Comments on: Bicycle Contrails

By: Jezebel

Jezebel — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:16:02 +0000

I think I’ve spotted this before on Neatorama- With the caption that it seems like a good way to make art.

If only I could remember where!

It’s supersweet anyhow.

By: Frau

Frau — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:00:57 +0000

I have an artsy alternative, that should not get you into trouble and will make your bicycle just as fun.
Send me 30 bucks and I will send you a kit that makes your bicycle sound like a motorbike.

By: Jigore

Jigore — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:28:41 +0000

When are we gonna see bidycle chemtrail!!!???!!

By: error404

error404 — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:57:49 +0000

Actually as a person who funded there way through art school by “screeving” AKA pavement drawing in chalk, I can tell you that in a lot of places pavement drawing is not allowed.

That is why you see the people with the huge bits of paper taped down to the pavements nowadays. They get into trouble if they don’t.

SO the bike contrail thing is absolutely destined to fall foul of the law.

Hell in Australia they seem to now want cyclists to have registration plates,insurance,road tax, and pass road worthy testing, so I think the days of carefree cycling are pretty much numbered.

By: snark

snark — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:14:08 +0000

And then it rains.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:59:09 +0000

http://www.portlandonline.com/leonard/index.cfm?a=199634&c=27435

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:58:08 +0000

Yeah, to think chalk would be an issue in PDX is actually hilarious. We’re done with it and worry about duct tape.

Portland rocks.

By: Peeves

Peeves — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:14:56 +0000

I can’t imagine it becoming so popular to be disruptive. It’s another thing to buy and restock on..I can’t imagine the chalk on that lasting more than a day..unless you can adjust it forward when it wears down. Even then, you’d have to reload it quite often..that’s a lot of revolutions.

By: Viola

Viola — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:10 +0000

That’s true, nosaukums, but I’m pretty sure that this could cause problems if over-used on, say, city streets where there isn’t much room to begin with.

By: nosaukums

nosaukums — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:34:39 +0000

Actually it is just chalk, there fore it is not a graffiti/illegal painting.
Chalk is allowed everywhere. Otherwise, lot of kids in the prison.

By: Flux

Flux — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:33:28 +0000

Cyclists are a far more awesome crowd than graffiti taggers…but that still doesn’t give them any more right to graffiti. Sorry guys, laws have to apply to everyone.

By: I C Poo

I C Poo — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:07:41 +0000

That’s Bike Poo. Totally Bicycle excrement, I tell yah!

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:57:54 +0000

I’m sure that in most overregulated Western countries this gadget will be considered highly illegal – ney, dare I say CRIMINAL!, just like graffity.

Cute idea! Bit like the trails that ants make vor eachother to food. The more ants go some trail, the stronger the tracks become, the more urgent more ants will follow it. Nice!