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Danish bicycle company Biomega and design collective KiBiSi have collaborated to create this new bike for sports brand Puma.

The PUMA Mopion Bike has a metal rack attached to the front of the frame for carrying baggage.

The frame is made of aluminium, weighs 22 kilograms and comes in black, white, or a magenta, blue and lime livery.

See more bikes by Biomega for Puma in our earlier story.

Here some more from the designers:

The PUMA Mopion Bike

A Sturdy Companion

PUMA Mopion is rock steady for the daily grind. It mixes city bike features, and cargo bike features, making it a sturdy companion. It comes with a super-size innovative front carrier for heavy duty transport of your groceries or other needs. Developed for city dwellers, Mopion features a light aluminum frame, making it a one-of-a-kind lightweight cargo bike weighing only 22 kilos. The geometry holds the body in a slightly inclined, but still heads-up position for navigational ease and exceptional balancing.

The name Mopion derives from an island in the Atlantic Ocean, symbolizing the new Trans-Atlantic approach and balancing PUMA’s European heritage with American popular culture. Mopion will be available in white, black and in the bold color combination magenta/blue/lime. The colors are likewise inspired by vibrant island colors. Mopion defies the expected.

The PUMA Bike Line
Created for ease of movement, urban transportation, and individual appeal, PUMA and the Biomega design team have collaborated to produce the next evolution in commuter bikes. Smart European design and commuter technology collide with urban American style – and culminate in a completely new Trans-Atlantic bike paradigm. PUMA pared down its bikes to their essentials and constructed a new bike line with innovative and thoughtful details that meet the needs of a unique consumer set. The PUMA Bike line is designed for urban mobility and finds innovative solutions for the everyday annoyances that come from maneuvering bikes through urban obstacles. The collection redefines and reinvigorates the city ride.

By pulling together the best parts of practical, continental city and folding bikes, BMXs, American cruisers, and fixies, these PUMA Bikes create a whole new urban typology, one that stands out in the crowd and knows how to make its own way.

Mopion will be launched at the Eurobike and Interbike shows in September 2010, and will be available from spring 2011.

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LDN by Ross Lovegrove and NYC by KiBiSi	2010 Puma Bikes by Biomega	Dezeen’s top ten: bikes

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Danish bicycle company Biomega launch two new bikes today, one by London designer Ross Lovegrove and the other by Danish design collective KiBiSi.

LDN (top and above) is by Lovegrove and has a wishbone shaped one-piece carbon fibre frame with a hole to save weight and allow the bike to be wall-hung.

NYC (above and below) is by KiBiSi and has an aluminium frame with an integrated mudguard and carbon fibre belt drive instead of a traditional chain.

Both bicycles go on display at the Eurobike and Interbike shows in September, with LDN also on display at the SHOWHOW design exhibition in Tent London between 23 and 26 September.

Here's some more from the designers:

Biomega introduces two new über-design bicycles for urban locomotion

Biomega renews its curatorial commitment to cherry picking the world’s top designers to design its bicycles. Ross Lovegrove displays his organic essentialist sensibility through his fresh vision of an integrated bicycle. His integrated solutions and groundbreaking design makes the LDN bicycle a true urban tool. While Danish design super group KiBiSi stirs things up with an innovative newcomer NYC, following Biomega’s heritage of chainless bikes featuring a belt drive for smooth urban commuting and an integrated mudguard.

Copenhagen, Denmark - August 20th, 2010: Biomega once again combines groundbreaking design with strong urban references and technical features to accommodate modern city lifestyle. The result is two striking city bikes for effective commuting in style, bringing the feel of something unique while moving through the cityscape.

The LDN bike, designed by organic essentialist Ross Lovegrove, and the NYC, designed by Danish design group KiBiSi, both follow the Biomega philosophy of “furniture for urban locomotion”. Classic and honest in their style and function, they meet the specific needs of city dwellers.

A true urban tool The LDN amazes with its stunning design by London based Ross Lovegrove. Its frame is made from carbon fiber sheets formed and layered to make a stiff and lightweight one-piece monocoque structure. LDN’s form is derived from a wishbone, linking all the necessary components of the drive steering and drives systems in the most direct and economical way possible. The hole is there to lighten the bike’s mass and to provide a detail from which to hang the bicycle on the wall, thereby saving space in restricted urban interiors. All moving parts of the bicycle are state-of-the-art selections designed to make LDN a true urban tool.

The potential of a classic The NYC takes its cue from the iconic Biomega bicycle CPH, reinvigorating Biomega's status as a pioneer of chainless bikes - this time with a smooth, quiet carbon fiber belt drive. The NYC's sleek and no-nonsense look integrates a front mudguard in the aluminum down tube complimenting its aggressive, yet reliable urban driving properties. The NYC is designed by the three creative forces of Danish design group, KiBiSi, with the ambition to create an honest means of transport with the potential of a classic. Biomega dedicates this ultimate bicycle to the ultimate city - NYC.

