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Tour bikes follow up
Well, the Tour has been over for a few days now and I am already starting to miss it. I posted a few times early on about bikes of the Tour, but I just want to do a quick post today about the bikes in general. A trend that you probably all have been noticing…
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A recycled plastic bike
Matt Clark, an industrial designer in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, sent me these pictures of a recycled plastic bike that he designed and built. You can see from the assembly picture that the frame has an internal triangulated rib structure, which gives it its rigidly. Before I heard from Matt, a reader named Adam emailed…
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Guest post by Mark Sanders
Intro from James- Mark Sanders is a name that many of you will probably recognize. I have mentioned him and his Strida design on the blog several times. In addition to Strida, the UK based designer/ engineer has created many other interesting folding bikes. I admire his work, so I asked Mark to submit a…
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Why not?
As I indicated in my last post, I have been really busy lately. I subscribe to quite a few magazines and I usually read the articles that interest me as the issues arrive. Lately though, my magazines have been just been stacking up on the corner of my desk. Well, just last weekend I finally…
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More wooden bikes
In response to my last post about wooden bikes, I received a few links from readers that I want to pass along. Angel sent me the picture that you see here of a bike from Italy made by Tino Sano. Murray spotted a similar Italian made wooden bike that was displayed on a Mediterranean cruise…
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A few good links
I am pressed for time today, but I do want to quickly pass along a few links that some of you readers have recently sent my way. Brian just got back from a trip to Florence Italy. He took a ton of great shots of city bikes on the street (like the Atala pictured here).…
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Should designers stay away from bicycles?
“Sometimes I wish designers would stay away from bicycles”. Certainly I don’t agree, but “someone” posted that statement on the Core 77 discussion forum. Actually, the comment was left a long time ago in response to a thread that I started in an attempt to generate a few concept submissions to bicycle design. In recent…
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The Electrobike Cometh
Note from James: This is Michael Downes’ second submission to Bicycle Design (wow, he is on a roll). If you are new to the blog and don’t know who Michael is, read the profile about him that I wrote last February. Since that time, Michael has left his position at Giant Bicycles to work as…
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What is a bicycle?
I may have mentioned before that I subscribe to the Cycling News and Views podcast on iTunes. The podcast comes from Carlton Reid, editor of the UK based industry trade magazine Bike Biz. I recommend checking it out if you don’t already get it. I have been pretty backed up with work lately, so just…
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Bikes of the Tour de France (15 years ago)
Recently, I found a few old cycling videos at the thrift store. Each one of them is well worth the 99 cents that I paid. The 1994 Liege-Bastogne-Liege for instance, is the race in which a young Lance Armstrong, wearing the striped world champion jersey, placed 2nd (the highest ever American finish in that classic).…
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A couple of new cranks
Today’s Tech News section on Cycling News is definitely worth a look. It is good to see the official pictures from Shimano of the rest of the new XTR group. I must admit that the crankset looks better than I expected. The spy pics of prototypes that have been floating around the net lately didn’t…
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Basso’s Giro bike choices
The bikes that Ivan Basso has been riding in the Giro d’Italia are the subject of the latest e-newsletter from Cervelo. It seems that several people have emailed the company to find out why Basso has been alternating between his Soloist Carbon and an R3 during the mountain stages of the race. In the mountains,…
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A question for automotive designers
There sure has been a lot of talk about the price of oil the past couple of days. At work, on the web, on the radio, it seems like that is all I have heard. After the price of a barrel of oil passed the 71 dollar mark on Tuesday, I heard quite a bit…
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Track bike sketches
It has been a while since I have posted any sketches, so here are a few rough ones. These are quick little pursuit bike forms that I sketched last night while I was watching the Olympics on TV. I probably would have scrapped this page, but I kind of like the shape of the frame…