Month: May 2015
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Guidelines for submitting a design
Reader submitted designs and tips are always welcome and encouraged here, but often I do get focused on my own design projects and fall behind on the emails sent to tips@bicycledesign.net. The volume of (often off-topic) messages from companies and PR firms has increased dramatically in recent years, so occasionally really good designs from readers…
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Harvolt Bike Share System by Matthew Harding
Matthew Harding recently completed his degree in Industrial Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. For his final project, Harding designed an Electric Bike Share System, which he describes below: “My initial goal of the project was to encourage cycling in Melbourne, which is very much a car dominant city. I wanted to design the…
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Mando Footloose IM by Mark Sanders
Thought it has been nearly three years since I first shared Mark Sanders’ design for the Mando Footloose chainless hybrid e-bike, that 2012 post still remains quite popular today. After the successful introduction of the original Footloose, Mark was asked to design a new non-folding (and more affordable) version of the bike called the…
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A catch-up post with several designs
I have been running a bit behind this blog lately, but there are many interesting design submissions from readers in my inbox (thanks to all of you who have sent in tips or designs). I will be in Miami for Maison & Objet Americas the rest of this week and won’t likely have time to…
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HERObike Bamboost, a bamboo composite e-bike
A couple years ago, I posted about Semester Bicycles- Hextube bamboo composite frames made in the rural South. Since that time, Greensboro, Alabama based HERObike has continued to explore new ways to build bikes with bamboo, a material that is in no short supply in the region. By creating products made from an abundant…
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CrossBow Tension Bicycle Concepts by Clandestine Design Group
If you are a fan of Buckminster Fuller, you are no doubt familiar with the principle of Tensegrity (or tensional integrity), which is “based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other and the prestressed tensioned members…