Year: 2012
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A few more Taipei Cycle links
I have mentioned the Taipei Cycle Show in a few posts this week, so I will keep the theme going today by sharing a few interesting links that I noticed in the past few days. Road.cc posted about award winning products at the show, and a couple of wheelsets that they mentioned caught my attention.…
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Peugeot DL122 concept bike
Some of you may remember my post from a couple years ago about the TATO bicycle, which featured a storage compartment for a laptop bag integrated in the frame. The designers at French carmaker Peugeot have come up with a new concept bike based on that same idea. The aluminum frame Peugeot DL122 concept bike features…
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Velocity and Anytime e-bikes by Larry Chen
In response to my post yesterday about the 16th IBDC winners, Gold Award winner Larry Chen contacted me with more information about his Velocity design. He points out that “Velocity” concept is very similar to his “Anytime” folding e-bike design, which won a Silver award in the 13th IBDC. With the newer design, he hid…
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2012 IBDC winners from Taipei
The winners of the 16th annual International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC) were announced at the Taipei Cycle Show last week. From over 800 total entries and 20 finalists, Taiwanese designer Larry Chen took the Gold award this year for his Velocity electric bike design. The pedal assist city bike features a “power core” consisting of…
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Road bikes with disc brakes
Unfortunately, my schedule did not allow me to make a stop in Taiwan for the Taipei Cycle Show on my way home from China a couple days ago. From the few pictures I have seen today though, it looks like I missed a good one. I’ll try to cover a few of the highlights from…
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NAHBS 2012
After a long day of work in Shanghai, I am back in my hotel room anxiously looking through photos of bikes from the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show, which took place in Sacramento this weekend. It was another record breaking year for the show with over 8,000 visitors in attendance, and it looks like…
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Opposite ends of the design spectrum
I didn’t spend much time on the web this past week as I was traveling, but one bike that I saw featured at Yatzer Design did catch my attention. The handbuilt steel Italia Veloce Magnifica fixie, with its chromed lugs and traditional flat fork crown, is definitely rooted in traditional Italian framebuilding. Details like the…
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Asian bike manufacturing and assorted links
I’ll be traveling in China the next couple of weeks, so new posts here at Bicycle Design will likely be infrequent. Before I leave though, I want to pass along a few links that I think are pretty interesting. On the subject of globalization and Chinese manufacturing, INRNG recently posted an interesting article about carbon…
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A couple of weeks with a bamboo WebbWorks Hilltribe
I have mentioned quite a few different bamboo bikes on this blog, but until recently I had never really ridden one for longer than about fifteen minutes. A few weeks ago though, that changed when my friends at TTR Bikes loaned me an Alfine 11 equipped WebbWorks Hilltribe to try out for a while. It…
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Starck’s town bike and Teams Design’s ntb
I mentioned in an earlier post that Philippe Starck had been invited by the City of Bordeaux, France to design “the town bike of the future”. He recently unveiled his PIBAL concept bike, which you can see in the attached rendering. If I understand correctly, the idea behind the platform on the step-through frame is…
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The design of SRAM Red 2012
I am assuming that the majority of you have already seen images of the new SRAM Red 2012 group, which was unveiled last week after several months of anticipation. If you somehow missed it, see the posts at Bike Radar, Road.cc, BikeRumor, and this video at VeloNews (just to name a few). I was pretty…
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Orbea GROW and a few midweek links
The idea of creating bikes that grow with kids that has been around, but designer Alex Fernandez Camps’ approach for Orbea is interesting. Many kids bikes allow for substantial adjustment of seat and stem height, but Camps’ design features an aluminum frame that can be expanded horizontally as the child grows. The GROW bikes come…
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Mohsen Saleh’s RWS recumbent
Mohsen Saleh, a design engineer living in Milan, Italy, has been working on a rear wheel steering recumbent bike design (in his spare time) for about a year. In a recent post on his blog, Mohsen explained his three main objectives for the project: To eliminate the long chains used on current recumbent bikes To…
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US readers, contact your Representative today
I have a backlog of design related topics that I have been meaning to discuss here at Bicycle Design, but those posts are going to have to wait… at least one more day. This morning, I want to take a minute to mention the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, which was proposed yesterday in…
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A couple of folding bike concepts
For his thesis project at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Industrial Design graduate student Ramon Hung designed the Velo Chic folding bike, which is specifically aimed toward women living in urban areas. On his portfolio site, Raymon points out that: “In America, women comprise only 25% of bicycle riders. The main factor that…
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Robert Egger’s lunch ride bike
I have mentioned Robert Egger, Specialized’s Creative Director, a few times in the past. He has worked at Specialized since 1987, and in that time has created some pretty interesting concept bikes (like the one at the bottom of this post from a 1992 issue of Bicycling Magazine). In their Google + stream, Byron from…
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Carbon manufacturing at TIME and assorted bike links
I am WAY overloaded with projects at the moment, so the links and topics that I have been meaning to post lately have been backing up. I won’t get to them all today, but I want to take a quick break from the madness and quickly pass along a few of them. Core77 posted an…
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Cervelo P5- rules are meant to be broken…or at least bent
If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that I have a weakness for time trial bikes. Like almost every new time trial machine, the new Cervelo P5 looks fast… even sitting still (and I am sure that it is a very fast bike with the right motor). What’s different about…