Awesome limited-edition cycling prints

Marc Evans, a freelance designer and illustrator based in the UK, has created an inspiring series of cycling related prints, each with an amazing quote by a cycling world great (or someone noteworthy just talkin' bikes). I saw these last night on Trackosaurus Rex and haven't stopped thinking about them since, especially the one above while I booked it across town on two wheels en route to a meeting over coffee. I was inspired to ride fast and it felt amazing. There are 5 prints in the series, available in A3 and A2 size in a limited edition of 50 each, signed and numbered by the artist. They cost £18 and £27 each and are available from TheFootDown, while supplies last of course. Bike people, don't sleep on this one. They are stupidly awesome.

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Anonymous

ohmygawd i crave them postahs
Anonymous

Wheres the Pantani Poster?
Anonymous

Don’t buy upgrades. Ride up grades.
– Eddy Merckx
glittertrash

I would like to seriously disagree with the statement “melancholy is incompatible with bicycling”. I find the two to be perfectly matched, in fact. Melancholy plus the European style of sedate, upright cycling along damp cobblestone streets is a match made in a poignant and depressing heaven.
- Anony Mouse
  
  Perhaps melancholy of the wistful, romantic type is possible – breath fogging on a chill autumn morning down by the canal, or wet cobbled streets; but real misery? Never!
EH

man, i used to love barbara kruger. used to.
Clayton

The idea is fine and all, but, in my opinion, from a design perspective these fail miserably.
Rayonic

I use a bike but I’m not part of the cycling cult. Does that make me a poser?
Promethean Sky

I hope not, cause I would be too. I don’t own a single pair of spandex shorts…
philipb

As a former coach & friend (who was also an ex-Irish champion & World Champion in the over 70′s age group) used to say when confronted with carbon fiber and unobtanium bikes & parts -

“If you want to go faster it’s simple. You have to turn the pedals faster”
Anonymous

@12
The shot from the police camera van on the side of the road is still one of my most treasured possessions
jamiethehutt

â€œBicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girlsâ€
- Bob Weir (guitarist for The Grateful Dead)
AllisonWunderland

In 1964 I purchased a Reynolds 531 tubing, all Campagnolo Record, Brooks saddle, Mafac brake FREJUS bike, NEW for $150 — back before unobtanium.
- beoba
  
  FYI: “What cost $150 in 1964 would cost $1026.48 in 2009.”
Xeni Jardin

My bike cost me TWO DIGITS.
- Felton / Moderator
  
  My bike cost me two limbs. ;-)
- bmcraec
  
  Two digits? As in numerals, or as in fingers and/or toes?
- Brainspore
  
  Were they your middle fingers? Because you only need those for driving.
kekko

Mmhh, I think I’ll vectorize a wheel on Photoshop and slap some Wikiquotes on it. Then I’ll print them and charge people 40$ apiece. Cause, you know, I need cheap money…
- The Mudshark
  
  HeÂ´d probably rather vectorize a wheel in Illustrator, but aside from that I agree. Simple Design can be great but this one seems pretty lazy.
apoxia

I wear jeans when I bike – with thermal pants underneath, beat that!
braininavat

Here are a few more, based on my own experience:
- Rain biking: Show up at work drenched!
- Winter biking: Walk your bike down hill!
- Just keep biking until the handle-bars snap off!
I spent twenty years bike commuting and only had to carry my bike home twice.
Anonymous

My favourite quote (from myself) is “Bike shops – I don’t cycle their bikes, they don’t service mine”. This comes after I heard some horror stories about some bike shops – not all – messing up and people’s brake blocks falling off going down hill.
Anonymous

For that sort of dough, I’d want some kerning and wtf is that hyphen before the quotee?
Colemanp

I cycle, so that I can eat carbs!
Anonymous

Fantastic!

But it needs at least one quote from everyone’s favorite hardcore cyclist, Jens Voight.

Perhaps: “Shut up body, and do what I tell you!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSokDsOwE1g
Boba Fett Diop

“As long as I breathe, I attack.”
-Bernard Hinault

“Get yourself a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.”
-Mark Twain

“I won! I won! I don’t have to go to school any more!”
-Eddy Merckx
wil9000

“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of schtupping Marilyn Monroe.” John F. Kennedy

Actually, I thought his severe back problems would have prevented him from riding a bicycle.

Then again, I would have also thought that his severe back problems would have prevented him from schtupping Marilyn Monroe.
- Ugly Canuck
  
  Ah, but would it have prevented her, from doing him?
  - Anonymous
    
    Ask not what JFK can do to Marilyn, ask what Marilyn can do to JFK…
Halloween Jack

“If you worried”? I’m guessing that Lance Armstrong has a better command of English than that.
Colemanp

I cycle, so that I can eat carbs!
Promethean Sky

I especially like the “It never gets easier, you just go faster,” one. There’s times (not often) I actually find myself breaking the speed limit. 30 in a 25 on a bike is one of my favorite traffic violations.
- Michael Smith
  
  84 in a 60 zone (km/h) is my record. On my current commute I occasionally hit 50 in 40 zones, because its safer to move with the flow and that is the speed other vehicles are moving at.
  
  The police academy here in Melbourne is at the top of a big, steep hill and you can go very fast with a strong wind coming from the south or west. Just don’t think about all those cops driving around the general area.
Anonymous

christ, what an asshole
thefootdown

Hi Sean,
Thanks for posting these, I really appreciate it :-)

Ty
The Foot Down
kridje

“Don’t stand on my dog or I cut your head off.”
-Cadel Evans