George Bliss (pedicab designer)

George Bliss is a bicycle designer living, working and teaching in Manhattan, New York City.

[1] He has taught bike frame welding at Parsons The New School for Design.

Bliss coined the cycling term "Critical Mass" in the Ted White documentary Return of the Scorcher[2] (1992) to describe the way cars, bicycles and pedestrians negotiate uncontrolled busy intersections in China.

[3] He pioneered the niche bicycle industry in Manhattan, specifically custom designed cargo bikes including the "Dump Trike" and the smaller "Pick-Up Trike" and pedicabs.

From 1995 to 2015, Bliss owned and operated a pedicab rental business (The Hub Station) in SoHo and then in the West Village.