Originally Posted by
raster
Well, what I was thinking of were some bikes that seem to be designed to be looked at rather than ridden, and that being their primary function. Perhaps I didn't express it very well, but it hit me while looking through a blog where someone had photographed a whole bunch of very beautiful thought slightly overdone bikes as if they were sculptures. And it got me thinking.
**Originally Posted by RichPugh
A bike goes from a piece of art to a functional piece of machinery when you remove it from your wall and ride it.**
I think that's an extremely good point.
Thank you. That's my only point LOL. I have skateboard decks, on which Mark Gonzales has hand painted graphics and signed, hanging in my home as artwork. Right now, they are displayed as art. When I decide to bolt trucks to it and skate it, it's a functioning piece of machinery. All the while, it is still a skateboard.