Do You Fancy A Fabulous Cycling Poster Or Some Beautiful Bicycle Prints?
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!!
Different Bicycle Poster Styles
The range of cycling posters available is massive and covers just about every conceivable 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Vintage Photographs | Adventure | Touring |
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| 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. |
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| Inspirational | Vintage Bicycle Posters | MTB |
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| 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. |
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| Action | Amazing Uses | Road Racing |
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| 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. |
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| Perspective | Tricks | Racing |
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| 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. |
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| Fantastical | Silhouettes | Iconic Places |
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| 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. |
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| Urban | Global | Kids |
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| 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!) |
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| Road Signage | Artwork | Seasons |
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| 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. |
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| Daring | Events | Athletes |
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| 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. |
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| Movies | Modern | Components |
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| 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. |
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| Humourous | Girls on Bicycles | Motion |
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| 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. |
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| Old Bicycles | Brand Bicycles | Shadows of Bicycles |
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| 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. |
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| Rustic | Sketches | Romantic |
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| 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. |
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| Stylized | Folksy | Community |
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| Stylized artworks. | Cute folksy artworks. | Cycling posters that document wonderful community cycling events. |
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| Tandems | Advertising | Cartoon |
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| 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 … |
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