ABOUT
Pile of bikes at the former home of Bike Furniture Design, Blackstone Bicycle Works in Chicago
Bike Furniture Design is a design and manufacturing studio specializing in modern furniture made primarily from recycled and upcycled steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber bicycle and motorcycle wheels, handlebars, and frames.
Working within the vernacular of classic modern furniture design, BFD founder Andy Gregg has continued to refine this comfortable and durable furniture since 1990.
Since the original Bike Chair, Bike Furniture Designs have grown to include a wide-ranging collection of high-quality tables, bar stools, benches, and more chairs. Some designs, in addition to utilizing the bicycle, also utilize components from other transportation industries (seat belt webbing, automotive upholstery).
Bike Furniture upholstery options are unlimited. Some options include leather, rubber, cork, clear and colored acrylic, and vinyl.
Many of our designs are well suited to withstand the abuse of commercial use.
BFD founder/primary designer Andy Gregg has been influenced by his years spent in bike shops, and on bikes.
Bike Furniture Design World Headquarters is located in the mountain biking, and nordic skiing mecca Marquette, Michigan, on the south shore of Lake Superior.
New Spin on Old Bikes
Story by FRIDA WAARA
UPPER PENINSULA MAGAZINE May | June 2007 www.upperpeninsula.biz
Andy Gregg can’t remember life without a bike. He grew up wheeling around Marquette and by the time he was 10, he was learning how to fix bikes, or at least scrounging parts from the scrap piles behind local bike shops.
At 14, he saved enough from his paper route to put a down payment on a Mongoose Supergoose BMX bike. At the same age he officially landed a job as mechanic in a bike shop.
Life was good and now decades later he still gets his hands dirty stretching tires and repairing rims, but not just to ride or race, this entrepreneur has put a new spin on old bike parts by remaking them into furniture. CONTINUE READING
Winters are long here in Marquette, and we make the best of it. This video is a nice chronicle of the history and making of our 'Snow Bike Route' (SBR). Some of us involved in BFD have been doing this winter riding thing a very long time. Some vintage riding footage and pics start at around 3:50 in this video.
I bought my first BMX bike, this Mongoose Supergoose, with money saved from my paper route. I took this picture with my first camera (Olympus OM-1) that I also bought with money from my paper route. Bikes and cameras have been with me constantly ever since.
CHICAGO TRIBUNE MAGAZINE - 2001