Year: 2013

  • Bike Gate by Merwyn Wijaya and Teo Kok

    Bike Gate by Merwyn Wijaya and Teo Kok

    Merwyn Wijaya and Teo Kok Yung are product designers based in Singapore. Together, they designed a bike parking structure focusing on greater security and ease of use. Here is how they explain their design: “BikeGate is designed with both security and usability in mind. The dual locking system encourages cyclists to use both a padlock…

  • Design at Specialized and Orbea

    Design at Specialized and Orbea

    I had a nice “unplugged” beach vacation last week, so the blog has been quiet for a while.  While I was enjoying my week offline, I did get a chance to put quite a few more miles on the Tern Verge X10 folding bike that I have been riding for the past couple of months.…

  • Handcycles of the 2013 Para-cycling Open

    Handcycles of the 2013 Para-cycling Open

    Just over a month ago (yeah, I know…I am slow to post sometimes), I had the opportunity to watch the 2013 Greenville Para-cycling Open time trial. Next year, the UCI Para-cycling World Championships  (time trial and road) will take place on the same courses here in Greenville, SC, so this was a great opportunity for…

  • Helios LED bars and a roll-up mudguard

    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,…

  • Velomobiles from Piximatic and GeoSpace

    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…

  • A GrabCAD contest and a bit of HPV history

    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…

  • Bamboobee bikes by Sunny Chuah

    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,…

  • Design Week in Milan 2013

    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…

  • Taipei Cycle Show 2013- a guest post by Nick Foley

    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…

  • Cervelo Rca

    Cervelo Rca

    Yesterday, Cervelo officially launched their new Project California Rca frameset which, according to the company, “integrates category-defining light weight, stiffness, and ride quality with S-series aerodynamics.” That claim of lighter and stiffer with better aerodynamics and great ride quality sounds a bit too good to be true, and would come across as nothing but marketing…