Tag: wooden bike
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OOPHAGA trike and a homebuilt wooden frame
I’m back from an extended weekend of mountain biking and kayaking at Tsali. I didn’t have (or want) phone or Internet access while I was out in the woods, so I am just now starting to look at some of the coverage from Interbike last week. Bike Rumor is one place where I have found…
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Cannondale Simon electronic suspension and more
Stanley Song, an engineer from Cannondale, was at CES with a prototype electronically controlled bicycle suspension system called “Simon”. This design replaces many of the internal mechanical parts (springs, valves, etc) with an electromechanical device that can vary the suspension based on rider weight and current riding conditions. Check out the videos of the prototype…
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Frames from Speedhound and Sylvan
Since my last post, I have added quite a few new photos to my Interbike photoset on Flickr (up to nearly 600 shots total). I still have more photos and videos to go through on my wife’s camera, so I may be adding a few more to that set as the week goes on. As…
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The Embira Bicycle Frame
Thomas Pascoli Scott is a product design student at Centro Universitário da Cidade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He recently built this wooden bike as school project and submitted it to me in hopes of getting some feedback. I’ll let Thomas explain his idea behind the design in his own words below… let him know…
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A student design for a bent-ply bike
John Hobson submitted an entry to the commuter bike competition late last year. Since that time, he has completed a prototype of his laminated wood bike design a part of one of his design courses. Attached are a couple of pictures of his prototype…his description of the design follows: “The frame is designed for a…
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Bamboo Bike studio and assorted links
I have definitely been a bit behind in keeping up with the blog lately. In the last couple weeks, I have bookmarked quite a few links, and received several good tips from readers, but I just haven’t had the time to pass along. Tonight, I want to quickly a share a few of those links…
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Design-Italia bike links
Fred of Fred and Friends (it is not bike related, but check out his company’s site if you haven’t seen it) forwarded me a copy of last week’s Design-Italia newsletter. That last issue of the weekly design newsletter was full of bike content, so I want to pass the links along to all of you.…
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Bike Tree and other links
Many of you may have already seen this bike tree concept, by Abhinav Dapke, elsewhere on the web. I like the rendering, so I want to pass it along too. I am not sure if the entire concept is feasible or not, but I do like the fingerprint entry/release idea. I use a fingerprint recognition…
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Reactiv LED cycling jacket
I am a little late in mentioning this, but for those of you who have not seen it, here is a picture of designer Michael Chen’s Reactiv cycling jacket. The jacket, which uses colored LEDs to indicate when the rider is accelerating or decelerating based on movement sensed by a built in accelerometer, recently won…
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More wooden bikes
In response to my last post about wooden bikes, I received a few links from readers that I want to pass along. Angel sent me the picture that you see here of a bike from Italy made by Tino Sano. Murray spotted a similar Italian made wooden bike that was displayed on a Mediterranean cruise…
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Bent Ply bike sketches
A few weeks ago I posted a bike, sent to me by a reader, which featured a frame partially constructed from laminated wood. Peter from Velo Vision recently sent me an email and identified the mystery bike as the work of James Coleman, a design student at Loughborough University in the UK. When I first…
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NAHMBS and more
It has been a theme lately, but once again, I am too way busy to think much about bicycle design or the blog. I have been slammed at work the last few weeks and a good portion of the small amount of time I have outside of work and family responsibilities is going toward local…
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Mystery wooden bike
Soon after I mentioned the JANO bike in June of last year, a reader, Roberto, sent me this image of another wooden bike. The message and image kind of got lost in the shuffle until he recently sent me another email about something else. Anyway, Roberto doesn’t really remember where he found this image. He…
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Back again
I am back home from another week of traveling. I didn’t have enough free time to post last week, but I did see a few things on the web that are worth passing along. Also last week, I uploaded a few more pictures of the Strida to Flickr. I have already shipped the bike back…
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The JANO dual bike
I recently ran across the molded plywood JANO “dual bike” concept while I was doing a Google search for something else. I immediately forgot what I had been searching for in the first place as I starting reading about this concept bike that Roland Kaufmann designed, with Christoph Pauschitz as his supporting tutor, for his…
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The Cell bike
In a past post, I mentioned that I like the idea of a commuter bike designed to fit into the owner’s interior environment. Young, style conscious urban dwellers are typically short on space, so bicycles end up becoming prominent elements in their apartments. I think that companies like Biomega and Alta do a good job…
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Scrap pile fun
Once again, I am too busy to post anything of substance. It will probably be sometime next week before I get a chance. Many of you are probably thinking, “what will I do with my free time if there is no new content to read on Bicycle Design (Okay, Okay, I know none of you…
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The Sandwich bike
Nadejda of the Pan-Dan blog spotted this prototype bike by Dutch designer Basten Leijh at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Renderings of the Sandwich bike, presumably named for the way the frame is assembled, can be seen on the designer’s website. Basten also has a concept Giant commuter bike on his website that you…