This season's trends range from classic bikes with a modern twist to cute Dutch, sophisticated British, comfortable Californian and cool "fixie" styles. We also looked for slightly more unusual trendy bikes, such as a modern rickshaw, a tricycle, a "halfbike", a wooden DIY and a bicycle recycled from waste.
Since the world will only last if it manages to find balance again, it is no wonder that it has helped itself with bicycles, which make a huge contribution to the green trend. Not only as a recreational sport, but also as a choice of mode of transport and transportation. Of course, it was not only people's greater awareness that contributed to this, a lot of the 'credit' for the jump from four to two wheels can be attributed to fuel prices, but the ever-richer range cannot be neglected either.
Best City Bikes of 2014 - There have been a lot of good bikes, but only a few can be the best city bikes of 2014. Cycling trends change very quickly and with demand growing, it seems like a new niche bike brand is around the corner every week. And if a few years ago, well-known brands dominated the market and dictated trends, 2014 is proof that the baton of innovation was taken over by smaller and (yet) unknown ones. In 2014, we devoted quite a few lines to such people at City Magazine.
Amsterdam-based design house Sprintime has developed the Adam. electric bike, which is designed to suit the lifestyle of a student (Adam is the short name for the Dutch capital). Namely, the team investigated different cycling patterns and behavior of students in the city, and we have the results of the findings in front of us. E-bike with removable battery and speaker.
The Viks Carbon is not another city bike for covering fast distances that will get lost in the flood of similar bikes. The Viks Carbon by Velonia Bicycles, which is the carbon version of the Viks model, is intended for everyone who is looking for the best and boldest on the market. And with a bike with a Slovenian frame made by Berk Components, they will get that. It will be available in limited quantities.
Whatever you expect from a city bike, the versatile Ariel Rider C-Class bike will fulfill it. The like bike combines the features of a city bike and a cargo bike, and is intended for city cyclists and a wide range of their needs (the letter C in the name is the initial for the English word for city, i.e. ''city'').
The Viks GT Lamborghini bike, a new product from Velonie, is an extremely beautiful and high-quality combination of the Italian Lamborghini car and an ordinary city bike. The frame of the bicycle is entirely made of aluminum alloy, which in practice means that the Viks GT is as much as 40 % lighter than the average city bicycle. The Viks Gt Lamborghini wheel takes its design inspiration from the Italian supercar Lamborghini, while at the same time maintaining a highly pragmatic design and providing a safe and reinforced frame.
The story began seven years ago in Italy. It was then that Stefano Zellner found an abandoned bicycle on the street and began to restore it. After weeks of creation in his father's garage, he finally assembled a bicycle that is extremely friendly to the environment and the eyes.
We have already said a lot about bikes, but not everything. Apparently, far from it. The industrial designer Tamas Turi presented his new creation or an idea named Revo. If nothing else, he was obviously guided by the idea "two is better" during the project.
Electric bikes are on the move! There are already so many that there is something for everyone. Avionics will attach their crucible and send their bike to the roads. Each of them will bear its own name. The look, which otherwise constantly walks between modern and retro, is reminiscent of a motorcycle. In fact, the V1 is our idea of what bicycles would have looked like 100 years ago, if they could have been powered by electricity back then.
The idea behind Solectrik is simply so good that we can only wish to see it live as soon as possible. The concept of bike sharing will thus be completely new, and Solectrike is more than an ideal solution for seaside towns.
At Prodriv, they know how to make a winning sports car, and now they have transferred this knowledge to the two-wheeled area. With years of accumulated experience, they managed to create the lightest folding bike in the world, which, among other things, also folds the fastest in the world.