Seoul designers HawaSoo have designed a clothes rail, a lamp and a stool that are styled like components of a bicycle. Called Breeze, the collection features a lamp with a long pole and handlebar-like supports to lean against the wall, a red stool with one diagonal leg echoing the usual line of a saddle support and a rack for clothes with a wheel at just one end. Via:[Dezeen]

Inspired by the camera tripod, the T-Bike provides a unique solution for custom fitting a bike to individual users needs.
3 sliding mechanisms located on the front fork, center frame, and rear wheel bar can be adjusted and locked to the rider’s preference. With a nod to its inspiration the bike also features a camera mount located between the handle bars! Via:[Yanko Design]

Designer: Reza Rachmat Sumirat

Flat Frame Systems Ltd is launching their first product – a wooden bicycle. The frame is made from engineered wood but the timber laminates are thicker and can be made from beech, ash, oak or maple. The frame can be covered with a high quality veneer in your choice of close to a thousand options. The flat frame system is not like a traditional tube design but is hollow and made from a flat material.

Website:flatframesystems.com/

Greencycle-Eco uses current technology to reduce production costs in order to make it affordable to farmers and the lower income demographic group in third world countries, but the strategic thinking could certainly benefit the entire world to achieve greater sustainability. Made of pre-fabricated bamboo panels, each piece is shaped using a CNC cutter to minimize waste. The steel brackets were created from flat steel and used as a joining component. Both can easily replaced.Via:[YankoDesign]

Website:aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/

PumpTire is billed as the world’s first self-inflating bicycle tire.

The tire includes a built-in pumping mechanism that uses the spinning motion of the wheel to gather air and the weight of the bike to push air into the inner tube.

PumpTire is the company and product name of a complete set of items that consist of a tire, a tube, and detachable valve. The inner tube clips into the tire to allow the air to pass from the tire to the tube. Once the desired pressure is reached, the pump stops. The valve senses the increase in pressure and closes the air pathway so that no more air is pumped into.

Website:www.pumptire.com

Made from recycled plastic, the Frii Bicycle is a solution to urban transportation, and using more of that plastic waste floating around the world. Israeli industrial designer Dror Peleg, explains that “components would be injection molded into modular shapes that snap together to form a strong, lightweight and very colorful single-speed bike for quick trips through the city streets.” More info over at:[KNSTRCT]
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Image:Bike with sprung steel wheels designed by Ron Arad all Images courtesy of WOW bikes

As part of a collaborative fundraising event between Elton John AIDS foundation and Whotels, six top creatives were invited to transform the distinctive Blue ‘Boris bike’ used by Londoners into a a functional work of art, to by used by visitors to London’s Whotel .
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Featured in the top 20 for the 2011 International Bicycle Design Competition, the Greencycle 2 provides more than just basic transportation between point A and point B; it provides an environmentally sustainable, meaningful and overall beneficial solution to poorer countries. A series of G2s were created in the design process with core parts made from renewable resources such as bamboo, which is widely available in many 3rd world countries.
More Images and Information over at Yanko Design.