NYC features

- Designed by KiBiSi - Aluminum frame - Belt drive - Integrated mudguard in down tube - Single or 8 speed
- 26 inch wheels - Unisize
Colors: Aspen Pearl White, African Yellow, Aluminum Silver and Dragon Black
NYC available from spring 2011

LDN features

- Designed by Ross Lovegrove - Carbon frame - Shaft drive - 8 speed
- 26 inch wheels - Unisize
Colors: Aspen Pearl White, African Yellow and Raw Carbon
LDN is build on order

The LDN bicycle will be displayed at the SHOWHOW design exhibition in Tent London on September 23rd to 26th 2010, while both LDN and NYC will be presented at the Eurobike and Interbike shows in September 2010.

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2010 Puma Bikes by Biomega	TMA-1 by KiBiSi for AIAIAI	Dezeen’s top ten: bikes

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Danish bicycle company Biomega launch five city bikes in their 2010 collection for sports brand Puma today.

The range consists of five basic models that each combine chosen aspects of continental and folding bikes, BMXs, cruisers, and fixed-wheel designs.

The bikes are available from today via a dedicated website and will be presented at the South Street Seaport PUMA store in Manhattan this weekend.

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Here's some more information from PUMA:

PUMA and Biomega Launch Website to Sell Full Range of Urban Bicycles For Summer 2010.  PUMA and Biomega announce the launch of www.puma-bikes.com, a website dedicated exclusively to the full range of the 2010 PUMA Bike, designed in collaboration with Biomega and made for urban transport.  PUMA is among the first sportlifestyle brands to sell bikes on-line, offering quick delivery within the United States and Europe directly to the consumer or to preferred bike dealers who will assemble the bikes free of charge.

The 2010 PUMA Bikes are fashionable sports lifestyle objects – resonating to the pulse of the PUMA brand. The 2010 range consists of 5 basic models for both men and women, which offer a variety of optional extras and color choices of more than 120 variations, thereby putting PUMA’s portfolio firmly on the forefront of bicycle scene.  These varieties give customers the option of individualizing their own bicycle. Each bike features colors inspired by island culture in the Atlantic – symbolizing this new Trans-Atlantic approach and balancing PUMA’s European heritage with American popular culture.

Accompanying each bike and adding to the character and customization is a sticker book of bike names allowing consumers to choose from one of the provided names or to create a unique name of their own.  "The objective of PUMA's new series of Biomega bicycles is to create unique bikes, refresh urban mobility and for an outside design company to share a different perspective so that we can surprise the consumer.,” says Antonio Bertone, Chief Marketing Officer for PUMA.  “Biomega is a pioneer of the designer bike and the ideal partner for us in this venture."

Created for ease of movement, urban transportation, and individual appeal, PUMA and the Biomega design team have collaborated to produce the next evolution in commuter bikes. Smart European design and commuter technology collide with urban American style – and culminate in a completely new Trans-Atlantic bike paradigm. PUMA pared down its bikes to their essentials and constructed a new bike line with innovative and thoughtful details that meet the needs of a unique consumer set. The 2010 PUMA Bike line is designed for urban mobility and finds innovative solutions for the everyday annoyances that come from maneuvering bikes through urban obstacles. The collection redefines and reinvigorates the city ride.

By pulling together the best parts of practical, continental city and folding bikes, BMXs, American cruisers, and fixies, these PUMA Bikes create a whole new urban typology. One that stands out in the crowd. And knows how to make its own way.  The 5 models in the 2010 PUMA Bike range, available on PUMA-bike.com are: Disco, Funk, Nevis and Pico.  The PUMA Disko bike features a locking system integrated as part of the structural framework of the bike, intend to both safeguard the bike from theft and simplify the commuting process by alleviating the need for a separate lock.  The Funk let’s you switch between a fixed gear and a single gear.

It has 28” wheels and mixes city bike features and track bike features to create a new typology.  The Nevis mixes city bike features with those of a cruiser designed to hold the body in a laid back, upright position. Large, comfortable and sturdy, the bike comes with an innovative front carrier for transport of everyday needs. Featuring lightweight aluminum frame, Shimano Acera 8 speed gear set, disc brakes and unique color blocking, the bike is the perfect ride in any city.  The Pico is a unisex with a fashionable twist of bold color blocking.  The bike features a lightweight aluminum frame, Shimano Acera 8 speed gear set, disc brakes and an oversized front carrier. Small, sturdy and convertible, the Pico Bike references a BMX style bike but holds the body of any upright.

PUMA

PUMA is one of the world’s leading Sportlifestyle companies that designs and develops footwear, apparel and accessories. It is committed to working in ways that contribute to the world by supporting Creativity, SAFE Sustainability and Peace, and by staying true to the principles of being Fair, Honest, Positive and Creative in decisions made and actions taken. PUMA starts in Sport and ends in Fashion. Its Sport Performance and Lifestyle labels include categories such as Football, Running, Motorsports, Golf and Sailing. Sport Fashion features collaborations with renowned designer labels such as Alexander McQueen, Mihara Yasuhiro and Sergio Rossi. The PUMA Group owns the brands PUMA, Cobra Golf and Tretorn. The company, which was founded in 1948, distributes ist products in more than 120 countries, employs more than 9,000 people worldwide and has headquarters in Herzogenaurach/Germany, Boston, London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit http://www.puma.com

About Biomega

Biomegas goal is to create Furniture for Urban Locomotion - a paradigm shift in the way society imagines transportation. To compete directly with cars by constructing bikes who are so beautiful that they imbue our cities with new meaning, even as they make us healthier. Biomega bikes – and the trendsetters who ride them – have the ability to transform the world into a more beautiful place, and to blend our dreams for the future with the needs of the present. All it takes is one look – and one ride – to understand the difference we can make, as bike, rider, and style become one.

