Once upon a time pretty much everything was painstakingly made by hand until the Industrial Revolution and the rise of mass production. Economies of scale meant that manufacturing vast quantities of ...

When tech advances, so does design. This is the case for nearly every industry out there. One industry where tech and design meet on a daily basis, is urban mobility. Take the Loop bike as the perfect ...

Bike frames are simple on the surface, but can quickly become complicated if you want to fabricate one yourself. Brazing and welding tend to be less common skills than knowing how to bolt things ...

Some University of Iowa students work on plain metal frames and transform them into colorful and unique bikes every semester. The course, which melds engineering and art, has a long waitlist of ...

Frame builder Bruce Gordon passed away at his home on Friday at age 70. Gordon started building steel touring bike frames in the 1970s. His highly detailed designs inspired many who came after him. He ...

This idea is a bit fanciful. Parisian art director Juri Zaech proposes, through illustration, a series of bicycle frames made of letters. The frame forms a name — Andrea, for example — and with it a ...

The internal routing of wires and cables helps maintain the bike's clean, modern style. The OKO's twisted-traditional diamond frame is built from carbon fiber, and the complete bike weighs in at 41 lb ...

Ask a cyclist what kind of bike frame to buy and you can plan on a long conversation. What kind of bike? Are you considering a road, mountain, triathlon, cyclocross, or fat bike? And the biggie: Steel ...