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Two very similar plywood bike concepts
Five or six years ago while looking through a book of classic bent plywood chair designs, I sketched out a bike frame inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, and others. I had seen many plywood bike frames in the past, but none of them took advantage of the flexibility that…
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African Bicycle Design Contest Winner- TU Delft
The team from the Delft University of Technology won the African Bicycle Design Contest last Friday with a simple trailer design which features a modular box system to keep the cargo secure and separated. The idea for the modular containers was based on the team’s research into the transportation needs of local farmers and fishermen…
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Bloglovin’ and a few links
Follow my blog with Bloglovin OK… I didn’t come up with that first line. It is part of the claim process for Bloglovin, a Swedish feed reader site that I am trying out as an alternative to Google Reader. I have been using it a bit, and I really like the design and functionality of…
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Ten bikes in the space of one car
Cyclehoop Ltd is a UK based firm of designers and architects who specialize in producing innovative indoor and outdoor cycle parking solutions. They are best known for their retrofit circular racks, which convert existing sign and lamp posts into usable bike parking. The brightly colored car-shaped racks that they created for the London Festival of Architecture…
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Final awards ceremony for the African Bicycle Design Contest
I mentioned last year that I am serving as one of the judges in the African Bicycle Design Contest, the aim of which is to create “affordable quality bicycles tuned to the needs of (potential) cyclists in Africa.” In the first ‘open wiki-bike’ phase of the contest, which took place in 2010, we ranked the…
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Blaze- a handlebar mounted virtual bike lane
I have been a bit preoccupied with a local bike lane issue for the past few days, so this virtual bicycle lane article from Bike Biz caught my attention this morning. The Blaze concept, by British design student Emily Brooke of the University of Brighton, is a handlebar-mounted laser that projects a personal bike lane…
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The Shiv, P4, and the UCI
The UCI’s Approval Program of Frames and Forks “sees strong demand by the industry.” At least that is what the subject line of a press release that the UCI sent out a couple months ago stated. If you have read any of my past posts about the UCI, you can probably guess that I don’t…
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Matthew Busche’s Radio Shack Trek
It was a great day of racing here in Greenville, SC for the USA Pro Cycling Championship. Matthew Busche of Team Radio Shack out sprinted local favorite George Hincapie to take the win in an extremely close finish. You can read more about the race here if you are interested, but I just want to…
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The fastest bike at the US Pro time trial
Keeping with the theme from last year, I wanted to post a few shots of the winning bike from the USA Pro Cycling Championship time trial today. It wasn’t to hard to guess that Zabriskie, fresh from a TT win in California last week, had a pretty good chance ending up on the top step…
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Dave and Rob’s custom trike
After seeing the post yesterday about the DuoCycle, Dave Thompson sent me this picture of a similar trike that he designed and built for himself and his son. Dave’s son Rob was in a car accident three years ago and suffered a severe head injury that left him in a wheelchair. The trike Dave built…
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DuoCycle trike
DuoCycle is a student project by Wim Bussels, who is currently studying industrial design at MAD Faculty in Genk, Belgium. Wim’s upright/recumbent tricycle (with a rear hubless wheel) allows a person with disabilities to ride in tandem with an accompanist who controls the steering and braking. Both riders can pedal, so the disabled rider to…
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Neil Pryde Bikes design competition finalists
A couple months ago, I mentioned Neil Pryde Bikes’ competition to design a custom graphics scheme, on the theme of ‘Freedom’, for their Diablo model frameset. The top 5 designs are now up on their website, where you can vote for your favorite. When I saw the finalists, I was immediately drawn to two of…
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BTWD and a couple of cargo bikes
It’s National Bike to Work Day here in the US. For the hardcore bike commuters who might be reading this, today is like any other day (except for the free food and schwag). A couple weeks ago, I heard one of those everyday, rain or shine commuters dismiss the idea of Bike to Work Day,…
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Another bike bus
My recent post about the City Cycle “pedal-powered pub” generated a couple of comments pointing out similar vehicles. AJ mentioned that pedal powered buses like the “bierfiets” are already very popular in Holland. Like the City Cycle, the bierfiets looks like a lot of fun, but we all know that human powered buses can be…
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Vote for Bicycle Design at Cranklisted.com
The nominees are now up for the 2011 Crank Listed blog awards. Bicycle Design has been nominated in the ‘Lifestyle’ category, so scroll down and vote right here if you are a fan of this blog. Voting closes June 1st, and until then you can vote once per day per category. If any of the…
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VANDEYK Contemporary Cycles
According to founder Arendt van Deyk, VANDEYK Contemporary Cycles is a collaboration of renowned creative professionals dedicated to a simple mission: “designing and building the most ravishingly beautiful bicycles – and not compromising along the way. Ever.” Bicycles are van Deyk’s passion, and that is his reason for starting the new company, which he refers…
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City Cycle- a pedal-powered pub
What happens when you ask a rocket scientist to build a bicycle? Well…apparently, you get the City Cycle, which at first glance looks like a cross between the Hopsworksfiets beer bike and a city bus. Casimir Sienkiewicz and his team at Caztek Engineering usually work on projects for the aerospace or medical industries, but they…
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Alpha bike and more
While I was traveling last month, my ‘to post’ folder really started to back up. It will take a while to get to it all, but I want to quickly mention a few of the projects and links that I missed today. The Alpha bike is “the first fully internal drive system that includes a…
