I think we can get a good thread going here. Do you know any others? - ThreadSky

coolbikeart1.bsky.social • 50 days ago

I think we can get a good thread going here. Do you know any others?

Can we twin cities that feature bikes in statues?
We could start with Cork and Oslo: Michael Collins and Gunnar Sønsteby.
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chairrdrf.bsky.social•49 days ago

There are three I know about of Eddy Merckx, but none actually in a "city" as such.

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•49 days ago

I think that's ok. Got any pics?

chairrdrf.bsky.social•49 days ago

This is the really ugly one of him on the Cote de Stockeu climb in the L:iege-Bastogne-Liege race he dominated.

https://www.ardennes-etape.co.uk/experience/news/eddy-merckx-ardennes-pure-happiness

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chairrdrf.bsky.social•49 days ago

This is in Tielt Winge, near Leuven https://www.imago-images.com/sp/0020347112

chairrdrf.bsky.social•49 days ago

This is in Brussels (Place du Cannibale - he was called "The Cannibal") but it's a monument as opposed to a statue https://www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/venue-details.Place-du-Cannibale.278349

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•49 days ago

I would call that a statue at the top

kevob777.bsky.social•50 days ago

Spotted in Berlin years ago. By artist Xu Hongfei.

signsthereading.bsky.social•50 days ago

An offering from Galway Bay - Kinvara

A spin on 'A Woman Needs A Man Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txlSUvAqSk4

rogerha.bsky.social•50 days ago

There's another in Purfleet, Essex
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_House,_Purfleet#High_House_Production_Park

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•50 days ago

Nice!

langzamefiets.bsky.social•50 days ago

Edward Elgar in Hereford.
Not my photo.

jurajmikurcik.bsky.social•50 days ago

Elgar in Hereford

voilakevin.bsky.social•49 days ago

Jack's got your back, Toronto

cycleoptic.bsky.social•48 days ago

Tour de France Art work at motorway stop by Pyrenees

jollytunes.bsky.social•50 days ago

Not 'that' kind of bike but there is a statue of George Formby Jr. in biker gear on Douglas, Isle of Man. #GeorgeFormby #ukulele https://www.flickr.com/photos/omniglot/7609775438/

gboulton.bsky.social•50 days ago

This one in Voorburg (in The Hague)

gboulton.bsky.social•50 days ago

Adinkerke in Belgium (sorry, the Brompton got in the way)

rogerha.bsky.social•50 days ago

Hereford: Edward Elgar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford#Music

rogerha.bsky.social•50 days ago

Lots of others in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_of_cyclists and its subcategories

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•50 days ago

The ”Tour de France in the Pyrenees” between Tarbes and Pau, France

Artist: Jean-Bernard Metais

andymawby.bsky.social•49 days ago

Surely doing TdF related statues not in cities makes this too easy!

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•49 days ago

Good point

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•50 days ago

Old Marych, a character from old Poznań literature, in Poznań, Poland.

nataliabarbour.bsky.social•50 days ago

Ahhh, Stary Marych brings my so many memories.

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•50 days ago

I learned about him from you, so tip o' the hat to you 🎩

nataliabarbour.bsky.social•50 days ago

What a privilege to be able to make Stary Marych internet famous:)

coolbikeart1.bsky.social•50 days ago

You have served your hometown and your strange regional dialect well 😀

nataliabarbour.bsky.social•50 days ago

Strange regional dialect? 😂 the best compliment Poznań metro area could ever receive!

skybluebrunty.bsky.social•50 days ago

There's a statue of world record breaking cyclist Eileen Sheridan on the new "Lias Line" Greenway in Warwickshire in the UK, alongside fellow Coventry sporting legend Dave Moorcroft.