Month: December 2013
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2013- The year in review at BicycleDesign.net
In keeping with the tradition started in 2009, it is time for a year end recap of activity here at Bicycle Design. For the first time since I started the blog eight years ago, readership was down a bit from the previous year (the blog had just 953,053 pageviews in 2013, compared to 1,236,847 in…
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eins.plus- a hybrid electric tricycle sharing system by Peter Kutz
Peter Kutz is a product design student at the Weissensee School of Art in Berlin. For his thesis project, he designed a hybrid electric tricycle called “eins.plus” (one.plus). Similar to the Mando Footloose hybrid electric, Kutz’s concept features a pedal driven generator that powers dual motors located at the rear wheel hubs. Because the design does…
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Two interesting bike documentaries in the works- The Outsider and Bicycle
If you are interested in bicycle design and innovation (and if you are reading this blog, most likely you are), there are two documentaries coming soon that you will definitely want to see. First is ‘The Outsider : Graeme Obree’s story, in his own words’ by David Street of Journey Pictures, a project that was…
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Transport commuter bike by David Hotard, Matthew Campbell, and Edwin Collier
A few years ago, Kevin Shankwiler, an Industrial Design Professor at Georgia Tech, contacted me about a bicycle design class that he was planning to teach. I put him in touch with a couple of the designers at SRAM, and they were happy to support the project by sharing their expertise as designers in the…
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A couple of bike products years in the making
It has been more than seven years since I posted about the sandwich bike prototype, designed by Bleijh Industrial Design, after it was spotted at the 2006 Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan. It took a little time, but that concept is now in production as a flat pack bike that can be assembled at…
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“Design Behind the Bike” videos from The Open University
I mentioned The Open University’s “Design Behind the Bike” videos on Twitter last week, but the five part series is quite interesting and really deserves a post of it’s own. You can watch the first video in the series, History, in the frame above. Links to the other videos can be found here: Aesthetics (2/5)…