Save a tree, decorate your bike
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Editor) on December 3rd, 2007 at 3:45 pm
“xmas bike” from felixpdx on Flickr.
I came across this photo while perusing my Flickr contacts today.
I’ve decorated my bike for rides before, but have never thought of doing this. Seems like a great idea to me.
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December 3rd, 2007 15:56
my old frame has been decorated (forgive the shabby cell phone pixelation):
December 3rd, 2007 15:56
er, here's a link: http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/mizake/marcelle.jpg
December 3rd, 2007 16:03
Awesome!
December 3rd, 2007 16:15
This makes me sooo happy. What a wonderful idea!
December 3rd, 2007 17:34
Brilliant, in more ways than one.
Now, how long before political correctness sets in? (Got your holiday bike up yet?)
December 3rd, 2007 18:42
A christmas bike is a great idea but it is not an ecological sound alternative.
Christmas trees come from farms not forests.
If we don't support the farmers they might be forced to sell off to condo developers with the next measure 37 fiasco.
December 3rd, 2007 19:29
If anyone is doing this kind of thing locally please post your contact info. I'm looking for someone who sells neon wire and does the soldering set-up for a 9V battery so I don't have to order the stuff from the SF Bay Area. Burners?
December 3rd, 2007 20:37
Lame.
December 3rd, 2007 21:23
Wow Ray, uhh, what if the farmers grew something else? Like food maybe? And how is it not more ecologically sound to decorate something that already exists, rather than purchase something grown explicitly for the purpose of standing in your living room for a month and then being thrown out?
December 3rd, 2007 21:59
IKEA has these LED Tree lights for $1.99 each(10 bulbs). The light set is powered by 2 AA batteries (included) with 60 hours burning time.
December 3rd, 2007 22:10
Awesome! Any bets on how many years until we have a giant one of THESE in Pioneer Courthouse Square at Xmas?! Portland, the City That Bikes!
December 3rd, 2007 22:37
I just found out about these, more spendy (and target - eww)but solar powered!
December 4th, 2007 05:06
Doesn't that make it a bit harder to ride?
December 4th, 2007 06:45
I like bikes as much as the next person, but me thinks this is a bit much. :P
December 4th, 2007 09:26
apparently this is not for everyone. just like christmas. and christmas trees.
December 4th, 2007 09:42
sweet!!!I grew up riding BMX everywhere..
I can see it know Tree Bikes Pop'n up on corners all over.. he he
December 4th, 2007 10:02
talk about see and be seen.
awesome job, felix and hannah!
December 4th, 2007 12:12
On a related note, you can get trees w/ the roots and soil which can be planted again after Thuh Holidays. I had expected to find info on the Friends of Trees website, maybe I'll call them later. Check out this company:
http://www.livingchristmastrees.org/
December 4th, 2007 13:03
Its a mini too!
ZOOBOMB!
felix
December 4th, 2007 14:12
joyce, I saw them too, but I also noted they said 'for indoor use only'. I was wondering if rain would get into the battery pack fairly easily and short it out (an experience many of us have had with Planet Bike lights...)
December 4th, 2007 18:25
anonymous #9,
Christmas tree farms are usualy small acerage. Not anywhere near large enough to make viable food production farms except at the local farmers market, which they may well be doing also.
My point is that tree farms are a green enterprise.
I mulch my tree when I am through with it. Will you mulch your x-mas bike?
December 4th, 2007 18:34
well, im still not ready to give up my christmas tree, but we *do* have a tree stand made of bike bits...
though if i came up with a "tree" made of bike parts... hmm...
December 4th, 2007 20:05
Sorry that I don't have pictures, but I have been riding on my neon wire decorated bike and fiber optic decorated clear plastic rain jacket for the past few weeks; mostly downtown and southeast.
December 6th, 2007 20:27
overall it's better to use what you have already than something you don't. this applies both to trees and bicycles.
for a long time my front porch light consisted of christmas lights wrapped around a wheel.