Tag: Commuter
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My first impressions of the Strida
I briefly mentioned the Strida bike, designed by Mark Sanders, several months ago. The current version of the Strida, which was originally designed nearly twenty years ago and has only recently become available in the United States, was picked as one of the top 3 bikes at the Taipei Cycle show earlier this year (incidentally,…
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More Scandinavian bikes
I took a few days off this week to extend the weekend and go camping, hiking, and mountain biking with my family in western North Carolina. It was a great time but now I am super busy playing catch up at work. I received quite a few messages pertaining to the blog while I was…
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A few good links
I am pressed for time today, but I do want to quickly pass along a few links that some of you readers have recently sent my way. Brian just got back from a trip to Florence Italy. He took a ton of great shots of city bikes on the street (like the Atala pictured here).…
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Urban bikes in Dwell
As I have mentioned in a few previous posts, articles about bicycles are becoming commonplace in general design and shelter magazines these days. Dwell magazine has a report on urban bikes in their November issue, which should be hitting newsstands about now. The guys at Bike Hugger provided the commentary for the report so you…
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Scandinavian commuter bikes
A reader, Paul, sent me an email pointing out three interesting Scandinavian bikes. The first two were new to me, so I want to pass them along. First is the Tunturi Chat (pictured here). The text on the website is in Swedish, so most of you will probably not be able to read it, but…
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6 questions for Chad Lockart, Sr. Designer at Trek
When I mentioned the Fisher Simple City bike a couple of weeks ago, I said that I would follow up with more information about the prototype. It took a while for me to get around to it, but I finally asked Chad Lockart, Sr. Industrial Designer at Trek, a few questions by email about the…
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Jackknife 2.0?
Earlier this afternoon, Cyclelicious posted about a Cannondale prototype from Eurobike that looks a lot like a chain drive version of the foldable Jackknife concept bike. You can find out more about the prototype on the Cyclelicious post and also see the prototype here, here, and here. I am hoping to find out a little…
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3 practical bikes
There is no doubt that we are going to see many more commuter/ shopper oriented bike designs on the market in the near future. In just the past few days, I have run across the new designs that are pictured here. Expect to see many more as tradeshow season approaches. The Soulville from Masi is…
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You don’t have to dope to ride this bike
Bike content in design magazines is becoming a recurring theme here on Bicycle Design. The July/ August issue of Metropolis Magazine has an article about how bicycle manufacturers are being influenced by the design of traditional Dutch city bikes as tranportational cycling continues to become more popular in North America. Check out the article here.…
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Freewheeling in House and Garden
I was planning to post another student concept today, but I am taking a short lunch and don’t have time to pull it together. In the mean time, you can check out an interesting Australian student design concept over at Spinopsys. I mentioned recently that I am seeing bikes a lot more often in design…
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Cadence concept bike
First I want to thank all of you who have emailed me with design submissions in the last month or so. I really do enjoy seeing conceptual designs from students or from anyone for that matter. I have quite a few submitted designs in the queue to post, but I just have been insanely busy…
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An urban bike concept from Cannondale
Like the Jackknife design, which I have posted before, this is a commuter bike concept from a graduate student at Elisava Design School in Barcelona. Unlike the Jackknife, which relies on future technology to work, Cristian Ciuraneta Catalan designed a bike that is based on current bicycle technology. This bike features mountain bike geometry and…
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Friday links
I am in a hurry today, but I want to quickly pass along a few links of interest. Check out the Trek Lime blog for an interesting podcast. Trek used Solidworks software in the development of the Lime, so the folks at Solidworks talked to Trek’s senior industrial designer Hans Eckholm about the design of…
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What kind of bikes can change the world?
I was going to post something else today, but an anonymous comment left in response to my last post got my attention: “The Bicycles that can change the world are not made of carbon, do not have aero spokes, do not have 10 speed drivetrains. More likely, they are closer to the Atlas bike I…
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Cannondale Jackknife at Fiets Rai
I first posted renderings of the student designed Cannondale Jackknife concept bike back in January of 2006. Since that time, the post has consistently been one of the most popular archived pages here on Bicycle Design. Over a year later, it still gets quite a few hits every week. A few of the hits stream…