Category: Shows & Events
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Three interesting bikes from Eurobike 2015
It’s that time of year again. Bike show season kicked off on Wednesday with the opening of Eurobike 2015 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. One of the big stories from the show this year seems to wireless electronic shifting. SRAM’s new RED eTap system is getting a lot of positive press, and FSA is showing a prototype…
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Art bikes by Handsome Cycles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
To celebrate their 100th birthday, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) teamed up with Handsome Cycles to bring some of the MIA’s most famous masterpieces to life in the form of three art-inspired bikes. According to MIA Venture Innovation Director Hunter Wright, “The MIA is excited to partner with Handsome Cycles, a company that shares the museum’s commitment…
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Introducing the Core77 Design Awards Transportation Jury
You may have noticed the banner for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards that has been running at the top of the sidebar here at Bicycle Design for the last month or so. If you haven’t submitted an entry yet, don’t worry… there is still time. The regular deadline ends March 24th, and you will…
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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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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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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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The Randonneur Chair by Two Makers
Cycle Show 2014 took place this past weekend in the UK, and I saw a few interesting things from the show on Twitter. The Randonneur Chair by Two Makers (Andrew McDonald and Simon Taylor) was definitely the standout though. According to the Two Makers website, the design was “inspired by classic hand-built racing and touring…
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Jens Voigt’s hour record bike and my confusion with the UCI
I have been a fan of the hour record for a long time. Back in the early to mid 90s, I really loved the technological arms race that was happening as Graeme Obree and Chris Boardman swapped the hour back and forth on very different, but equally innovative bikes (not to mention the amazing hour…
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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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UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
The UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships took place in Greenville, SC over Labor Day weekend. As I have mentioned before, these athletes are incredibly inspiring …and the bikes, trikes, and handcycles that they use are quite interesting as well. I won’t go into detail about the equipment in this short post, but I encourage you…
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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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Rafael Ueberbike
Eurobike kicks off later this week, and I will be following the online coverage to see what is new and exciting in Friedrichshafen (with the help of Google Translate, Cykelportalen.dk is one of my favorite sources for coverage of the show). As always, I will be interested in seeing the Eurobike Award finalists and winners,…
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NAHBS 2014 at JCT.design
8/20/14: This was originally posted at JCT.design (my personal site) in March. You can find all of my NAHBS 2014 photos here. I had a really great time at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show this past weekend. My son and I drove up to Charlotte on Saturday morning, and we spent the entire day looking at bikes, talking with…
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Wooden e-bike by Kasper De Backer
While searching for web images of furniture and lighting from the Masion & Objet show in Paris this afternoon, I happened to run across this wooden e-bike designed by Kasper De Backer. De Backer is a product design student at Howest University in Belgium, and set out to create a sporty, unisex design with rental…
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Primavera and Bike Art in Greece
Soon after I posted Dimitris Niavis’ electric trike concept last week, I noticed a couple of other email submissions from Greece that were sent at roughly the same time. Either it’s a coincidence that all three messages arrived at once, or bikes are a really popular subject with Greek artists and designers at the moment.…
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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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The 2013 World Human Powered Speed Challenge
This week, I have been occasionally checking the results of the 2013 World Human Powered Speed Challenge taking place for the 14th consecutive year on SR305 outside of Battle Mountain, Nevada. This is always a very interesting event to follow, and I am glad that Graeme Obree’s participation is bringing it a bit of extra…
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Canyon Urban Concept Bike
Eurobike came to a close over the weekend in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and I have seen a few interesting concept bike designs from the show. One of my favorites is by German brand Canyon, well known for their race oriented roads bikes and the red dot award winning Speedmax time trial machine. The concept bike that…