Cargo bikes, a café racer, a wired commuter, and more
If you don’t already follow Bicycle Design on Facebook and Twitter, you are occasionally missing out on interesting designs that never seem to find their way to the blog. As much as I would like to...
View Article3D printed mountain bikes by Adrian Smith
Images from Dirt Magazine and Red Bull Bikes Bicycle frames constructed with the help of a 3D printer, have been showing up in posts here since 2011. In some cases, frame parts are printed directly…as...
View ArticleSno- a concept snow bike by Venn
A cold February day seems like as good a time as any to share the latest concept from the designers at Venn, an Industrial Design Consultancy based in Turkey. “Sno” (as you might guess from the name)...
View ArticleConcept bike and HPV by Dennis Redmonds
This time trial bike concept rendering by German designer Dennis Redmonds caught my eye on the Velo Design blog Facebook page recently. Before you ask about the drivetrain details, or point out that...
View ArticleMin keun Kwon’s &B bike beam projector
Min keun Kwon’s “&B bike beam” is a pretty interesting design concept. Basically, it’s a projector that connects to your bicycle and uses your smartphone to project graphic images, videos, or...
View ArticleBike designs by Cero
Cero is a Barcelona based multidisciplinary design firm based with a focus on product design, engineering, graphic design, and programming. I recently discovered them by way of their Behance page,...
View ArticleA Collection of Velomobile Links- Part 1
I don’t own one (yet), but I do have a fascination with velomobiles and mention them here at BicycleDesign from time to time. They are certainly not as common in the United States as they are in parts...
View ArticleVelomobiles (or whatever you choose to call them)- part 2
If you missed last week’s post at Bicycle Design about velomobiles, be sure to check it out. In addition to the links that I mentioned in the body of the post, a few of you shared additional...
View ArticleWhy did I miss NAHBS?
Yeah…I know the answer. I had a scheduling conflict this year, but I still kept asking myself that question as pictures from the show started popping up on Twitter and Instagram over the weekend....
View ArticleIntroducing the Core77 Design Awards Transportation Jury
You may have noticed the banner for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards that has been running at the top of the sidebar here at Bicycle Design for the last month or so. If you haven’t submitted an entry...
View ArticleSpinlister X VANMOOF Smart Bikes
You may have heard of the little local festival that is currently underway in Austin, Texas. I think they have a few bands playing or something, but the big news from SXSW over the weekend was the...
View ArticleElevenTwentySeven Erembald by Tobias Knockaert
Karel Vincke (left) and Tobias Knockaert (right) at the ElevenTwentySeven launch last week in Belgium. Tobias Knockaert is a recent industrial design graduate from Belgium, Bruges. For his final...
View ArticlePredator HPV by Eugen Ackermann
3d printed 1/4 scale model of Eugen Ackermann’s Predator HPV Last summer, for his Bachelor thesis of Industrial Design at Pforzheim University in Germany, Eugen Ackermann chose to design an...
View ArticleRIP Ilya Vostrikov
Without a doubt, the best part of writing this blog for the past nine years has been the opportunity it has given me to meet really great people who share my passions for bicycles and design. Some of...
View ArticleAvokádo wooden frame by Jan Mucska
I haven’t been able to post here at Bicycle Design lately, but I have noticed that quite a few designs have been submitted though the contact page in recent weeks. I am traveling in China for work...
View ArticleFrenchBuilt 22 concept bike by Ben Goudout (update)
Last fall, I began a post about the FrenchBuilt 22 Triathlon concept bike by saying, “every once and a while, a design on Pinterest catches my attention and I want to find out more about it.” Thanks...
View ArticleCrossBow Tension Bicycle Concepts by Clandestine Design Group
If you are a fan of Buckminster Fuller, you are no doubt familiar with the principle of Tensegrity (or tensional integrity), which is “based on the use of isolated components in compression inside a...
View ArticleHERObike Bamboost, a bamboo composite e-bike
A couple years ago, I posted about Semester Bicycles- Hextube bamboo composite frames made in the rural South. Since that time, Greensboro, Alabama based HERObike has continued to explore new ways...
View ArticleA catch-up post with several designs
I have been running a bit behind this blog lately, but there are many interesting design submissions from readers in my inbox (thanks to all of you who have sent in tips or designs). I will be in...
View ArticleMando Footloose IM by Mark Sanders
Thought it has been nearly three years since I first shared Mark Sanders’ design for the Mando Footloose chainless hybrid e-bike, that 2012 post still remains quite popular today. After the...
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