How do you know you live in a bike city? Look at the t-shirts
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on July 11th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Lots of people, lots of bike t-shirts.
(Photos © J. Maus)
(Photos © J. Maus)
How do you know you live in a bike city? One of the many ways is to look at the inspiration behind the objects created by people who live there. In the case of Portland, many local arts, crafts and products are inspired by bicycles (that's what spurred me to do BikeCraft years ago).
Case in point was the Mississippi Street Fair on Saturday.
As I walked the busting street (it was packed!), I couldn't help but notice the number of bike t-shirts being sold by vendors. Check out the selection below (keep in mind, this wasn't even a bike-specific event. It just exemplifies the extent that bicycles permeate Portland culture)...
This one completes the difficult "Portlandia Double" maneuver with a bike and birds on it.
We like to start 'em young around here.
A nice play on "Keep Portland Weird."
Moustaches are so hot right now.
Wish we could have done this on the Portland sign near the Burnside Bridge.
My favorite... inspired by Portland's bike lane characters!
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Great shirts! If we weren't able to attend where could one go to purchase such a shirt?
RecommendedYah, a lot of those shirts are by kidcomet...
Recommendedgreat shirts! I tried to make it but got delayed by toddler time zone...
RecommendedWant a shirt that has a cartoon of PDX's streotypical fixie hipster with the words:
"I was riding fixed gear in Portland
Before anyone invented the wheel"
Hopefully it would popular enough to make fixies mainstream thus finally crushing their hipster cred.
RecommendedFixies became mainstream when Wal-Mart started to sell them for under $200: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Mongoose-Detain-700cc-Men-s-Street-Bike/15711162
RecommendedAlready done, q'Tzal: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cTq3yqFK77A/ThrgfO7mTLI/AAAAAAAAVLU/_d_i6HgLgLI/s1600/Walmart.com_%2BCycle%2BForce%2BTour%2Bde%2BFrance%2BStage%2BOne%2BVintage%2BRed%2B51cm%2BFixed%2BGear%2BBicycle_%2BBikes%2B%2526%2BRiding%2BToys.jpg
Pre-flop & chopped and everything!
RecommendedHa, beat me to it!
RecommendedIn PDX & NYC perhaps fixies are past the point of being a hipster accoutrement but in the rest of bike hatin' Murica the average joe isn't even aware of what a fixie and just sees a bike with no extras at all that costs too much for what Mall-Wart usually charges for an equivalently size bike.
Once everyone is aware of the hipster sheen of elite coolness of the fixie they will have some socially positive archetype to aim for in the bicycle scene nationwide.
RecommendedOnce that jumps the shark bicycles will be mainstream; sooner rather than later.
I never got the mustache and bike thing. it's so 2010. Maybe the first half of 2011. But its over. Do you hear me? OVER!
RecommendedTell that to all the dudes I saw at Bunk Bar the other week, I think they missed the memo.
RecommendedI vote for "Keep Portland Geared". Hope it was copy-lefted.
Recommendedthe bike lane shirt and the other organic one's are Kid Comet, she is my sister in law, we own a bunch of her shirts and love 'em. try here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kid-Comet/211912998822847
Recommendedbetter kid comet link for the non-facebook crowd: http://kidcometorganic.com/
RecommendedWhere can I get the "Buckcycle" shirt. That's freaking awesome!
RecommendedThe "Buckcycle" image is on display in one of the Everett Street Loft galleries, in the middle of the block on the Everett side.
"Put a bike on it" is the (not so new) "Put a bird on it". New Seasons has bikes on everything too - coasters, aprons, tote-bags, purses, note books, lunch boxes....
RecommendedThanks for the lead Roger.
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