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New technologies New freedoms The connected bike I am my bike For planet & people Helping hand
New technologies New freedoms Digitalization and internet open new ways for the bicycle. A built-in chip or GPS module helps to track a bicycle (whether stolen or not) and can provide information about both location and the use over time. And, in combination with smartphones and apps, it is possible to make cycling safer and more enjoyable. For example, by warning for dangerous locations or by communication with traffic lights, street lighting or bicycle parking.
The connected bike Using a bike contributes to sustainability. But the production of the bicycle itself can also be sustainable. For example; a wooden frame or a complete bicycle made of 100% recyclable plastic. In addition, old frames can be refurbished into a vintage or urban bike, a single speed or a fixed gear. On top of that, sometimes designers give bicycle parts a surprising second life. In these production processes for reuse, many people with distance to or fewer opportunities in the labour market find a place.
I am my bike To distinguish yourself, show your identity. Individualization is a powerful part of today. This applies to the designer, but also to the customer or user. Striking, self-evident, colourful, or just modest: we want to surround ourselves with products that fit us like a glove and reflect or express our identity and lifestyle. This is increasingly true for the bicycle. Therefore ever more choice, and ever more customization.
For planet & people Technological developments boost the world of production and design. New materials such as composites, super light but super strong, and technologies like laser cutting and milling and 3D printing. These innovations give the designer new opportunities and often more freedom. Concept bikes and autonomous, almost artistic bicycle objects are a source of inspiration for new directions and new ideas.
Helping hand In a variety of ways designers have developed bicycles in a way that helps the cyclist to go faster, to go further or to carry more. As an example; the e-bikes and the cargo bikes. Safety, comfort, and good infrastructure are also an important issue for continuous improvement. Numerous components, tools and accessories increase the ease of use, from a rain jacket to a child seat, and from convenient bicycle parking to suspension bracket to store your bike home.
Helping hand In a variety of ways designers give the bicycle and the cyclist a backing to go faster, take more distance or carry more. See the e-bikes and the cargo bikes. Safety, comfort, and good infrastructure are also important issues for continuous improvement. Numerous components, tools and accessories increase the ease of use, from rain jacket to child seat, and from convenient bicycle storage to suspension bracket to store your bike home.
QWIC The ‚QWIC by Robert Bronwasser‘ is a special edition created to celebrate QWIC‘s 10th anniversary. Designer Robert Bronwasser is art-director and designer of these distinctive electric bicycles for Dutch e-bike QWIC since 2010. Bikes for daily use, who by design and innovations from the automotive industry tempt people to cycle more and offer a serious alternative to the car. This designer edition is coated matte light gray with striking orange details, luminous green luggage carrier and special leather finish.
Robert Bronwasser Design www.qwic.nl
Super Commuter + Due to the specific market, the entire Benelux collection of the American brand Trek is developed in the R&D branch in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. With the e-bike Super Commuter +, the American company Trek introduces its vision of the future of commuting. Without excessive styling, but with a purposeful design. Sporty and comfortable.
Trek www.trekbikes.com
Babboe Carve The Babboe Carve gets its name to the patented carving mechanism. The Babboe Carve was launched in May 2017. The carrie cot moves along the line of the bend during cycling, which gives it the feel of a normal two-wheeler. This gives a unique cycling experience and excellent road position. This tilting movement is also called ‚carven‘, like the similar alpine skiing and snowboarding technique.
Babboe www.babboe.nl
Shorty Urban Arrow started in 2009 in Amsterdam with the goal of quieting and greening cities with electric transport bikes as an alternative to scooter and car. The company operates with an ‚open source‘ principle and asks students, dealers, bicycle lovers and users to come up with ideas for improvements. In addition to the Family and the Cargo, the Shorty is a commuter-bike that makes it easy to transport all kinds of items.
