Leading the way in city cycling
Japanʼs cool bicycle company, tokyobike, will be running free bike maintenance workshops over the next two weeks at its brand new pop-up shop in Rivington Street. tokyobikeʼs expert mechanic on loan from our Head Quarters in Tokyo will lead the sessions, bringing his meticulous craftsmanship to our London workshop. The sessions have been created to...
BikeCare: sustainable, ethical and oil-free bike maintenance
Orontas Inc. is a lifestyle maintenance company. Based in Toronto, Orontas manufactures and distributes high performance, sustainable and nontoxic recreational and household products. In Spring 2011, Orontas launched their first extended product line for bike care featuring lubricant, cleaner, plant-based lube and waterproof grease. Founders Chris and George uphold the company to a high ethical...
Elian Cycles – artisans driven by a sense of tradition and an eye for improvement
Elian designs and builds bikes for people who appreciate craftsmanship. Classic bikes with a modern influence. Not because the market wants it, but out of a personal need for stylish and sporty transportation in the city. It all started with the Elian 01-Cargo, a lightweight carrier cycle which, thanks to a steel frame structure of...
The POC MAG color issue
The second POC MAG will be available for free at leading POC retailers from early November and is full of aspects and angels that influence the culture that the POC brand absorb, work and live in. In POC MAG they tell the story of what inspires them, why it does and how that is translated...
The invisible airbag bicycle helmet Hövding
After several years of research and development a bicycle helmet unlike anything available on the market was launched yesterday. It’s bicycle helmet called Hövding (chieftain) that does not even sit on your head. The founders and inventors Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin showed up world news at the Technical Fair in Stockholm. - We wanted...
A new bike share system for Copenhagen
LOTS Design (Gothenburg), Koucky & Partners (Gothenburg) and Green Idea Factory (Berlin) teamed up to design an innovative bike sharing system for the City of Copenhagen. The team’s entry, called OPENbike, was yesterday awarded a first price at the city’s international design competition with 127 entries from 5 continents. The City of Copenhagen, one of...
Bike Share System 3.0
As the bicycle becomes the preferred form of transport in modern cities, Copenhagen is holding an open design competition for a new bike share system. The city wants the system to be a faithful friend in an hour of need for Copenhageners, and to be an attractive product for the city’s guests. Copenhagen’s bicycle system...
Bike porter
How do you integrate a basket in the handlebar? That was the question the Danish based design company Goodmorning Technology asked themselves when developing the city bike concept for New York Department of Park & Recreation. They wanted a basket that would be at the bike the whole time and that never could be stolen...
Milan Design Week 09 preview: Ross Lovegrove
True innovation requires an open mind, a willingness to embrace new ideas – or to create a completely new way of thinking. That principle is what led to the creation of the Ross Lovegrove-designed Bamboo, a new addition to the Biomega line. The Milan Design Week will set the stage for Biomega´s world...
The sign of a bike
Sometimes product design makes me really happy! Soon we can take a ride on Peak’s new bicycles, designed by talented Swedish designer Erik Nohlin. He has managed to re-create the actual sign of the bike, taken away all the blingbling. And what is left is pure function – and pure beauty! I am looking forward...
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