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Come on UCI…it’s time to allow innovation in the Hour Record again
I wrote a bit about my confusion with the UCI after Jens Voight set a new athlete’s (or unified, or whatever we are calling it now) hour record in September of last year. After watching Bradley Wiggins ride an impressive new distance Sunday, I am excited to see that interest in the hour record is…
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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…
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Guidelines for submitting a design
Reader submitted designs and tips are always welcome and encouraged here, but often I do get focused on my own design projects and fall behind on the emails sent to tips@bicycledesign.net. The volume of (often off-topic) messages from companies and PR firms has increased dramatically in recent years, so occasionally really good designs from readers…
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Harvolt Bike Share System by Matthew Harding
Matthew Harding recently completed his degree in Industrial Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. For his final project, Harding designed an Electric Bike Share System, which he describes below: “My initial goal of the project was to encourage cycling in Melbourne, which is very much a car dominant city. I wanted to design the…
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Mando Footloose IM by Mark Sanders
Thought it has been nearly three years since I first shared Mark Sanders’ design for the Mando Footloose chainless hybrid e-bike, that 2012 post still remains quite popular today. After the successful introduction of the original Footloose, Mark was asked to design a new non-folding (and more affordable) version of the bike called the…
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A catch-up post with several designs
I have been running a bit behind this blog lately, but there are many interesting design submissions from readers in my inbox (thanks to all of you who have sent in tips or designs). I will be in Miami for Maison & Objet Americas the rest of this week and won’t likely have time to…
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HERObike Bamboost, a bamboo composite e-bike
A couple years ago, I posted about Semester Bicycles- Hextube bamboo composite frames made in the rural South. Since that time, Greensboro, Alabama based HERObike has continued to explore new ways to build bikes with bamboo, a material that is in no short supply in the region. By creating products made from an abundant…
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CrossBow Tension Bicycle Concepts by Clandestine Design Group
If you are a fan of Buckminster Fuller, you are no doubt familiar with the principle of Tensegrity (or tensional integrity), which is “based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a net of continuous tension, in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other and the prestressed tensioned members…
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FrenchBuilt 22 concept bike by Ben Goudout (update)
Last fall, I began a post about the FrenchBuilt 22 Triathlon concept bike by saying, “every once and a while, a design on Pinterest catches my attention and I want to find out more about it.” Thanks to Ben Goudout, the designer of that bike, I recently did find out a bit more… and…
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Avokádo wooden frame by Jan Mucska
I haven’t been able to post here at Bicycle Design lately, but I have noticed that quite a few designs have been submitted though the contact page in recent weeks. I am traveling in China for work at the moment, but I will start reviewing all of those messages when I am back in…
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RIP Ilya Vostrikov
Without a doubt, the best part of writing this blog for the past nine years has been the opportunity it has given me to meet really great people who share my passions for bicycles and design. Some of them I have met in person, but many others I have communicated with on a regular basis…
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Predator HPV by Eugen Ackermann
Last summer, for his Bachelor thesis of Industrial Design at Pforzheim University in Germany, Eugen Ackermann chose to design an “Alternative Mobility” solution. His Predator design is a recumbent bike, a category that he believes offers users many advantages but still is not socially accepted even though the basic design goes back to the…
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ElevenTwentySeven Erembald by Tobias Knockaert
Tobias Knockaert is a recent industrial design graduate from Belgium, Bruges. For his final school project, he designed a custom bicycle frameset using laser cutting technology to precisely size and miter the frame tubes. Since people were generally enthusiastic about his prototype, after graduation Tobias decided to start a company with business partner Karel…
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Spinlister X VANMOOF Smart Bikes
You may have heard of the little local festival that is currently underway in Austin, Texas. I think they have a few bands playing or something, but the big news from SXSW over the weekend was the announcement of rather unique collaboration between bike sharing platform Spinlister and Dutch bike company VANMOOF. With the new…
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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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Velomobiles (or whatever you choose to call them)- part 2
If you missed last week’s post at Bicycle Design about velomobiles, be sure to check it out. In addition to the links that I mentioned in the body of the post, a few of you shared additional interesting velomobile designs in the comments section. I ended that post saying “whether you call them velomobiles, HPVs,…
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A Collection of Velomobile Links- Part 1
I don’t own one (yet), but I do have a fascination with velomobiles and mention them here at BicycleDesign from time to time. They are certainly not as common in the United States as they are in parts of Europe, but I think that is changing…slowly. If internet activity is any indication, they seem to…
