Month: April 2013
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A GrabCAD contest and a bit of HPV history
I briefly mentioned the engineering website and community GrabCAD last year, when they ran a crank weight reduction challenge for Tern and a bar tape fixing challenge for Flying Machine Bicycle Design Studio. They have a new design/engineering challenge underway, in partnership with Velodroom, to “create an accessory that solves a problem cyclists face in…
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Wooden bikes by Pietro Russomanno and Chris Connor
Posts have been somewhat infrequent here at Bicycle Design lately, but it is definitely not for lack of content. I haven’t been able to keep up with all of the design submissions and tips from readers the last couple of months, so if you sent something, feel free to remind me. Today, I want to…
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Bamboobee bikes by Sunny Chuah
I have mentioned bamboo bikes on this blog quite a few times in the past, and I even had the chance to ride one for a few weeks last year. At first glance, the Bamboobee bikes, by designer AhSun “Sunny” Chuah, looked a lot like all the others on the market. Upon closer inspection though,…
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Design Week in Milan 2013
In the last month or so, I have been traveling quite a bit for work, so there hasn’t been very much activity here at the Bicycle Design blog. Last week, I was in Milan, Italy for Euroluce and Salone del Mobile, which I have mentioned before are my favorite design focused shows. In addition to…
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Taipei Cycle Show 2013- a guest post by Nick Foley
Intro from James: Thanks to Nick Foley, Head of Industrial Design at Social Bicycles, for this guest post. Nick is a frequent commenter, and has been featured on this blog a couple of times in this past, so I was happy that he was willing to share his impressions from the Taipei Cycle Show. I…