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A celebration of all things bicycle. No AI. I'm an English teacher 🇺🇸 living in Slovakia.
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · Nov 7
L'Uomo in Bici (The Man on a Bike)
Naples, 1953

📷Piergiorgio Branzi
Photo featuring a person on a bicycle framed by the arched doorway at the end of a dark hallway.
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In 1886, Englishman Thomas Stevens became the first person to cycle around the world. He did it on a penny farthing, with a raincoat that doubled as a tent & bedroll. His handlebar bag held fresh socks, an extra shirt, and a pocket revolver.

#BicycleBirthday Thomas Stevens
December 24 (1854-1935)
Illustration of a man riding a penny-farthing bicycle with a bunch of gear strapped to the handlebar and to his left forearm. "Thomas Stevens" is written on the upper-left of the page. Map showing the route that Thomas Stevens took to ride around the world on a penny farthing bicycle. Stevens started in San Francisco, California and headed east. He originally planned to travel from Tehran through Siberia, but was denied entry. After changing routes, he was ejected from Afghanistan and had to turn back and take a steamer to India, and then another steamer from Calcutta to Hong Kong. Photo of Thomas Stevens and his penny-farthing bicycle. There are several people in uniform behind him.
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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commissionaire
📷olympus xa
🎞️kodak double-x/rodinal 1+25
mayfair

#filmphotography #streetphotography
an old fashioned commissionaire in uniform with white beard outside a very fancy mayfair shop holds a customer's lime bike for them
December 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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What Fuel Crisis?

Artist: Magnificent Octopus
Illustration featuring A man with a gas can holding a gas pump at a gas station. The gas tank has a sign on it that says, "Sold Out!" The man is looking at the pump and only a little drip of gas is coming out. In the foreground is a smiling cyclist eating a banana. The shape of the banana is similar, in a mirror image, to the gas pump. At the top is written, "What Fuel Crisis?"
December 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Born on this day, December 23, 2002:
Finn Wolfhard, actor, shown here (front) riding with Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things.
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Finn!
Two kids riding on a banana-seat bike.
December 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Pearl Jam guitar tech Jeff Ousley pilots frontman Eddie Vedder on a beer run before one of their shows.

#BicycleBirthday Eddie Vedder
#BornOnThisDay December 23, 1964
A man rides in the bucket of a cargo bike while another man rides.
December 23, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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The astral convergence of the Rough Stuff Fellowship, 1970s Japanese pass-finders, and California mountain bike pioneers in one guy, one bike, and one big rock. Pure adrenalin.

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Danny MacAskill!
Born December 23, 1985
Danny MacAskill - The Slabs
Danny Macaskill testing the limits of mountain biking, riding down the infamous Dubh Slabs on the Isle of Skye... Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/dannymacaskill?sub_confirmation=1 A…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Man with Bubble, Central Park (near Bandshell)

📷Shawn Walker
Photo featuring a person in a mask blowing a giant bubble with a stick and a person on a bike riding behind it.
December 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Stucchi Bicycles
ca. 1902-1904

Artist: Gian Emilio Malerba
Advertising poster featuring an illustration of a nude woman covered partially by feathers standing on the rim of a bicycle wheel.
December 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Galaxy Science Fiction magazine
June 1953

Artist: Ed Emshwiller
Magazine cover featuring an illustration that might be considered retro-futuristic: a man pedaling two passenger in a tricycle rickshaw on a freeway with space age buildings in the background.
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"Chris Rea, singer aged 22, from Middlesbrough, promotes his new single, So Much Love, which he wrote while working for his fathers ice cream company."

#RIPChrisRea
Photo featuring a long-haired man wearing white trousers and shoes standing on an adult tricycle with a large rear cargo box. There's an old ice cream truck behind him. Signs on the trike say, "Stope me and buy one" and "'So much love for you baby', [?]st Release 'Magnet Records' Chris Rea". The caption for the photo is in the post; it was dated 24th June 1974. Photo by Teesside Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Images.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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something tells me this is going to visit me in a dream tonight
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The bicycle man
1984

Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Abstract painting which appears to depict a man on a bicycle.
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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The astral convergence of the Rough Stuff Fellowship, 1970s Japanese pass-finders, and California mountain bike pioneers in one guy, one bike, and one big rock. Pure adrenalin.

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Danny MacAskill!
Born December 23, 1985
Danny MacAskill - The Slabs
Danny Macaskill testing the limits of mountain biking, riding down the infamous Dubh Slabs on the Isle of Skye... Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/dannymacaskill?sub_confirmation=1 A…
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December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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The bicycle man
1984

Artist: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Abstract painting which appears to depict a man on a bicycle.
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Stucchi Bicycles
ca. 1902-1904

Artist: Gian Emilio Malerba
Advertising poster featuring an illustration of a nude woman covered partially by feathers standing on the rim of a bicycle wheel.
December 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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White Cycles 🚲
#bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #paris #自転車 #illustration #art #design #streetstyle #fun #dog #cycling #cyclinglife #bikelife #biking #bicicleta #velo #cycle #vélo 🚲🚴
December 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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"Superbly equipped"
Heveg bicycle and moped tires
ca. 1946

Artist: Arthur Goldsteen
Advertising poster featuring a cartoon depiction of a man in a suit lounging across the top of a bicycle, with his elbow resting on the rear rack and his legs lying over the handlebars. He's smiling and giving the thumb's up sign.
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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"Chris Rea, singer aged 22, from Middlesbrough, promotes his new single, So Much Love, which he wrote while working for his fathers ice cream company."

#RIPChrisRea
Photo featuring a long-haired man wearing white trousers and shoes standing on an adult tricycle with a large rear cargo box. There's an old ice cream truck behind him. Signs on the trike say, "Stope me and buy one" and "'So much love for you baby', [?]st Release 'Magnet Records' Chris Rea". The caption for the photo is in the post; it was dated 24th June 1974. Photo by Teesside Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Images.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Born on this day, December 22, 1993:
Meghan Trainor, musician.
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Meghan!
A woman wearing a dress rides a bike
December 22, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Born on this day, December 22, 1962:
Ralph Fiennes, actor and filmmaker.
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Ralph!
A man wearing a backpack rides a bike
December 22, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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I have wandered apon greatness and you too must witness
December 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Cycling Through the Snow
Windsor Magazine
1898

Artist: Lucien Davis
Illustration of a woman in a long black dress riding a bicycle on a snowy street.
December 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York City

#BicycleBirthday
December 22 (1960-1988)
Photo of a man standing astride a folding bicycle on a sidewalk. There are cars on the street behind him.
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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1976 photo with some real "live-action Miyazaki film" vibe.
December 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Anke Engelke in the German comedy series Perfekt Verpasst

#BicycleBirthday
December 21, 1965
Photo of a woman wearing a helmet standing with a bicycle on a street. Behind her is a car.
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM