Tag: bike sharing
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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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eins.plus- a hybrid electric tricycle sharing system by Peter Kutz
Peter Kutz is a product design student at the Weissensee School of Art in Berlin. For his thesis project, he designed a hybrid electric tricycle called “eins.plus” (one.plus). Similar to the Mando Footloose hybrid electric, Kutz’s concept features a pedal driven generator that powers dual motors located at the rear wheel hubs. Because the design does…
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Nested urban e-trike by Natacha Lesty
It’s been just over two months since I last posted here, and I am finally ready to get back to it. There are likely to be a few minor changes in the way I treat the blog going forward, but I won’t go into that today. Instead, I want to pass along a concept bike…
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Vote for the winner of the ISUDA bike share design competition
The ISUDA Bike Share Design Competition ended about a month ago, and I am long overdue in posting the entries to be judged and discussed by all of you who read this blog. We didn’t get as much participation as we hoped for (far fewer than the previous design competition held at Bicycle Design), but…
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Eric Birkhauser’s ZIPcycle share concept
My post about Eric Birkhauser’s Petal Velomobile concept generated some good discussion earlier this year. The architect’s latest project, ZIPcycle, is a work in progress that will be part of a larger project that he is working on… a book on active transit systems. This time around, in addition to a sleek recumbent HPV, he…
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Go Fara: a student project by Adam Taylor
Adam Taylor is an industrial designer in England who is working toward finishing his MA in Future Design. His final project is a new commuter bicycle aimed at changing the everyday commute and working day of typical 9 to 5 office staff. The system consists of the Go Fara service and the bike “Tim”, which…
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ISUDA Bike Share Design Competition
It has been quite a while since I brought up the idea of staging another design competition here at Bicycle Design. That post late last year generated many great comments, and I hope to be able to use a few of your competition ideas in the future. One common thread in many of the comments…
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The Faraday Porteur and more
After a longer than average trip to China, I am especially busy this week trying to catch up in the office. I do have a few links that I want to pass along though, so I’ll take a quick break from my backlog of emails and drawing approvals to share a few of them now.…
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Starck’s town bike and Teams Design’s ntb
I mentioned in an earlier post that Philippe Starck had been invited by the City of Bordeaux, France to design “the town bike of the future”. He recently unveiled his PIBAL concept bike, which you can see in the attached rendering. If I understand correctly, the idea behind the platform on the step-through frame is…
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SoBi- a smartphone based bike sharing system
Around this time last year, I posted the Etta bike, a semi-recumbent city bike that Nick Foley designed as his senior thesis project at Pratt. Since then, Nick graduated and started working with the design team at the bike-sharing company Social Bicycles. Nick explains that Social Bicycles (SoBi) is a bike-sharing system that uses “smart” bikes…
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Velomobile speedforms and more
Eric Stoddard of Speed Studio Design recently posted some nice velomobile sketches on his blog. One of his sketches is featured here, but follow the link to see the other two. Eric is an automotive and product designer based in Seoul, Korea, so that makes a perfect segueway into the next topic I want to…
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Winners of the CPH Bike-Share Competition
I was working out of town last week and didn’t get a chance to write anything on the blog. The preceding week was pretty hectic too, so posting has been especially light at Bicycle Design of late. I guess it is just this time of year. I have been really busy at home and at…
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Bamboo Bike studio and assorted links
I have definitely been a bit behind in keeping up with the blog lately. In the last couple weeks, I have bookmarked quite a few links, and received several good tips from readers, but I just haven’t had the time to pass along. Tonight, I want to quickly a share a few of those links…
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Connect
One of the entries that we received in the commuter bike competition was this one called “Connect” by David Boyce. This bike design locks into a proprietary rack by way of a mechanism that is integrated into the frame. To me, this idea just didn’t really fit the competition’s design brief, but I want to…
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Alternative solutions- Recycle and Bikonomic
When I announced the winner of the commuter bike design competition, I mentioned that we had a few differing opinions on the jury. Those differences led to great discussions, which were the highlight of staging this competition for me personally. One juror in particular felt pretty strongly that a non-cyclist would not give up his…