Awesome Bicycle

Spanish design studio Brosmind created these vibrant and trippy modern art playing cards for Bicycle. Each of the 56 cards features the artists’ abstract and imaginative characters, representing four colorful street gangs. They also have smiley face suit markers and brick wall backs.

While it’s not exactly the most practical of conveyances, we’re still impressed with the engineering behind CARV’s walking bicycle, inspired by Theo Jansen’s amazing Strandbeest kinetic sculptures. We like to call it the Strandcycle. Build details here.

Foothill Products’ simple, yet effective design makes it easy to store spare bicycle wheels on a single hook, by offsetting the heights of their hubs and skewers. Made from durable extruded aluminum, with felt wheel pads.

The talented and gregarious mountain biker Claudio Caluori is back with another downhill tour. Ride with him as he takes on a rocky trail in Lourdes, France that’s being used for the 2015 UCI MTB World Cup.

Handmande by Lithuania’s StudioImpossibilis, this leather bicycle bag fits into the V-shaped opening in the center of most bicycles. It’s leakproof and durable, and weathering just makes it look better. Contact seller for size specs.

(NSFW: Language) Mountain biker Claudio Caluori is back with another POV video. This time he gives us a breakneck tour of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup course at the Mont-Sainte-Anne ski resort in Canada.

Mountain biker Claudio Caluori takes us on a thrilling POV bike ride through the Scottish countryside, hitting insane speeds and grabbing air a few times along the way. The part in between the trees is downright nuts.

Designer Ron Arad created this stunning bicycle with sprung steel wheels for the WOW Bikes charity auction. But it doesn’t just look cool – it actually rides – and pretty smoothly at that.

Cannondale’s 9 speed ON Bike features a single sided, fully enclosed chain case that’s machined from billet, making it an extremely stiff yet light structural part of the bike frame.

We make houses, boats and bridges from wood, so why not a bicycle? Xylon Bikes has a stylish collection that features handbuilt frames, aeronautical grade plywood, and select hardwoods.

Designed by Luca Shieppati for Lamiflex, the Ciclotte exercise bike defies convention, giving those who ride it a workout while showing off their keen eye for modern style.

Steel Toe Studios excels at making cool stuff from found objects; their Cyclone bike gear bottle opener is our top pick; it’s welded to a steel bushing and then oxidized and hot waxed.