycle
Paris based Connected Cycle is a French start-up that aims to “develop high-tech products in order to improve regular bike riders’ experience, and democratize the use of bikes as an alternative transport mode.” Their new product, unveiled this week at CES 2015, is a “smart pedal”, which is equipped with GPS and GPRS sensors. Through…
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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…