Month: May 2013
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A wind tunnel, lights, S-cargo, old folders and more
A long weekend is coming up (here in the US at least). Before I ditch the computer and hit the pool, I want to pass along a bunch of the interesting links that I have noticed lately. If you have been checking any bike related sites at all in the past couple weeks, you know…
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Helios LED bars and a roll-up mudguard
After a public debut at the Bay Area Maker Faire over the weekend, the smartphone controlled LED Helios handlebars are getting a lot of attention on the web (well deserved attention, I believe). The tagline on the website is, “transform any bike into a smart bike with Helios Bars.” That is a pretty big statement,…
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Velomobiles from Piximatic and GeoSpace
It has been several years since I mentioned Christophe Sarrazin’s velomobile designs. Since that 2009 post though, his website has evolved quite a bit. The site is more than just a source for news about velomobile design. To encourage others to get involved with velomobile construction projects, Christophe offers free downloads of many of his…
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Bike designs by Milos Jovanovic
I have seen quite a few bicycle projects on the design portfolio website Behance lately, and I have been saving them into a collection on the site as I find them. Two of the designs that I noticed recently are the ones featured here by Serbian designer Milos Jovanovic. Appropriately named, “Woody” is a wooden…
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ZIPcycle 2.0 by Eric Birkhauser
Eric Birkhauser’s “open air” ZIPcycle velomobile concept was featured in a Bicycle Design post last year. He points out that the feedback received from readers in the comments (and from an earlier post) directly led to his redesign… the ZIPcycle 2.0. In order to prove the concept, Eric’s next step is to build a working…
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Steam-o by Janos Insperger
If you have been following this blog for any length of time, you probably know that I am not a fan of hubless wheels. You may occasionally see them used on custom motorcycles for a visual effect, but in general, I believe that they work better in renderings than they do in real life. I…