bicycle design
3D Printing Bikes: A Pedalution, Part 4 – The Five 40s
In the first installment of this series, we looked at how 3D printing is being used in bicycles before going deeper and also exploring the use into 3D printing for…
3D Printing News Briefs, May 29, 2021: KINGS 3D, GKN Aerospace, Bastion Cycles, Tufts University, Apple
We’re starting with a little business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to modes of transportation, before some materials news and a 3D printed Apple accessory….
How to Modify and Customize Your Bicycle with 3D Printing
3D printing makes it possible to customize all sorts of products now, from prosthetics and tools to jewelry and eyeglasses. The technology can also be used to create customized components…
Bespoke Bicycle Company in Australia Creates Prize-Winning Bike with 3D Printed Frame Components
We have three bicycles on the back porch of our home, all of which are used hand-me-downs. We don’t often ride bikes, so we don’t really mind that they’re not…
Materialise 3D Prints Unique Trophy for Tour of Britain Road Cycling Event
Anyone who has played intramural sports in their younger days knows that triumphant feeling of receiving a trophy; whether it be for a championship or just participating, the victorious feeling…
Robot Bike Company Blends 3D Printed Titanium with Carbon Fiber for R160 Mountain Bike Frame
As someone who considers himself to be an avid cyclist, my calves get butterflies whenever I see or hear about 3D printing technology being utilized by a bicycle manufacturer. The effort…
Shapeways & Montague Bikes Team Up to Make Aluminum 3D Printed Folding Bicycles
We’ve written about numerous 3D printed bikes over time, from racing models to those made with very unusual materials and even some made in miniature. If you know any serious cyclists,…
The Bike Project is Creating the First 3D Printable Open Source Bike called OBI
A pair of Dutch industrial design students named Stef de Groot and Paul De Medeiros have started developing the Bike Project, a completely open sourced 3D printable bike called OBI…
3D Printed Small-Scale Version of Cool City Bicycle Celebrates Dutch Bike Culture
Quinten van Alphen and Twan Smeets along with a few other students at the Industrial Engineering and Management School at Fontys Technical University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands collaborated…
Amsterdam Woodworker Reinvents the Bike with 3D Printing & Solid Ash Wood
Oh, the joys of cycling — and of collecting bikes. If you know a bicycle enthusiast (or are one), you are probably aware they rarely just have one, and if said…
3D Printed Bike Snaps in Half During Carleton University Press Conference to Show it Off
The process of developing new technological solutions is fraught with many perils and, aside from the hurdles to overcome on the way to a better tomorrow, the day comes when…
Conceptual 3D Printed Bike, “Luna,” is Stylish and Practical
I think I wrote the other day that my favorite type of 3D printed object was the awesome wearable art — jewelry and clothing — being offered by creative 3D…
Australian Company Flying Machine 3D Prints Titanium Bike Lugs for Custom, Luxury Bicycles
“I want to ride my bicycle,” Freddie Mercury once sang; it’s a chorus repeated through the years, as the cycling community across the world is massive. 3D printing in the…
3D Printing the Fixie: A New Take on Customizable Bicycles
Using 3D printing technology to create a bicycle is no longer particularly new. That doesn’t mean, however, that anytime it happens it’s old news. James Novak took a crack at…
