Cool Bikes from European Christmas Vacation 2011 - (1/1)

[kingfish254]

(EDIT - 1-1-2012) I finished posting all of the photos of cool bikes, cool motorcycles, and cool cars from our vacation. Look below for 5 separate posts for Stockholm, Copenhagen, Cesky-Krumlov, Prague, and Zurich. Happy New Year!

Hey guys (and gals). We are on vacation over in Europe for Christmas and I have seen some really cool bikes and vintage motorcycles and such. I may not get my photos posted until I get back home, but I thought I would share a cool bit tonight.

We are in Cesky-Krumlov, Czech Republic and we went to a cool restaurant that is in an old river mill. It also doubles as a bit of museum. That had some really cool old bicycles hanging from the first floor rafters in the dining hall. But the coolest was the vintage motorcycle collection upstairs.

Here is a link to their gallery. This should hold you over until I can post some photos.
http://www.krumlovskymlyn.cz/cz/museum/ ... otogalerie

We leave for Prague tomorrow. Last week we were in Stockholm, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark. I took a LOT of bike photos in Copenhagen. I think their bike culture was close to that of Amsterdam's (not quite, but still impressive).

 

[jalopyjimmy13]

Re: Bikes and such from European Christmas Vacation 2011

KOOL BIKES LOOKS LIKE IT WAS FUN THANX

 

[seadragon]

Re: Bikes and such from European Christmas Vacation 2011

Prague is nice but watch your pockets, plenty of pick-pockets out there, I know from experience.

Try some Absinthe in Prague too .

 

[kingfish254]

Stockholm, Sweden Bikes

Prague has been just a great as we remembered. No pickpockets got us. Great beer and I did try some Absinthe (and will post an Absintherie bike when I get home).

I decided to start tagging some of my photos.

Here are the bikes I saw in Stockholm. Mostly city bikes, but I did run across a cool Dyno that had been sitting with a flat for who knows how long.

Cool postal bike

City bikes

Cool dyno

 

[kingfish254]

Zurich, Switzerland Bikes, pedicab, and electric trike car

I saw this cool way the do the fenders in Copenhagen as well. It basically keeps a wheel from pulling a ladies skirt off.
I will probably use this idea on some future build.

Electric bike

City bikes including a couple of Elektras

Electric pedicab

I saw a few of these little electric trike cars

 

[KC so-cal]

Re: Bikes and such from European Christmas Vacation 2011 (12/29)

are the yellow three wheelers all pedal power or electric ?

 

[kingfish254]

Re: Bikes and such from European Christmas Vacation 2011 (12/29)

are the yellow three wheelers all pedal power or electric ?

All electric 3 wheels cars.

 

[KC so-cal]

Re: Bikes and such from European Christmas Vacation 2011 (12/29)

electric you say! too cool looks like a lot of fun, is it just for one person it looks that way?

 

[kingfish254]

Cesky-Krumlov Bikes cars and cool vintage motorcycles

Here are the photos of bikes and stuff I saw in Cesky-Krumlov, Czech Republic. Most of this goes along with the video link I posted to start this thread. They are from a restaurant that had a cool museum full of vintage motorcycles and bicycles.

This was from a different museum

These cool old cars were on the street and at a brewery

Bikes from the restaurant museum

Scooter with a springer fork

The awesome motorcycles

 

[Walker]

Re: Bikes and such from European Christmas Vacation 2011 (12/29)

thanks for posting up all the photos, I think i'm in love with the orange Jawa

 

[kingfish254]

Prague Bikes and Cool Cars

Prague Bikes and Cool Cars

Here are the cool cars I saw around Prague. Many of these were used as tour cars.

Here are the bikes. Check out the walnut slicing Absintherie bike. Very nce Felt too.

 

[kingfish254]

Copenhagen bikes. This city is bike crazy.

This city was swarming with bikes. I think I even read that more people commute with bikes than cars there now. Most were city bikes, but there was a cruiser here or there. There were also some cool cargo and people carrying bikes.

Wood grain fenders

Here is that cool rear fender skirt idea again

This guy saw me take a photo of his cool Crepes bike and told me to take one more with the back of his jacket - Bikes & Bites. You can see one of his other creations on Facebook (last photo)( https://www.facebook.com/ThePancakeComp ... ?sk=photos)

 

[aka_locojoe]

Re: Bikes and such from European Christmas Vacation 2011 (12/29)

Must have been a great vacation. Thanks for sharing the photos.