Bicycle Design

Year: 2008

  • Back on the block

    I mentioned a while back that my Pinarello track bike was for sale. The price ended up going pretty high, but unfortunately the sale didn’t go though. The winning (zero feedback) bidder backed out and the top two bidders were international anyway. Oh well, that was my first experience with an ebay sale not going…

  • Gary Fisher on the El Ranchero

    I was in a rush last week when I posted those photos from Trek World. I didn’t have time to elaborate on any of the bikes, but I was glad to see some good discussion about them in the comments. For those of you who don’t read the comments section (you should), I want to…

  • Designs from Trek World 09

    Posting twice in one day is rare for me, but a friend who was at the “backstage” event at Trek World 09 the last couple days sent me these photos of the Trek District (top), Fisher El Ranchero (middle), and new Trek Soho (bottom). The El Ranchero is just a design study, but the others…

  • Third Eye Mirrors

    I mentioned in the comments section of an earlier post that I tried a helmet mirror in the past and didn’t really like it. I’ll admit though, the one I tried was old and the Velcro that attached it was worn out. The result of that loose connection was that the mirror vibrated slightly and…

  • Track bikes from BMX brands

    The Olympics are underway and I have been glued to the TV since the opening ceremony. I watched the men’s and women’s road races over the weekend along with pretty much every other sport that was covered. Yeah, I really get into it and I will watch all I can, but obviously I have a…

  • More reader submitted designs

    I mentioned in my last post that I had more reader submitted designs to share. It has been an extremely busy week, and today is no different, but I still want to quickly pass along a few more. I still have a lot of email related to the blog that I haven’t had the chance…

  • Reader submitted designs

    Wow, I really have received a lot of design submissions for the blog recently. I haven’t been able to respond to all of the emails, but I do appreciate them. Since I am pressed for time today and have a backlog of interesting concepts to post, I will quickly pass along a few today and…

  • Tour bikes follow up

    Well, the Tour has been over for a few days now and I am already starting to miss it. I posted a few times early on about bikes of the Tour, but I just want to do a quick post today about the bikes in general. A trend that you probably all have been noticing…

  • A custom painted Trek

    Joe Lintl, is a Trek designer based in Holland. One of the other designers at Trek forwarded me a pdf file of images of Joe’s personal bike. He custom painted his Madone on his balcony after cutting all the masks out by hand. Pretty impressive, especially for those of us who went though the I.D.…

  • Tagged and tagged again

    Okay, I thought I could avoid this whole “tag” thing. You see, Ron hit me with the dreaded “six things about yourself” tag a couple weeks ago. At the time, I was too busy to respond so I used the convenient excuse that I had been tagged before and that the same six things still…

  • Parker Hannifin Chainless Challenge

    If you are going to be in Cleveland the beginning of next week (July 28th and 29th), you might want to check out the Parker Hannifin Chainless Challenge. Teams of up to five engineering students from quite a few different universities have been working for a year on human/hydraulic powered bicycles that will be judged…

  • 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.…

  • A recycled plastic bike

    Matt Clark, an industrial designer in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, sent me these pictures of a recycled plastic bike that he designed and built. You can see from the assembly picture that the frame has an internal triangulated rib structure, which gives it its rigidly. Before I heard from Matt, a reader named Adam emailed…

  • For sale

    I mentioned quite some time ago that I really needed to sell a bike or two to free up some space. In response to that post and another post in which I mentioned my old Pinarello track bike, a few people expressed interest in it. If you are interested, the Pinarello is on eBay right…

  • SplitStream bars and more

    I saw this SplitStream aerobar design in the summer copy of Innovation, the IDSA quarterly magazine, which I received last week. The design by Stanford design student David Baggeroer was featured because it won a second place prize in the Dyson and IDSA sponsored Eye for Why competition. Instead of having two main hand positions…

  • Specialized concept bikes

    I ran across this Specialized Globe hybrid concept bike on an EcoVelo post. The picture came from the Flickr photostream of Hugo Cardoso, who apparently recently toured the factory. The hybrid Globe concept is interesting with its nicely integrated panniers, but as commenters to the Eco Velo post pointed out, seat adjustment would be an…

  • Look at that top tube

    A reader, David, sent me this link to a Roues Artisanales post about the 2009 Look bikes. Of particular interest is the 596 Triathlon, pictured here, with its bent top tube detail. If you scroll down a bit at the RA post, you can see that the hard edge styling also carries over to the…

  • Tour time

    I post all types of different bicycles and human powered machines here on the blog, but anyone who has been reading for a while knows that I really love road racing bikes. I have some commuter/ urban bike content to post soon, but right now I am focused on following the Tour de France just…