‘bike by me‘ is a swedish bike company that lets you customize the colours of almost every part of their bikes, which they then build and send to you. similar to the kotori website (where you customize earphones) and the nike id website (where you customise trainers), it’s fun to play around with even if [...]
brooks bicycle saddles are very nice, and also very expensive. so the idea of cutting into them seems very risky to me. as the leather artisan responsible puts it:
“I’ll never forget how nervous I was to make that first cut into the gorgeous seat. Carving leather leaves little room for error; not only can you [...]
i saw this on designboom, and it reminded me of the bamboo bicycle i did a post on, by ross lovegrove. from the article:
the project began by investigating the use of wood as a construction material, paying close attention to its particular considerations. the result is a fully functional bike that weighs only 2.3 kg. [...]
i saw this today, and it caught my eye. designed by matthias ries, this design simply clips onto a standard bike frame, and a standard plastic bottle should thread onto it.
there might be some flaws to this design (like: what happens when you turn a corner and the bottle hits your legs?), but i still [...]
this bamboo bicycle was designed by ross lovegrove for danish company biomega. i did a post before on the benefits of bamboo (referring to skateboards), and this looks equally cool!
(via designboom)
a while back a saw a post about a guy who takes amazing photos of custom bikes using a very basic set up. from boingboing:
‘Using consumer cameras, Ray gets tremendous results in his modest garage photography studio. Ray’s process has been perfected with considerable trial and error, but surprisingly little money. With a $30 tripod, [...]
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