Show us your favorite bike poster art


Bicycle posters have a rich history, going back to the 1870’s.  Show us your favorite bicycle-related posters from then and now – what’s on your walls; the best you’ve ever seen; the poster you have to get.

 

Here is my example:

 

 

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Permalink Reply by igz on November 17, 2010 at 9:18am
nice.

just photoshop in the chicago skyline!
Permalink Reply by Holly on November 17, 2010 at 1:27pm
I could add to this discussion often (and probably will.) I'm a vintage clothing dealer and a bicyclist. I like this poster with the Oscar Wilde quote, "one should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

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Permalink Reply by Missy Hixon on November 17, 2010 at 6:32pm
What is ATA membership? That is such a cool map. Really nice!


Duppie said:
My own copy of the 1896 Chicago Bicycle Map, acquired as part of my ATA-membership renewal, framed (and now hanging in our den)

Permalink Reply by T.C. O'Rourke on November 17, 2010 at 8:48pm
Duppie, you should point out that this was a limited time offer and not extended to those renewing in 1897.

Back then ATA was known as "CBF"!



Duppie said:
My own copy of the 1896 Chicago Bicycle Map, acquired as part of my ATA-membership renewal, framed (and now hanging in our den)

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on November 18, 2010 at 2:46am
(w)Horology 101

The BIG HAND reads 0-59 -not 1-12...



H3N3 said:
2 7 11 1 10 . . . maybe that's a code to something important?

XV said:

Permalink Reply by Duppie on November 18, 2010 at 5:21am
done

T.C. O'Rourke said:
Duppie, you should point out that this was a limited time offer and not extended to those renewing in 1897.

Back then ATA was known as "CBF"!
Duppie said:
My own copy of the 1896 Chicago Bicycle Map, acquired as part of my ATA-membership renewal, framed (and now hanging in our den)
Permalink Reply by Duppie on November 18, 2010 at 5:29am
ATA = Active Transportation Alliance. I now understand that the preferred acronym is Active Trans. And yes, it was a limited time offer.

Missy Hixon said:
What is ATA membership? That is such a cool map. Really nice!
Duppie said:
My own copy of the 1896 Chicago Bicycle Map, acquired as part of my ATA-membership renewal, framed (and now hanging in our den)
Permalink Reply by Don P on November 18, 2010 at 6:04am
Duppie's 1896 map led me to look at Chicago cycling history from that period. Bicycles were as popular and ingrained into society then as the Internet is today.



This is a political poster from the Chicago 1897 mayoral election that put Carter H. Harrison II in office. As a frame of reference, the Loop El began operation the same year. Historical accounts indicate the poster was plastered all over the city. The image was also made into campaign buttons. The caption "Not the Champion Cyclist; but the Cyclist's Champion", caught the popular mood of the day. As a reward, he gave his supporters a bike path along Sheridan Road from Edgewater to Evanston.


The Harrison mayoral dynasty (both father and son) had a total of 10 terms as mayor; only the present-day Daleys come close to this record.

The poster may also prove that hipsters on fixies have a long history.
Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on November 18, 2010 at 6:08am
Did the Harrison Dynasty shoot itself in the foot also with a payday loan scam of selling 75 years of parking meter revenue to almost singularly fill a 1-year budget pothole -with very little else to show for it?



Don P said:
The Harrison mayoral dynasty (both father and son) had a total of 10 terms as mayor; only the present-day Daleys come close to this record.
Permalink Reply by Don P on November 18, 2010 at 6:34am
The Harrison mayoral dynasty incubated and encouraged the wholesale political corruption we still enjoy today. The infamous 1st Ward duo of "Hinky Dink" Kenna and "Bathhouse John" Coughlin were the prime supporters and vote-getters of the 1897 election. This duo also also invented the idea of "vote early, vote often" that gave us the machine we know today. Harrison Sr. allowed the rise of the 1st Ward duo 10 years prior, along with tolerance of the aldermatic "boodlers" that worked with Yerkes to bring us the Loop EL, and the West Side line.

Things change, but they remain the same.

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