All the france photos

OK, I finally got all the photos from the france trip up online, some 250 photos mostly of bikes and the like. So if you want to see the hordes surf on over to:
Paris Bikes
Dijon Bikes
and then, if you are hungry or thirsty, you might like:
French Eats
all the photos under the umbrella:
France trip

Anyhoo, here are some appetizers of my somewhat obsessive streetside bike photography:







Lots of good 650b stuff seen all over.

Finland and Denmark Bikes

My good pal Laurita is still for the moment out there in Finland blogging about water treatment and occasionally posting great bike pictures. For this lazy post, I will steal a bunch of her pictures of bikes. If you want to learn more about water treatment techniques in developing countries or what it is might be like to live in Finland for a while, please check out her blog at finlandlaurita.blogspot.com. She uses science for unfettered good, and gets to use feces in her research! But without further ado, some photos that I stole from her. Click on any image for the source post.
Some sort of flower festooned crapped out bike in helsinki

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Front loader in copenhagen

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Excellent friend hauling in copenhagen

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A photo of laura at a great bike exhibit in a museum in Finland, check the rest of the post

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Motobecane Fever!

From corsica:

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Judging from the headbadge, this heavy duty mixte is newer, but no less stylish than the previous one.


It also was parked next to this excellent hand painted sign:

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I really like the editorial graffiti, BZZ!!?



From my arch nemesis jessica's back yard, a mere 1/4 mile from my house:



From the velo orange blog:

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More Corsica bikes

This is the only riding I did in corsica:

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Although I kind of wish I had a road bike as the mountains were filled with twisty one lane roads that went on for miles and miles.

Here is a forgettable example of the louison bobet marque.


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Corsica Bikes

Ajaccio is the largest city in corsica, as such it was rife with not only tourist places, but old man bars and coffee shops, boulangeries galore and other signs of a local population. I was hoping this meant that there would be lots of interesting bikes to look at. Sadly no. Most of the few visible commuters were riding crappy mountain bikes. There was a healthy roadie scene with a fair bit of vintage steel extant and a high end bike shop as well. Corsica is a mountainous riding paradise. The roads are twisty and go from sea level up to thousands of feet and apparently great MTB exists as well.

I only saw a few classic french city bikes, all mixties, most with nice rear panniers, most motobecanes with a few peugots thrown in for good measure.

Here is the best one I got on film:



Nice leather panniers and bonus points for riding with your kid.

Hauling Africa

My cousin went to Africa for a few weeks and among the many photos on Gwyneth's Flickr Page were the following nice photos:

Stonetown, Zanzibar, Tanzania market bike with fruit:

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In Stellenbosch, South Africa - near Capetown at the Muratie Vineyards:

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So not a bike but what the heck. Thanks Gwyneth.

Finland snow bikes!

No this is not my long awaited (by me) ride report on a solid week plus of commuting on Nokian Extreme (extreeeeeeme!) studded tires.

My former morning-meet-at-royal-coffee-and-then-ride-on-up-the-berkeley-hills-to-work-buddy Laura is off in Finland sampling poops for some sort of delicious poop flavored environmental study, possibly a craptacular study no less. She has a blog here: Finland Laurita. Good stuff.

I asked her to send me some good finland bike pics and she delivered with these.
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So surf on over to her blog and look to see how the finish apparently generate power: