Tag: design
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A peek in to the design of the 2016 Trek Madone 9
In case you didn’t hear, there was a little race going on in France the last few weeks. Despite the fact that Froome was in yellow for much of the Tour as expected, this was an exciting race to watch (and I was bummed to not be in Paris at the finish again). In…
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Bike designs by Cero
Cero is a Barcelona based multidisciplinary design firm based with a focus on product design, engineering, graphic design, and programming. I recently discovered them by way of their Behance page, which features a few bike projects ranging from freeride and XC mountain bikes to an urban electric folding bike. On each of the Behance project…
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A list of lists related to bike design
In my year-end recap post a few weeks ago, I listed the 15 most visited posts at BicycleDesign in 2014. Since then, I have noticed a few bike related year-end lists from other sites, so I might as well share them for comparison. Dezeen’s “top 10 cycling designs of 2014” post included bicycles,…
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Design and development of the Cylo bike
It is likely that you have seen the CYLO 1 bike, designed by former Nike design director Eric Duvauchelle and his brother Antoine in collaboration with Arro-Studio. The bike was covered earlier this year by several of the big design and gadget blogs and was featured on the cover of the October Wired Magazine issue. With this post though, I…
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Trek Visual Brand Language Sculpture
I was on vacation at the beach with my family last week, and took a break from this blog (and the internet as a whole). I have some catching up to do, and a lot of bike design content to sort though and share, but I’ll start with a very quick post today. Michael Hammond…
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Design of the Alize and other assorted links
When I first heard about NeilPryde bikes a couple years ago, the renderings of the sculpted carbon Alize frame immediately caught my attention. Perhaps the design of the Alize is old news at this point, but I just discovered Sonny Lim’s portfolio page on the Behance network, which gives us a glimpse into the design…
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The design of SRAM Red 2012
I am assuming that the majority of you have already seen images of the new SRAM Red 2012 group, which was unveiled last week after several months of anticipation. If you somehow missed it, see the posts at Bike Radar, Road.cc, BikeRumor, and this video at VeloNews (just to name a few). I was pretty…
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Two very similar plywood bike concepts
Five or six years ago while looking through a book of classic bent plywood chair designs, I sketched out a bike frame inspired by the work of Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto, and others. I had seen many plywood bike frames in the past, but none of them took advantage of the flexibility that…
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Bikes from CB2
CB2, the younger, hipper sister store of Crate and Barrel, is the latest housewares and furniture retailer to jump into the bicycle business. Their first two bikes are ‘omafiets’ style and were created in collaboration with Republic bikes (the same company that Urban Outfitters teamed up with for their bike offerings last year). I kind…
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Bike day at Design*Sponge
I have mentioned Design*Sponge on this blog a couple times before. In a 2005 post, I referred to it as “one of my favorite non-bike blogs”. Five years later that is still true, so I was really glad to see that all of the D*S posts yesterday were dedicated to bikes. To kick off the…
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African Bicycle Design Contest
Cycling out of Poverty is a non-profit foundation that raises money for projects that allow Africans to improve their daily lives through the use of bicycles. Currently, they are running an African Bicycle Design Contest at Wiki-Bike.com. On the website, you can read about the competition and you can upload your own ideas for durable…
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Peugeot B1K concept bike
Wow…this past week in Dongguan passed very quickly. Right now, I am getting ready for a flight north to the Shanghai area, but I have a few minutes for a quick post. Bike Rumor mentioned this Peugeot B1K concept bike a couple of days ago (see more renderings there). Much like the flashy concept “fantasy”…
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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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In defense of concept bikes
In the four years that I have been writing this blog, I have run across a number of concept bikes that I have chosen not to post simply because they didn’t look like they would work. I guess it just depends on the timing though, because in that same four years I have chosen to…
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A partial Interbike recap
In my last post, I discussed a couple of bikes from Interbike that got my attention. Today, I want to mention a few of the other bikes and products from the show that I considered to be standouts. I have been super busy this week catching up on projects at work, and also helping my…
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Inside Trek design and a full-sized folding fixie
Thinking about frames, originally uploaded by LimitedHype. The people at Limited Hype have posted some great pictures from a recent visit to Trek’s design department on their Flickr account. Many of the shots were taken in places that have very recently been labeled “Cameras Prohibited”, so it really is sort of an inside peek into…
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5 bikes from the future
Intro from James- This is a guest post from Andreas who writes about cycling in London on his excellent blog London Cyclist. I mentioned him previously when he put together a great list of top 50 cycling blogs, which happened to include Bicycle Design in the #11 spot. I have been extremely busy catching up…
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Trek World 09
Last week, I mentioned the trouble I was having getting past the Great Firewall of China. Just when I was starting to figure out a few workarounds, I had another problem… the harddrive on my laptop decided to give up. Since I was traveling with a dead computer (which was not fun to lug around),…