The Biomega bikes have been on display in several newspapers, most lifestyle magazines and the most prestigious design museums around the world. The list includes the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Neues Museum in Münich, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wallpaper*, Vogue, Domus and the Financial Times. They constantly amaze the world of design with their innovativeness, pure lines and uniquely shaped forms.

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Designer Lars Holme Larsen of Kilo Design, architect Bjarke Ingels of BIG and brand consultant Jens Martin Skibsted of Skibsted Ideation have collaborated to launch a new industrial design firm in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Above: Aiaiai Tracks

Called KiBiSi, the company will work across the fields of architecture, design, furniture, electronics, transportation, culture and lifestyle.

Above: Puma Shoe

Here are some of their designs intended for release in 2010, with captions from the designers.

Above: Bunch of Bulbs

Here's some more information from KiBiSi:

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LAUNCH OF KiBiSi - Founded by Kilo Design, BIG and Skibsted Ideation

KiBiSi

Founded by Kilo Design / Lars Holme Larsen, BIG / Bjarke Ingels and Skibsted Ideation / Jens Martin Skibsted, KiBiSi is a Copenhagen based idea-driven industrial design firm.

Above: AA

Each partner contributes with intelligence and experience from within his specific field, providing KiBiSi with cutting-edge knowledge and knowhow within the fields of architecture, design, furniture, electronics, transportation, contemporary culture and lifestyle.

Above: Roulade

Having collaborated on multiple projects for years Lars, Bjarke and Jens Martin decided to turn their intuitive inclination to work together into a full time collaboration.

Above: Aiaiai Swirl

Ki

Kilo Design by Lars Holme Larsen is known as an industrial design studio rooted in a straight forward approach to design merging elements of contemporary culture from high and low: the art scene as well as the street, the fashion house as well as the workshop.

Above: Puma UM Jacket

Lars Holme Larsen’s natural eye for blatant and simple solutions to complex design problems, has earned him instant acclaim as one of Danish designs fastest rising stars.

Above: Knot

Bi

BIG architects founded by Bjarke Ingels has become one of the leading firms of a new generation of architects, repeatedly attracting public attention and triggering political debate with thought provoking designs.

Above: Kilo Bike

Often moving beyond the traditional boundaries of building BIG’s ideas absorb all the economical, ecological, social and political interests surrounding a project and turn them into back bending forms that are as surprising as they are obvious.

Above: Hole Plate Table

Si

Skibsted Ideation, founded by Biomega creator Jens Martin Skibsted, is a prolific generator of radically new concepts for brand owners: Applying the thinking of branding, fashion and cuisine to the world of industrial design.

Above: Puma UM Bag

Young Global Leader and member of “Davos” design think tank, collected by MoMA and frequent collaborator with the world’s biggest brands and best designers, Jens Martin Skibsted is a hyper active citizen of the global design elite.

Above: Oki Cutlery

Ki + Bi + Si = KiBiSi

KiBiSi merges the faculties of its founders into a symbiotic hybrid of design, architecture and ideation: The production knowhow and design sensibility of Kilo Design – the big ideas and large scale perspective of BIG architects - and the idea driven innovation and brand awareness of Skibsted Ideation.

Above: Bubbles Table

Ideas and products are intrinsically tied.

Above: Moire Chair

We believe the product should be the carrier of its brand idea rather than some designer’s form and formula.

Above: Bubbles Flacon

In the fertile overlap between Design, Architecture and Ideation KiBiSi seeks to spawn a new breed of idea driven design.

Above: GMoMA

SELECTED RELEASES 2010

Above: HAY Expo Chair

EXPO Chair

Molded plywood chair designed for the Danish EXPO Pavilion, Shanghai 2010. Produced by HAY

Above: TMA Headphone

TMA Headphone

TMA Headphone is an iconic, stripped to basics, headphone designed to be a DJ tool.
TMA is developed in collaboration with leading DJs, produced by Aiaiai.

Above: Tube Chair

Tube Chair

Tube Chair is developed for the 36 000 m2 mixed-use project in CPH, 8 HOUSE. A Stackable chair manufactured of wood and aluminium. Produced by HAY.

Above: Puma Bike Boston

Puma Bike Series

Bike series for urban use, based on different bike typologies. Unique carrier solutions, merging basket, carrier and handlebar in one.

Above: Puma Bike IIIII

Above: Puma Bike IIII Woman

Above: Puma Bike IIII Man

Above: Puma Bike III

Above: Puma Bike II

Above: Biomega Amsterdam

Above: Biomega Amsterdam Lady

Above: Biomega Copenhagen Lady

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