Bicycle Design

Tag: bike racks

  • Bespoked Bristol, Shadow Stands, and a Cog Clock

    Bespoked Bristol, Shadow Stands, and a Cog Clock

    Bespoked Bristol, the UK Handmade Bicycle show, kicks off today and runs through the weekend. It may not be as big as the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, but from what I have seen of last year’s event it is definitely worth checking out.  Mick from Cyclorama will be there again this year, so check…

  • Tulip Fun Fun rack and the Shape Field bike

    Tulip Fun Fun rack and the Shape Field bike

    I saw Margus Triibmann’s Tulip Fun Fun bike rack yesterday, and mentioned it on Twitter and Google+ saying, “This is a clever bike rack design. I’d be interested to see how it holds up over time in an urban environment though.” A few people replied with concerns about the security of a flexible bike rack,…

  • Ten bikes in the space of one car

    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…

  • A creative bike parking video

    A creative bike parking video

    Jos Sluijsmans runs the Dutch website Fietsdiensten.nl and is one of the organizers of the African Bicycle Design Contest, which I mentioned in a past post. He recently created a YouTube video titled ‘Creatief fietsparkeren’, which features some great examples of creative bicycle racks and parking designs from the Netherlands and around the world. I…

  • 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…

  • A new bike rack design

    I have mentioned the inverted-U bike rack design on the blog at least a couple of times before. In the NYC racks competition post I said: [the inverted-U design is the] most functional design around. I like some of the artistic, sculptural bike racks that I have seen and I think they have their place,…

  • 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…

  • Bike Tree and other links

    Many of you may have already seen this bike tree concept, by Abhinav Dapke, elsewhere on the web. I like the rendering, so I want to pass it along too. I am not sure if the entire concept is feasible or not, but I do like the fingerprint entry/release idea. I use a fingerprint recognition…

  • NYC CityRacks Competition

    I mentioned a couple of Cool Hunting links in my last post, so I will go ahead and throw out one more. Recently, they posted “Five better bike racks”. Some of the racks in that post are interesting, but out of the five, I like the Horseshoe Rack from Creative Pipe the best. Why? Because…