Category: Miscellaneous
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5 years…wow!
It is hard to believe, but it was five years ago today that I started Bicycle Design. As I mentioned in a post at the 2-year mark, I started the blog on a whim back in September of 2005. I found a few of my old bike renderings on a CD that day, so I…
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A creative bike parking video
Jos Sluijsmans runs the Dutch website Fietsdiensten.nl and is one of the organizers of the African Bicycle Design Contest, which I mentioned in a past post. He recently created a YouTube video titled ‘Creatief fietsparkeren’, which features some great examples of creative bicycle racks and parking designs from the Netherlands and around the world. I…
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Bicycling Science book giveaway
Looking back at the reports for the Bicycle Design Amazon store, it is clear that the book Bicycling Science is the best seller of the items I have listed. I am glad to see that, because it is definitely the first book that I would recommend to anyone interested in the design and engineering of…
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Two penny-farthings and a foil car
It is almost the weekend, so I will leave you with a handful of fun links for Friday afternoon. Designboom posted a few bike designs by Peter Varga, including the glossy modern folding penny-farthing concept pictured here. While you are at Designboom, take a look at all the recent posts tagged with ‘bikes”. It has…
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An off-topic post
On the Bicycle Design about page, I mention that the blog is something I do in my spare time, but “free time is pretty limited for me with a family, a full time job, and a house full of bikes.” I should also add local bicycle advocacy issues to that list of priorities. Though my…
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2010 Sea Otter Classic and more
The Sea Otter Classic wrapped up yesterday in Monterey, California. Richard from Cyclelicious was there, and he posted quite a few pictures from the event, including this shot of a custom chopper concept bike by Specialized Design Director Robert Egger. For more shots of bikes at Sea Otter, check out the MTBR.com coverage and Bike…
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Update on the move- redirect issues with IE
Overall, I think the transition from the old blogspot domain to the new site here at bicycledesign.net is going pretty well. There is still a lot for me to do, but everything at the new URL seems to be working as it should. The feeds are all going through Feedburner now, so hopefully the content…
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Welcome to BicycleDesign.net
I am assuming that the majority of you are landing here from the old blogspot domain. Don’t worry…it is still the same blog, but the new site will be even better. After 4 1/2 years on Blogger, Bicycle Design is finally moving to a dedicated URL powered by WordPress. The new format offers much greater…
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My latest observations from China
As I mentioned last week, I want to share a few general observations about bicycle use in China. Some of you may remember a post from September of 2008 in which I said that there seemed to be less bikes overall on the roads (I realize I should have said fewer, but cut me some…
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RaptoBike Mid Racer: a front wheel drive recumbent
I am certainly no expert on recumbents, but I do appreciate seeing interesting recumbent designs from time to time and I am always interested in learning more about them. When Arnold Ligtvoet from RaptoBike sent me some information about his latest bike, the fact that it was front wheel drive with an innovative way of…
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IBDC entries and a few other links
I am in China this week and next. My schedule is pretty tight, so I won’t have a lot of free time for the blog while I am traveling. Right now though, it is the middle of the night and I am still not adjusted to this time zone, so I will pass a long…
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2009 in review
Wow, it is hard to believe that it is the last day of 2009…where did the year go? The year’s end is a good time to take a look at Google Analytics and see what has been happening with the blog this past year. Almost 750,000 people visited Bicycle Design in 2009 from 204 different…
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New bikes from Le Batard and a few old ones
I mentioned “Le Batard” custom bikes in an earlier post. The B2O bamboo bike that I mentioned in that post will be launched in February as a limited edition series of 50. Le Batard custom cycles also has a couple of other bikes in the works, which I will share in this post. The time…
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Hen and Chickens
This cargo carrying penny farthing pentacycle, ‘Hen and chickens’, was the featured bike in a VeloVision story that was forwarded to me by a reader, Ross. The Canberra Bicycle Museum in Australia closed last year and this old bike is one of nearly 150 that are still to be sold. On the museum website you…
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Bicycle Film Festival
The 2009 Bicycle Film Festival is taking place in quite a few different cities, but the New York festival is still the original and the one I would most like to attend. I happened to be in New York while the 2005 festival was taking place, but unfortunately, I didn’t have time to hang out…
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Happy Holidays
I have a few bike design related links that I want to pass along. Well, I have them, but posting will have to wait until next week. For now, I just want to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all. I hope that each of you have a great time today celebrating Christmas,…
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Pollution mask for cyclists
Francis Chu is an urban cyclist in Singapore who designed a reusable anti pollution mask for cyclists. Filter masks are nothing new, but unlike some of the other more cumbersome replaceable filter designs, the TOTOBOBO mask folds flat and can be stowed in a pocket until it is needed. It basically offers the convenience of…