Tag: reader submitted design
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Steam-o by Janos Insperger
If you have been following this blog for any length of time, you probably know that I am not a fan of hubless wheels. You may occasionally see them used on custom motorcycles for a visual effect, but in general, I believe that they work better in renderings than they do in real life. I…
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Wooden bikes by Pietro Russomanno and Chris Connor
Posts have been somewhat infrequent here at Bicycle Design lately, but it is definitely not for lack of content. I haven’t been able to keep up with all of the design submissions and tips from readers the last couple of months, so if you sent something, feel free to remind me. Today, I want to…
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Viks and Elektrokatze- steel is still real
I have been traveling in China since last Monday, so the blog has been neglected a bit. During that time though, I have been receiving quite a few design submissions from readers, so I want to quickly take the opportunity to share a couple of them with you. Indrek Narusk is the designer behind Velonia…
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City Speeder recumbent by Roel Verhagen-Kaptein
Fresh on the heels of my last post, we have a reader submitted design from Roel Verhagen-Kaptein (perfect for a day like today when I am pressed for time). Roel explains that the City Speeder is “a recumbent bike made for commuting in a fast and comfortable way. The streamlined body makes the bike fast and…
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Wooden bike by Yojiro Oshima
Yojiro Oshima is a student in the Craft & Industrial Design Department at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. For his final project before graduation, he designed and made a wooden bike (complete with wooden wheels, handlebars, and saddle). His goal with the design was to incorporate the benefits of a beam frame and a standard…
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A collection of concept bikes
At first glance, the Clarity bike by designaffairs studio looks like a typical fixie or singlespeed road bike. Closer inspection though reveals a transparent frame that appears to be made of glass. Actually, the material is an advanced polymer that, according to the designers, “combines high impact resistance, lightweight properties and a gentle flexibility that…
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A collection of concept bikes
I posted about Antoine Fritsch’s B2O bamboo frame bike in 2009. Since that time, he has continued his work using laminated bamboo with an electric scooter and the bamboo cargo trike that you see above. Italian designer Luca Feletti recently graduated from the University of Ferrara. For his thesis project, Luca designed an electric modular…
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Bike Zone, Bipo, Vind, Cyclingboom and more
Man… do I ever have a backlog of stuff to share! I have been really busy with design projects lately, so the links that I have been intending to post here at Bicycle Design have been stacking up. I can’t get to everything today, but I do want to quickly mention a few interesting designs…
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RaceBRAID bike by Jacob Haim
German Industrial designer Jacob Haim recently completed a new racing bike design as his final student project. His RaceBRAID bike was built in cooperation with Munich Composites GmbH, using the company’s innovative carbon braiding technology. The shaped braided top tube and down tube both feature visible red fiber textures… a signature feature of Braid bikes…
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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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Road bike sketches by Ilya Vostrikov
Ilya Vostrikov is a Russian industrial designer who is currently working in Germany as an automotive designer. According to his blog, he has a role in “development of body kits and interior design for Porsche, BMW, Aston Martin, and Mini.” As you might expect, his blog features no shortage of car drawings, but he also…
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BlueSkyBike by Richard Heath
BlueSkyBike is a collaboration between Industrial Design Intern Richard Heath from Auckland, NZ, and BlueSky Design in Sydney, Australia. Their electric folding bike concept is aimed at style conscious urban commuters and is based on Richard’s experience commuting from Sydney’s western suburbs to the city each day via train. Richard explains the concept below: “Practicality,…
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Guilin Bike Stand by David Hu
I am traveling in China this week, and at the moment I’m watching the evening celebrations of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday on Qiandeng Lake from my hotel window in Foshan. I think it is about time to get outside for a closer look, but first it seems fitting to quickly share a design for…
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Petal Velomobile by Eric Birkhauser
Architect Eric Birkhauser recently sent me a link to his entry in the B’Twin/ Local Motors design competition (see the other entries here). His velomobile, with LED lights integrated into the shell/frame, sounds pretty interesting, so I want to share a few of the image boards here along with Eric’s description of the concept: “The…
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Bicycle Design Competition follow-up
OK, we are nearly halfway into 2012, and I still haven’t started working on the new design competition that I mentioned late last year. I still need to decide on the details and find a company to provide a prize for the winner, but it is going to happen (once I can find a little…
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Mohsen Saleh’s RWS recumbent
Mohsen Saleh, a design engineer living in Milan, Italy, has been working on a rear wheel steering recumbent bike design (in his spare time) for about a year. In a recent post on his blog, Mohsen explained his three main objectives for the project: To eliminate the long chains used on current recumbent bikes To…
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City Electric Bicycle by Vojtěch Sojka
Industrial Design student Vojtěch Sojka recently designed this ‘city electric bicycle’ as his thesis project at the University of Technology in Brno (Czech Republic). The school project was developed as a concept for the Czech bike company Superior, who helped Sojka with the production of the prototype. Sojka’s goal with the design was to create…
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Torque e-bike by Emil Møller Pedersen
A month or so ago, I posted about a handcycle by Marius Hjelmervik, a design student at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. It turns out that Marius wasn’t the only one in his class to design a bike. For his final project, classmate Emil Møller Pedersen designed an electric bike called the Torque. Emil…