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August 17, 2009

Vintage bicycle posters add spirit to your hobby and beautify your house.

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You might enjoy shopping for vintage bicycle posters whether you are fascinated with old bicycles or you just like art posters generally. Vintage bicycle posters have something to offer everyone. There are many of these posters available for shoppers online .

Vintage bicycle posters are engaging. Also they are a great deal in art. As an example, you can get a skill poster of a Henri De Toulouse Lautrec lithograph for less than $130. This is a vintage cycle poster called La Chaine Simpson. It includes a group of cyclists wearing bold blues and yellows.

There are also many vintage cycle posters that announce their year of turn out. One is the 1943 Vuelta Ciclista a Cataluna. This poster shows the front half bicycle that has hand brakes, with 2 goggles hanging over the handlebars. A cap is also positioned on the front of the bike. Look for vintage bicycle posters for sale online.

Some of the vintage cycle posters are sleek in their design. One shows two men riding, one bigger in the foreground and one smaller in the background. They are racing around a curved white track. This is the Velodromo Comunale Vigorelli 1935.

Other vintage bicycle posters are way more delicate in their depictions of folk and bicycles. The Cycles Sirius, by Henri grey, shows a girl on a bicycle with her hair and some streamers flowing over and partially covering her undressed body. A star is shining in her hand, and the cycle is pointed up towards the heavens.

There are many similar vintage bicycle posters. One is Cycles Brillant, Exposition Universelle de 1900. This poster shows a cycle at the pinnacle of the poster, with a brilliant light shining behind and through it. 2 blond angels are swooning over it in the right foreground.  Aumon is an engaging poster. It is one of the most bizarre vintage cycle posters. It outlines a thin man in a suit and spats riding a bike. There are wings on his wheels and his hat is flying off of his head. A little white dog is running alongside the back wheel. The man has an amused grin on his face.

Some vintage bike posters were put out for a specific event. The 1954 Cycling Peace Race, Warsaw, Prague, Berlin, was such a poster. It shows two athletic-looking cyclists racing towards the front. A gang and high flying flags appear tiny in the background.

Some vintage cycle posters were meant for straightforward announcement. The Simplex cycle poster of 1915, from Amsterdam Holland, simply gave information about the directions of the cycle. It shows a normal man from behind as he rides away down the street.  Discount vintage bicycle posters can be found on e-bay and other online retailers.

If you do not know foreign languages, you might want to get someone who does to interpret the foreign words for you before you buy vintage bicycle posters. You may wish to know what you are hanging on the wall. Besides, it is an engaging conversation-starter if you can tell people what the poster says. Vintage bike posters are not only interesting, they are also beautiful and a cheap art form.

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