Foo - universal bike symbol

I've been thinking about this for the last week while I've been working, wanna find a symbol to use for some "art", I just want people's suggestions on something that they would consider to be a symbol of cycling, it can be personally made, or just something they like, that they've seen.

Just something that to them says "cycling".

http://emresaglam.com/blog/images/zerobike.jpg

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/401438/2/istockphoto_401438_bicycle_logos.jpg

http://www.athletegift.com/images/chamoisbutternew.jpg

wait...no

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/thingstodo/thb-bikesign3.jpg

This says cycling to me more than any bicycle.

http://www.chocolatefoot.co.uk/media/wallpaper/800x600/CF_US_Singletrack.jpg

http://www.doug.moxley.com/oddities/bicycle_sign.jpg

http://www.pinedaleonline.com/thingstodo/thb-bikesign3.jpg

Australian version? :rolleyes:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/ritehsedad/bike-sign-1.jpg

Australian version? :rolleyes:
http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h250/ritehsedad/bike-sign-1.jpg

:lol:

:lol: +1

http://www.doug.moxley.com/oddities/bicycle_sign.jpg


Heh, that's Portland's universal bike symbol. :p

Heh, that's Portland's universal bike symbol. :p
No *****, happened to me yesterday :)

No *****, happened to me yesterday :)

:( You ok, I hope?

A chainring is a pretty univesal bike symbol to me

I was thinking more like something I could use as skin art. Or do you guys think a tat would ruin my boyishly sechiness?

Something like this.

http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/images/sports/bicycling.gif

or

http://www.muellercenter.rpi.edu/Woman-bicycling-1894-1.jpg

Chainring tat on your calf!!!!
http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/catimages/chainring.gif

I have one in mind. But my camera broke so I couldn't take a pic of it. I'll be bumping this thread in a few months next time I go to Holland to take a picture of it. :D

I was thinking more like something I could use as skin art. Or do you guys think a tat would ruin my boyishly sechiness?
Jon, you need a tatoo about as much as a Lincoln Town Car needs a luggage rack.

Signed,
Your Favorite Fuddy-Duddy

I was thinking more like something I could use as skin art.I think the image on the left of the late-1800s woman on the bike would make a neat tattoo. I don't know where, though.

Maybe the end of a crankarm with a pedal on the end coming out of each shoulderblade, like people do with angel wings?

Jon, you need a tatoo about as much as a Lincoln Town Car needs a luggage rack.

Signed,
Your Favorite Fuddy-Duddy
:lol: You're hilarious. Now go put on your wool jersey and get on that.... *sigh*... old paramount and go for a ride while we talk about new age things, like tattoos.

In all honestly I had something in mind like the monthly art that comes out on jenson. Something gnarly.

http://www.jensonusa.com/product/homepage/July%2010%202007_r1_c1.gif

Of course this is just an idea right now, not like I'm 100% for sure going to do it. Just want it to be something that represents me and means something

....maybe I should just have them color my back hot pink.

:( You ok, I hope?
Yes, thanks for asking.

I was pulling away from a stop sign and looking for oncoming traffic when my wheel got stuck.

Luckily both pedals unclipped and I landed on my feet.
Picked the bike up, checked it over and carried on my 30 mile ride.

Funny thing is almost the exact same thing happened today. :)

Chainring tat on your calf!!!!
http://www.microcosmpublishing.com/catimages/chainring.gif
You know, I'm semi-seriously considering getting something like that. Is that tacky? Am I trash now?

^ rock that tattoo

Something like a simple but abstractish drawing of a bike that had yin-yang symbols for wheels would be cool. If I had photoshop skills, I'd give a shot, but I don't.

You know, I'm semi-seriously considering getting something like that. Is that tacky? Am I trash now?
So cliche. :rolleyes:

I like Jon's, it shows originality.

what's jon's?

Have been playing around for years of putting on another tattoo - either tribal or bike related.

Googled some bike tats and found this, I rather like it!

http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2251d27098fdb00c225254684604a-320pi

I can't BELIEVE I want to get a tattoo now. I'm such a tramp!

http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2251d27098fdb00c225254684604a-320piThat will be so passé once radial-spoked wheels go out of style. :p

Stick with the tried and true (haw haw haw punny!), go 36-spoke three-cross!

You know, I'm semi-seriously considering getting something like that. Is that tacky? Am I trash now?I think it's a good kind of trash.

