By now, calendars for the coming year have appeared in your local bookstores, stationery shops, department stores, pharmacies and other retailers.
I must confess that I am one of those people who doesn't pay for calendars. Or, at least, I don't pay regular price: If I buy any, I wait until the year has begun and they can be bought for next to nothing.
I've had a bicycle-themed calendar or two in my time. I might get one somewhere this year. With that in mind, I typed "bicycle calendars" in Google and found some that look very interesting:
This one from BIke EXIF-Cycle EXIF features a bike I'd like to see. Does that banded paint job continue throughout the rest of the frame? If so, does it continue in a blue-green theme, or does it transition to other hues?
(Seeing it made me think of a bike I rode for years and will write about in a future post. Stay tuned!)
Don't try this at home!:
I'll confess that I did: A couple of my old off-road riding buddies and I rode onto the trackbed less than a kilometer from last week's derailment in Spuyten Duivyl. And we missed an incoming Amtrak train by less than that!
Now here's one I'd really like:
I like anything that shows women in various modes of cycling, whether they're racing or commuting in skirts and heels--or doing something more whimsical. I'm not interested in the "bikes and babes" calendars I often saw int he shops in which I worked.
Then, of course, there's the Classic Bicycles calendar published by bicycle Quarterly:
I might get myself one--or a Mercian calendar.
I must confess that I am one of those people who doesn't pay for calendars. Or, at least, I don't pay regular price: If I buy any, I wait until the year has begun and they can be bought for next to nothing.
I've had a bicycle-themed calendar or two in my time. I might get one somewhere this year. With that in mind, I typed "bicycle calendars" in Google and found some that look very interesting:
This one from BIke EXIF-Cycle EXIF features a bike I'd like to see. Does that banded paint job continue throughout the rest of the frame? If so, does it continue in a blue-green theme, or does it transition to other hues?
(Seeing it made me think of a bike I rode for years and will write about in a future post. Stay tuned!)
Don't try this at home!:
I'll confess that I did: A couple of my old off-road riding buddies and I rode onto the trackbed less than a kilometer from last week's derailment in Spuyten Duivyl. And we missed an incoming Amtrak train by less than that!
Now here's one I'd really like:
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I like anything that shows women in various modes of cycling, whether they're racing or commuting in skirts and heels--or doing something more whimsical. I'm not interested in the "bikes and babes" calendars I often saw int he shops in which I worked.
Then, of course, there's the Classic Bicycles calendar published by bicycle Quarterly:
I might get myself one--or a Mercian calendar.
