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Semester Bicycles- Hextube bamboo composite frames made in the rural South 15 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
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 th...
A handcycle mountain trike and a couple of student designs 13 Aug 2013 | 02:53 am
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 ...
Graeme Obree’s new improved Beastie 1 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
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 ye...
E-Trike by George Cooper 29 Jul 2013 | 09:52 pm
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 cy...
Congrats AeroVelo team! 25 Jul 2013 | 09:53 pm
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 po...
New designs, old designs, velomobiles, and bike art 23 Jul 2013 | 10:41 pm
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 ...
Design Awards for bikes and bike products 8 Jul 2013 | 10:38 pm
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 ...
Revelo LIFEbike by Henry Chong 3 Jul 2013 | 10:32 pm
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 mark...
Wooden bikes, folding helmets, velomobiles and more 26 Jun 2013 | 10:20 pm
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 w...
Bike Gate by Merwyn Wijaya and Teo Kok 21 Jun 2013 | 09:45 pm
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 d...
