Jun 09, 2010

Pop up bike basket. Genius.

Living in the Netherlands you can’t help but see the abundance of bikes around. Honestly it isn’t just a joke that everyone has a bike… I know a guy with over 100, but he’s a bit crazy.

So, recently whilst talking to a guy about bikes he pointed me in the direction of this little beauty. A wonderful idea from the MIO company which sells you a flat sheet of steel with the lines cut in it to put a basket on your bike. It’s made from Powder coated steel so should last for a long time, and is laser cut so it sound better when you talk about it. Lord knows we like our laser cutting here at Everybody towers.

Not much more to say other than have a look at the company’s website to see the other brilliant products they have designed and sell. Take your mouse to clickytown on the image above to go straight to the page to buy the pop up bike basket.

Nov 22, 2008

New york city bike racks: the winner

If you were with us back a few months ago, you might have seen the post we did on the New York City bike rack competition that was held to design the bicycle racks to be placed around the city. Have a look if you want more background information, the link is here if you didn’t see it.

Well, the winner has finally been announced. It’s a design by Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) based in Copenhagen (in Denmark), they haev designed the very simple, but very elegant solution to the city’s problem. The hoop is a single piece anchored in the concrete and allowing great access to both sides. Class. In the usual manner, you can click the picture to read more about it at the official blog.

Everybody admires this piece of design a great deal, and wonders if it might happen here in Rotterdam, as the “Bent tubing” which we currently attach our bikes too is starting to look very old, very quickly. Might be interesting to see if it could be a competition run here too. Hmmmm. What would ours look like?