Category: Mountain Bike
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Scott concept bikes by Julien Delcambre
Julien Delcambre currently works as a watch designer in Switzerland, but in a previous job at Scott Sports he designed a few interesting concept bikes. He points out on his Behance page that his main mission at Scott was to redesign the old Gambler (a full suspension mountain bike). He was in charge of…
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Why did I miss NAHBS?
Yeah…I know the answer. I had a scheduling conflict this year, but I still kept asking myself that question as pictures from the show started popping up on Twitter and Instagram over the weekend. I am really just starting to look at the coverage from NAHBS 2015 online, but I want to take a few…
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Bike designs by Cero
Cero is a Barcelona based multidisciplinary design firm based with a focus on product design, engineering, graphic design, and programming. I recently discovered them by way of their Behance page, which features a few bike projects ranging from freeride and XC mountain bikes to an urban electric folding bike. On each of the Behance project…
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Sno- a concept snow bike by Venn
A cold February day seems like as good a time as any to share the latest concept from the designers at Venn, an Industrial Design Consultancy based in Turkey. “Sno” (as you might guess from the name) is a concept for a snow bike with a ski to replace the front wheel and twin treads…
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3D printed mountain bikes by Adrian Smith
Bicycle frames constructed with the help of a 3D printer, have been showing up in posts here since 2011. In some cases, frame parts are printed directly…as is the case with these SLS titanium parts for Charge frames. More often though, a 3D printer is used to create molds for composite construction, and that is…
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Grainworks AnalogOne.One wooden bike
For whatever reason, I have received quite a few submissions of wooden bike designs (probably close to 10) in the past couple of weeks. I’ll share a few of them next week, but today I want to pass along just one… the AnalogOne.One custom bike by Mike Pecsok of Grainworks Wood Art. The finish…
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A handcycle mountain trike and a couple of student designs
I have been behind on posts here at Bicycle Design lately, but I want to take a few minutes today to pass along a few designs that were submitted by readers recently. In 2011, I featured the Forzer off-road handcycle by Marius Hjelmervik in a post. Designer Tom Bicher has been working on a similar…
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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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Two different approaches to “reinventing the wheel”
If asked to name an invention that has dramatically improved the bicycle in the last couple hundred years, the pneumatic tire would probably be at the top of many people’s lists. John Dunlop’s patent for an air filled bicycle tire in 1888 set the course for the tires that are used on almost all vehicles…
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Cannondale CERV concept bike
I have been a fan of Cannondale concept bikes for a long time. Some of them I loved, like Alex Pong’s CNC machined Magic Motorcycle full suspension bike from the early 90s (one of which is apparently still around at the Cycling Sports Group office in Connecticut). Others I thought were a bit strange, like…
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Trek Visual Brand Language Sculpture
I was on vacation at the beach with my family last week, and took a break from this blog (and the internet as a whole). I have some catching up to do, and a lot of bike design content to sort though and share, but I’ll start with a very quick post today. Michael Hammond…
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Dura-Ace 9000 and SRAM XX1- both go to 11
So I guess I should mention Shimano’s “official” release of the Dura Ace 9000 11-speed groups (electronic and mechanical) , though it seems a bit anticlimactic considering the fact that we have all seen the “unofficially” leaked photos that appeared on the web months ago. As suspected from those early pics, the crankset has a…
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Taiwanese basket bike and a crowdsourced MTB
A couple of months ago, I mentioned the Peugeot DL122 concept bike, which featured a slot compartment in the main triangle area designed to hold a briefcase. Robert, from Ascend Cycles, pointed out that 20 inch wheel bikes with a similar compartment in the frame are a pretty common sight on the streets of Taipei.…
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An electric trials bike from Audi?
On Friday, I first saw the images of the Audi designed e-bike that is now spreading around the web like wildfire. I admit that I didn’t pay much attention to the text accompanying the articles at first, so I was initially confused by the geometry and the oddly shaped “vestigial” saddle that it appears would…
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Carbon manufacturing at TIME and assorted bike links
I am WAY overloaded with projects at the moment, so the links and topics that I have been meaning to post lately have been backing up. I won’t get to them all today, but I want to take a quick break from the madness and quickly pass along a few of them. Core77 posted an…
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Trek Sasquatch and Sand Crawler Cruisers
It has been a month or so since I posted a few of the concept bikes and products from TrekWorld 2011. Today, I want to pass along a couple more one off concept bikes, along with the stories behind them from the designers at Trek. Enjoy! Sasquatch What would a cruiser mashup look like?…
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A few more Eurobike links
It is September, so that means two things. It’s bike industry tradeshow time and cyclocross season is right around the corner (here in the southeastern US at least). I plan to ride my ‘cross bike a bit this weekend, so today I was combing the web to see some of the new cyclocross stuff on…
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A few bike links from Google +
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed a slight decline in activity lately. I am definitely not giving up on Twitter, but I have been playing around with Google Plus for the last couple of weeks (add me to your circles if you are using it too). So far, I have discovered…