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Discontinued. Only a few prototypes were ever made.

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LDN

A carbon-fibre bike Ross Lovegrove designed for Biomega, built only as a few prototypes.

Designed by
Ross Lovegrove
Made by
Biomega
First made
2010

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The RL01 Biolove / LDN frame in white, from Biomega's history page
The RL01 Biolove / LDN frame in white, from Biomega's history page

Pictures © Biomega, from biomega.com (archived pages).

Why it is renowned

The LDN was Ross Lovegrove's design for Biomega, billed for city use. Its carbon-fibre frame had no down tube and a hole through it to make the bike lighter, and it had a shaft drive and hub gears.1

The story

Lovegrove first drew the bike for Biomega as the RL01 Biolove, in the same bonded superplastic aluminium as Marc Newson's frames, with the idea that it could hang on a living-room wall.2 The design was later renamed London, or LDN, reworked and made in carbon fibre; only a few prototypes were ever built.2 Wired reported on it in August 2010.1

Sources
  1. New Biomega 'LDN' Bike is an 'Urban Tool', Wired, 2010-08-27. wired.com, read 7 October 2026.
  2. History, Biomega (archived copy of 2015-05-09). web.archive.org, read 7 October 2026.
  3. Biomega (bicycle company), Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 6 October 2026.

Last checked 7 October 2026, against the maker's own pages.