Those of you who read Seth Godin’s marketing blog (and I think you should) are already familiar with Squidoo. If you have never heard of it, check out the site. You might even want to download Seth’s free ebook, Everyone’s an Expert (about something), which explains the concept behind the site. I finally got around…

It will probably come as no surprise to most of you that I subscribe to several different email newsletters from the various big bike companies. For the most part, they are full of the same marketing copy that you might find on the company’s websites. Of course there are always exceptions. One newsletter that I…

Recently, I have received a few emails from readers who are looking for 3d computer models of road or mountain bikes. They want to use them as a template for a new design that they are toying with or as a structure for designing parts. Since I haven’t taken the time to model any bikes…

Just up the road from me in Asheville, NC, the engineers at Industry Nine have been busy developing innovative new bicycle wheels. Not only do these wheels look great, but they also they have a lower rotational mass than conventional wheel designs. Spoke nipples are eliminated in the Industry Nine design, but the machined aluminum…

This is shaping up to be a crazy, busy week for me, so I don’t have much time to post. Quickly though, I want to say that we had a great time Saturday at stage 5 of the Tour de Georgia. Even without Lance racing this year, many fans showed up on a rainy morning…

There sure has been a lot of talk about the price of oil the past couple of days. At work, on the web, on the radio, it seems like that is all I have heard. After the price of a barrel of oil passed the 71 dollar mark on Tuesday, I heard quite a bit…

This is your chance. Giant Bicycle Inc. is hiring and wants to hear from all of you bicycle obsessed industrial designers out there who think you have what it takes. If you are interested, send them a message and tell them you found out about the opportunity here on Bicycle Design. Here is the official…

Anyone who is interested in the design OF bikes is probably also interested in design FOR bikes (at least that’s my justification for this post). A couple of weeks ago, Jonathon of Bike Portland fame posted about a 20-minute video called “Copenhagen, City of Cyclists.” In the video, Copenhagen’s director of traffic planning talks about…

When I saw this T-shirt on cycle.org, I had to order one for my wife. I just love it; what a cool design? If you are not already familiar with cycle.org, check out the site. They have a lot of good content about advocacy issues as well as great posts about bike culture in general.…

It is design week in Milan right now. For those of you who are not already familiar with it, Milan’s design week coincides with the giant Salon del Mobile furniture fair that takes place this time of year. Annually, this is the biggest and best series of design events in the world. Of course, most…

I just saw a post on Blue Collar Mountain Biking that shows the winner of the 2005 International Bicycle Design Competition in Taiwan. Every year, this competition generates some very interesting designs. Though some of the past submissions have appeared to be far from practical, I have always enjoyed seeing the fresh, and sometimes odd,…

This is a bold new look for Shimano’s top end mountain group. As expected, the design looks good. I really like the giant “X” on the rear derailleur, but I can’t say that I like it quite as much on the brake lever/shifter (see more pictures and read the official press release from Shimano on…

In case you haven’t already seen it, Litespeed has a new blog that provides information, from a local point of view, about the 2006 Tour de Georgia. For three days during the race, they will be offering tours of their factory in Ooltewah, TN to show the public how the bikes are made. I was…

Manuel López Revol sent me an image of this bike, which he designed about four years ago as a student of Industrial Design at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina. The project, which about 100 students participated in, involved designing a bike that was inspired by insects. Mosquitoes served as the inspiration for Manuel’s concept,…

I just uploaded more pictures of Chinese bikes and trikes to my Flickr account. If you are not interested in weeding through my other photos of China, click on the bikes set to the left. I love seeing utilitarian cargo bikes like these when I visit China. Unfortunately, I realize that everyday many of these…