Cafe Racer by Renold Yipsan

Honing the name of his father’s favorite motorbike chain, Renold Yip was practically destined to excel in creating stellar handmade bikes. He specializes in building road, cross track, off road and randonneur bicycles. His banana colored cafe racer, a beauty that he chose to showcase at the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show (NAHB), comes accented with a stunning auburn leather saddle and custom leather sewn on grips.

Cool and Smart Bike Stands

A unique way for bike storage, Hood, Shadow and Branchline bike support systems combine cycling culture with interior design. The four Quarterre designers who created these models had an intricate and precise eye to develop them with the highest quality materials and hand-finished leather detailing. These stands adapt to any environment as they were designed to blend in well at home or at work. Hood has an architecturally faceted hook to hang your bike as a wall mount. Protection for your bike is included within the inner bracket that allows for a lock while a shelf for a helmet and accessories is provided from the uppermost surface. Branchline allows for versatility as it accommodates a vertical storage for two bikes on two sets of adjustable arms. Their model Shadow has a cantilevered form sculpted from a single sheet of folded steel that caters to most wheel sizes also allowing the bike to easily roll into position.

Amazing Airless Bicycle Tires

Innovative airless tires are durable, lightweight, and they will never go flat. Designed by Brian Russell, the inventor of the Energy Return Wheel. Rubber is stretched over adjustable carbon fiber rods that act like springs. No air means no punctures and no ruined or deflated tires. Spend more time on your bike and less time near the bicycle repair station.

Ultimate Utility Bicycle By IDEO Design Team

 Hoping to answer the non-profit organization Oregon Manifest’s mission to show that bikes can make the world a better place, a team of designers called IDEO worked together to create Faraday, a high quality electronic bike that’s seamlessly classic with a modern twist. This masterpiece was created in the non-profit’s biennial national competition that challenged top bike builders to make the ultimate utility bicycle.

Let's bike in winter, too!

Innovative product by Dutch designer Cesar Van Rongen, the bike spikes are the equivalent of snow chains but for bicycles. Riding in snowy conditions and ice is not an easy task, with this in mind Cesar created these bike spikes. They are made of six flexible parts that attach together with a metal wire in order to tighten onto the bike wheel. They can be placed and removed very quickly, and when not in need can be folded into a small compact bag.

Clever Bike Hanger

For the urban rider living in a populated city it’s tricky finding a good spot for your bicycle at home, especially in tight spaces. Latvia based industrial designer Reinis Salins has come up with a clever and decorative way to easily mount your bike onto your wall. The Elk Bike Hanger is a “clean product with a natural concept; handmade quality and smooth design,” explained Salins.

Thonet Concept Bike by Andy Martin Studio

 

At the end of 2010 London based designer Andy Martin was asked by THONET to design and develop a concept road bicycle using their steam bending process developed in the 1930s. Andy Martin Studio developed three designs of which the final was selected because its beauty and modest connection with the heritage of the company.

Bicycle and interior

It's cool till it doesn't fall on your head,,,

Bike By Me

Similar to the Aristotle by Republic (available at Urban Outfitters Bike Shop), Swedish company Bike By Me offers a unisex model with endless style options, now for an international audience.

Playful Take On Bike Parts

These chrome-plated Bi-King pieces by Sung Kug Kim are an artistic and playful take on bike parts.

Bike Tire And Bike Parts Jewelry

Jeni Oye takes old bike tires and makes them into creative cuffs for guys and gals. Made from aluminum and old tires, they’re the perfect gift for bike lovers. Available exclusively at Oye Modern.

The Scout Regalia Bicycle

The Scout Regalia Bicycle is our vision for an American bicycle that combines performance with style, and design with craftsmanship. From the frame and fork to the tailored accessories, every component has been considered and painstakingly handcrafted.

Minimal Wooden Bike Hook

 

Simple, clean and functional, these minimal wooden bike hooks are all you need to showcase and store your prized bike. The pair of hooks are made in beautiful and natural plain oak wood and are perfect to store your bicycle indoors. If you´re a DIY type of guy, you could probably make these yourself.

Cykelmageren: handmade bicycle beauties from Copenhagen

 

Cykelmageren is a little bike shop in the city of Nørrebro in Copenhagen, Denmark which was founded in 1994 by Rasmus Gjesing. These entirely handmade beauties each have a significant amount of detail put into them that is respective of Gjesing’s background as a bike mechanic from the ’80s. 

Esclice - a stylish bicycle from Latvia

Esclice, a design brand from Latvia, was showing a bicycle with a natural oak wood handlebar at the London Design Festival.

Hövding Helmet: Wearable Airbag For Cyclists

In some cases, fashion and cycling do not mix well. For example, helmets can leave your hair looking a mess. That and they’re not the most trendiest head accessory out there. This is where designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin came together to design the Hövding “Chieftain” helmet.

The Chieftain Hövding Helmet is essentially a collar with a folded airbag. In the case of an accident, the Chieftain helmet uses a gas generator to fill the airbag. This happens when your head enters an abnormal movement. The airbag can also be removed and stored inside the collar.

Pinch Bike Stand

Another clever and simple bicycle storage solution. The "Pinch stand" is hand crafted from bamboo wood and features a spring system available from it´s fabrication process, all you have to do is place the rear wheel in between the two halves of Pinch and it uses the weight of your bicycle to clamp it in position.

Vienna Bike by Valentin Vodev

Valentin Vodev has created an electrically assisted tricycle called the Vienna Bike that rides with the feeling of a two-wheeler.

Mando Footloose: World’s first chainless folding electric bike

In a time when the number of vehicles is increasing on the road resulting in congestion and increase in emission rate, folding electric bikes come as a handy solution. Out of the many available in the market, the one pictured above is a special one for the reasons being many. Well yes, it’s world’s first chainless folding electric bike which is not only lightweight but is eco friendly.

The exercise bike in a hot tub

- The FitWet offers '12 times higher intensity' than regular exercise bikes, its makers say
- However, they also claim that exercising in water reduces the fatigue associated with exercise

Adopting a lifestyle of varied, regular exercise is generally understood as the only real route to an athletic physique.

However there are those who cannot bear the thought of having to get all sweaty as they strive to carve their body into a facsimile of Greek statuary.

If that sounds like you, then help is finally at hand. A Florida-based company is marketing a new contraption that will allow you ride an exercise bike while taking a bath at the same time.