Sunday, February 10, 2013

More Bike Concepts

21st Century Bicycles

Electric Bicycle
Electric bicycles are a new kind of vehicles friends of the environment. Thinking about sustainability and our natural resources, this type of bicycle have zero-emissions and lots of power.
Besides this they are also friends of the rider, because parking is free and most of them have a backseat and a truck so that people can carry stuff or another passenger.
To ride an electric bike you only need to pedal and use the motor to start riding.

Electric and Folding Bicycle

Electric bike without belt
A South Korean manufacturer will put in market, from 2013, an electric bike without belt. It uses the motion of pedaling energy, which is stored in a lithium-ion battery and then, used to move the vehicle when the rider is tired.

The Most Expensive Bicycle

Aurumania created a bike with gold and crystals, the most expensive one ever seen. The price? Only $124,888.

Bicycle Reuse

Every year an estimated 108.800.000 bicycles are produced. What about the old ones? Some parts of them were reused and created new useful and innovative objects. People's concerns should be related with recycling and reuse.


Bicycle Furniture - Tubes as cushions and wheels as frame
Andrew Gregg
Double Bicycle Chair
Gilber Vanden Heuvel, Ontario

SeeSaw - Bike parts
Ben Wilson