Bicycle Prints and Cycling Poster Purchases - Tips for Creating A Bicycle Poster Collection

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Do You Fancy A Fabulous Cycling Poster Or Some Beautiful Bicycle Prints?

Bicycle Being Pushed by a Typical American Girl

College Girls on Bicycles Stopping to Chat with Cadets

To Relieve the Regular Forest Rangers These Girls on Bicycles Have a Fire Patrol

Bicycle Being Ridden by a Typical American Girl

Where to Buy Bicycle Prints ... Or A Cycling Poster?

Just like Vintage Bicycle Posters - there are loads of places where you can source great bicycle prints or posters, to decorate your walls at home or the office:

Buying Online

This saves a great deal of footwork in finding a bicycle print that you REALLY love. The choices are laid out before you and the range is huge.

Retail Shops

A lot of bricks and mortar retail shops sell bicycle posters ...bike shops, specialty-poster stores, newsagents, department stores, photographic supply shops etc.

Or Alternatively ...

If you really like the idea of supporting your local retailer - then you can always do your research for a particular bicycle print online, and then once you know the details ... have your shopkeeper order it in for you. Easy!

Starting A Bicycle Print Collection - Laying the Groundwork

Creating a collection of framed artworks - using your favourite bicycle prints - is really effective and can look SENSATIONAL!

Here are a few hints for putting together a bicycle print collection ...

You Will Need To Decide On:

A theme or particular photographer / artist, that you really love.
What level of print quality and / or exclusivity you looking for.
Where the collection will hang - all together or scattered about your home?
How many prints you will include in your collection.
What size you want them to be.
Which frames will suit your house and the artistic style of your prints/posters.
ie. - White walls look fabulous with framed black and white photographs - using a white matt and black frame.
Whether or not you need to see the physical cycling poster in-person before you buy - or if you happy enough to trust your instincts and buy sight unseen.

Once You Have Made These Decisions Then You Can:

Start doing your research.
Source your cycling posters / prints.
Begin to assemble your own unique bicycle print collection ...
Exciting hey!!

Specific Poster Collection Ideas

Vintage photographs capturing different people in different situations, times and places - with their bicycles . These are endlessly fascinating and great conversation pieces.
Your favourite athletes or professional races/events.
The evolution of the bicycle. (see our History of bicycles page to get some ideas).
Bicycles made during a certain period ie. 1950's bikes.
A particular artistic genre ie. Impressionist, Cubist etc.
Photos from around the globe in which bicycles are used in everyday life - for everyday purposes.
The choices are only limited by your imagination!

Different Bicycle Poster Styles

The range of cycling posters available, is massive and covers just about every concievable bike-related topic.

There is something for everyone ... Seriously!!

I have applied my thinking cap ... and a bit of research - and have come up with a list of all the different types and styles of bicycle posters that you can obtain. (well A LOT of them anyway!)

These Include:

Landscapes	Paintings	Patterns
Gorgeous scenic bicycle prints - featuring stunning landscapes.	Bicycle posters made from great original paintings.	A cycling poster using a artistically staged collection of bicycles can create AMAZING visual patterns.

Vintage Photographs	Adventure	Touring
Vintage bicycle prints featuring intriquing photographs taken from old historical archives.	Adventure shots of daring cyclists in the great outdoors.	Beautiful posters capturing a specific moment in a cyclist's journey.

Inspirational	Vintage Bicycle Posters	MTB
Bicycle prints that combine a terrific photograph with an inspirational message.	Stunning cycling posters from the early days of bicycle manufacturing, races and exhibitions.	This cycling poster featuring an MTB rider is only ONE of the fabulous images available in this category.

Action	Amazing Uses	Road Racing
Action shots - speak for themselves ...	I love this type of cycling poster. There are so many fascinating ways in which different nationalities use their bicycles.	There are countless, great road racing prints featuring from - the stars of cycling to your average Joe or Josephine.

Perspective	Tricks	Racing
Bike posters which capture the bicycles in motion - including the rider's viewpoint from the bike.	Anyone for a cycling poster of wicked BMX or MTB stunts and tricks?	Just about every style of cycling has a racing culture and there are bicycle posters showcasing, just about, every one of them.

Fantastical	Silhouettes	Iconic Places
Like the quirky, whimsy and delightful? Then this type of bicycle print is for you.	Images of cyclists and their bicycles shot in silhouette are extremely powerful.	Bicycle prints of famous or iconic places can create a great talking-point with friends and clients alike.

Urban	Global	Kids
The urban jungle, suprisingly enough, can be the setting for a terrific cycling poster.	There are fascinating bicycle prints with everyday scenes - taken from nations ALL around the globe. One of my favourite categories!	Choose a bicycle print staring a kid or an animals ... or both! (A photographer's worst nightmare!)

Road Signage	Artwork	Seasons
If you have a love of great signs then there are a numer of bicycle prints out there to uncover.	There are a multitude of talented artists creating bicycle posters using all different types of fine art medians.	Bike posters showing bicycles in all kinds of weather and conditions - snow, mist, mud, surf etc - are striking and make a charming collection theme.

Daring	Events	Athletes
Everyone knows of or has heard of some mad bas*#!d who is an adreneline junkie and can't help but take the most heartstopping rides. These bicycle posters document their exploits.	Famous Events - road races, triathlons, Olympic events, Tours, MTB, BMX, unicycle, competitions make for a visually exciting, cycling poster.	Professional cycling athletes - ie. Lance Armstrong - are always a popular choice for a bicycle print.

Movies	Modern	Components
Movie posters like The Bicycle Thief satisfy the film junkie's craving for a bike fix.	If your tastes run to cycling posters, featuring modern artwork designs, then you have a smallish cache of works to choose from.	Bike posters with Close Up views of the different bike components can be really striking ... especially with different isolated bike parts displayed together in the same bicycle print collection.

Humourous	Girls on Bicycles	Motion
Funny bicycle prints - Ha! ha! .	Girls on bicycles are always a big hit when it comes to cycling posters.	There are some amazing eye-catching, (or should I say eye-distorting), cycling posters available.

Old Bicycles	Brand Bicycles	Shadows of Bicycles
There are cycling prints of the old original bicycles which are simply intriquing.	Whatever your tastes run to in brand land and in whatever form of bicycle it takes - there are bicycle posters for you.	Like the silouette bicycle prints - the shadow photograph is also very artistic and rather striking.

Rustic	Sketches	Romantic
There are any number of quaint bicycle posters set in rustic and provincial European villages.	Cycling posters done in pencil, charcoal, ink and crayon.	Romanic and whimsy bicycle prints for the true romantic.

Stylized	Folksy	Community
Stylized artworks.	Cute folksy artworks.	Cycling posters that document wonderful community cycling events.

Tandems	Advertising	Cartoon
There are wonderful and charming posters of those beautiful bicycles built for two.	From vintage exhibits to modern day events there are bicycle posters to acquire.	Love your cartoon characters? Love bicycles? Then why not combine the two ...