Tag: Taiwan
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The Dream Machine by Jonny Mole
The Dream Machine, a futuristic racing bike by Italian design studio Jonny Mole Design, recently was selected as a winning entry for the Bicycles category in the Taipei Cycle D&I awards 2013, an event organized by iF DESIGN to reward the best projects in the bike industry. The award will be presented on March 23rd…
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Taiwanese basket bike and a crowdsourced MTB
A couple of months ago, I mentioned the Peugeot DL122 concept bike, which featured a slot compartment in the main triangle area designed to hold a briefcase. Robert, from Ascend Cycles, pointed out that 20 inch wheel bikes with a similar compartment in the frame are a pretty common sight on the streets of Taipei.…
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A few more Taipei Cycle links
I have mentioned the Taipei Cycle Show in a few posts this week, so I will keep the theme going today by sharing a few interesting links that I noticed in the past few days. Road.cc posted about award winning products at the show, and a couple of wheelsets that they mentioned caught my attention.…
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Velocity and Anytime e-bikes by Larry Chen
In response to my post yesterday about the 16th IBDC winners, Gold Award winner Larry Chen contacted me with more information about his Velocity design. He points out that “Velocity” concept is very similar to his “Anytime” folding e-bike design, which won a Silver award in the 13th IBDC. With the newer design, he hid…
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2012 IBDC winners from Taipei
The winners of the 16th annual International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC) were announced at the Taipei Cycle Show last week. From over 800 total entries and 20 finalists, Taiwanese designer Larry Chen took the Gold award this year for his Velocity electric bike design. The pedal assist city bike features a “power core” consisting of…
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Road bikes with disc brakes
Unfortunately, my schedule did not allow me to make a stop in Taiwan for the Taipei Cycle Show on my way home from China a couple days ago. From the few pictures I have seen today though, it looks like I missed a good one. I’ll try to cover a few of the highlights from…
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2011 Taipei Cycle Show and assorted links
The 2011 Taipei Cycle Show is underway, which means that the winners of the winners of the 15th annual International Bicycle Design Competition (IBDC) have been announced. Cycling Satin Cesena has photos and descriptions of all the winners, but you can see the Silver Award winning ‘Sommerset’ folder with an intergrated shopping bag pictured here.…
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Photos from the 2010 Taipei Cycle Show
I mentioned the winners of the International Bicycle Design Competition in my post last Thursday. I couldn’t find many good photos of the finalists online at the time, but that has changed in the last few days. Eric Stoddard is now home from the show, and has posted many photos from Taipei to his Flickr…
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IBDC entries and a few other links
I am in China this week and next. My schedule is pretty tight, so I won’t have a lot of free time for the blog while I am traveling. Right now though, it is the middle of the night and I am still not adjusted to this time zone, so I will pass a long…
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More from Taipei and other assorted links
Eric’s guest posts at the beginning of this week came at a great time. I have just been too busy to write much for the blog lately. It is not that I have a shortage of content- in fact, look for a book review next week and a couple of product reviews soon. It is…
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Taipei Cycle Show Part 2…
Note from James: This is Eric’s 3rd and final guest post about Taipei Cycle 2009. I greatly appreciate his willingness to share his thoughts and observations from the show with all of you over the last few days. Now on to Eric’s post: The bicycles that seemed to have the most variety were what I…
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From the show floor of the Taipei Cycle show….
Note from James: In the last post, I introduced Eric Stoddard who shared some of his commentary from the IBDC awards. In this post, he is back with more thoughts and observations from the show floor in Taipei: We’ve been talking quite a bit about the Blue Ocean of potential cyclists that Mark Sanders described…
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International Bicycle Design Competiton
Eric Stoddard is a talented automotive and product designer (you can see examples of his work on his website, SpeedStudioDesign). He attended the Taipei Cycle show last week and I asked him if he could provide a bit of commentary for Bicycle Design readers. I think that as an avid bicyclist with a background as…
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Mark Sanders’ keynote presentation in Taipei
I don’t know if I mentioned it beforehand, but Mark Sanders was a keynote speaker at the Taipei Cycle Show yesterday. He spoke about his work as a bike designer, but the primary focus of his presentation was, in his words, “how alternative and universal bike design may be a help in attracting more people…
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Local boosterism and Taiwanese carbon fiber
It is no secret that I like living and riding in Greenville, South Carolina. Regular readers are probably used to mentions of Greenville on the blog from time to time, especially toward the end of summer when the U.S. Pro Championship races draw near. As soon as I saw a recent Competitive Cyclist newsletter article…
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A carbon fiber Biomega
Over the weekend, Jens Martin Skibsted of Biomega sent me a few pictures of the company’s booth at the recent Taipei Cycle show. The most notable picture that I want to pass along is this carbon fiber version of the Mark Newson designed bike, which they just previewed at the show. I have mentioned before…
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Taipei Cycle 2008
The 2008 Taipei International Cycle Show just wrapped up in Taiwan. According to a press release, attendance was up 91 percent from 2007 with 86,000 visitors compared to 45,000 last year. I haven’t yet been able to see everything from the show, but I did download and take a glance at the show daily pdf…
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Fonta folder and more
I am quite busy at the moment, so I probably won’t have another chance to post until sometime next week. I do have a few things I want to pass along, so this will be one of those hodgepodge posts with a few quick unrelated links. Bicycle Design reader Miles sent me a link to…