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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…
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Tips for having your design featured here
I have been amazed and delighted to see the traffic to Bicycle Design increase over the years…especially in the last year or so. The fact that more and more people are reading is great, but with only a few hours each week to spend on this blog, it has become much more difficult for me…
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NAHBS 2013
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show took place over the weekend, and there is no shortage of coverage around the web. As usual, Urban Velo has one of the best photo galleries from NAHBS, with nice side view profiles and detail shots of many of the bikes. There is also good show coverage at CyclingNews,…
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Two bike designers ahead of their times
I first saw the news on Bike Biz that engineer and inventor Dr. Alex Moulton passed away this week at the age of 92. For any of you who aren’t familiar with his work, Dr. Moulton pioneered the small wheel bicycle in the early 1960s with the launch of his first full suspension bicycles. He…
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Printed titanium, invisible helmets, glowing bikes, and more
I have noticed quite a few bike related posts on design blogs lately. A recent Core 77 post featured a couple of track bike sketches by Andrew McMillan, which they mentioned would be perfect for the CGI animated “future velodrome” from the London Olympic Games. Also at Core, check out the recent post about digitally…
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A new Aston Martin and an old Lotus bike
A couple of readers have inquired about the Aston Martin One-77 bike, which is billed on the website as “the world’s most technologically advanced road bicycle.” Aside from the information that can found on the website, I don’t really know much about the bike, which features a split seat tube and dual crown fork design…
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A bike parking design competition for Puerto Rico
According to the designers, Ariana Hernández and Aixa Solá, “Bench rack is a concept born from the need for street furniture to help maximize space and urban audiences”. The design concept works as a rack for bicycles, but also functions as bench seating in an urban public space. Bench rack is just one of many…
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Halloween bikes
“Frankentrike” by Ted Sliwinski is just one of the bikes currently featured in an exhibition at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit. Sliwinski points out that, “In true Detroit style it is made of junk, old bike frames and part of the elevator at OmniCorpDetroit. However, it works and it works well.” If…
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Oregon Manifest winner and a fast cargo bike
I am back in the U.S. after another busy product development trip in China. I worked long days on this trip, and the 12-hour time difference always hits me harder when I return home, so I am not up for writing much of a post this afternoon. My brain is fried, but I want to…
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Catching up with links
If you have seen the carbon/titanium Exogrid frames from Holland Cycles, you already know that they are works of art. Filmaker and photographer Jeff Katz recently documented the Holland Cycles framebuilding process starting with selection of the tubes and ending with a ride on the complete bike. The laser cutting of the titanium outer tube…
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Is TJ Tollakson the Graeme Obree of triathlon?
Admittedly, I don’t know much about the sport of triathlon, but I was very interested to see the bike setup of pro triathlete (and engineer) TJ Tollakson. A reader, Phil, sent me a link to a post about Tollakson’s recent win at Ironman Lake Placid using a 1996 Zipp beam frame bike for the cycling…
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The Niner JET 9 RDO at Presscamp
Bike Presscamp took place last week in Park City, Utah. For those of you not familiar with Presscamp, it is “the future of cycling media events”…at least that’s what the website says. Self-proclaimed or not, there may be some truth to that statement. Presscamp basically provides manufacturers in the bike industry an opportunity to show…
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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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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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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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2011 NAHBS
The 2011 North American Handmade Bicycle Show wrapped up in Austin on Sunday with the announcement of the award winners. There were many beautiful bikes chosen, but my personal favorite bike didn’t make the cut for an award. Shin-Ichi Konno’s Cherubim concept track bike (pictured here from UrbanVelo) may not have been the most practical…
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Archibald Sharp’s classic ‘Bicycles and Tricycles’
I have mentioned Archibald Sharp’s 1896 book Bicycles and Tricycles: An Elementary Treatise on Their Design and Construction on this blog several times before (here is one post that comes to mind). I personally have a pretty big collection of books about bicycles, but Sharp’s classic stands out as my single favorite. When it was…
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Come and Gone by Joe Parkin
I was on vacation at the beach last week, so I didn’t get a chance to post any new content on the blog. I did get a chance to finish reading a good book while I was lounging in the sand though- Come and Gone: A True Story of Blue-Collar Bike Racing in America by…