Tag: Orbea
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Design at Specialized and Orbea
I had a nice “unplugged” beach vacation last week, so the blog has been quiet for a while. While I was enjoying my week offline, I did get a chance to put quite a few more miles on the Tern Verge X10 folding bike that I have been riding for the past couple of months.…
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Development of the new Orbea Ordu time trial bike
Ronan Bariou is a product designer for Orbea, and his Behance portfolio page provides a glimpse into the design work that goes into bikes from the company. The latest project that he has uploaded is the new 2013 Orbea Ordu time trial bike, and he shares some of the sketches and CAD models from the…
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Update to the Kestrel/ Orbea post
In response to my “You be the judge” post, someone from Orbea USA left a comment pointing toward an open letter that was written jointly by the top executives at Orbea and Kestrel. Both companies feel that any similar elements on the frames are just coincidental. With the letter, they want to let the cycling…
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You be the judge
I was visiting a factory in China last year and saw a very distinctive element from a product that I designed on a competitor’s prototype (it was not a bike related product for the record). As if it wasn’t blatant enough, my product was sitting on the workbench right next to the competitor’s design. The…