Urban Arrow www.urbanarrow.com
Spaac S5 Spaac was founded in Den Haag by industrial designers Jurrit Hollands and Jos Ramselaar. After a few years of experience at other brands, they decided to come up with a bicycle that supported their own vision. Inspired by the motorcycle of early 1900, they developed a modern, contemporary electric city bike. Simple and robust.
Jos Ramselaar for Spaac www.spaac.nl
Thule Yepp Nexxt Van der Veer Designers developed new child seats for Thule, the frontmounted Thule Yepp Nexxt Mini and the Maxi as a rack- or frame-mounted seat in the back. Solid yet lightweight, comfortable and ergonomically optimized. This design won the 2017 IF Gold Award and the 2017 Red Dot ‚Best of the Best‘ Award.
Van der Veer Designers for Thule www.thule.com
Hovenring The Hovenring is a floating roundabout for bicycles over a busy access road of Eindhoven. The slender bridge deck, the imposing pylon and the 72 meter diameter make this construction a landmark for the city. Especially in the evening when it is lid. The building and the existing infrastructure restricted the available space. In order not to let the slopes rise to steep, the crossroads for the cars were laid one and a half meters lower.
ipv Delft for Eindhoven municipality www.ipvdelft.nl
Fietsinfrastructuur Cycle Infrastructure is an inspiring handbook for anyone involved in the development, design and promotion of high-quality bike routes. The writers want to make clear the potential of cycling for the (urban) landscape and show the cycle infrastructure as an integral design challenge rather than purely an issue of traffic engineering. With many international examples, interviews with the creators of special cycling routes and a glimpse of future innovations.
AglaĂŠe Degros and Stefan Bendiks www.artgineering.eu
Bicycle pumps Since 2009, the office npk design is a permanent partner for SKS Germany, a manufacturer of various bicycle parts and accessories such as mudguards and chain shields, tools, bidons and bidons and bicycle pumps. For example; npk designed the Diago mini-pump (IF Design Award and Red Dot Award), the Raceday high-pressure pump and a series of foot pumps including the Airmenius (GIO award, IF Award and Eurobike Award).
npk design for SKS Germany www.npk.nl
Victory ring lock For AXA Bike Security, npk design developed a new ring lock. Modern and ergonomic in design. In addition, the steel housing is welded around, which provides additional safety. The final has been awarded an IF Design Award and a GIO Award (Good Industrial Design).
npk design for AXA www.axasecurity.com
AXA Foldable Series In cooperation with AXA Bike Security, npk design has developed a new patented locking principle. The convenience of a folding lock in a holder combined with the simplicity of a chain. Stronger, easier, user-friendly, more cost-effective and flexible than the existing folding locks and easy to maneuver like a chain.
npk design for AXA www.axasecurity.com
Bicycle parking The area around Utrecht Central Station is being built extensively. On the side of the Old Town comes a new ‚elevated‘ square as a connection between the station, Hoog Catharijne shopping centre and the city centre. Below this square a bike parking facility for over 12,500 bicycles, will be build; the largest in the world. This year, the first part for 7,500 bikes will be ready, by 2018 the project will be completed.
Ector Hoogstad Architects www.cu2030.nl
www.ectorhoogstad.com
For planet & people
Using a bike contributes to sustainability. But the production of the bicycle itself can also be sustainable: for example with a wooden frame or a complete bicycle made of 100% recyclable plastic. In addition, old frames can be refurbished into a vintage or urban bike, a single speed or a fixed gear (fixie). On top of that, sometimes designers give bicycle parts a surprising second life. In these production processes for reuse, many people with distance to or fewer opportunities in the labour market find a place.
DutchFiets In cooperation with a couple of companies (among others Koga) and incubator Green PAC Innovation Lab in Zwolle, start-up DutchFiets by graduated engineer Alderse Baas is developing a 100% recyclable plastic bike. DutchFiets has a single-piece frame with integrated drive and lighting, rides on punctureproof tires and is virtually maintenance-free.
