Art - The Canvas

One More "One Less" Sticker

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Cyclists have long had a grip of “one less” stickers to adorn their bikes with—everything from the “One Less Car” classic to the post-hip “One Less Fixie.”  Now Lil Tuffy has made a crop of “One Less Techbus” stickers for some top tube levity in these boomtown times.

You can score some for yourself Sunday afternoon at Pop's (noon-5pm), and Tuffy plans to drop a few off at Bender's.  Word is they're going fast, but he's accepting donations so he can print another run of them.

ARTCRANK, the Poster Party for Bike People, is Tonight

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

ARTCRANK, the yearly bike poster sale and fundraiser, returns tonight at SOMArts on Brannan.  Here're the details:

Our fifth show in the Bay Area will feature hand-made, bike-inspired posters created by local artists. Limited edition, signed and numbered copies of all posters will be available for $40 each. Admission is free.

We’ll be working with Widmer Brothers Brewing, Clif Bar, Neenah Paper and SF's own Hot Italian to celebrate bikes and local artists, and support World Bicycle Relief.

The show runs from 5:30 'til 10:30, and you can score posters from over 30 artists (including the impressive Golden Gate Hub piece pictured above by Chad Kriz).

Behold the Mission's Sea-Sourced Fixed Gear Barnacle Bicycle

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Once upon the time, a widely-mocked sub-class of human known as “hipsters” were infesting the Mission with their fixed-gear bicycles.  They adorned their “fixies” with everything from stickers and spoke cards to colorful Aerospoke rims and anodized seatposts.  How quaint!

Eventually, the hipster scene was killed off by high rents and stepped-on coke, and their bicycles went away too.  But one local Mission artist is reviving the lost art of “custom builds” via a bike frame reclaimed from the Bay.

Chris Sollars of 667Shotwell explains how this gruesome shipwreck in the making came to be:

Fixed Gear 2013 is a barnacle-covered Motobecane bike frame, pulled from Mission Creek and rebuilt as working fixed gear bike with the help of the bicycle mechanics at Pedal Revolution.

He even provided a short video of a blond-haired seamonster riding it:

If you want to see this ride in person, it's on display at Steven Wolf Fine Arts through December 23rd.

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