Design & Bicycles
“A bicycle isn't just a way to get around: it's the style statement of those who chose to live the city differently.”
A Scottish blacksmith may have built the first pedal-driven bicycle in 1839 — and someone on one very similar got fined for a hit-and-run three years later. The catch: almost none of it can actually be proven.
Everyone assumes the Dutch have always cycled. In the 1960s, the Netherlands was busy paving over canals for cars — until a protest movement, an oil crisis and a lot of dead children's bikes changed the plan.
Minimal design, hidden batteries and thoughtful components: the new generation of urban e-bikes looks more to design than to technology.
Clean frames, a single colour, components stripped to the essentials: the minimal city bike is becoming a genre of its own in contemporary design.
