Bicycle Design

Tag: vintage

  • New designs, old designs, velomobiles, and bike art

    New designs, old designs, velomobiles, and bike art

    I was traveling in Asia the past couple weeks, and didn’t get a chance to post here at Bicycle Design. I do have a lot to pass along though, so today I will quickly share just a few of the links that readers have shared with me recently. I have shared Ilya Vostrikov’s bicycle renderings…

  • An interesting vintage singlespeed

    An interesting vintage singlespeed

    I am back at my desk catching up after a great Holiday break. I have been on the internet very little in the last 2+ weeks, so I have a lot to share…once I get through some of this email.  For now, I want to quickly point you to this interesting chromed Biscotti single speed…

  • Old or new

    Take a look at this bike. With its lugged steel frame, downtube shifters, threaded headset and quill stem, it looks like a 15 or 20 year old road bike, right? Actually it is a brand new 2009 model bike from Fuji (see a better picture here). A couple of people forwarded this to me after…

  • Do bikes (old or new) have soul?

    I had an idea for a post earlier today, but I ended up working through lunch and didn’t have a chance to get my thoughts together. Lately, I have been way too consumed with work to think about much else. Since I am too busy/stressed/mentally drained to post any topics of my own today, I’ll…

  • Old suspension bikes

    I found a really great thread on the Ridemonkey forum last week. I noticed on Statcounter that someone had linked my Pong magic fork post to a thread named “Pictures of old and obscure suspension bikes”, so I followed the link over to check it out. What a great collection of old suspension designs. If…