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An electric bike design competition from eBikeTec
“Are Electric Bicycles the Future of Cycling?” Bicycling magazine asked that question recently on Twitter in reference to an article on the growth of e-bikes as a category. The article by David Howard...
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NAHBS 2013
The North American Handmade Bicycle Show took place over the weekend, and there is no shortage of coverage around the web. As usual, Urban Velo has one of the best photo galleries from NAHBS, with nice...
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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...
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Wood and leather commuter gear from Nisnas Industries
I briefly mentioned Nisnas Industries a couple of years ago when it was a new venture by founders Yossi and Max. At the time, I referred to them as “a small workshop dedicated to custom commuters in...
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An e-bike for Deutsche Post by Luke Guttery
Luke Guttery, of Axon56 design lab, recently sent me these images from a project that he has been working on for Deutsche Post. The electric bike, designed specifically for use by the postal service in...
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Winners of the ISUDA mobile bike share design competition
Team Roda design- the reader’s choice award Voting ended in the online poll to select the reader’s choice winner of the Bicycle Design/ ISUDA bike share design competition, and the Roda design by Steve...
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Tips for having your design featured here
I have been amazed and delighted to see the traffic to Bicycle Design increase over the years…especially in the last year or so. The fact that more and more people are reading is great, but with only a...
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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...
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Cervelo Rca
Yesterday, Cervelo officially launched their new Project California Rca frameset which, according to the company, “integrates category-defining light weight, stiffness, and ride quality with S-series...
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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...
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Taipei Cycle Show 2013- a guest post by Nick Foley
Intro from James: Thanks to Nick Foley, Head of Industrial Design at Social Bicycles, for this guest post. Nick is a frequent commenter, and has been featured on this blog a couple of times in this...
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Design Week in Milan 2013
In the last month or so, I have been traveling quite a bit for work, so there hasn’t been very much activity here at the Bicycle Design blog. Last week, I was in Milan, Italy for Euroluce and Salone...
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Bamboobee bikes by Sunny Chuah
I have mentioned bamboo bikes on this blog quite a few times in the past, and I even had the chance to ride one for a few weeks last year. At first glance, the Bamboobee bikes, by designer AhSun...
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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...
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A GrabCAD contest and a bit of HPV history
I briefly mentioned the engineering website and community GrabCAD last year, when they ran a crank weight reduction challenge for Tern and a bar tape fixing challenge for Flying Machine Bicycle 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...
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ZIPcycle 2.0 by Eric Birkhauser
Eric Birkhauser’s “open air” ZIPcycle velomobile concept was featured in a Bicycle Design post last year. He points out that the feedback received from readers in the comments (and from an earlier...
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Bike designs by Milos Jovanovic
I have seen quite a few bicycle projects on the design portfolio website Behance lately, and I have been saving them into a collection on the site as I find them. Two of the designs that I noticed...
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Velomobiles from Piximatic and GeoSpace
It has been several years since I mentioned Christophe Sarrazin’s velomobile designs. Since that 2009 post though, his website has evolved quite a bit. The site is more than just a source for news...
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Helios LED bars and a roll-up mudguard
After a public debut at the Bay Area Maker Faire over the weekend, the smartphone controlled LED Helios handlebars are getting a lot of attention on the web (well deserved attention, I believe). The...
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