Tag: Electric bike
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More on the Specialized Eff You See Eye (fUCI)
An earlier version of Specialized Creative Director Robert Egger’s “Eff You See Eye” concept bike was mentioned on Bicycle Design a couple months ago (in a post that was also featured on Core77). At that time, the personal project bike was just a teaser, a partially assembled primer grey prototype, but now Specialized has released…
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A Red Dot Award for the Gocycle G2
The Gocycle folding electric bike was first mentioned on Bicycle Design in early 2009. At the time, its clean design with a fully enclosed drivetrain seemed quite innovative. Six years later, the latest Gocycle G2 is still an innovative design, which is why it was recently awarded a 2015 Red Dot prize for Product…
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Mando Footloose IM by Mark Sanders
Thought it has been nearly three years since I first shared Mark Sanders’ design for the Mando Footloose chainless hybrid e-bike, that 2012 post still remains quite popular today. After the successful introduction of the original Footloose, Mark was asked to design a new non-folding (and more affordable) version of the bike called the…
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Velomobiles (or whatever you choose to call them)- part 2
If you missed last week’s post at Bicycle Design about velomobiles, be sure to check it out. In addition to the links that I mentioned in the body of the post, a few of you shared additional interesting velomobile designs in the comments section. I ended that post saying “whether you call them velomobiles, HPVs,…
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Frenchbuilt concept and a Pininfarina e-bike
Every once and a while, a design on Pinterest catches my attention and I want to find out more about it. Unfortunately though, learning more is often not always as easy as it should be. Many people on the web these days love to share images, but don’t feel the need to credit the designer…
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Wooden e-bike by Kasper De Backer
While searching for web images of furniture and lighting from the Masion & Objet show in Paris this afternoon, I happened to run across this wooden e-bike designed by Kasper De Backer. De Backer is a product design student at Howest University in Belgium, and set out to create a sporty, unisex design with rental…
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Kaylad-e: an electric trike concept by Dimitris Niavis
Every once and a while, I get busy with work and other projects and allow a really great design submission to fall through the cracks. Greek industrial designer Dimitris Niavis’ Kaylad-e concept is a perfect example of that. Niavis sent me a message about his e-trike project about a month ago, but I somehow overlooked…
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E-bike Element by Olivier Murro
The Element is a 250 watt e-bike designed by Olivier Murro for Wipe2. The bike features a Daum electric pedelec motor, a unisex frame made from two stamped aluminum surfaces, and a removable battery case. LED lights are integrated into the battery pack section of the downtube for increased visibility. A few images and variations…
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E-Trike by George Cooper
George Cooper is a recent Industrial Design graduate from the UK. For his final school project, he set out to design a human powered vehicle geared toward the majority of people who don’t currently cycle (that blue ocean that is mentioned here from time to time). His solution is an electric assist recumbent tricycle with…
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Revelo LIFEbike by Henry Chong
I mentioned Henry Chong in a 2010 post about electric bikes that were pushing the boundaries of the category, so it is no surprise that his latest e-bike doesn’t look like the ones you see on the market today. Unlike his speed oriented Panasonic e-bike concept, the Revelo LIFEbike (Lightweight, Intelligent, Flexible, Electric bike) is…
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Bike designs by Milos Jovanovic
I have seen quite a few bicycle projects on the design portfolio website Behance lately, and I have been saving them into a collection on the site as I find them. Two of the designs that I noticed recently are the ones featured here by Serbian designer Milos Jovanovic. Appropriately named, “Woody” is a wooden…
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An e-bike for Deutsche Post by Luke Guttery
Luke Guttery, of Axon56 design lab, recently sent me these images from a project that he has been working on for Deutsche Post. The electric bike, designed specifically for use by the postal service in Germany, is a collaborative design effort with Grace GmbH and Nicolai GmbH (a company that Luke believes is the highest…
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An electric bike design competition from eBikeTec
“Are Electric Bicycles the Future of Cycling?” Bicycling magazine asked that question recently on Twitter in reference to an article on the growth of e-bikes as a category. The article by David Howard quotes Pat Hus of Interbike, who estimates that “there are now 150 million e-bikes in use worldwide, mostly in China. By 2025,…
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A collection of concept bikes
At first glance, the Clarity bike by designaffairs studio looks like a typical fixie or singlespeed road bike. Closer inspection though reveals a transparent frame that appears to be made of glass. Actually, the material is an advanced polymer that, according to the designers, “combines high impact resistance, lightweight properties and a gentle flexibility that…
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A collection of concept bikes
I posted about Antoine Fritsch’s B2O bamboo frame bike in 2009. Since that time, he has continued his work using laminated bamboo with an electric scooter and the bamboo cargo trike that you see above. Italian designer Luca Feletti recently graduated from the University of Ferrara. For his thesis project, Luca designed an electric modular…
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Concept bikes from the Peugeot Design Lab
Earlier this year, I posted about the Peugeot DL122 concept bike, designed by Neil Simpson. There was quite a bit of interest in that original bike, so Neil decided to add a battery and motor to make an e-bike version that they could show at Eurobike. He redesigned the handlebars to hide the cables and…
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Mando Footloose: a chainless hybrid e-bike
I briefly mentioned the Mando Footloose chainless e-bike recently, but it is an interesting design that is overdue for a post of its own. Mando Footloose is a partnership project of Mando Corp. and Meister Inc., both of which are automotive suppliers in South Korea. To design and develop a chainless hybrid electric bike “featuring…
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A bit more from Eurobike 2012
It has been over a week since the Eurobike Award 2012 winners were announced. If you missed them, see the 8 Gold award winning products here. All are nice products, but so are many of the other entries that didn’t receive Gold awards. I’ll quickly point out a few of those today. This is not…