Sentences with phrase «wooden bike»

There's a lot of wooden bikes out there, ranging from the glue - it - yourself, no - metal kind, to award - winning, high - end designer bikes.

I was intrigued by the bike, so I emailed Coates to find out more details about it and the BEAMZ project because I thought it was significantly different from other wooden bikes, and because the project seems to have potential as a replicable model for other local forestry - based enterprises.

Designer Raffaello Ape has come up with an interesting new wooden bike design, called Giuliano.

Free New York Bike Rental Introduces New Riders When we reported on the competition to design a park for Governor's Island in New York, the prospect of 3000 free wooden bikes left us in no doubt as to which entrant was our favorite.

It's definitely one of the classier wooden bikes we've seen, and thanks to the reinforcing carbon fiber layers in this bike, which make it as rugged as any metal frame, its refined, artistic character can shine that much more through its graceful wooden lines.

Gunneweg, whose obsession is wood, has previously designed two wooden bikes before this version, and says that this latest model delivers a smoother ride.

Drais» wooden bike allowed a person to keep their feet on the ground, extending their stride as the wheels rolled along at the push of the leg.

He has a wooden bike ready for Christmas, a workbench and a fair bit of wooden train track as well as big brother's extensive train collection.

This wooden bike is the perfect ride on for any toddler, boy or girl, from ages 2 to 6 years old.

The wooden bike is amazing!

In Negros Oriental, I had some of my crazy and unforgettable firsts, one of them riding a wooden bike — with no brakes — downhill, and intuitively saying yes to a travel invitation from a stranger I met just minutes ago.

More producers are asserting that handmade wooden bikes actually ride better and look absolutely stunning, and Slovenian designer Iztok Mohorič, maker of the new Woodster bike, is one of these wooden bike converts.

Driving my wooden bike down a narrow sunbaked dirtpath, surfboard under one arm, the sound of waves pounding against the beach in the background, the feeling of total zen... it is with this vision in mind that Woodster was created.

To demonstrate its solution, BEAMZ has built a prototype of a wooden bike, using hardwood poles from local indigenous tree species, and harvested by coppicing, not cutting down a full - grown tree.

Today, wooden bikes have evolved into durable and functional works of art, lightyears ahead of the earliest bikes created out of wood.

Well, the wooden bike is getting a boost from carbon fiber in this gorgeous Carbon Wood Bike by Italian industrial design student Daniele Quintaba and his father, a master woodworker.

Renovo turns to Appalachian hard woods - walnut, ash, hickory, and maple - to make a wooden bike that is even more sustainable, they say.

If you're Jan Gunneweg, an industrial designer in Amsterdam who says his greatest passion is wood, then the answer is obvious: a wooden bike.

Renovo expects their wooden bikes to last as long or longer than carbon frame bikes, and nicks or dents can be sanded out to make a brand - new looking bike.

So why would riding a wooden bike from Renovo or even Organic Bikes save a tree?

But this near all - wooden bike, handmade by Dutch industrial designer Jan Gunneweg, must be one of the most beautiful wooden specimens we've seen to date.Made out of solid walnut and weighing under 35 pounds, the bike's unique cachet is all in the wheels, which each sport a thick wooden spoke.

A Portland bike maker explains how computer - controlled design has reinvigorated the art of the wooden bike.