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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1h

Especially with this guy

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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · 1h

Valle Pega, street vendor
Pietro Donzelli
1954

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 2h

Creative Cycling, Paris 1944

Artist: Victor Dowd

Two drawings of people on bikes, both with a man in front and a woman behind.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 3h

Better known as an innovator at Ford and Chrysler, former auto executive Lee Iacocca saw the future and was selling electric-assist bicycles as early as 1998. Here's a commercial from his eBike company.

#BicycleBirthday Lee Iacocca
October 15 (1924-2019)

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 12h

Atala
ca. 1920s
Artist: Achille Luciano Mauzan

Antique poster featuring an illustration of a jockey jumping a bicycle over a fence, as if it were a horse on a steeplechase course. The text reads, "Puro sangue!", which translates from Italian to "pure blood", akin to "thoroughbred".

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 12h

Full video:

THE BICYCLE OF SPRINGS

YouTube video by colinfurze

www.youtube.com

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 12h

"It's one of those ideas that makes no sense whatsoever."
-Colin Furze, madcap inventor/Youtuber, on his Bicycle of Springs

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Colin!
Born October 14, 1979

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 12h

Lillian Gish riding in the Broadway play The Star-Wagon, by Maxwell Anderson, 1938. Her co-star was Burgess Meredith.

#BicycleBirthday Lillian Gish
October 14 (1893-1993)

Photo of a woman in a dress riding a bicycle.

Playbill featuring a man (Burgess Meredith) standing next to a woman (Lillian Gish) who is seated on a bicycle.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 12h

"The Good Fairy of All Good Cyclists"

Sturmey Archer hub gears and hub brakes
ca. 1928

Vintage poster featuring an illustration of a man riding up a hill on a bicycle with an anthropomorphic internal gear mechanism with wings and arms helping push him.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 12h

Usher

#BicycleBirthday
Born October 14, 1978

Photo of a man resting astride a bicycle on a sidewalk.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 12h

Fashion designer Ralph Lauren riding in New York City in the 1970s

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Ralph!
Born October 14, 1939

Photo of a man riding a bicycle on a city street.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 15h

I think they might still make them in India

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

And exceeding the speed limit.

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Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 1d

I can ride my bike with no handlebars.

#drawing #art #bike #bikeart

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

No doubt!

Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

That great 😊

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Turn-of-the-century postcards featuring London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg

Postcard illustration featuring a man with muttonchops riding a bicycle with factories belching smoke behind him.

Postcard illustration featuring a husky man smoking a cigar while riding a bicycle.

Postcard illustration featuring a man in a heavy overcoat, mustache, and captain's hat riding a bicycle.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Schwinn’s Futuristic Aero-Space Concept Bicycle Design
ca. 1960s

Illustration of a futuristic-looking bicycle, with aerodynamic windshield and a lot of straight lines.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Roger Moore stokes a tandem in Stockholm, Sweden, 1965

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Roger!
October 14 (1927-2017)

Photo of two men riding a tandem bicycle on a street. The man in the rear position is smiling back at the camera.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Many places used to have mandatory license plates for bicycles, but virtually all got rid of them. (Exception: North Korea - maybe not the society you want to emulate.) The main reason is it costs too much to administer the bicycle registration system.

Good video 👇

What Happened to Bicycle License Plates?

YouTube video by Nic Laporte

www.youtube.com

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Many places used to have mandatory license plates for bicycles, but virtually all got rid of them. (Exception: North Korea - maybe not the society you want to emulate.) The main reason is it costs too much to administer the bicycle registration system.

Good video 👇

What Happened to Bicycle License Plates?

YouTube video by Nic Laporte

www.youtube.com

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Cycles Motorcycles Clément
ca. 1897
Artist: Ferdinand Misti-Mifliez

Antique poster featuring an illustration of a woman standing with a bicycle reaching up to a round lantern in a tree that says "Cycles Clement". It's a scene taking place at night.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Turn-of-the-century postcards featuring London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Cacao et Chocolat Grootes
ca. 1900

Illustration of a girl riding a bicycle with the text, "Cacao et Chocolat Grootes".

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

"Vero Estratto di Carne Liebig" (Liebig's Real Meat Extract) trading cards, 1901

I birilli: The skittles
L'altalena: The seesaw
Il polo: The polo
L'atterramento delle teste: The knocking down of heads (!)
La quadriglia: The quadrille
Gli anelli: The rings

Group of six trading cards illustrated with turn-of-the-century bicycle scenes featuring well dressed riders in park-like locations.

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