Month: April 2006
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Industry Nine wheels
Just up the road from me in Asheville, NC, the engineers at Industry Nine have been busy developing innovative new bicycle wheels. Not only do these wheels look great, but they also they have a lower rotational mass than conventional wheel designs. Spoke nipples are eliminated in the Industry Nine design, but the machined aluminum…
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Tour de Georgia
This is shaping up to be a crazy, busy week for me, so I don’t have much time to post. Quickly though, I want to say that we had a great time Saturday at stage 5 of the Tour de Georgia. Even without Lance racing this year, many fans showed up on a rainy morning…
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A question for automotive designers
There sure has been a lot of talk about the price of oil the past couple of days. At work, on the web, on the radio, it seems like that is all I have heard. After the price of a barrel of oil passed the 71 dollar mark on Tuesday, I heard quite a bit…
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So you want to be a bicycle designer?
This is your chance. Giant Bicycle Inc. is hiring and wants to hear from all of you bicycle obsessed industrial designers out there who think you have what it takes. If you are interested, send them a message and tell them you found out about the opportunity here on Bicycle Design. Here is the official…
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Copenhagen, City of Cyclists
Anyone who is interested in the design OF bikes is probably also interested in design FOR bikes (at least that’s my justification for this post). A couple of weeks ago, Jonathon of Bike Portland fame posted about a 20-minute video called “Copenhagen, City of Cyclists.” In the video, Copenhagen’s director of traffic planning talks about…
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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…
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Cool shirt
When I saw this T-shirt on cycle.org, I had to order one for my wife. I just love it; what a cool design? If you are not already familiar with cycle.org, check out the site. They have a lot of good content about advocacy issues as well as great posts about bike culture in general.…
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Milan design week
It is design week in Milan right now. For those of you who are not already familiar with it, Milan’s design week coincides with the giant Salon del Mobile furniture fair that takes place this time of year. Annually, this is the biggest and best series of design events in the world. Of course, most…
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Another bike from Mercedes
Check out this post on Go Clipless to see the newest bike from Mercedes. I agree with Graham that this is a disturbing trend. It reminds me of the mid to late nineties when several automakers (including Mercedes) were offering bikes, usually overpriced ones, under their own brand names. Does everyone remember the last generation…
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The 2005 International Bicycle Design Competition
I just saw a post on Blue Collar Mountain Biking that shows the winner of the 2005 International Bicycle Design Competition in Taiwan. Every year, this competition generates some very interesting designs. Though some of the past submissions have appeared to be far from practical, I have always enjoyed seeing the fresh, and sometimes odd,…