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Harvolt Bike Share System by Matthew Harding
Matthew Harding recently completed his degree in Industrial Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. For his final project, Harding designed an Electric Bike Share System, which he...
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Guidelines for submitting a design
Reader submitted designs and tips are always welcome and encouraged here, but often I do get focused on my own design projects and fall behind on the emails sent to tips@bicycledesign.net. The volume...
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Merge, EVO, and SOLID- Bikes from the 2015 Core77 Design Awards
In March, I introduced you to the transportation jury for the 2015 Core77 Design Awards . As mentioned in that post, we had a very talented group, and it was a great experience working with Torgny,...
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Come on UCI…it’s time to allow innovation in the Hour Record again
Wiggins’ Pinarello Hour Record bike. Screenshot image via cyclingtips.com.au I wrote a bit about my confusion with the UCI after Jens Voight set a new athlete’s (or unified, or whatever we are...
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A couple of fast bikes (if you have the right motor)
I have been busy with quite a few different projects lately, so it has been nearly three weeks since I last found time to post here at BicycleDesign. Recently though, a couple of really nice aero...
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Very Special Things
I don’t know Robert Egger, but I remember seeing his picture in a 1992 issue of Bicycling Magazine (along with David Schultz, the other Specialized S-Works designer at the time). When I read that...
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A couple of interesting new helmet designs
Folding helmets have been around for a while, but most of the ones that I have seen fold or compress laterally. The Closca Fuga is different though. It compresses from the top down, reducing its...
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Bringley, a compact cargo bike by Lawrence Brand
In 2008, Lawrence Brand, of Porterlight Bicycles, decided that he needed a cargo bike, but he didn’t have a secure place outside his London apartment to store one. He found that existing cargo bikes...
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A peek in to the design of the 2016 Trek Madone 9
In case you didn’t hear, there was a little race going on in France the last few weeks. Despite the fact that Froome was in yellow for much of the Tour as expected, this was an exciting race to...
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LIVALL Bling Smart Helmet
A few weeks ago, I mentioned a couple of interesting helmet designs that recently caught my attention. Both of those helmets, the Closca Fuga and the Lumos helmet, include technology based...
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Art bikes by Handsome Cycles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
To celebrate their 100th birthday, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) teamed up with Handsome Cycles to bring some of the MIA’s most famous masterpieces to life in the form of three art-inspired...
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A Red Dot Award for the Gocycle G2
The Gocycle folding electric bike was first mentioned on Bicycle Design in early 2009. At the time, its clean design with a fully enclosed drivetrain seemed quite innovative. Six years later, the...
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Scott concept bikes by Julien Delcambre
Julien Delcambre currently works as a watch designer in Switzerland, but in a previous job at Scott Sports he designed a few interesting concept bikes. He points out on his Behance page that his...
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Velox Volcane, a home-built carbon and aluminum bike by Richard Machin
Back in the mid nineties, I remember being completely fascinated with Damon Rinard’s “How I Made a Carbon Fiber Bike in My Garage” article (20+ years later, you should still check out the archive of...
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More on the Specialized Eff You See Eye (fUCI)
An earlier version of Specialized Creative Director Robert Egger’s “Eff You See Eye” concept bike was mentioned on Bicycle Design a couple months ago (in a post that was also featured on Core77). At...
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Evolution of the Windcheetah- a guest post by Karl Sparenberg
I am a big fan of Mike Burrows, and have mentioned his work quite a few times over the years at Bicycle Design. In 2012, lifelong “cycling fanatic” and engineer Karl Sparenberg of Advanced Velo Design...
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Three interesting bikes from Eurobike 2015
It’s that time of year again. Bike show season kicked off on Wednesday with the opening of Eurobike 2015 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. One of the big stories from the show this year seems to wireless...
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The top 25 posts from 10 years of Bicycle Design
I can hardly believe that it’s been a full decade since I started this blog by posting one of my old marker renderings. Though I started with a few of my own sketches, what really kept me interested...
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A Leitra velomobile redesign by Kuba Szankowski
For his final project in Mechanical Engineering at the Danish Technical University, Israeli born Danish citizen Kuba Szankowski designed a velomobile based on the classic Leitra design. He worked...
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Aerodynamic and structural development of the Specialized Venge (Q&A with...
By now, anyone reading this has likely seen the recent redesign of the Specialized Venge aero road bike. In the development of the new Venge, Specialized engineers used Altair’s HyperWorks software...
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