Year: 2010
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Interbike, Bike 2.0, and thoughts on imagination
It’s that time of year again, Interbike is getting underway today in Vegas (for the last time in a while at least). I had a great time at the show last year, but unfortunately I couldn’t fit it into my schedule this week. Instead of being there to see everything in person, I’ll have to…
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Enter the African Bicycle Design Contest
I mentioned the African Bicycle Design Contest in a previous post, but I want to remind you that the deadline for submitting an entry is just over one week away (September 30th). If you have any ideas about how a bicycle can be designed or modified to make a difference in Africa, I encourage you…
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Ben King’s Trek-Livestrong Madone
After a long day back at work, I am still coming down from the excitement of another great US Pro race weekend here in Greenville. It was great to see 20-year-old Taylor Phinney from the Trek-Livestrong U23 development team pull off the time trial win on Saturday, but his 21-year-old teammate Ben King’s victory in…
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5 years…wow!
It is hard to believe, but it was five years ago today that I started Bicycle Design. As I mentioned in a post at the 2-year mark, I started the blog on a whim back in September of 2005. I found a few of my old bike renderings on a CD that day, so I…
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The 2 fastest bikes in the U.S.
I wasn’t sure about the order, but before the USA Cycling Pro Championship time trial started this morning, I had a pretty good idea who would end up on the top two steps of the podium. I knew it was going to be a great race, and it certainly didn’t disappoint with Taylor Phinney edging…
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Eurobike Student Award Winners
I briefly mentioned the Eurobike Student Design Awards in my previous post about the show. After seeing the photos of the 12 winners though, I thought it was worth pointing them out in a separate post. Four of the twelve awarded entries were from the E-bike category, not all that surprising considering the huge presence…
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Bike day at Design*Sponge
I have mentioned Design*Sponge on this blog a couple times before. In a 2005 post, I referred to it as “one of my favorite non-bike blogs”. Five years later that is still true, so I was really glad to see that all of the D*S posts yesterday were dedicated to bikes. To kick off the…
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Friday links
It is Friday afternoon, but I’m still pretty busy trying to wrap up a few things before the workweek ends. While I have been focused on a couple of big projects this last couple weeks, the bike related links that I have wanted to share have been stacking up. I guess that means that it…
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Eurobike Awards 2010
Eurobike wrapped up on Saturday with a very well-attended public day. According to the show management, 22,300 members of the public attended on the last day in addition to the 1,100 exhibitors, and 1,732 journalists, and 41,482 trade visitors who were there throughout the show. That makes 2010 another record year for attendance in Friedrichshafen…a…
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Urban Arrow- an electric assist bakfiets design
You may remember the Cannondale Dutchess concept bike, which was designed by Wytze van Mansum a few years ago. That bike was a student project, but after his graduation Wytze was contacted by two entrepreneurs, Gerald van Weel and Jorrit Kreek, and asked to design an updated bakfiets. Wytze points out that what really interested…
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Vuelo Velo
It is hard to believe it is that time of year already, but Eurobike will be kicking off this Wednesday. If you are in Friedrichshafen later this week, you will most likely notice the curved seattube bikes from the Australian company Vuelo Velo (check out the about section of their website for a little background).…
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2011 BMC Impec
This post would have been timelier last month during the Tour when Cadel Evans and George Hincapie were first riding the new BMC ‘impec’. I planned to post about it at the time, but as so often happens it sort of slipped through the cracks. Though it is not exactly a breaking story at this…
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New bikes from Biomega
I usually like the work of Ross Lovegrove, or at the very least I usually find his sculptural designs interesting. The clean, organic forms of his product and furniture designs are often pretty clever and original. That is why I was a bit underwhelmed when I saw his first bicycle design for Biomega, the Bamboo.…
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Le Pliable folding bike
Saul Maret is a French designer living in Boston. He sent a few images of “Le Pliable”, his folding bike concept based on central headset position. One of the things that is interesting about this design, as Saul points out, is that it can be folded into multiple configurations- “you can fold the entire bike…
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NeilPryde bikes
If you are not a windsurfer, you may have never heard of Hong Kong based company NeilPryde. I was certainly not familiar with the brand when I received an email from their Marketing Manager last month letting me know that they would be soon be announcing a “range of high performance road bikes sold direct…
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LED tires, smart bikes, and a competition
I am getting ready for another busy day of work in China, but before I head down to breakfast I want to quickly pass along a few of the links that have been accumulating in my inbox. A few readers alerted me to Cyglo tires (pictured here) which have LED lights embedded in the tread…
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The Broadsider
I am traveling in China this week, and I’m definitely feeling the effects of the 12 hour time difference after a very long day of work. Before I get some sleep though, I want to quickly share a few images that I received from the Trek design department. Mike Hammond designed The Broadsider as a…
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Cerevellum
I first mentioned Evan Solida’s Cerevellum concept at the end of 2007 and I had a chance to ride with a rough prototype a few months later. At that time, Evan’s cylco-computer with an integrated digital rearview camera was just a concept design, but now the product is starting production and is available for pre-order…