A hardy Dutchman tackling the light snow and doing so in style. The photo is from David Hembrow's blog A View From the Cycle Path about a cycling life in Assens, Holland. As a fourth-generation basketmaker he produces splendid bicycle baskets, too.
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This famous bicycle advert by French artist and printer G. Massias was produced for Gladiator Bicycles in 1895, when the bicycle craze was peaking. There was a wealth of adverts featuring women and bicycles, a testament to the bicycle's liberating qualities in society. Only four original poster exist today.
The poster and name is now used by - ironically - an American winemaker "Cycles Gladiator Wines" out of California. Thanks to Jan for the link.
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Now I'm not a girl and I don't have a pony fetish but this combi-bicycle from Pony Pals, at the very least, is stylish and kiddie chic. Any bicycle that is far-removed from the sweaty sports fetish is a good bicycle. While it may look to some like a kitsch Made in China plaything it's interesting - and strange - that the saddle is designed by master saddle maker Paul Selvey. Not only that, the pony's head is created by Lado Goudjabidze, who also created a bust of Gandhi for the UN Headquarters and JFK at the Kennedy Center.
There are no prices on the website and I don't dare ask.
3 comments:
As we all know, if you have to ask...:)
Nothing wrong with cycling for sport. We need it in our sedentary western society.
of course not. but unfortunately too many people have been told that cycling is ONLY a sport or recreation and not transport, like it is for 100 million Europeans each day.
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