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Thinking of getting rid of those boring old rubber wheels on your ride? You bet. And what better way to do it than pinning strips of sheet steel together, for an ever so subtle springy wheel effect. Ron Arad is a product designer and architect with just the approach to make that happen and the results of his first go at it are quite impressive.
My eyes! They’re bleeding. Flattened by the sheer velocity of awesomeness. I often forget the times spent as a child, beating the frame of a bike into an abomination of blood-letting bliss. Jagged edges, missing spokes, lighter, faster. All you needed was a steep hill and a thick pair of Garanimal corduroys.
Jeff Tiedeken of Monkey Likes Shiny knows the feeling and he’s bringing the rawk home in the slick, clean flavor of welded aluminum. He calls it the Gravity Speed bike, a project the Aerospace welder/party animal has been working on for the better part of the year. It’s made for pure speed – no chains, cranks or pedals to hold you back. Just beautful curves and a banana seat that holds your buttocks millimeters off the rear wheel.
For those of us not born with carbon composite cruising wheels for legs, doomed to walk the dry earth and swampy grassland, someone has finally had pity on us.
Michael Jenkins from Adelaide, Australia has spent the past three years developing the best possible solution to mount large wheels to your legs while not looking completely ridiculous… ok, mildly ridiculous. They’re called Chariot Skates and 4 months ago Michael tested his first production model. Check it out.
Good news for all of you who inadvertently stick your hands in the front fork of bicycles from time to time. You’re gonna have to go back to sticking them in the chain with this new, totally functional bike design from Olli Erkkila.
Olli, graduate of Lahti University Institute of Design in Finland, not only came up with a super slick, cruiser-style bike, he used his ingenious power of design to boot the front fork right out to give the two-wheeled transport a completely unique, almost floating appearance. Check. it. out.
That’s it. For the last time you’ve tossed your bicycle over the bridge. The traffic is maddening, the weather is ruining your stylish hair, and you’ve had just about all you can take of your leg being eaten by gear teeth as you round that one curve.
If only there were a human-powered, weatherproof container that rises above all of the madness. It just so happens, there is, and it’s called… the Shweeb. The goal is simple, provide an urban transportation system that elevates the rider above the bustle of the city, providing a clean, fast commute.
There’s an interesting story of how the Shweeb came about and Geoffrey Barnett, Inventor and Director, was kind enough to lay out the design process and trials he went through along the way.
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You’re looking for the perfect beach cruiser, but nothing, I mean nothing, has tires fat enough to match the coolness you want to bring to dune dude. Your search is over.
The Fat Tire Sand Bike designed by Mike Scarani could be the sand-spittin’ scrawler you’ve been looking for. He designed it using no 3D CAD of any sort, but his knowledge based in mountain biking, architecture and a few CAD applications, gave him just enough passion to push the limits of drive train dominance. Here’s the breakdown.
I see that look in your eye. You want to see some sweet bicycle convertin’ design that makes falling off your bike and hitting a street sign look like fun again.
Well, here it is. It’s called the ZWEISTIL [two style], named by the designers, Stefan Wallmann and Daniel Knüpfer, for it’s unique variable frame construction that gives you the ability to drop it down cruiser style and turn the heads of the hunnies… or just save some gas.
Stefan fills us in on the greasy details. I think you’ll like the way he explains it.
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