Category: Utility / Cargo Bike

  • Bringley, a compact cargo bike by Lawrence Brand

    Bringley, a compact cargo bike by Lawrence Brand

      In 2008, Lawrence Brand, of Porterlight Bicycles, decided that he needed a cargo bike, but he didn’t have a secure place outside his London apartment to store one. He found that existing cargo bikes on the market were too long and heavy, so out of necessity the idea for Bringley was born. The bike…

  • Merge, EVO, and SOLID- Bikes from the 2015 Core77 Design Awards

    Merge, EVO, and SOLID- Bikes from the 2015 Core77 Design Awards

      In March, I introduced you to the transportation jury for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards . As mentioned in that post, we had a very talented group, and it was a great experience working with Torgny, Melissa, Rob, and Eric to select the winner, runners up, and notables in our category. Judging the professional and student entries…

  • Cargo bikes, a café racer, a wired commuter, and more

    Cargo bikes, a café racer, a wired commuter, and more

    If you don’t already follow Bicycle Design on Facebook and Twitter, you are occasionally missing out on interesting designs that never seem to find their way to the blog.  As much as I would like to share every interesting concept I see here, sometimes I just get busy with other projects and never get around…

  • Douze and Kiffy- a pair of French cargo bikes

    Douze and Kiffy- a pair of French cargo bikes

    I have been traveling for work the past couple weeks, so I am a bit behind on the blog (as usual). Recently though, reader Pierre Fabre shared a couple of interesting French cargo bike designs with me, so I want to take a minute to share them with you. The 4/ A modular cargo bike…

  • Semester Bicycles- Hextube bamboo composite frames made in the rural South

    Semester Bicycles- Hextube bamboo composite frames made in the rural South

    I was born in Alabama, and spent the first 18 years of my life there, so I was very happy to hear about a bike related project that is focused on creating jobs and better lives for people in one of the rural communities in the Black Belt region of the state. In the town…

  • Bamboobee bikes by Sunny Chuah

    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,…

  • Taipei Cycle Show 2013- a guest post by Nick Foley

    Taipei Cycle Show 2013- a guest post by Nick Foley

    Intro from James: Thanks to Nick Foley, Head of Industrial Design at Social Bicycles, for this guest post. Nick is a frequent commenter, and has been featured on this blog a couple of times in this past, so I was happy that he was willing to share his impressions from the Taipei Cycle Show. I…

  • An e-bike for Deutsche Post by Luke Guttery

    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…

  • Vote for the winner of the ISUDA bike share design competition

    Vote for the winner of the ISUDA bike share design competition

    The ISUDA Bike Share Design Competition ended about a month ago, and I am long overdue in posting the entries to be judged and discussed by all of you who read this blog. We didn’t get as much participation as we hoped for (far fewer than the previous design competition held at Bicycle Design), but…

  • 2012- The year in review at BicycleDesign.net

    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…

  • PowerPac- a pedal powered charging unit by Ideso

    PowerPac- a pedal powered charging unit by Ideso

    Just a few days ago, I mentioned bicycles being used to charge cell phones in post-storm Manhattan. That task could have been made easier for more people with a product like the PowerPac designed by Ideso, a South African product design consulting firm. The PowerPac is the “world’s first product to offer a removable power…

  • The Donky Bike and the Rizoma Metropolitan

    The Donky Bike and the Rizoma Metropolitan

    I have posted a few of Ben Wilson’s pedal powered creations in the past.  His designs like the ARTIKCAR, the SeeBikeSaw, the Bike_Kar, and the Pocket Rocket 2 may have been one-off art projects, but his latest bike is a product that you can actually purchase.  The 20 inch wheel, 3-speed Donky Bike features a…

  • A moment for bikes in New York

    I’ll take a break from sharing new bicycle concepts today to reflect a bit on what is happening in New York City this week. According to the NY Times, “in post-storm New York, the bike is having a moment of sorts.” In addition to reports about bicycles being the best (in some cases only) way…