PROJECT

When adopting a new material to an existing product often times the design stays unchanged. Thus, a bicycle frame that was made of metal tubes is changed to carbon fiber tubes, not optimizing the properties of the new material.

Blackburn Design is a manufacturer of bicycle accessories whose main business focused on products for carrying weight on bicycles, like bicycle mounted racks, and bottle cages. The Blackburn Design CZ-1 was a departure design for a bicycle mounted bottle holder. The I-beam design exploits one of the major carbon fiber properties which is stiffness with an aesthetic appearance says carbon fiber.

THE WORK

Design and development of the CZ1 from concept to prototype.