Torgny Fjeldskaar has designed some of the most iconic bikes of the past two decades
Torgny Fjeldskaar has designed some of the most iconic bikes of the past two decades The role of the industrial designer is often overlooked, so we spoke to one of the best in the business for an inside glimpse into how to style a bike
February 14, 2021 at 3:13 pm
We first came across Torgny Fjeldskaar’s work at the world’s biggest bike show, Eurobike, back in the early 2000s at one of Cannondale’s mega-stands, which was showcasing a cutting-edge concept bike.
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The radical geometry-shifting machine on display was a bike that could morph from a flat-out time-trail machine into a more upright comfortable one. It was space-age stuff, so I set out to meet the team behind this amazing flight of fancy and through one of our Cannondale contacts were introduced to Norwegian industrial designer Torgny: a quiet, softly spoken, focused man.
The fight over closing streets to cars in Manchester city centre
Councillors, residents and campaign groups are pushing for more roads to be closed to traffic - but is everyone on board?
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What will Manchester city centre look like on the other side of the pandemic?
There is much debate about whether the rapid expansion of recent decades will continue, not just in Manchester, but in cities around the world as we readjust.
Will fewer people want to live in high-rise, high-density areas and prefer the suburbs? Are the days of huge offices filled with hundreds of employees numbered now that many businesses have successfully operated with staff working from home?
Residents in Cheadle Heath and Cheadle, Stockport, are being asked how they’d like to improve the streets where they live as part of plans to create a series of new low-traffic neighbourhoods across Greater Manchester.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods, known locally as Active Neighbourhoods, focus on prioritising the movement, health and safety of people over cars by using planters or bollards to stop rat-running on residential streets.
In Stockport, areas of Cheadle and Cheadle Heath have been chosen to receive improvements, with the plans aligning with other local cycling and walking schemes.
Residents are being asked to feedback what they like about their area, but also how it could be made better – and whether they would like to stop through traffic using their streets as a short-cut.
£2.4 million town centre cycling junction is officially open A MULTI-million pound cycling junction has opened in Bolton town centre. Newport Street and Trinity Street junction has been transformed to the tune of £2.4 million to create the UK s second innovative CYCLOPS Cycle Optimised Protected Signals junction. Work to transform the busy intersection started seven months ago and is part of wider £7.6 million scheme designed to, say transport bosses, deliver a more integrated network in Bolton town centre . The scheme, which hopes to enhance cycling and pedestrian access around the town centre, will feature an “orbital cycle route”, offering bikes a dedicated space away from other road traffic.