14th IBDC 2010 – Tribune
I’m going to continue something I started on my Facebook page last week during the Taipei Bike Show (Taipei Cycle 2010). I began featuring a selection of the scale models of designs sumitted by the...
View ArticleIBDC 2010 Evolution Bike
Roel Verhagen of the Netherland’s entry was the Evolution Bike. I like the minimalist frame, curving from hub to hub with the forks a natural extension of this. A comfortable enough seat reclining at...
View ArticleFunky Eurobike Flashback
Odd connections: with some big mountain bike action happening in Austria this weekend, and having just booked my hotel for Eurobike 2010 (well it’s still 4 months away but the time flies and i just...
View ArticleThe Commercial Logic of Cycling Tribes-Roadies v MTBiker v BMXers and so on
The Fat Cyclist recently posted a call for us to go beyond what could be labeled ‘tribalism‘ in the world of cycling. He writes There’s no reason in the world why cyclists should choose to be either...
View ArticleRest in Peace – The Rest is History
As you drive through the Taichung county hinterland, you will see this rising above the rice-fields. When you get right up to it, this is what it will look like: A water-tower. Well, yes…and no....
View ArticleWheelbuilding 101 – Rims, Hubs, Spokes, and Cost Effectiveness
This is the first post of a few talking about wheelbuilding production issues. Technology is important but will not be the exclusive focus. Can’t be the exclusive focus. I’ll try to explain this later....
View ArticleWheelhub Assembly – cartridge bearings, freehub body
This is the followup post to the exploration of the cold forge and CNC hub factory I posted about recently. Once hubshells have been forged or machined, they are painted (outsourced) and then returned...
View ArticleInnovative-Product Introduction Sessions – New for Taipei International Cycle...
Beginning this year a total of 18 30-min time slots have been allocated for companies to introduce (significantly) innovative products. Every company with a booth at Taipei Cycle 2011 is able to apply,...
View ArticleBicycle Components — What Does Technological Progress Mean?
“Technology is created by the young, for the young ” says Daniel Wilson. It might be about the technology itself or just about getting old and not being as easily able to relate to technological...
View ArticleFrom Taipei Cycle Innovative Products to d&i Awards and now Eurobike Award...
Haiwan from Qbicle has done quite well with his Tangent Fender since first winning an award at Taipei Cycle’s 2011 Innovative Products Competition. 2011 was to be the last for that particular...
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