Category: Concept

  • African Bicycle Design Contest

    African Bicycle Design Contest

    Cycling out of Poverty is a non-profit foundation that raises money for projects that allow Africans to improve their daily lives through the use of bicycles. Currently, they are running an African Bicycle Design Contest at Wiki-Bike.com. On the website, you can read about the competition and you can upload your own ideas for durable…

  • Trimtab 3×3 recumbent trike

    Trimtab 3×3 recumbent trike

    David Parrott is developing an interesting semi-enclosed recumbent trike for his Master’s thesis in Industrial Design at the University of Cincinnati DAAP. I mentioned his Trimtab 3×3 concept briefly in a previous post, but it is worth a second mention to point out that David is currently building a functional prototype of the design at…

  • Seoul cycle design competition 2010

    Seoul cycle design competition 2010

    Several readers have emailed me lately suggesting that I post a link to the designboom post about the Seoul Cycle Design Competition. I actually already mentioned it, but it was buried in a post full of links, so I can see how many people didn’t notice it. The competition has three categories: cycle design, infrastructure…

  • Concept bikes by Omer Sagiv and more

    Concept bikes by Omer Sagiv and more

    Omer Sagiv is an industrial designer who currently works for Ron Arad in London. He sent me three of his conceptual bicycle designs, which you can also check out on his blog. Some of his sketches in particular are worth a look. I was sort of shocked to see this collaboration between Cervelo and luxury…

  • E-bikes from Lexus and VW

    E-bikes from Lexus and VW

    Bicycles from automakers are nothing new. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Ferrari, and BMW are just a few of the car companies that have offered bikes in the past. Some of the designs are better than others, but usually they are really just relabeled bikes that were designed and manufactured by another company. In many cases, the bicycles…

  • Velomobile speedforms and more

    Velomobile speedforms and more

    Eric Stoddard of Speed Studio Design recently posted some nice velomobile sketches on his blog. One of his sketches is featured here, but follow the link to see the other two. Eric is an automotive and product designer based in Seoul, Korea, so that makes a perfect segueway into the next topic I want to…

  • City Cycle concept bike

    City Cycle concept bike

    I am back from a short family vacation, so I am extra busy today trying to catch up on some work. I want to quickly passing along a reader submitted design before the weekend, but first I will point you to Eric Stoddard’s commentary on Mark Sanders’ presentation at the Bicycle Design Trend Forum, which…

  • No longer Coasting

    No longer Coasting

    It should come as no surprise that I liked the idea behind Shimano’s Coasting group when it was announced about 4 years ago. I first mentioned in a May 2006 post that, despite the general negative reaction from many cycling enthusiasts to the look of the group, it was great to see Shimano making “an…

  • Photos from the 2010 Taipei Cycle Show

    Photos from the 2010 Taipei Cycle Show

    I mentioned the winners of the International Bicycle Design Competition in my post last Thursday. I couldn’t find many good photos of the finalists online at the time, but that has changed in the last few days. Eric Stoddard is now home from the show, and has posted many photos from Taipei to his Flickr…

  • 2010 IBDC Award winners

    2010 IBDC Award winners

    The Taipei Cycle Show kicked off yesterday, and with it the winners of the 2010 International Bicycle Design Awards (IBDC) were announced. Taiwanese designer Hsi Huang took the grand prize for his “Shopping Bike”, which folds to transform into a shopping cart. Eric Stoddard, who had an entry in the competition and will be sharing…

  • A hubless wheel from the past: The Black Hole

    A hubless wheel from the past: The Black Hole

    As I mentioned in a recent post, hubless wheel concept bikes have been appearing on the web in droves lately.  Fast Company recently featured a few of those recent concept bikes (and one really old one) in their “Almost Genius” category, reserved for designs that don’t quite work. On the Core77 discussion boards, slippyfish recently…

  • Customized city bikes from Beick

    Customized city bikes from Beick

    I first posted a design by Angelo Jansen (his GSUS concept bike) about two years ago. Since that time, Angelo has been working on another interesting design project. Beick.nl is a Dutch website where customers can customize and purchase the Beick city bike online. As you choose from the different options available, you see a…

  • Shocker chopper and assorted links

    Shocker chopper and assorted links

    I am a bit overwhelmed with work this week, so this will be another one of those quick posts full of unrelated links. Hopefully you will all find something of interest. Sven from Team Tentakulus sent me these pictures of the limited edition cruiser bike, Shocker Chopper, which they recently created under the “11 bikes”…

  • An iF Gold Award for the Batavus BUB

    An iF Gold Award for the Batavus BUB

    Last week, I mentioned in a post full of unrelated links that the Batavus BUB was awarded an iF Product design award this year. Just today, VanBelo Design Strategy and Product Development officially accepted that iF Gold award for the design of the BUB, which they point out was inspired by a paperclip during the…

  • More hubless wheels and other links

    This week is shaping up to be a busy week one for me. I am short on time, but I want to quickly pass along a few links that may interest you. Two new hubless wheel bike designs have surfaced on the web recently. One, a BMX bike by graphic designer Nikolay Boltachev, is just…

  • Peugeot B1K concept bike

    Wow…this past week in Dongguan passed very quickly. Right now, I am getting ready for a flight north to the Shanghai area, but I have a few minutes for a quick post. Bike Rumor mentioned this Peugeot B1K concept bike a couple of days ago (see more renderings there). Much like the flashy concept “fantasy”…