Description
✳️ High resolution vintage digital image
✳️ Heavyweight, lightly textured fine art paper
✳️ Fade resistant archival inks
✳️ Fits standard sized frame
✳️ Rolled and shipped in a heavy mailing tube
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Our Posters provide a glimpse of an era when the bicycle was the king of transportation and on the cutting edge of technology.
These posters depict famous races and racers, bicycle brands and component manufactures.
Beautiful women in elegant clothes are often part of the advertising message of these posters. This is because the manufacturers were selling freedom to women in the suffragette era at the turn of the century as much as they were selling bicycles.
*Two Wheel Trip, The American Magazine Of Bicycling. There were only two issues published, the premier issue and Vol 1 No 1, before production was ceased. This is the poster done for the premier issue. Reading through the magazines is a surreal look both back in time and forward to today—much has changed, but equally as much has apparently remained the same. While fashions are different, everything in those pages would go for big money in today’s boutiques. Between ads for locks and parts are full page insertions for air travel and wheat germ, all with the old school ’70s class you’d expect. Articles about frustrating thieves and struggle for the right to the road eerily echo the same concerns expressed today. While the fight for lanes and other cycling infrastructure was in it’s infancy when Two Wheel Trip was published, the arguments and hurdles are quite the same 40 years on.
*Description from urbanvelo.org
