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BMC Impec Concept Bike
I had a different post planned for today, but that changed this morning when I saw a tweet from Torgny Fjeldskaar with the picture shown here attached. Torgny is the design director at BMC, a position...
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Friday Links
In the past, I would occasionally share a random collection of short links on Fridays. I don’t have much time for a post this afternoon, so it seems like as good a time as any to revive that tradition....
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UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships
Alex Zanardi of Italy on his way to a H4 Time Trial win at the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships The UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships took place in Greenville, SC over Labor Day...
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BICYCLE : A Great British Movement
I had the chance to watch a very interesting documentary over the weekend called “BICYCLE” : A Great British Movement. “Bicycle” is an independent film, created and directed by Michael B Clifford...
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Bikes on Behance and a little show in Vegas
Time trial bike concept rendering by Lachezar Ivanov Lachezar Ivanov is a Bulgarian designer with a few interesting bike sketches and renderings in his portfolio. I just happened to run across his...
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Frenchbuilt concept and a Pininfarina e-bike
Every once and a while, a design on Pinterest catches my attention and I want to find out more about it. Unfortunately though, learning more is often not always as easy as it should be. Many people...
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Jens Voigt’s hour record bike and my confusion with the UCI
Jens Voigt’s Trek Speed Concept 9 Hour Record bike. Photo: © Maxime Schmid I have been a fan of the hour record for a long time. Back in the early to mid 90s, I really loved the technological arms race...
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The Randonneur Chair by Two Makers
Cycle Show 2014 took place this past weekend in the UK, and I saw a few interesting things from the show on Twitter. The Randonneur Chair by Two Makers (Andrew McDonald and Simon Taylor) was...
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The University of Iowa Hand Built Bicycle Program
I mentioned the University of Iowa’s Hand Built Bicycle Program earlier this year in a post about NAHBS 2014. That was during my time away from this blog though, so it is likely that the majority of...
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Arvak, RoadRing, Stromer, Vello and a glimpse into design at BMC
Arvak is a minimalist wooden bike designed by Paul Guerin and Till Breitfuss of Keim. The lines of the frame certainly look nice and sleek, but if the seat height is anywhere near correct, I wonder if...
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Douze and Kiffy- a pair of French cargo bikes
I have been traveling for work the past couple weeks, so I am a bit behind on the blog (as usual). Recently though, reader Pierre Fabre shared a couple of interesting French cargo bike designs with me,...
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Luna 3D printed Bicycle by Omer Sagiv
Artist and designer Omer Sagiv has shared his conceptual bike designs here a couple of times in the past. His latest is Luna, a bike that features a 3d printed nylon frame, fork, and bar/stem...
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Design and development of the Cylo bike
It is likely that you have seen the CYLO 1 bike, designed by former Nike design director Eric Duvauchelle and his brother Antoine in collaboration with Arro-Studio. The bike was covered earlier this...
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Grainworks AnalogOne.One wooden bike
For whatever reason, I have received quite a few submissions of wooden bike designs (probably close to 10) in the past couple of weeks. I’ll share a few of them next week, but today I want to pass...
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A trio of wooden bikes
Tratar Bikes city wooden bicycle. Photographer: Nejc Pus (http://www.pusnejc.com) As I mentioned in my latest post, there has been a surge in the number of wooden bike submissions in my mailbox...
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The Derailleur Project 2015 Wall Calendar
A few years ago, I briefly mentioned in a post a website that has since become one of my favorites. Taking its name from the 1967 Cream album, Disraeli Gears chronicles in photographs the history of...
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CGI Concepts Rev2 Time Trial Tandem
Eric Streeter, of CGI Concepts, created this virtual model of a tandem for time trial racing. One prominent feature is the “split-drive” (seen in the rendering below) which “allows for power to be...
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2014- The Year in Review at BicycleDesign.net
It is the end of another year, and you know what that means… it is time for the annual recap of activity here at Bicycle Design. Since the blog was inactive for about half of 2014, it is no...
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Smart pedals from Connected Cycle
Paris based Connected Cycle is a French start-up that aims to “develop high-tech products in order to improve regular bike riders’ experience, and democratize the use of bikes as an alternative...
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A list of lists related to bike design
In my year-end recap post a few weeks ago, I listed the 15 most visited posts at BicycleDesign in 2014. Since then, I have noticed a few bike related year-end lists from other sites, so I might as well...
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