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A wind tunnel, lights, S-cargo, old folders and more
A long weekend is coming up (here in the US at least). Before I ditch the computer and hit the pool, I want to pass along a bunch of the interesting links that I have noticed lately. If you have been...
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Handcycles of the 2013 Para-cycling Open
Just over a month ago (yeah, I know…I am slow to post sometimes), I had the opportunity to watch the 2013 Greenville Para-cycling Open time trial. Next year, the UCI Para-cycling World Championships...
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Design at Specialized and Orbea
I had a nice “unplugged” beach vacation last week, so the blog has been quiet for a while. While I was enjoying my week offline, I did get a chance to put quite a few more miles on the Tern Verge X10...
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Bike Gate by Merwyn Wijaya and Teo Kok
Merwyn Wijaya and Teo Kok Yung are product designers based in Singapore. Together, they designed a bike parking structure focusing on greater security and ease of use. Here is how they explain their...
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Wooden bikes, folding helmets, velomobiles and more
I have posted about quite a few wooden bikes before, but this plywood Ash design by French designers Thierry Boltz and Claude Saos is a bit different than most. The WOOD.B design for BSG Bikes has a...
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Revelo LIFEbike by Henry Chong
I mentioned Henry Chong in a 2010 post about electric bikes that were pushing the boundaries of the category, so it is no surprise that his latest e-bike doesn’t look like the ones you see on the...
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Design Awards for bikes and bike products
Mark Sanders and the Mando Footloose team. Photo credit: red-dot.de The 2013 red dot awards ceremony and gala took place last week in Essen, Germany, and as usual, bicycles were among the many types of...
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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...
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Congrats AeroVelo team!
I completely missed this news two weeks ago while I was traveling, but I saw today in a Bike Hugger post that the AeroVelo team finally was able to capture the $250,000 AHS Sikorsky Prize for human...
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E-Trike by George Cooper
George Cooper is a recent Industrial Design graduate from the UK. For his final school project, he set out to design a human powered vehicle geared toward the majority of people who don’t currently...
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Graeme Obree’s new improved Beastie
Last year, I posted about Graeme Obree’s plans to attempt the human-powered land speed record in a prone position HPV of his own design. After his test run at Machrihanish airport in Scotland last...
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A handcycle mountain trike and a couple of student designs
I have been behind on posts here at Bicycle Design lately, but I want to take a few minutes today to pass along a few designs that were submitted by readers recently. In 2011, I featured the Forzer...
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Semester Bicycles- Hextube bamboo composite frames made in the rural South
I was born in Alabama, and spent the first 18 years of my life there, so I was very happy to hear about a bike related project that is focused on creating jobs and better lives for people in one of the...
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Bike sketches from 5 different designers
I didn’t get a chance to post anything last week, and this week is shaping up to be just as busy. Quickly though, I want to share a few sketches, created by five different designers, that caught my...
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Canyon Urban Concept Bike
Eurobike came to a close over the weekend in Friedrichshafen, Germany, and I have seen a few interesting concept bike designs from the show. One of my favorites is by German brand Canyon, well known...
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The 2013 World Human Powered Speed Challenge
Graeme Obree’s “Beastie”. Photo credit: http://www.humansinvent.com This week, I have been occasionally checking the results of the 2013 World Human Powered Speed Challenge taking place for the 14th...
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Taking a break from the blog
A shot from the Bike Hugger mobile social at Interbike a few years ago. Good times! Check it out if you’re in Vegas this week. If you are reading this, you probably know that Interbike is underway in...
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Nested urban e-trike by Natacha Lesty
It’s been just over two months since I last posted here, and I am finally ready to get back to it. There are likely to be a few minor changes in the way I treat the blog going forward, but I won’t go...
View Article“Design Behind the Bike” videos from The Open University
I mentioned The Open University’s “Design Behind the Bike” videos on Twitter last week, but the five part series is quite interesting and really deserves a post of it’s own. You can watch the first...
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A couple of bike products years in the making
It has been more than seven years since I posted about the sandwich bike prototype, designed by Bleijh Industrial Design, after it was spotted at the 2006 Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan....
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