... and trendies!

So bicycles are hip now, no one has missed that, have they? They are no longer simply means of transportation or sporting equipment, they are now trendy accessories. You can walk around with a bike frame in your hand but bike frames are kind of heavy. (Unless they're carbon, but then they're really not that cool to walk around with.) You can also roll it along slowly or just stand and kind of hang over it, like posers do. Preferably wearing a bicycle cap and/or some other cycling-associated clothing... Like this 1980's Adidas sweatshirt:

(We borrowed these pictures from Donny Fung's tumblr page. Hope that's OK!)

There's no doubt that this girl totally rocks this sweater, but... let's just say that our opinions about the sweater are mixed. Oh, and we're definitely not calling her a poser.

If you take your bicycle outside at least you're kind of using it. But then there are those who simply hang a bicycle on a wall, buy some bicycle-inspired interior decoration, posters... but not because they like bicycles and bicycling, just because it's trendy right now. This Monday our local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten had a full page about bicycle-inspired home furnishing in their housing supplement. And because Göteborgs-Posten usually acts like they hate bicyclists, never miss a chance to explain how horrible bicyclists are, how bicyclists take up space on the streets, are ruthless, hate cars (and Göteborgs-Posten loves cars) and so on... Because they act like that, we simply decided to steal some of their tips and publish them here. So here goes:

1. First of all we could mention that we're working on a blog post about storing your bicycle: How to store your bike, in style, part 2. (Part 1 here.) Göteborgs-Posten mentions two bicycle storing products. One which we will take up in that future blog post and Cycloc, which we mentioned in that old blog post. "Decorative even when you don't have your bicycle hung up." Ehm... No, it's not.

2. Then they mention Bruce Doscher's posters. They're actually really cool and not too expensive either. They're not the official posters from the races, though. Do a search on the internet for some super cool posters from the 1960's and 1970's. Or try this!

3. A miniature bike from Afro Art:

(We borrowed this picture from Afro Art. Hope that's OK!)

That one is really super cute. And that's it from us now.

Take care!