Category: Miscellaneous
-
Bikes and Books: A Celebration of Bicycle Design
I was traveling without internet access for a few days, so I am a bit late to pass this along. Those of you who are in or near the New York City area though, might be very interested in an event coming up this weekend. Bikes and Books: A Celebration of Bicycle Design will take…
-
US readers, contact your Representative today
I have a backlog of design related topics that I have been meaning to discuss here at Bicycle Design, but those posts are going to have to wait… at least one more day. This morning, I want to take a minute to mention the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, which was proposed yesterday in…
-
Bicycle Christmas tree
I took time off from work last week to spend with my family, so I didn’t get a chance to post again after Monday. This week will be more of the same, so I want to take a minute to wish all of you a happy holiday season. The seven meter tall Christmas tree pictured…
-
Bike art and books
In 2009, I reviewed the book Smart Move, which features pictures and descriptions of the 200 or so unique bikes in Michael Embacher’s collection. As an addition to Smart Move, and the later book Cyclepedia, Embacher is releasing an interactive iPad app, produced by Richard Loncraine and Patrick Uden. The app, which showcases the entire…
-
SRAM pART PROJECT
SRAM’s pART PROJECT is a great idea to benefit a very worthy cause. As the SRAM website succinctly explains; “Artists transform bike parts into art. The art is auctioned off. The proceeds help people in need through World Bicycle Relief.” Well known artists were picked by Milwaukee based artist Terrence Coffman and SRAM Marketing Chief…
-
Bloglovin’ and a few links
Follow my blog with Bloglovin OK… I didn’t come up with that first line. It is part of the claim process for Bloglovin, a Swedish feed reader site that I am trying out as an alternative to Google Reader. I have been using it a bit, and I really like the design and functionality of…
-
Vote for Bicycle Design at Cranklisted.com
The nominees are now up for the 2011 Crank Listed blog awards. Bicycle Design has been nominated in the ‘Lifestyle’ category, so scroll down and vote right here if you are a fan of this blog. Voting closes June 1st, and until then you can vote once per day per category. If any of the…
-
Tragedy at the Giro d’Italia
After a great vacation riding in Italy a couple weeks ago, I was especially excited about the Giro this year. With the race underway over the weekend, I was getting ready to post today about bikes in the peloton, including the new Wilier TT bike that debuted on Saturday. I am going to save that…
-
A MINI bike and more
I am still in catch up mode at work after a few weeks out of the office, but I want to quickly pass along at least a few of the links that have collected in my inbox while I was away. So without further ado (can’t believe I actually wrote that), here they are in…
-
Home from Italy
I am finally back in the U.S. after a really great trip to Italy. I spent an exhausting couple of days in Milan at start of the trip for Salone del Mobile and other Design Week events. After that, my wife and I traveled to Florence and Rome for a much needed week of vacation.…
-
The EADS Airbike and other links
I have seen quite a few different posts today about the EADS ‘Airbike’ (named after the EADS subsidiary Airbus). The European Aerospace and Defense Group created this bicycle to demonstrate their Additive Layer Manufacturing (basically 3d printing) process. The official EDS press release explains that the nylon structure is ‘grown’ from a fine powder, allowing…
-
Bicycle Design on Bike Radar
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the piece about BicycleDesign.net that appeared on Bike Radar last Friday. I think Matt Pacocha, the US Editor of UK based Bike Radar, did a great job profiling this blog in their “Website of the Week” feature. Previous websites of the week include Red Kite Prayer and…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Lots of unrelated links
“The Beast” by M55 Bikes is an aggressive looking pedelec with a claimed 40 mph max speed. I think this is one of those electric bikes that begs the question, how fast is too fast? Isn’t this really just a motorcycle with pedals? Also recently posted at Yanko Design, re:energy is a front wheel concept…
-
Archibald Sharp’s classic ‘Bicycles and Tricycles’
I have mentioned Archibald Sharp’s 1896 book Bicycles and Tricycles: An Elementary Treatise on Their Design and Construction on this blog several times before (here is one post that comes to mind). I personally have a pretty big collection of books about bicycles, but Sharp’s classic stands out as my single favorite. When it was…
-
A long Friday link post
Well, it’s Friday… the end of another busy week. I am pressed for time, but I want to quickly pass along a few of the links that I have noticed in the past week or so. So in rapid-fire fashion, here it goes. I mentioned jruiter +studio’s city simplicity bike in a past post. Now…