Posts tagged bike
Cycle Commuters Offered Fluffy Towels and Ironing Boards At Bike Park
Jul 16th
Storage for 150 bicycles at Bike Park. Photo: Bike Park
Whenever we do a story on bike commuting there’ll always be a commenter concerned about what happens when they arrive at their workplace. How do they scrub up from a sweaty or rainy ride? Where do they safely and securely store their bike? And all their cycling clobber?
Fair questions, but for potential city work riders in Melbourne, Australia those excuses have been made redundant, with the opening of facilities such Bike Park. Recycled from a former nightclub, Bike Park offers room for 150 bikes to be stowed indoors. As well lockers, showers, fluffy tow…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Kevin Scott’s Bendy Bike, It Wraps Around Posts for Secure Locking.
Jul 16th
All photos: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features
We’ve seen a plethora of ways for securing bikes against theft, but this might be the creative. The whole bike bends around a suitable post to become, in effect, the loop through which the bike is secure
This out of the box thinking was an idea of Kevin Scott, 21, a British final year Product Design student at De Montfort University. His design is, which we are ecstatic to see far beyond some Computer Aided Design (CAD) rendering, and appears to be a real life working prototype. For which he scored a <a href="http://www.dmu.ac.uk/facu…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Seven Great Solutions To Park City Bikes Safely
Jul 12th
Washington DC Bike Transit Center. Credit: KPG Design Studio.
It’s not hard to find innovation in bike parking – lots of funky and functional designs are constantly being created for parking fixtures – the staples, rungs, and poles that help cyclists secure their bikes to something in hopes of avoiding theft. But what about cyclists that want more, more security, and more services, and are willing to pay? Innovative examples are fewer and further between, partly due to cost. We’ve found seven of the systems that deter …Read the full story on TreeHugger
10 Best Bamboo Bikes For Style and Performance (Slideshow)
Jul 6th
A high-performance bike from Boo Bicycles. Credit: Boo Bicycles
Bamboo not only makes for beautiful bikes, it is one of the greener building materials we’ve got: It has a low CO2 footprint compared to aluminum and steel, is renewable, and even biodegradable (though hard to imagine how it would biodegrade with all those layers of lamination). Yes, bamboo isn’t perfect — often it comes with a big carbon footprint for transport — but these bike designers are taking bamboo to the heights of beauty a…Read the full story on TreeHugger