Johannes Alderse Baas for Green Pac iLab www.dutchfiets.nl
Bough Bike Jan Gunneweg for Bough BikesJan Gunneweg wants to bring people closer to nature with his designs. Together with Piet Brandjes in 2012 he founded Bough Bikes, the very first company to manufacture wooden bikes in series. The oak wood comes from sustainably managed forests in France. The other materials are as sustainable as possible too, and the business premises are energy-neutral. Bough Bikes also works together with social workplaces wherever possible.
Jan Gunneweg for Bough Bikes www.boughbikes.nl
VEEG By connecting designers, sheltered workshops, institutions and local governments Social Label aims to create meaningful jobs, pride and opportunities in learning and talent development for people with some distance to the labour market. For Social Label designer Dick van Hoff created a broom that is produced from recycled bicycle frames, in cooperation with the civic enterprise Cambio in Deventer that is also running a bicycle repair shop.
Dick van Hoff & Cambio for Social Label www.sociallabel.nl
Carbon Strand Bike In a search for new forms, designer Tjeerd Veenhoven collected old bicycle parts and used carbon and epoxy resin to bind them together. He repeated this process, but now with original chrome parts that are no longer made because the production process is very polluting.
Tjeerd Veenhoven www.tjeerdveenhoven.com
Bikey (Upcycled by Jet) Bikey, created by Jet de Bruijn, is a cool and cheerful little lamp (with LEDlight), handmade out of bicycle parts. In a short movie, winner of the Bicycle Movie Night 2016, Bikey reveals its moving character while taking you off on adventure, discovering the world. From the Upcycled by Jet series, which furthermore consists of the Spikey pendant lamp, made of an old gear cassette, and the Radarlove wall light object, made of gears.
Jet de Bruijn www.jetdebruijn.nl/upcycled-by-jet
Roetz Roetz-Bikes makes unique, robust urban bikes made from old bicycles of wellknown Dutch brands such as Gazelle, Batavus and Sparta, available for women and men. Roetz does this as a social enterprise. People with a distance to the labour market are intensively coached at the Amsterdam factory and trained to become an experienced bicycle maker.
Roetz Bikes www.roetz-bikes.com
Las_Tig The penitentiary Veenhuizen, Design Academy Eindhoven and KETTER & Co Foundation are working in a joint venture on a collection of products and services in relation to Veenhuizen – established almost two hundred years ago as a colony for poor families and orphans. The Veenhuizen Collection supports entrepreneurs and allows prisoners to do usefull work and get training and education. In the production of the bicycle Las-tig, detainees can get the diploma of TIG welding.
Anne Pabon for Collectie Veenhuizen www.collectieveenhuizen.nl
Woven tube stool Goof van Beek created this Woven Tube stool as part of a project at Design Academy Eindhoven in which old materials were to be given a new function. Van Beek was fascinated by the sturdy material and reliable feel of inner tubes. Sixteen inner tubes are carefully intertwined over a football placed in between a steel frame. The aim was to leave the bicycle tubes completely intact, hence the seize of the stool.
Goof van Beek www.goofvanbeek.nl
Nomads The project The art of integration brought together the artists Claudette van de Rakt (The Netherlands) and Mitra Jashni (Iran) an led to the joint installation Nomads. What a coincidence: Claudette learned cycling on the sidewalk of the house where Mitra now lives, in Baarle-Nassau. For Mitra the bike stands for the freedom and imagination of her childhood in Iran. There, cycling for women is almost impossible and even banned by hardline islamists.
Claudette van de Rakt and Mitra Jashni www.claudettevanderakt.com
I am my bike
To distinguish yourself, show your identity. Individualization is a powerful part of today‘s era. This applies to the designer, but also to the customer or user. Striking, self-evident, colourful, or just modest: we want to surround ourselves with products that fit us like a glove and reflect or express our identity and lifestyle. This is increasingly true for the bicycle. Therefore ever more choice, and ever more customization.
