Bicycle Design

Tag: concept bike

  • Peugeot B1K concept bike

    Wow…this past week in Dongguan passed very quickly. Right now, I am getting ready for a flight north to the Shanghai area, but I have a few minutes for a quick post. Bike Rumor mentioned this Peugeot B1K concept bike a couple of days ago (see more renderings there). Much like the flashy concept “fantasy”…

  • Cannondale Dutchess follow-up

    The blog’s stats for the last couple of days show that my last post, about the Cannondale Dutchess concept bike for women, has generated a LOT of interest. That certainly doesn’t surprise me. Having seen quite a few student designed concept bikes over the years, I can say without hesitation that this is one of…

  • Cannondale Dutchess

    dutchess_1, originally uploaded by carltonreid. BikeBiz points us to the Dutchess, a new concept bike designed by Wytze van Mansum, a design student at the Delft University of Technology. According to a company statement, the bike was “designed for women keen to express their style amongst the fast paced and ever changing urban vibe.” The…

  • A carbon commuter concept and assorted links

    I found Fredrik Rudenstam’s Nishiki urban commute concept bike while browsing though Coroflot portfolios this week. Rudenstam designed the carbon fiber commuter as part of his Master thesis project at the Jönköpings University in Sweden. The rendering doesn’t show any provision for cargo, but it is a good looking bike and the integrated LEDs are…

  • Jruiter + Studio’s City Simplicity bike

    Last week, Joey from the design firm jruiter + studio sent me this concept bike that they recently developed to “simplify inner city personal transportation”. The stripped down 29” wheeled concept bike has very few parts overall. Joey explains: “Our project, simplicity in inner city bicycling, was at first glance a fun aesthetic opportunity in…

  • In defense of concept bikes

    In the four years that I have been writing this blog, I have run across a number of concept bikes that I have chosen not to post simply because they didn’t look like they would work. I guess it just depends on the timing though, because in that same four years I have chosen to…

  • Friday links

    French designer Jérôme Blanchard has an interesting concept bike posted on Coroflot. He has several other bike designs in his Coroflot portfolio, so take a look. Via Core 77. Speaking of Core 77, they have posted a few bike related entries lately. This one about the “Super Contemporary” show in London features a bike with…

  • Prelude: a bicycle for the non-enthusiast

    Jason Bushby, a transportation design student at Northumbria University in the UK, recently designed “a bicycle for the non-enthusiast” as his final project. As you can see from the image shown here, he built a working model/ prototype of his design, which he calls the Prelude. Jason had contacted me some time ago to tell…

  • Midweek links

    Wow, it is already Wednesday night; I don’t know where half of the week has gone. I have been way too busy since my last post, but I do want to quickly pass along a few links that I recently found interesting. Pictured here is another bike design by Torkel Dohmers, designer of the “ThisWay.”…

  • Designs from Trek World 09

    Posting twice in one day is rare for me, but a friend who was at the “backstage” event at Trek World 09 the last couple days sent me these photos of the Trek District (top), Fisher El Ranchero (middle), and new Trek Soho (bottom). The El Ranchero is just a design study, but the others…

  • More reader submitted designs

    I mentioned in my last post that I had more reader submitted designs to share. It has been an extremely busy week, and today is no different, but I still want to quickly pass along a few more. I still have a lot of email related to the blog that I haven’t had the chance…

  • Reader submitted designs

    Wow, I really have received a lot of design submissions for the blog recently. I haven’t been able to respond to all of the emails, but I do appreciate them. Since I am pressed for time today and have a backlog of interesting concepts to post, I will quickly pass along a few today and…

  • A recycled plastic bike

    Matt Clark, an industrial designer in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, sent me these pictures of a recycled plastic bike that he designed and built. You can see from the assembly picture that the frame has an internal triangulated rib structure, which gives it its rigidly. Before I heard from Matt, a reader named Adam emailed…

  • Specialized concept bikes

    I ran across this Specialized Globe hybrid concept bike on an EcoVelo post. The picture came from the Flickr photostream of Hugo Cardoso, who apparently recently toured the factory. The hybrid Globe concept is interesting with its nicely integrated panniers, but as commenters to the Eco Velo post pointed out, seat adjustment would be an…

  • Air powered trials bike

    Peter Queckenstedt is a Canadian designer currently studying for his master’s degree in transportation design at the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden. He sent me sketches and renderings for a project that he recently worked on, a trials bike driven by a rotary air engine. Normally, I don’t post bike designs that are not…

  • Cannondale D-Tank and more

    Check out the Cannondale design sketchbook for a new entry. These three urban bike concepts were a collaboration between the in-house Cannondale design team and D-Tank, a design studio based in Barcelona. The guys from D-Tank studied transportation design at the Elisava Design School with Torgny from Cannondale and in recent years they have done…

  • Cube urban bike concept

    I hope everyone had a great New Year. It certainly felt like January here in Greenville this morning. I guess I am a fair weather bike commuter because I usually just drive to work on cold days. This morning though, I rode despite temps in the 20s. By the time I got to work, my…

  • ORYX time trial bike

    Several of you pointed out this concept bike to me over the weekend; thanks for all the tips. The ORYX time trial bike was designed by Harald Cramer, a recent graduate of the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg in Germany. The design looks nice, especially the integrated front chainwheel/crank. I also like the subtle graphics…