OK, I know I said I would be back to normal design related posts after the weekend, but something changed my mind. This morning, I read in the paper about two more cyclists who were killed in a nearby South Carolina town. On top of that, I read the comment from Fritz about my last…

Today’s post is a little different than my others. Most of my posts have something to do with the design of bicycles. This one is really more about design for bicycles. For some time, I have been involved with local bicycle advocacy issues in the larger cities where I have lived. I currently enjoy living…

These renderings have been circulating on the web for a couple of years now (thanks to Fritz at Cyclelicious for reminding me about them). This summer, a few bloggers picked up on a press release stating that these concepts would be released by Specialized in 2006 as the new Venom line. Treehugger was one blog…

Here is a quote from yesterday’s post on Salsa Cycles’ blog (check out the rest of the blog for some great commentary). “Industrial design is becoming more important. It used to be that if a product simply worked really well and did what it was supposed to, that’s all that mattered. Now, it also has…

I recently sold my old Scott aero bars on Ebay. Though I no longer used them, there was a time when I installed them on my bike every Wednesday afternoon for the weekly local time trial. Of course, as soon as the time trial ended, they came off to sit on my workbench until the…

You have to give SRAM credit for building suspense around their new shifters. Cyclingnews and VeloNews both now have explanations of how they work, but for me the suspense is not quite over. I think the shifters look pretty good, but I will reserve judgment until I get a chance to try them in person…

I was sorry to read on Bicycle Retailer yesterday about the death of author Tom Cuthbertson at age 60. Not long ago, I bought an original 1972 copy of his book “Bike Tripping” at a garage sale. As the title implies, the book is full of great information about cycle touring and many other types…

OK, to be honest this post is not exactly about Interbike, but it is about my recent Interbike web searches. Rollyo is a great tool that I was using last week to search multiple cycling sites for news and pictures from the show. Basically, you can create custom searchrolls that consist of several of your…

See The Lights Originally uploaded by beatnikside. I am not even going to try to point out all of the cool new products at Interbike, but like most of you I am following the daily coverage on VeloNews, Pez, Cycling News, MTB review, and any other source I can find. Many of the trends at…

Today’s post is another older rendering from the jctdesign archives (i.e. that pile of unlabeled CD’s in the back of my computer cabinet). This one looks like it probably dates back to the days of Y bikes and unified rear triangles; for the sake of simplicity we’ll just peg it as mid nineties. The idea…

milanbikesOriginally uploaded by jctdesign. As gas prices continue to rise, more and more people are complaining about the high cost of driving. I am definitely not one of those people. Higher gas prices are just the incentive that many people need to consider using alternative forms of transportation including, you guessed it, the bicycle. For…

What is wrong with this picture? To the left is my old Dura-Ace crankset from the early 90’s (I still have it in use on my fixed gear beater bike). To the right is the crankset on my road bike, a much newer Dura-Ace 9 speed model. Both are in good shape, but the rubbed-off…