Which bike represents which neighborhood?

Bikes of San Francisco Poster

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 4:46am
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.
Permalink Reply by J on February 9, 2011 at 4:53am
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.
Permalink Reply by igz on February 9, 2011 at 4:56am

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

 

Permalink Reply by Moc Artsy on February 9, 2011 at 5:49am
Permalink Reply by Craig S. on February 9, 2011 at 6:23am

Interesting exercise.  

 

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

Permalink Reply by S on February 9, 2011 at 6:50am

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

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 9, 2011 at 1:13pm

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. 

Permalink Reply by S on February 9, 2011 at 3:08pm
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

Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on February 9, 2011 at 6:35pm

The Loop, River North, Wicker Park.

Humboldt Park/Rogers Park

Logan Square/WPB

Non-hip people may say Logan Sq and WPB have the same bikes!? not true look closely.

And the Wilmette/Evanston/Rogers Park to the Loop bike via the Lake shore path bike.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on February 9, 2011 at 8:40pm

These are great, guys. Keep 'em coming. 

 

Now I guess if no one else designs the poster, than I'll have to. And it won't look good. Maybe something like this (although this might represent the mayor's office, or O'Hare, where bikes are banned):

Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on February 10, 2011 at 2:28am
Woodlawn.
Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on February 10, 2011 at 6:10am
The bikes don't need to be literal representations...

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