Bicycle Design

Year: 2008

  • Bike design jobs

    Every so often, I get emails from industrial design students or recent graduates who want to know how they can get a job in the bike industry. I usually ask them to send me any bicycle related projects in their portfolio that I can consider for posting. Quite a few people in the industry read…

  • Theft proof bike designs and more

    Just a quick post today; I want to mention the One Hour Design Challenge winner at the Core77 blog. The Core site gave forum participants one hour to design and post a theft proof bicycle concept. The seat/lock concept shown here was chosen as the winner, but you can see all of the entries on…

  • A carbon fiber Biomega

    Over the weekend, Jens Martin Skibsted of Biomega sent me a few pictures of the company’s booth at the recent Taipei Cycle show. The most notable picture that I want to pass along is this carbon fiber version of the Mark Newson designed bike, which they just previewed at the show. I have mentioned before…

  • NYC CityRacks Competition

    I mentioned a couple of Cool Hunting links in my last post, so I will go ahead and throw out one more. Recently, they posted “Five better bike racks”. Some of the racks in that post are interesting, but out of the five, I like the Horseshoe Rack from Creative Pipe the best. Why? Because…

  • My privacy policy and a couple of links

    I had an idea for a different post today, but I just don’t have the time to write it. I also have quite a few emails from readers that I haven’t been able to read and respond to yet. This is turning out to be a busy week during a consistently busy time of year,…

  • Track bike or fixie?

    I always enjoy hearing from readers, so I don’t make a habit of picking on any of you for leaving comments that I don’t agree with. In fact, differing opinions make the blog interesting. In this case though, I do feel compelled to take issue with a statement that was recently left in response to…

  • Taipei Cycle 2008

    The 2008 Taipei International Cycle Show just wrapped up in Taiwan. According to a press release, attendance was up 91 percent from 2007 with 86,000 visitors compared to 45,000 last year. I haven’t yet been able to see everything from the show, but I did download and take a glance at the show daily pdf…

  • ON is on!

    Several other blogs including Treehugger, Wired, and Cyclelicious recently picked up on a Cannondale Community blog post which said: “Due to the overwhelming positive response from the cycling community and beyond, Cannondale has committed to bringing the ON concept bike into production in the near future.” Great! I am glad to hear it. I first…

  • Stating the obvious- Commuter bike sales on the rise

    Though I generally take what they say with a grain of salt, I subscribe to a few email newsletters that point out design and cultural “trends”. Many of the trend spotters are focused on the home décor and fashion industries, but as you can probably imagine, bicycle content is becoming more and more prevalent all…

  • A 7-pound road bike

    I have posted about lightweight bikes in the past, most notably a sub 7 pound Crumpton fixed gear. A 7-pound fixie is one thing, but a 7-pound complete road bike is just unbelievable. German cyclist Gunter Mai built just such a bike (3195 grams to be exact) and claims to ride it up to 1,000…

  • Cleaning up

    I have mentioned previously that my bike room is starting to get out of hand. Don’t get me wrong, it is great to own a few different bicycles, but there is no point in keeping stuff that I don’t use. I don’t plan to get rid of too many of my bikes; complete bikes aren’t…

  • GSUS bike and a few links

    I have a pretty busy week scheduled with a couple of all day meetings, so posting may be light for a while. Today though, I want to quickly pass along a picture and a few links that were sent to me recently by readers. First, I want to mention the bike pictured here, which was…

  • The TrioBike revisited

    About two years ago, I mentioned the Danish designed TrioBike in a post. I liked it a lot when I first saw it and I still think that the TrioBike, which has an optional convertible front carrier for kids, is a very nice cargo bike/trike design. I noticed recently that the Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog…

  • Pedal-Powered Snowplow

    Some of you may have already seen this picture of a pedal powered snowplow on Trek’s “1 World 2 Wheels” blog a few weeks ago. This machine looks pretty interesting in the still picture, but you really need to see it in action to get the full effect (click the video link from this story…

  • Share the Road message on buses

    I hope you all don’t mind a bit of an off topic post today, but I am hoping that a few of you readers can help me out. Many of you know that I live in Greenville, South Carolina. I have mentioned several times before that this town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge…

  • Electronic Dura-Ace

    As a comment to yesterday’s post pointed out, I linked to pictures on Belgium Knee Warmers, but I did not specifically point out the shots of the electronic Dura-Ace shifting system that was seen on the bike of Gerolsteiner’s Fabian Wegmann. Shimano’s electronic Dura-Ace group has been in development for a while (check out this…

  • Tour of California

    It has been a bit of a theme lately, but I doubt that I will spend much time looking for wooden or bamboo bikes on the web this week. Like many of you, my attention this week will be on the Tour of California. Also like many of you, I am not in California to…

  • 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…