Batavus Quip The Quip is a distinctive city bike designed by Bastiaan Kok Industrial design (BKid) in cooperation with Batavus. Outstanding is the ‘unisex’ frame with interrupted seat tube with integrated anti theft frame number. It has an optional wide or narrow front carrier. The Quip has been awarded with the GIO (Good Industrial Design) Award in 2015 and the GIO Special Award for Excellence in the category Originality, and has also been chosen as the Dutch Bicycle of the year 2016.
Bastiaan Kok for Batavus www.batavus.nl
BLAU city bike StudioMOM designed a bike with as few as possible breakable parts as possible. With a maintenance-free drive belt, integrated lights and a small bell. If you really want you can order a luggage carrier. But ... on such a bike you should really wear a messenger bag or a backpack.
StudioMOM for Cortina www.cortinafietsen.nl
Bags and bells From bicycle bags to bicycle bells and from bicycle baskets to saddle covers. The Dutch company Basil, founded in 1976, is a global specialist in the supply of various bicycle accessories. For use in the city or on vacation, for any weather type. Functional, solid and trendy in design. To make cycling even more fun.
Basil www.basil.com
Metropole The Metropole has a single profile frame. This also makes it easier to carry cables for brakes, gear and lighting. Simplicity, that‘s the idea behind this bike. You can mount your luggage carrier at your front or back. And the bike has a maintenance-free driver belt. A true ‘bruiser’ for the urban jungle.
StudioMOM www.studiomom.nl
DOBBEL and ZLIM DOBBEL and ZLIM prove that by using the same parts over and over you can create many different bicycle lights. You name it: front, rear, with or without a reflector. Mounted on the rear fender, the front fork or on the front- or rear rack.
StudioMOM for Buzaglo www.buzaglo.nl
SEQ Urban Coat Shirts, shorts, helmets and gloves. The Dutch company AGU supplies a wide range of clothing and products for cyclists. Made from high quality materials and with eye for technology, comfort and appearance. For the young, fashionconscious woman, Kyra Meilink designed for AGU a stylish jacket that in seconds can be turned into an elegant raincoat for cyclist.
Kyra Meilink for AGU www.agu.com
Møbel The bicycle as a nice, moving piece of furniture. The frame of Møbel is made of thin layers of wood veneer. Two metal tubes provide extra stiffness. Handmade in the Netherlands, on request.
Alma Bicycles www.almabicycles.com
Beixo Crosstown Eliminating all excuses not to use a folding bike. That was the starting point for Ad Tummers when designing the Crosstown for Beixo. The bicycle is sober, easy to fold and unfold, and especially no log jam for others. It does not look old fashioned with its 16� wheels and sleek frame and above all it has no dirty chain but a clean drive belt.
Ad Tummers for Beixo www.beixo.com
byAr Bicycle It’s all about simplicity. No chain, no frame tube too much, no frills, no maintenance, no annoyance. With this slogan, byAr Bicycle Company (based in Amersfoort) produces solid city bikes. Handmade, shaft-driven, and in typical no-nonsense Dutch Design style, from the vision that design must be fully user-oriented.
byAr Bicycle Company www.byarbicycle.nl
Union Lite The company Union called for help from the well-known office npk design for the creation of a contemporary city bike. The Union Lite is feather light indeed and has an ingenious modular click system to attach front and rear lights and, optionally, other components such as a front or rear bike rack. Also fitted with a drive belt instead of a chain.
npk design for Union www.union.nl
Brik Sec Brikbikes is producing strong and sound city bikes. The most special about them is that they are shaft driven, without a chain. At the end of the 19th century, this technique was popular for the bicycle because of the wide clothing that was worn. But the chain won, especially because the axle drive did not match with gears. By now that combination is possible, so the axle drive offers a reliable, strong, clean, low maintenance and safe alternative.
