Dear Bike-Fetishists, please give some attention to a ride, that doesn’t only look completely wicked and gives you a great feeling when riding it, but is also high of quality. The German liquor factory ‘Partisan-Vodka from Belarus’ summoned a special competition to create two different bikes by two German teams. Both had the same budget of only 700€ and they had only six weeks to get ready and present their designs. The most important condition: absolute secrecy about what (...) Read More about FeO2 bike Winner of the Partisan Vodka Bike Battle (308 words)

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An original bike project with the development of this ‘Type Bike’ by Canadian creative designer/Photographer Juan Madrigal.  The T-bike is entirely designed with Helvetica Medium. Simple & graphic, I like!

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How amazing are these pictures!? For those who have never been to China, you probably think this is crazy, and it actually is! In his “Manufactured Totems” series Alain Delorme, captures the portrait of the insignificant jobs present in everyday life in Shanghai. Even though the Chinese society usually fascinates by its delusions of grandeur, he chooses to focus on the individuals running/buzzing about the city.

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Im not a super fan of bikes, but I do love beautiful design, and when I stumbled over these Danish custom bikes called Wrenchmonkees I couldn’t resist to check them out and introduce them to you. So for you bike lovers, enjoy these beauties.

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Smart, responsive and elegant, the Copenhagen Wheel is a new emblem for urban mobility. It transforms ordinary bicycles quickly into hybrid e-bikes that also function as mobile sensing units. The Copenhagen Wheel allows you to capture the energy dissipated while cycling and braking and save it for when you need  a bit of a boost. It also gives you maps pollution levels, traffic congestion, and road conditions in real-time..

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They’ve got style, balance and are playing Polo on some cool fixie bikes.  The Polo Bike is a pretty cool new movement/sport and it doesn’t seems to be too popular yet… (see below…the cool Nike Video shot in Paris)

The game of Bike Polo, if you haven’t already figured out, is a variation of the equestrian game with a bicycle being substituted for the polo pony. Although not as glamorous as the equine variety.(...) Read More about The Polo Bike – A Cool New Movement (174 words)

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Take your bike anywhere, with this Concept Eco // 07 by Mexican designer Victor M. Aleman – The Compactable Urban Bicycle is designed to save space when it is being transported or it is not in use. The Wheel is composed by six modules, each one has a double pivot in the joints…

this allows the wheel to fold and become smaller, the spokes are contained in the inner structure of the wheel, when you unfold the system, the spokes rotate to the center of the mechanism where it attach to the center of the wheel. The double triangle structure is composed by expandable modules, each one collapses to a smaller dimension and then this modules align by the rotation of the axis in the joint of the structure, to keep in position all the structure is used an special part in a form of an X that aligns all the modules to their position.

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