Category: Concept
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Smart pedals from Connected Cycle
Paris based Connected Cycle is a French start-up that aims to “develop high-tech products in order to improve regular bike riders’ experience, and democratize the use of bikes as an alternative transport mode.” Their new product, unveiled this week at CES 2015, is a “smart pedal”, which is equipped with GPS and GPRS sensors. Through…
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CGI Concepts Rev2 Time Trial Tandem
Eric Streeter, of CGI Concepts, created this virtual model of a tandem for time trial racing. One prominent feature is the “split-drive” (seen in the rendering below) which “allows for power to be applied from each rider to the left and right sides of the rear hub independently.” Interesting idea, but the left side derailleur and freehub/cassette would…
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A trio of wooden bikes
As I mentioned in my latest post, there has been a surge in the number of wooden bike submissions in my mailbox lately. I won’t share them all, but today I want to pass along three that I think are pretty interesting. The Tratar bike is the brainchild of Janez Tratar, a 28…
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Design and development of the Cylo bike
It is likely that you have seen the CYLO 1 bike, designed by former Nike design director Eric Duvauchelle and his brother Antoine in collaboration with Arro-Studio. The bike was covered earlier this year by several of the big design and gadget blogs and was featured on the cover of the October Wired Magazine issue. With this post though, I…
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Luna 3D printed Bicycle by Omer Sagiv
Artist and designer Omer Sagiv has shared his conceptual bike designs here a couple of times in the past. His latest is Luna, a bike that features a 3d printed nylon frame, fork, and bar/stem assembly. The ability to customize and make design changes without a tooling investment is a big advantage with 3d…
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Arvak, RoadRing, Stromer, Vello and a glimpse into design at BMC
Arvak is a minimalist wooden bike designed by Paul Guerin and Till Breitfuss of Keim. The lines of the frame certainly look nice and sleek, but if the seat height is anywhere near correct, I wonder if I could get my leg over that extremely high top tube. Aside from that though, the hollow frame…
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The University of Iowa Hand Built Bicycle Program
I mentioned the University of Iowa’s Hand Built Bicycle Program earlier this year in a post about NAHBS 2014. That was during my time away from this blog though, so it is likely that the majority of you never saw it. I noticed recently that the Iowa students are gearing up for something new at…
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Frenchbuilt concept and a Pininfarina e-bike
Every once and a while, a design on Pinterest catches my attention and I want to find out more about it. Unfortunately though, learning more is often not always as easy as it should be. Many people on the web these days love to share images, but don’t feel the need to credit the designer…
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Bikes on Behance and a little show in Vegas
Lachezar Ivanov is a Bulgarian designer with a few interesting bike sketches and renderings in his portfolio. I just happened to run across his design for a time trial bike (alternate version here) while I was browsing product galleries on Behance. He also has an e-bike frame design that you can see on his Behance…
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BMC Impec Concept Bike
I had a different post planned for today, but that changed this morning when I saw a tweet from Torgny Fjeldskaar with the picture shown here attached. Torgny is the design director at BMC, a position that he has held for only about 6 months. In that short time though, he already is making quite…
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Bicycle Design is back
Call me indecisive, but BicycleDesign.net is back. When I made the decision to formally end the blog in February, I was completely overwhelmed with work and other projects. As important as the site was to me, I simply felt like I no longer had the time to maintain it at the level that I thought…
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Kaylad-e: an electric trike concept by Dimitris Niavis
Every once and a while, I get busy with work and other projects and allow a really great design submission to fall through the cracks. Greek industrial designer Dimitris Niavis’ Kaylad-e concept is a perfect example of that. Niavis sent me a message about his e-trike project about a month ago, but I somehow overlooked…
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E-bike Element by Olivier Murro
The Element is a 250 watt e-bike designed by Olivier Murro for Wipe2. The bike features a Daum electric pedelec motor, a unisex frame made from two stamped aluminum surfaces, and a removable battery case. LED lights are integrated into the battery pack section of the downtube for increased visibility. A few images and variations…
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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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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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Nested urban e-trike by Natacha Lesty
It’s been just over two months since I last posted here, and I am finally ready to get back to it. There are likely to be a few minor changes in the way I treat the blog going forward, but I won’t go into that today. Instead, I want to pass along a concept bike…