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Permalink Reply by Bikefreeek on December 2, 2012 at 6:48am

Are these the bike ninja's on the lakefront path? 

Permalink Reply by Will on December 2, 2012 at 9:32am

Only if they're carrying throwing stars.

Bikefreeek said:

Are these the bike ninja's on the lakefront path? 

Permalink Reply by bk (aka: Dr. Mambohead) on December 2, 2012 at 10:54am

Sheesh McKreesh... What next? I suppose I am going to hear I should not be goofed up on glue and nitrous? Worry warts!

Permalink Reply by Bikefreeek on December 3, 2012 at 9:59am


It's for sale if you look and click on the right sidebar...


h' said:

I love this graphic. Have never seen it before... what's the story behind it?

Bikefreeek said:

Are these the bike ninja's on the lakefront path? 

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on December 3, 2012 at 10:16am

Mike Valenti, who also designed the BBC Chainlink group logo, designed it.  The poster was going to be a raffle prize but it arrived at my house after I left for the party.  

It's an AWESOME 24 x 26 full size poster.   If anyone wants to see it I have one at my house.  He is giving back a portion of every poster he sells to our fundraising efforts!

Here is more of his beautiful bike artwork.

h' said:

I love this graphic. Have never seen it before... what's the story behind it?

Bikefreeek said:

Are these the bike ninja's on the lakefront path? 

Permalink Reply by dan brown on December 4, 2012 at 6:15am

fyi - I am pretty sure all the bikes shown in this (awesome) poster are equipped with head and tail lights.

they are probably so high-tech that they are nearly invisible (not ninja) to the naked/untrained eyes.

DB

Permalink Reply by Tricolor on December 4, 2012 at 6:56am

On the plus side, I think the cyclocross fad is fading for the year so there are fewer ninjas crossing on and off the LFP without warning or trying to pass on the right.

Permalink Reply by Bikefreeek on December 5, 2012 at 7:06am

I thought his eyes were the lights, they're lit up!

dan brown said:

fyi - I am pretty sure all the bikes shown in this (awesome) poster are equipped with head and tail lights.

they are probably so high-tech that they are nearly invisible (not ninja) to the naked/untrained eyes.

DB

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on December 5, 2012 at 7:11am

Mike The Veloist, can you fill us in on your inspiration for the poster?

h' said:

I love this graphic. Have never seen it before... what's the story behind it?

Bikefreeek said:

Are these the bike ninja's on the lakefront path? 

Permalink Reply by Mike the Veloist on December 5, 2012 at 8:04am

The story behind this poster started with the question-- how do I best represent theChainlink.org -- when they as a community represent so many different cyclists.

The resulting image portrays an urban landscape of shared space of hipsters, CX'ers, commuters and tall bike riders. While none of us like being labeled as cyclists (I'm a roadie) I needed to find some common visual language to get the diversity idea across.

As for the dusk like setting and brooding color--call me dramatic, I couldn't see doing a happy, happy color image for a city as gritty and powerful as Chicago. The weight of the color adds drama and interest, and to some even ninjas.

Permalink Reply by Will on December 5, 2012 at 9:04am

Mike, I think it's awesome.

Mike the Veloist said:

The story behind this poster started with the question-- how do I best represent theChainlink.org -- when they as a community represent so many different cyclists.

The resulting image portrays an urban landscape of shared space of hipsters, CX'ers, commuters and tall bike riders. While none of us like being labeled as cyclists (I'm a roadie) I needed to find some common visual language to get the diversity idea across.

As for the dusk like setting and brooding color--call me dramatic, I couldn't see doing a happy, happy color image for a city as gritty and powerful as Chicago. The weight of the color adds drama and interest, and to some even ninjas.

Permalink Reply by WillG on February 12, 2013 at 5:01am

Is this guy for real? Holland = The Netherlands.

Team h' 1.0 said:

Not sure what you're saying... that we don't have rush hour in Chicago? Or we don't have snow on the lakefront path? Or there's never snow during rush hour?  Anyway, the video is in Holland, not whatever country you said.

Will V. said:

Yeah, because four minutes of well-lit cycling in snow during rush hour in the Netherlands is representative of the Chicago lake front path. Completely.

h' said:

I'd say about 1/2 the people in this video don't have lights in use.  I wonder if they edited out all the crashes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMv3OB6XHvQ

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