Woulter Eigenbrood for BrikBikes www.brikbikes.com
Sandwichbike The Sandwichbike consists of a frame of two weatherproof beech wood panels combined with aluminum parts. The bicycle is sold as a self-assembly package in a compact box. The self-assembling is a charming aspect for the lovers. Basten Leijh designed the Sandwichbike purposefully in beautiful, sustainable and high quality materials so users can be proud and caring.
Basten Leijh for Sandwichbike www.sandwichbikes.com
T-shirts The Okimono label works with a large group of graphic designers, illustrators and woodcutters. Besides the actuality, design and De Stijl, cycling is definitely one of the inspiration sources, partly due to the good ties with professional cyclist Maarten Tjallingii from Arnhem.
Okimono www.okimono.nl
Illustration Plint combines poems with visual art and illustrations in many different ways. For Plint’s magazine Dichter (Poet, for children from 6 to 106) with the theme ‚Holiday‘, illustrator Anne van den Berg made a dreamy, soft, sweet world, made of paper, herbs and stones. Of course her dream bike had to be part of this world. Plint asked Anna Bay to illustrate Dichter. Which made for a dreamy, soft and sweet world, built from paper. Of course this world just had to contain her dream bike.
Anne van den Berg for Dichter (Poet) www.annabay.nl
Amsterdam Fonts Elena Schädel came to the Netherlands to work on a collective design project. Feeling overwhelmed by all the bicycles and bicycle wrecks she saw upon her arrival in Amsterdam she decided to create a font using precisely these discarded bikes as her inspiration.
Elena Schädel www.elenaschaedel.de
Cardboard box chair Exactly 162 cardboard plates (thickness 5 mm) are stacked in a steel contour with the archetypal chair shape. In this way cardboard boxes for transport of bicycles get a new life.
Yksi Ontwerp www.yksi.nl
Batavus BUB VanBerlo’s design for this bicycle uses the paperclip as a theme for its functional simplicity and iconic personality. The BUB (Batavus Utility Bike) transforms the usual personal bike into a modern city bike. The BUB has a comfortable, sustainable and lightweight construction, with chunky extra-wide tires. The innovative single bent tube and the interchangeable coloured parts create a unique and customizable bike, full of personal expression.
VanBerlo for Batavus www.batavus.nl
Tweelo Clara Sophia Uerlichs graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2015. Her graduation project Tweelo originated from her urge to clean up, organize and arrange things. As the main element in her design vision visual emptiness results: products become simpler and more harmonious as they form part of structures. Like the Twello duo bike; for an organized and structured bike ride.
Clara Sophia Uerlichs www.clarasophia.de
Meijs Motorman Bike, moped or motorcycle? Ronald Meijs designed a simple and clean solution for city transport; a light electric motorbike with clear retro elements. A bike that makes life lighter and easier, yet elegant and at a high level. The solution for the city, and a joy in the countryside.
Ronald Meijs www.meijsmotorman.com
New technologies, New freedoms Technological developments boost the world of production and design. Think of new materials such as composites, super light but super strong, and technologies like laser cutting and milling and 3D printing. These innovations give the designer new opportunities and often more freedom. Concept bikes and autonomous, almost artistic bicycle objects are a source of inspiration for new directions and new ideas.
FLAXED bicycle Thomas Kanters graduated from Art Academy St.Joost (Breda) with the project FLAXED bicycle. A first step to making his dream come true: a track bike full of flax and organic resin. From his passion for bicycles, he has created a sustainable alternative, with which he wants to challenge contemporary designs.
Thomas Kanters
Natural saddle Mother nature can fabricate different items for different functions from one single material. To achieve that she plays with form and structure. Thanks to 3D printing we are able to mimic that. StudioMOM designed a comfortable, lightweight bicycle saddle from one single material. With this technology it is possible to print a personalized saddle for everyone.
