Bicycle Design

Category: Miscellaneous

  • Last chance to win a Cannondale bike

    If you have been considering entering the commuter bike design competition, now is the time. The deadline for entries is just a week and a half away. I have received a handful of entries so far, but your chances are still pretty good. Read the details again here and get to work on your best…

  • The new bike rack design for NYC

    I mentioned the NYC CityRacks design competition earlier this year (and also in a recent post), so I probably should point out the winning design. The “Hoop” rack by Copenhagen based designers Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve will be the next standard bike rack design for New York City. Several other blogs have posted…

  • A new bike rack design

    I have mentioned the inverted-U bike rack design on the blog at least a couple of times before. In the NYC racks competition post I said: [the inverted-U design is the] most functional design around. I like some of the artistic, sculptural bike racks that I have seen and I think they have their place,…

  • Trick or treat

    Some of you may remember last year at this time when I posted a furry bike from the Trek Halloween ride. This Halloween, I will keep the theme going and post another reader submitted bike. This one comes from Andrew, an industrial designer who made this pole dance bike for the NYC Halloween Parade. Though…

  • Riding with kids

    OK, this is another picture of one of my kids on a bike (or half a bike in this case), but don’t worry… I am not turning the blog into a family photo album. With this post I want to address the “most useful means to chauffeur a little kid around” in response to an…

  • Enjoying the ride

    I have been really busy this week and haven’t been able to pass along any design content. I will catch up soon and when I do I will announce the first ever design competition on this blog. In the mean time though, here is a picture that is a bit off topic, but I want…

  • For sale

    I mentioned quite some time ago that I really needed to sell a bike or two to free up some space. In response to that post and another post in which I mentioned my old Pinarello track bike, a few people expressed interest in it. If you are interested, the Pinarello is on eBay right…

  • Interview in BikeBiz

    I usually refrain from posting pictures of myself, but I will make an exception today. Here I am looking very serious while working hard to bring you the absolute best content that I can find on the subject of bicycle design. OK, maybe that is a stretch, but this picture of me staring blankly at…

  • Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

    I guess that explains why this early nineties carbon fiber Ferrari Colnago C35 with gold plated C-record components is up to 6 grand on eBay with 2 days still to go. When I saw this bike earlier today at a Cozy Beehive post, it brought back memories of the late 80s when ads for Italian…

  • Bicycle rendering in Photoshop

    I mentioned a great reference CD earlier this week, so I will keep that theme going and review a DVD today. Some of you may remember a little over a year ago when I posted about Scott Robertson’s book, Start Your Engines. In that post, I mentioned his instructional Photoshop Industrial Design rendering DVD, which…

  • Look 586 Mondrian Limited Edition

    I don’t have much time to post today, but I do want to quickly point you to some nice shots of the Look 586 Mondrian limited edition that were taken by Ken Conley. Only 50 of these Mondrian frames will be produced, so you had better order now if you want one. Read more about…

  • Track bike or fixie?

    I always enjoy hearing from readers, so I don’t make a habit of picking on any of you for leaving comments that I don’t agree with. In fact, differing opinions make the blog interesting. In this case though, I do feel compelled to take issue with a statement that was recently left in response to…

  • GSUS bike and a few links

    I have a pretty busy week scheduled with a couple of all day meetings, so posting may be light for a while. Today though, I want to quickly pass along a picture and a few links that were sent to me recently by readers. First, I want to mention the bike pictured here, which was…

  • The TrioBike revisited

    About two years ago, I mentioned the Danish designed TrioBike in a post. I liked it a lot when I first saw it and I still think that the TrioBike, which has an optional convertible front carrier for kids, is a very nice cargo bike/trike design. I noticed recently that the Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog…

  • Bamboo Composite frame at NAHBS

    I have not found the time to look at many photos from The North American Handmade Bicycle Show yet, but here is something that caught my eye at first glance. Longtime readers may remember my post about Brano Meres and his homemade carbon bike. Brano was at the show this year with a couple of…

  • Compressor pneumatic bike

    I always like it when industrial design students and recent grads send me renderings and descriptions of their bicycle related school projects. Not only is it interesting to see their concepts, but also those submissions make for pretty easy posts on my part (a good thing for busy Fridays like today). A couple weeks ago,…

  • Glow in the dark Puma

    By now, you have probably already seen the glow in the dark Puma Urban Mobility bike made by Biomega. Ron sent me a link to this slamxhype post a couple days ago, but I didn’t get a chance to post it. Since then, I have noticed that it is getting a lot of coverage on…

  • Strida 5.0 review

    Well, it has been over a week since I returned the Strida 5.0 that I was trying out. I mentioned it in a couple of posts, but I never did really write a review of my experience with the bike. This week, I have seen Strida reviews elsewhere, so I guess I had better get…