Maybe if I can successfully complete my attempted transformation into the athletic type (see sig) I will reward myself with something similar. I've gotta have a reward, 'cause I mean, self-improvement for its own sake is so not my style. :p


Something like a simple but abstractish drawing of a bike that had yin-yang symbols for wheels would be cool. If I had photoshop skills, I'd give a shot, but I don't. Oh, that's an interesting idea, too.

I think it's a good kind of trash.

Maybe if I can successfully complete my attempted transformation into the athletic type (see sig) I will reward myself with something similar. I've gotta have a reward, 'cause I mean, self-improvement for its own sake is so not my style. :p

Oh, that's an interesting idea, too.
whoa, twilight zone, get out of my head!

You could always go with a tramp stamp on your lower back Jon. I think that would be pretty fitting. ;)

Either that, or something like this.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/LowCel/alien.jpg

That will be so passé once radial-spoked wheels go out of style. :p

Stick with the tried and true (haw haw haw punny!), go 36-spoke three-cross!


"Tried & True" Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... ahh, I know!!!

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2561/flamingheartuw5.jpg

what's jon's?
http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/images/sports/bicycling.gif

Okay. That's it. My decision is leaning more and more towards a definite yes now. Yeesh, I never woulda thunk it.

I will, however, have to wait until the montage provides some fruits for my labour. No point getting a tat and then watching it warp from shrinkage :D

Either that, or something like this.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/LowCel/alien.jpg"Honey, can you please roll over? I can't sleep with those eyes staring at me. It's like they never blink. And take that gd little smirk off your face."

Okay. That's it. My decision is leaning more and more towards a definite yes now. Yeesh, I never woulda thunk it.

I will, however, have to wait until the montage provides some fruits for my labour. No point getting a tat and then watching it warp from shrinkage :Dthe montage...like Rocky 4, we're talking? Or is it just me that thinks how unfair it is that in movies it only takes them 4 minutes to get into fightin' shape, and they get a cool soundtrack, besides? ("Risin' up, straight to the top...")

http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/images/sports/bicycling.gif
If I did that as a tat, it would be small and like inside my ass crack where no one could see it.

I tried making a design for a tattoo...something like this...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a284/Taerom/bio.jpg

Biohazard symbol with a chainring/cog...maybe someone else could do a better job of drawing it. If I were to get a tattoo of it, I would put it right on the back of my right calf.

If I did that as a tat, it would be small and like inside my ass crack where no one could see it.
Just how big is your ass?

Pretty big, ask Siu. She can never seem to get out of it's downwind path.

the montage...like Rocky 4, we're talking? Or is it just me that thinks how unfair it is that in movies it only takes them 4 minutes to get into fightin' shape, and they get a cool soundtrack, besides? ("Risin' up, straight to the top...")
Yeah tell me about it. Sux dunnit?

But I do have a cool soundtrack. Well, I have a great stack of awesome energy dance music, and one which I have taken as my anthem for this, ahem, 4-minute workout :lol:

If you're familiar with Team America: World Police, then you've already experienced the greatest montage and montage song of all time

What is this montage of which youse speak?

Ok didn't mean to get this off topic, but foo it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8fua0g13djo

I'll use my 2nd favorite montage to explain.....KARATE KID!!

Your the best,...Around!!!

What is this montage of which youse speak?
South Park.

Think Rocky, Karate Kid, Kickboxer (crikey that was a bad one), that sort of stuff.
http://youtube/watch?v=iD_auX298fI

Seconded B Diddy - Team America: World Police. Great movie, awesome montage scene :lol:

"... gonna do a MONTAGE!"

I think my favourite must have been the one in Rocky IV. Ruskie dork with his fancy pants machines and Rocky the hard nut lifting stones and wrestling trees and eating mountains and *****. Kick ass.

This song sums it up nicely... http://youtube/watch?v=FVbMG_skOQk (the last song in that compilation)

Youtube has The Rocky montage...it was on the side next to the Karate Kid one posted above. I felt inspired to go jog through snowy creeks and buy an empty barn to workout in.

Luckily, cooler heads (my nine-year-old) prevailed.

Trivia: Did you know the lead singer from the band that did Eye of the Tiger is the same guy who sings on the Bud Light Real Men of Genius ads? "We salute you, Foam #1 Finger Maker..."