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We have a winner!
It has taken some time, but I can finally announce that Torkel Dohmers’ “ThisWay” concept has been chosen as the winning entry in the Bicycle Design “commuter bike for the masses” design competition. Congratulations to Torkel, who will receive a Cannondale Bad Boy 700 for his efforts. Since I already published Torkel’s description of his…
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The new bike rack design for NYC
I mentioned the NYC CityRacks design competition earlier this year (and also in a recent post), so I probably should point out the winning design. The “Hoop” rack by Copenhagen based designers Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve will be the next standard bike rack design for New York City. Several other blogs have posted…
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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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Parker Hannifin Chainless Challenge
If you are going to be in Cleveland the beginning of next week (July 28th and 29th), you might want to check out the Parker Hannifin Chainless Challenge. Teams of up to five engineering students from quite a few different universities have been working for a year on human/hydraulic powered bicycles that will be judged…
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Cannondale D-Tank and more
Check out the Cannondale design sketchbook for a new entry. These three urban bike concepts were a collaboration between the in-house Cannondale design team and D-Tank, a design studio based in Barcelona. The guys from D-Tank studied transportation design at the Elisava Design School with Torgny from Cannondale and in recent years they have done…
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Cycling Science
Actually, a good alternate title for this post might be “confessions of a bike geek”, because when I was in college, I used to ride up to the library every so often to read the back issues of Cycling Science. Our library didn’t have the current issues, just the bound copies of back issues that…
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A few more Interbike links
Man, there is a ton of good Interbike coverage on the web this year, almost too much to keep up with. I don’t have time for much of a post today, but I do want to quickly mention a few sites, in addition to the ones I linked to yesterday, that you should check out…
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Specialized 2D helmet
My helmets are all getting pretty old, so I have been shopping around for a new one lately. I generally like the design of Specialized helmets and I have been happy with the ones that I have owned in the past, so I was considering buying a new Decibel. Of course, high-end helmets are pretty…
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Bikes in design mags
I previously mentioned that I have noticed quite a few bikes in design magazines lately. Yesterday, I decided to thumb through a few of the recent magazines in the growing stack on my desk, and I was not surprised to see something bicycle related in each one. The April issue of Metropolis featured David Larsson’s…
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Off to Brasstown Bald
Last year, my kids and I really enjoyed watching this stage of the Tour de Georgia. Here we are stopped by one of the many waterfalls along the hike to the top. This year, the Brasstown Bald stage falls on a school day, so I will be there with just my youngest (this is his…
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Atlas bikes
A reader, Mike, left a comment not long ago about the Atlas bike that he rode in India. His comment about those “heavy, slow, indestructible” utilitarian bikes prompted this post. For those of you who are interested, here is a picture that Mike sent me of the bikes to which he was referring. Read a…
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Future real estate mogul?
I usually try to stay on topic (loosely at least), but every once and awhile I see something unrelated to bicycle design that I really want to pass along. I mentioned earlier that local resident George Hincapie is planning to develop a cycling specific residential development in the mountains of northern Greenville County (South Carolina).…
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Start Your Engines
Longtime readers may remember when I mentioned Scott Robertson and his Photoshop bicycle renderings in October of last year. Though I am not by any stretch of the imagination a car guy (longtime readers will know that as well), I recently picked up a copy of Scott’s new book titled “Start Your Engines.” The book…
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“Materials in Bicycles” conference
I just saw a mention of something that sounds pretty cool in the Road Bike Rider newsletter. Prior to the start of the 2007 Tour De France in London on Friday, July 6th 2007, Carlton Reid of Bike Biz will chair a one-day conference called “Materials in Bicycles.” Speakers will include Dr. Alex Moulton, Chris…
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Interbike starts tomorrow
I suspect that, like me, most of you will not actually be attending the 25th anniversary Interbike show this week. Luckily for us, this will be the best year yet to see the new bicycle products in Las Vegas from afar. Needless to say, I will be checking out all the mainstream media cycling sites…
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More from Eurobike
Finally, the Giant TCR Advanced Team is to be available in the US. I listed the TCR as one of my favorite bikes back in March, but at the time I was bummed that the integrated seatpost model was only available in Europe. Speaking of Europe, I am ready to add the new Scott bikes…
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Alta
Earlier this week, I mentioned both Biomega and Alta in a post. I have mentioned Biomega a few times before, but I don’t think that I have ever posted about Alta. Many of you might remember the Alta bike in green from its first production run. Now the same single speed commuter is available in…
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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).…