I came across a new print by Evan Hecox. Often, his screen prints have the power to bring back memories of personal travels & wonders. El Sol De Mexico reminded me of this sweet corn and crepes vendor I met, down in southern Mexico sometime ago. Enjoy!
(found via OMG posters)
previous Evan Hecox post [here]
I met this trio of road trip warriors this Friday. They had just crossed the Golden Gate bridge, finishing their trip of 2 weeks. They are form Vancouver and finished their trip here in San Francisco. That’s about 1500km/950 mi. Pretty cool.
They were in Portland, OR. Check out the purple-yellow Seattle to Portland ride throw-back retro jacket (far left). Off they went, looking for some food and beers. Sweet.
Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common.
Steve Hymos is a blogger over at the LA times. He interviewed blogesphere celebrity (in the cycle-chicness world) Mikael Colville-Andersen -aka- Zakkaliciousness in Flickr™ and his series of Cycle Chic and Copenhagenize which, have inspired a myriad of blogs, Flickr™ groups and people around the globe to ride a bike, relax and look good while at it. Mind you, Copenhagen & Europe are quite different in traffic structure than here in the US, but we can still look good trying, right?
He notes interesting facts and history from both cities, Los Angeles and Copenhagen:
“There is no part of the world where cycling is in greater favor than in Southern California, and nowhere on the American continent are conditions so favorable the year round for wheeling. -It’s from a 1897 newspaper article, back during Bicycle Culture 1.0 and back when 20% of all trips were made by bike in Los Angeles. Impressive stats and an impressive cycling history in L.A.”
Hundreds of thousands of cyclists on the roads. Ironically, the world’s most impressive separated bike path was built to connect Pasadena to Los Angeles in 1900. At that time 20% of all trips where made by bicycle in the Los Angeles region so the construction of the eight-mile Arroyo Seco Cycleway — an elevated, multilane, wooden bike path, complete with streetlights and gazebo turnouts -– was a given.
Copenhagen was a congested, polluted city in the 1960s and more and more cars were being bought.
Now, 40-odd years on, a progressive network of separated bicycle lanes blankets the city. Doctors, students, parents with kids in a cargo bike, lawyers and shop assistants are all apart of a pleasingly aesthetic flow of human-powered goodness. Fifty-six percent of Copenhageners say that they ride their bikes because it’s easy and fast.
Bicycles are normalized transport vehicles and they are the lifeblood of the city, not the domain of impenetrable subcultures with political leanings. With my Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog I try to show how my fellow citizens ride each day. In style, with ease and every day of the week.
click ‹HERE› for full article & to find out what these 3, have in common
LA TIMES /August 08, 2008/ Steve Hymon is The Times’ Road Sage. He covers traffic and transportation in a region united by a confounding network of freeways that frustrate drivers daily. The Bottleneck Blog is Steve’s website home, where he breaks transportation news, reports on traffic tie-ups and brings a critical but humorous eye to commuting in Southern California.
This AssociatePress article brings a positive light in the middle of all good/bad media that the 2008 Olympics and peripheral issues in China have brought to our ears & eyes. The article mentions quite the universal approach to any city, small town USA or 1.3 billion in China about cars, traffic jams, class division and the convenience of getting around in a bike (with or without cotton face mask)
The bike maker mentioned in the article has a website: ‘Shanghai Forever Bicycle Company’
from their catalog, “Traditional” bike category. Qué nice!
Shanghai Forever Co., Ltd was founded in 1940, and has established a world wide reputation for producing the Forever brand traditional bicycle, children bike, and mountain bike – one of the largest and best established bicycle companies in the world.
In 1993, the company was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange( A & B shares).
In 2001, the Zhong Lu Group, a pioneering enterprise run by local people gained control of FOREVEROREVER then extended its product scope to encompass green and environmental friendly products.
Now the company manufactures and distributes healthy and environmentally sound products such as traditional bicycle, mountain bike, folding bicycle, children bike, electric bicycle and their related parts. Additional recreational products include bowling equipment, automatic Mahjong table, and plastic surface materials.”
‹full› Associated Press Article here.
“Bicycles can help protect the environment. People need them for exercise,” he says. “The bicycle will never be obsolete. No matter how well developed the automobile and aircraft market grows, the bicycle still has its purpose.”
Wu Liqiang, manager for the host of a Shanghai TV show, agrees.
He vividly remembers his first bicycle, in the 1970s, a chic black Forever.
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“The feeling I had riding that bicycle was amazing. It was just about as cool as driving a Porsche would be now,” says Wu, now 50. “Girls were very glad to go out with me because they could sit on the back of my bicycle and enjoy the breeze and sunshine.”
He owns a bright-blue VW Polo but hardly ever drives it.
“The traffic’s getting worse and worse and you end up wasting hours on the road,” Wu says, adding, “The bicycle is still the best vehicle for China.”
He commutes to work by bicycle.
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