woodOOcycles
There’s something about a merging wood and metal that just makes a bike pop. From full wood frames, fenders, racks and now handle bars shown in the video below wood cycling options are growing. Woodoocycles handle bars are all handmade and they have a some pretty stylish fix gear bikes that are worth looking at [...]
Bicycle Crate Hack
Ridding Pretty Bicycle Chic California posted a great hack to add a crate to your bike. If you’re looking to add some style to your urban commuter or just need to handle additional carrying capacity to your bike this is for you. Wine and bottle crates can be purchased but I’m sure if you do [...]
Bike Rack Birdhouse
One of my favorite things about cycling is the innovation that comes from it. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to do with a bike such as the example below however, at the same time can get advanced as bicycles that can read your mind. The bike rack birdhouse is a sleek design created by Canadian [...]
Bicycle Seat Stool
Source: IkeaHackers An interest in bicycle design and culture often extends beyond the pavement and into your living space. This interesting take on a common bar stool merges the style of the vintage bicycle saddle with the function of a modern stool. I can already picture this in my next loft apartment downtown, can’t you?
guerilla gardening
Having a positive impact on the environment is part of cycling culture. In Milan, there’s a new guerilla gardening interventions that was part of the “piante volanti” project. It’s simple I think the design can be improved but the concept does show through. What other hacks have you seen with bikes or bike parts that [...]
Art Installation, using 1000 bikes
Installation, using one thousand bikes, by Wei Wei in Taipei, part of the ‘Absent’ exhibition.
urban antlers
Artist Gilbert VandenHeuvel found his inspiration for his work through cycling and pig farming. It might sound a little strange that pig farming helped him gain the skills for the sculptures however, that’s where he learned is metal working skills. This is just a sample of his work and if you dig these urban antlers [...]
Who’da thought a fender could be graceful?
Fabricated by Ben & Drew in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA by Mission Bicycles, the Plank Fender is a new, natural alternative to it’s ill-fitting, injection-molded ancestors. Fabricated from sustainably grown bamboo. Treated with a vegetable based penetrating oil. Fittings manufactured domestically (actually just a short bike ride away). Fits underneath your rear brake (or where your rear brake would [...]
Bike Bugs and Animals
Recycling and being environmentally conscious is a big part of the cycling community and French sculptor Edouard Martinet has found a new way to demonstrate this by creating sculptures of discarded parts from old bicycles.
Space Taken by 60 People
In the design world Comic Snas is a faux pas and has spurred a grassroots movement for redesign of a Muenster poster. Designers are claiming that the typography ruined the message in the originaland have made some slight but impactful improvements to the poster. What does all of this have to do with the cycling [...]