G3CWI
Veteran
- Location
- Macclesfield
Please share your examples. I will kick off with this one in Macclesfield.
Badly Drawn Bikes
- Thread starter G3CWI
- Start date
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I often wondered why councils don't use stencils when painting those! The rough hand-painted ones always look awful, and must take twice as long to paint as spraying through a stencil... 
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
When I next go through Huddersfield I'll get a better photo of this one. It annoys me and there's a row of them on Colne Street:
If you're going to paint something at least know what it's supposed to look like beforehand
If you're going to paint something at least know what it's supposed to look like beforehand
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
matticus
Guru
If you people can't immediately tell what those signs mean, you should give me your bikes!
Bunch of OCD pedants ...
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Bunch of OCD pedants ...
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Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
On the upside, the bicycle is so iconic, even the really bad ones are instantly recognisable.
Mostly worn out now... but the bicycle paintings on the Lancaster to Morecambe path definitely showed improvement as you went along.
Mostly worn out now... but the bicycle paintings on the Lancaster to Morecambe path definitely showed improvement as you went along.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
they've done it before... most offerings on this thread will be done by first timers.
Twilkes
Guru
I thought the thread was going to be about this: https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/0...on-peoples-attempts-to-draw-them-from-memory/
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
It's a TT bike.When I next go through Huddersfield I'll get a better photo of this one. It annoys me and there's a row of them on Colne Street:
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If you're going to paint something at least know what it's supposed to look like beforehand
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
From time to time I have had to employ artists and graphic designers. One of the best instant tests to sort the wheat from the chaff is simply to hand them a paper and pencil and ask them to sketch you a bicycle from memory in not more than five minutes. Perhaps one in ten can draw something that would actually function. Presumably the others end up at the Department for Transport.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Yes, THEY DO EXIST!I often wondered why councils don't use stencils when painting those! The rough hand-painted ones always look awful, and must take twice as long to paint as spraying through a stencil...
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
One with the bars facing the wrong way, waiting to impale you at first opportunity *
My 16yo suggested he could do that and stick aero bars facing backwards on his track bike. That was until I got him to put them on and try ...
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Toe overlap on a mini bike in an Ipswich cycle lane.
It's since been repainted to look slightly more normal, but the lane is only around 2 feet wide!
It's since been repainted to look slightly more normal, but the lane is only around 2 feet wide!
