Tag: bent ply

  • Avokádo wooden frame by Jan Mucska

    Avokádo wooden frame by Jan Mucska

      I haven’t been able to post here at Bicycle Design lately, but I have noticed that quite a few designs have been submitted though the contact page in recent weeks.  I am traveling in China for work at the moment, but I will start reviewing all of those messages when I am back in…

  • Two very similar plywood bike concepts

    Two very similar plywood bike concepts

    Five or six years ago while looking through a book of classic bent plywood chair designs, I sketched out a bike frame inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, and others. I had seen many plywood bike frames in the past, but none of them took advantage of the flexibility that…

  • Bent Ply bike sketches

    Bent Ply bike sketches

    A few weeks ago I posted a bike, sent to me by a reader, which featured a frame partially constructed from laminated wood. Peter from Velo Vision recently sent me an email and identified the mystery bike as the work of James Coleman, a design student at Loughborough University in the UK. When I first…