StudioMOM www.studiomom.nl
M5 Minimal Bike By applying the latest generation of carbon fibers in the right way and in the right area it was actually possible to reinvent the bike. The Minimal Bike has an oversized full carbon frame, fork and handlebar and hidden clamps and cable routing. The complete bicycle weight is starting at 6.8 kg. The bike is adjustable from a 160 cm to 210 cm body length. For this bike M5 was rewarded with the Dutch Manufacturer of the Year 2016 Award and the Bike Innovation Award 2017.
M5 Recumbents www.minimal.bike
Mokumono cycles Amsterdam Inspired by the way cars are produced, Mokumono frames are made of two sheets of aluminum pressed into shape and laser welded together. This not only results in a lightweight and strong frame, but by using these techniques Mokumono tries to highly automate the production process, significantly lowering labor costs and thus making it possible to build these bicycles in The Netherlands. In 2016 this start-up ran a successful Kickstarter campaign. The bike will be available in the fall of 2017.
Mokumono www.mokumonocycles.com
ILU StudioMOM developed a light-emitting mudguard for the Belgium company Curana, manufacturer of innovative bike equipment and accessoires. Two layers of razor-thin aluminium separated by a layer of plastic are used to conduct electricity. German company Busch + MĂźller joined forces to further develop and manufacture the light units.
StudioMOM www.studiomom.nl
GreenMachine The GreenMachine is the answer to the demand for a low-maintenance, comfortable utility bike for commuter use. The bicycle is fully designed in 3D and the components are manufactured with high accuracy using computercontrolled machines. Due to the closed construction, rain, mud and brine do not affect the chain drive.
Flevobike www.flevobike.nl
Printing Arc Bike TU Delft students have designed a 3D printed bicycle frame made of stainless steel. They used the 3D printing installation with robotic arms from the MX3D company in Amsterdam. This technology already managed to produce a complete bridge. The frame is strong enough for cycling, proved the students during a tour through Delft. The weight of the bike is about the same as that of a bicycle with a plain steel frame.
MX3D www.mx3d.com
The connected bike
Digitalization and internet open new ways for the bicycle. A built-in chip or GPS module helps to track a bicycle (whether stolen or not) and can provide information about both location and the use over time. And, in combination with smartphones and apps, it is possible to make cycling safer and more enjoyable. For example, by warning for dangerous locations or by communication with traffic lights, street lighting or bicycle parking.
SmartBike You can put your hand on the bike or use the special app to open the integrated electrical lock. Thanks to the Bluetooth connection, the SmartBike recognizes its owner immediately. The lights are automatically activated and on the touchpad display, built into the frame, you can read off your speed. And the bike is equipped with anti-theft parts and tracking electronics. If it’s stolen anyway, despite all of this, VanMoof will replace the bike the first two years: it’s called Piece of Mind Service.
VanMoof www.vanmoof.com
Concept Gazelle Nยบ1 Together with the world famous Giugiare Design, Royal Gazelle shows how the bicycle of the future will look like. The concept Nยบ1, is a combination of Italian topdesign and Dutch comfort. A connected e-bike with a pedal assist system up to 45 kilometres an hour.
Gazelle and Giugiaro Design www.gazelleno1.com
Safe to Bike SafetoBike consists of a smartphone app combined with a database of places where many bicycle accidents happen and a smart bicycle bell. The smartphone ‘sees’ through GPS where the cyclist is located. When approaching a hazardous location, the bell automatically gives a light or sound signal. The cyclist can see all possible dangerous spots on the route beforehand and can also add unsafe locations.
Quinso and Frolic Studio www.safetobike.nl
Fietsy Ride like a proper Dutch, away from the crowds. Fietsy is an app with unique routes in and around Amsterdam composed by in-the-know locals. It guides you along the highlights and hidden gems of the Amsterdam landscape. Of course you will encounter windmills, dunes and flowerfields. But also: microbreweries, World War II bunkers and secret tea gardens.
Design studio Grrr www.fietsy.com / www.grrr.nl
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