Which bike represents which neighborhood?

So this exercise is simple. If someone in Chicago (could be you, could be me) was to create a Chicago-version of the above poster showing which bike "represents" specific neighborhoods, what bike would represent your neighborhood?

Instead of naming it, find a picture so we all know exactly what you're thinking!

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Permalink Reply by Tiberculosis on February 9, 2011 at 9:46am

Coming from a former San Franciscan, pretty spot on. Missing the lowrider bike though. Don't know if Chicago is gonna be so easy to pin.

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Permalink Reply by J on February 9, 2011 at 9:53am

Excelsior

Tiberculosis said:

Coming from a former San Franciscan, pretty spot on. Missing the lowrider bike though. Don't know if Chicago is gonna be so easy to pin.

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Permalink Reply by igz on February 9, 2011 at 9:56am

i see these locked up in west town but utilized in wriggleyville during the cubs season...

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Permalink Reply by Moc Artsy on February 9, 2011 at 10:49am

Bridgeport

http://oldtenspeedgallery.com/found-on-flickr/from-cheap-crappy-10-...

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Permalink Reply by Craig S. on February 9, 2011 at 11:23am

Interesting exercise.

I don't see any beer/wine/liquor holders on any of these bike symbols.

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Permalink Reply by S on February 9, 2011 at 11:50am

That's great, although I think a more British version of that would work even better. It'd fit in with the neo-gothic architecture and the environment at the U of C.

Jennifer said:

I vote Dean Boyer's utili-hybrid for Hyde Park:

http://thecore.uchicago.edu/springsummer09/marginalia-seen.shtml

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 9, 2011 at 6:13pm

I think the stripped bike would be a tie between the Loop and Wicker Park. The trike could be Logan Square or Beverly. A low rider would be Humboldt Park. I'd give the fixie to Wicker Park/Bucktown. I see enough folders in the Loop and River North, that they'd be my top choices for this particular bike. For a while I was seeing unicycles in Beverly - not so much in the last year.

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Permalink Reply by S on February 9, 2011 at 8:08pm

True, and it would be a nod to the contingent in hyde park that sport the souped up, light as possible race bikes of various sorts.

Jennifer said:

But the sportier American versions look less weird off-campus.

S said:

That's great, although I think a more British version of that would work even better. It'd fit in with the neo-gothic architecture and the environment at the U of C.

Jennifer said:

I vote Dean Boyer's utili-hybrid for Hyde Park:

http://thecore.uchicago.edu/springsummer09/marginalia-seen.shtml