Louis Garneau Retro Jersey
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Date: 2006
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Steelwool Flip Flop Bicycle Hubs
Design: Thom Johnson and Will Ficner
Manufacturer: Steelwool Bicycles, Ottawa ON
Date: 2010
A trick hub set designed to flip from a single speed to a fixed gear bike in seconds. Handmade and bicycles has become a rarity, with mass production leading the way, but there are a number of premium builders in the country who still work hard to produce limited edition, boutique products.
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MEC Haida Style Cycling Jersey
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Client: Mountain Equipment Co-op
Date: 2006
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MEC Cycling Shoe Covers
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Client: Mountain Equipment Co-op
Date: 2010
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Leonard Duran Fight Ticket
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Client: Le Stade Du Parc Olympique, Montreal
Date: 1980
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Bamboo Bicycle
Design: Cody Faubert
Client: Evolve Bamboo Bicycles
Date: 2010
Appearing crude, like an object created on an episode of Lost, the real value of this radical mountain bike desIgn is more than skin deep. Built using bamboo tubing and hemp rope, these natural materials combine to produce a bicycle frame with degrees of strength and safety that traditional bicycle making materials cannot match.
I would question some of the environmental benefits (adhesives, source of bamboo, etc.) but the general idea is very strong and worth developing. I predict this “light touch” approach to material and production processes will spread into all parts of product design (and I would be thrilled to see Canadian designers owning this territory!).
-Todd Falkowsky
3 comments August 1st, 2010
Cervélo R5ca Bicycle
Design: Phil White and Gérard Vroomen
Client: Cervélo
Date: 2010
If you have been watching the Tour de France this past week, you may have caught the latest offering from the Cervélo factory. Designed in top secret over the past year, the super trick matt grey R5ca frameset is the lightest/stiffest carbon frame made. Created in Cervélo’s Project California facility in California, the R5ca has minimized every gram of carbon and has utilized the significant experience the company has collected over the last few years of international racing.
Cervélo has always created bikes that are outside of traditional building ideas, this is their strength, and the R5ca is no exception. With details like a massive bottom bracket, a tapered steerer tube with two different sized bearings to minimize weight, a tapering top tube and scary-thin wishbone stays, and a 72-degree seat angle to eliminate a heavier seatpost, the R5ca continues Cervélo’s domination in bicycle design. The frame is 688 grams, has a 40% increase in stiffness and is 150% stronger than traditional frames.
The projected retail price for the frame is $10,000 with only 300 frame sets being produced. If you are a cycling fan, do not panic, all this thinking will eventually make it to their production models.
-Todd Falkowsky
2 comments July 20th, 2010