Bicycle Design

Tag: retro

  • Old or new

    Take a look at this bike. With its lugged steel frame, downtube shifters, threaded headset and quill stem, it looks like a 15 or 20 year old road bike, right? Actually it is a brand new 2009 model bike from Fuji (see a better picture here). A couple of people forwarded this to me after…

  • Cardboard bike

    Several readers pointed me to this BBC interview with design student Phil Bridge who designed the $30 recyclable cardboard bike seen here. As Phil points out, “If you make a bicycle from cardboard, no-one will want to steal it!” I guess that is one way to solve the issue of bike theft. You can read…