• I haven't been to the site in ages - everything bike-related has been put on hold due to buying an old house needing a lot of love and so I've become a builder in my spare time. However, entirely by accident, I found this collection of frankly bizarre bicycles created by Italian designer Gianluca Gimini whilst searching for something completely different and I thought it needed to be shared somewhere.

    He asked people to draw a bicyle from memory - and then turned a number of those drawings into actual bikes. They're not all entirely structurally sound and some look a little uncomfortable to ride, but it's a thought-provoking set of designs and well worth a browse. Enjoy.

    http://www.designboom.com/design/gianluca-gimini-velocipedia-bike-design-collection-04-08-2016/

    The site's changed a lot in look, but the general categories seem the same, so I'm just posting this under General - please move if it belongs elsewhere.

  • All of those friends, family and total strangers must have been tapped in the head, my kid can draw better than that.

    Some of the bikes do look fun though.

  • None of them have been made, only drawn up and rendered on a computer.

  • they should render some of the bikes painted onto cycle lanes

    some of those are a bit abstract

  • @dicki well said!

  • Or what that the Blaze laser thing projects onto a particularly bumpy road!

  • Both the twisted cycle lane bike drawings and this show that bikes are actually quite difficult to draw.

  • TAKE MY MONEY

    Kidding please do not

  • do lean

  • Reminds me of

    from Dear Susan

  • The difference being that Pete's bikes work and are generally surprisingly lovely to ride. :)

  • I'd like to have a spin on that to find out :)

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"Velocipedia" - a collection of unusual bicycles created from incorrect drawings

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