Articles tagged with: design
If it works as advertised, the Flipphandle could revolutionize bike wall-leaning Alejandro Lacreu’s Flipphandle is an ingenious replacement handlebar stem which twists 90-degrees at the touch of a button. Designed to solve the problem of storing bikes in small, narrow spaces, The Flipphandle turns the handlebars so that they are parallel with the bike’s top-tube, letting you lean it against a wall without anything sticking out.
The eCortina’s drive-side uses an ingenious two-chain setup The eCortina could be considered an electric bike, but its builder — Roy Prince — prefers to call it an “eBike hot rod.” With a motor that can take the hard-tail downhill bike up to 45mph and “lift the front wheel almost at will,” it’s easy to see why. Prince chose the Cortina Triton as a base bike as it is designed to go downhill at speed, and — more importantly — it’s made of steel. This let him weld and clamp the motor and other necessary parts. The motor, by the way, is an Astroflight 3220 .
When it comes to additional storage for your precious data, surely the name Western Digital would have come across your mind. Well, Mac users might have had their brush with the Western Digital range in the past, but those never really jived in terms of design with what Apple offers. Not anymore though, as Western Digital’s latest generation of the popular My Book Studio external hard drives were specially designed to be aesthetically compatible with Mac computers and Apple Time Machine. Heck, there is even a 3TB capacity model in the pipeline, where the new design will sport a brushed aluminum casing that matches the appearance of a Mac computer
