Loopwheels

Here's another Kickstarter project, that became a proper company. British designer Sam Pearce came up with this concept of a wheel for small bicycles, where the spokes become the actual suspension of the bike. The best way to understand how this works it to watch the video.
So happy to see this actually works, as in my youth I had a very similar idea, that never made it out of my sketchbook. Morphogenetic fields is all I say…

Revo Lights

What originally started as a Kickstarter campaign has now become a full fledged little company.
Revolights don't just light your path when cycling, they also make you more visible to other traffic in all directions.

Wooden bike by Japanese Designer Yojiro Oshima

For his final project at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Yojiro Oshima designed and built a completely wooden bike.
The cantilevered seat rest acts as suspension, as does the sprung shape of the wooden spokes.
Every detail is considered to make best use of the materials properties and offer a more comfotrable ride. I love seeing such ideas coming together!

Fliz Bike by Tom Hambrock and Juri Spetter

As novel as this concept looks, it is actually based on the original idea of the running machine by Karl Freiherr von Drais from the early 1800's. The Fliz concept by Tom Hambrock and Juri Spetter though uses up-to-date materials and technologies to give a (actually not completely) new driving/riding experience.

Thonet Bike by Andy Martin

We've probably all seen a couple of Thonet Bentwood chairs in our life. But I'd never thought of a Thonet Bentwood bicycle! The German company has partnered with London based designer Andy Martin who designed a bike that can be made by their traditional steam bending process – a bike as classic and iconic as Thonet's chairs. Hope to see this get on the road in the future.

Cardboard Bike

Israeli inventor and entrepreneur Izhar Gafni has developed a bicycle made nearly entirely from cardboard. Amazingly the bike can hold upto 140 kg of weight and can survive the rain without desintegrating. As the base materials are very cheap, this bike could be mass produced for about $12 with a consumer price of about $60. Fantastic!

Cherubim bikes at NAHBS

Cherubim bikes from Japan won best of show at the NAHBS – North American Handmade Bike Show – with this highly unusual bike. I'm not a fan of fixies, but this bike looks tempting…
Fantastic craftmanship and unusual details.
Other bikes from the NAHBS can be found on the urban velo website.

Fahrradi Farfalla FFX

After creating the worlds slowest Porsche, the Ferdinand GT3, Austrian Artist Hannes Langeder has gone and done it again with the Fahrradi Farfalla FFX. The worlds slowest Ferrari. This car looks so good, it'd be a shame if it just zoomed by. Pedal powered for that essential eco-boost. Check out the whole foto set of the «car's» creation and some action-shots on Langeder's flickr site.

Vanhulsteijn Bicycles

If these are not some of the most elegant bicycles I've ever seen…

Vanhulsteijn make all their stainless steel frames by hand in Holland.

The weight of the bike is only 9,5 kg. The steel frame probably makes this bike quite comfortable to ride too. Find more infos on the Vanhulsteijn website.