Category: Electric bike
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E-Trike by George Cooper
George Cooper is a recent Industrial Design graduate from the UK. For his final school project, he set out to design a human powered vehicle geared toward the majority of people who don’t currently cycle (that blue ocean that is mentioned here from time to time). His solution is an electric assist recumbent tricycle with…
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New designs, old designs, velomobiles, and bike art
I was traveling in Asia the past couple weeks, and didn’t get a chance to post here at Bicycle Design. I do have a lot to pass along though, so today I will quickly share just a few of the links that readers have shared with me recently. I have shared Ilya Vostrikov’s bicycle renderings…
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Design Awards for bikes and bike products
The 2013 red dot awards ceremony and gala took place last week in Essen, Germany, and as usual, bicycles were among the many types of products that were recognized for design excellence. A couple of days after the ceremony, Yanko Design picked their top 20 product designs from the “Best of the Best” awards, and…
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Revelo LIFEbike by Henry Chong
I mentioned Henry Chong in a 2010 post about electric bikes that were pushing the boundaries of the category, so it is no surprise that his latest e-bike doesn’t look like the ones you see on the market today. Unlike his speed oriented Panasonic e-bike concept, the Revelo LIFEbike (Lightweight, Intelligent, Flexible, Electric bike) is…
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Bike designs by Milos Jovanovic
I have seen quite a few bicycle projects on the design portfolio website Behance lately, and I have been saving them into a collection on the site as I find them. Two of the designs that I noticed recently are the ones featured here by Serbian designer Milos Jovanovic. Appropriately named, “Woody” is a wooden…
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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,…
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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…
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An e-bike for Deutsche Post by Luke Guttery
Luke Guttery, of Axon56 design lab, recently sent me these images from a project that he has been working on for Deutsche Post. The electric bike, designed specifically for use by the postal service in Germany, is a collaborative design effort with Grace GmbH and Nicolai GmbH (a company that Luke believes is the highest…
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An electric bike design competition from eBikeTec
“Are Electric Bicycles the Future of Cycling?” Bicycling magazine asked that question recently on Twitter in reference to an article on the growth of e-bikes as a category. The article by David Howard quotes Pat Hus of Interbike, who estimates that “there are now 150 million e-bikes in use worldwide, mostly in China. By 2025,…
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A collection of concept bikes
At first glance, the Clarity bike by designaffairs studio looks like a typical fixie or singlespeed road bike. Closer inspection though reveals a transparent frame that appears to be made of glass. Actually, the material is an advanced polymer that, according to the designers, “combines high impact resistance, lightweight properties and a gentle flexibility that…
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Organic Transit ELF
Not all that far from where I live, a small group of people are building innovative solar/pedal powered velomobile trikes in a former furniture warehouse in downtown Durham, North Carolina. I have been meaning to discuss the Organic Transit ELF for a while now, but it is one of the many posts that I just…
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2012- The year in review at BicycleDesign.net
Another year has come to a close, and that means that it’s time for the annual recap post for this blog. Compared to 2011, traffic was up slightly with 1,236,847 page views in 2012. About 30% of the visitors in the past year came from the United States (where this blog is based). The United…
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A collection of concept bikes
I posted about Antoine Fritsch’s B2O bamboo frame bike in 2009. Since that time, he has continued his work using laminated bamboo with an electric scooter and the bamboo cargo trike that you see above. Italian designer Luca Feletti recently graduated from the University of Ferrara. For his thesis project, Luca designed an electric modular…
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Eric Birkhauser’s ZIPcycle share concept
My post about Eric Birkhauser’s Petal Velomobile concept generated some good discussion earlier this year. The architect’s latest project, ZIPcycle, is a work in progress that will be part of a larger project that he is working on… a book on active transit systems. This time around, in addition to a sleek recumbent HPV, he…
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Catching up again
Yeah…I know that I sound like a broken record by prefacing most every post lately with a mention of how busy I am with work and other projects. I really haven’t been able to spend much time thinking about this blog lately though, so please bear with me while posts are infrequent, and my responses…
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Concept bikes from the Peugeot Design Lab
Earlier this year, I posted about the Peugeot DL122 concept bike, designed by Neil Simpson. There was quite a bit of interest in that original bike, so Neil decided to add a battery and motor to make an e-bike version that they could show at Eurobike. He redesigned the handlebars to hide the cables and…
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Mando Footloose: a chainless hybrid e-bike
I briefly mentioned the Mando Footloose chainless e-bike recently, but it is an interesting design that is overdue for a post of its own. Mando Footloose is a partnership project of Mando Corp. and Meister Inc., both of which are automotive suppliers in South Korea. To design and develop a chainless hybrid electric bike “featuring…
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A bit more from Eurobike 2012
It has been over a week since the Eurobike Award 2012 winners were announced. If you missed them, see the 8 Gold award winning products here. All are nice products, but so are many of the other entries that didn’t receive Gold awards. I’ll quickly point out a few of those today. This is not…