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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 · 28d

Polish poster for the International Peace Race
1967
Artist: Leszek Holdanowicz

Poster featuring spiral lines forming two circles at the bottom. Spaces between some of the lines are colored blue, which makes it look like a person riding a bicycle. At the top it says, "Berlin Praha Warszawa".

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 13h

"It’s great to have a Mayor who will actually be on a bike often!" - Tigard resident and dedicated cycling advocate Shawne Martinez

bikeportland.org/2025/10/08/t...

Tigard's new mayor is an everyday bike rider

The morning after being named mayor, Yi-Kang Hu rode with his local bike bus.

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

Cyclist Jean Brunier after riding 120.958 km/h behind a motorcycle at the Montlhéry Autdrome, France, October 1925

#BicycleBirthday Jean Brunier
October 9 (1896-1981)

Photo of a man in a bathrobe and helmet holding a bicycle with a large chainring, saddle with its front stabilized, and inverted front fork (I think this is so he can ride a little bit closer to the pace vehicle). Those bikes usually also had wooden rims, which won't melt at high speeds.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h

Unfortunately nothing beyond "Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, 1931". No actual name.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h

Beautiful!

Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h

Sounds like they need to get their priorities in order. This handy graphic from Copenhagenize Designs might help.

Graphic illustration showing a straight line with a bicycle symbol underneath, a straight line with a pedestrian symbol underneath, a slightly wavy line with a bus symbol underneath, and a very jagged line with a car symbol underneath.

Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 10h

"Life in Hong Kong: Comes dusk and the bicycle-riding lamplighter makes his rounds in the outlying districts where automatic electrical systems have not been put in."
1951

Photo of a man on a bicycle using a long stick to light a streetlamp. There is a person pulling a rickshaw behind him on the street.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11h

Sounds like they need to get rid of the car lane, lol. But seriously, there are solutions, and pedestrians should be prioritized. It's hard to offer specifics without knowing the details, but pavements shouldn't disappear, and reducing space for cars should always be on the table.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11h

Bicycle polo

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11h

Keeping warm in autumn, 1931

Photo of a man riding a bicycle with a dog riding piggyback and a puppy in his jacket.
Caption: "A man cycling through Battersea with a greyhound draped over his shoulders and a puppy tucked inside his jacket, London, 26th September 1931"

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11h

Man Repairing Bicycle Wheel
ca. 1890
📷F. T. Harmon

Photo of a man rubbing a spoke of a bicycle wheel with a cloth. The wheel is mounted on a workbench with tools on it.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 11h

Uncle Rinne
Artist: Tetsuro Ohno

Illustration of a man sitting down to eat a bicycle crankset with a screwdriver and wrench as cutlery and oil as a glass of wine.

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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 12h

Ai Weiwei 🚲 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚵‍♂️ 🚵‍♀️
#art #sculpture #design #vélo #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #bicicletta #自転車

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

We’re all competing for the same 20 percent of public space that’s left over for us. We need to take some of that back from cars.

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

Musician Bruno Mars

#BicycleBirthday
Born October 8, 1985

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

This scene from The Paul Hogan Show (1973-1984) features The Pushbike Song by The Mixtures

#BicycleBirthday Paul Hogan
Born October 8, 1939

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

Chevy Chase takes Goldie Hawn for a ride for the August 1978 issue of Us magazine

#BicycleBirthday Chevy Chase
October 8, 1943

Photo from a magazine of a man and a woman on a banana seat bicycle.

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 13h

That’s why you need to practice in your kitchen.

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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 15h

A little frost can’t stop these bikers on walk, bike, roll day at Minneapolis Public Schools

Way to go, kiddos

🙌

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

“I have now successfully completed a track stand of 6.84 seconds, breaking my previous record of 6.81 seconds. I shall now entertain you with my next attempt.”

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 16h

Gotta wonder what he’s saying

ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 1d

Jean-Claude Brialy et Anna Karina in "Une femme est une femme" by Jean-Luc Godard (1961). #filmsky #vélo #bikesky #bici #vintage #photography #bicycle #bike #fahrrad #paris #bicicletta #自転車 🚲 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚵‍♂️ 🚵‍♀️

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 18h

I had heard about this show, but haven’t watched it. It’s frustrating, but I think it’s the sort of thing that can be overcome. These people have no idea what they’re talking about.

Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 18h

I’m so happy that Jamelle Bouie, with his 696.3K followers, has become one of us. Breaking containment and getting the word out to the masses is how change happens.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

would you like to live multi-modally?

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 18h

Really? I didn’t know.

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

Really? It’s a pleasure to meet you, blurry figure!

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

Sigourney Weaver on the set of Call Jane (2022)

#BicycleBirthday
Born October 8, 1949

Photo of a woman walking with a bicycle.

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