Christmas has come early this year!
Mrs barakta's-mum has sent us a
2020 "Bike ART" calendar. Crammed full of stylised drawings of bicycles with distracting technical errors, weeks that start on a Sunday and leftpondian public holidays.
Highlights include:
-Moulton-esque bike with the chainset on the wrong side.
-Chicken onna bike with a backwards saddle and single disembodied crank.
-Technically accurate ISO standard mountain bike (complete with reflectors, disc brakes, dork disk and Presta valve) inna field of tulips in front of a windmill
[1].
-City bike with a structural chaincase
[2].
-Post bike with cranks that look like nikki OTP made some special modifications, and a rear wheel with an off-centre hub that isn't going to play well with the full mudguard.
Barakta has suggested that we explain this people-not-knowing-what-a-bicycle-looks-like phenomenon to her by analogy to anatomically incorrect skellingtons: Stylisation is fine, but once there's a certain level of realism, you need to not make glaring mistakes.
[1] I've just realised this is a real windmill in USAnia, and not the ironic take on Dutch cycling I assumed. Fine.
[2] Not in the Mike Burrows sense.