The bicycle is the most efficient machine man has ever developed.
This is my submission for this week’s Illustration Friday—the theme is “Bicycle.” I have done a ton of drawings about bicycles!.
View the rest of my submissions here: Illustration Friday Archive
A couple weeks ago Jamie (Print Brigade co-owner) and I spent a couple days in New Haven to film a little promo edit for some of the bike-centric Print Brigade shirts, including the I Love My Bike shirt (for the I Love My Bike book). The video consists of me cruising around the city, having fun on two of my bikes—All-City Dropout, fixed-gear and FBM Joint 2, BMX. Jamie worked some magic with the clips we got, check it out!
I Love My Bike from Jamie Murrett on Vimeo.
Go to PrintBrigade.BigCartel.com and use the promo code: FALL10 to receive 25% off your order!
Recently Milltag approached me to design a cycling jersey for their first collection. As an avid cyclist I jumped at this opportunity. Here’s a little more info about Milltag:
Milltag was born out of a passion for life in the saddle. The individual freedom that cycling provides is intoxicating, it’s the perfect synthesis of speed and ease, force and grace. On the bike you remove yourself from the world, it’s just you versus the tarmac or mud and all that mother nature can throw at you. But bike riding is about more than cogs and chainsets. The bike you ride and the jersey on your back says so much about who you are, or it should do. The technical quality of the lowly cycling jersey might have advanced since the woolen classics proudly worn by Anquetil, Merckx et al, but you can’t say the same for the designs that appear on them. All too often these days jerseys are either plastered with sponsors’ logos or banal designs indistinct from other generic sportswear. Well it’s our mission to change that. Our jerseys are designed by top class cycling enthusiasts from the art and design world. They share your love for the honest bicycle and know what it’s like to hit either the wall or the deck.
Each jersey in their first artist collection is highly limited—only 30 of each were produced! Head on over to the Milltag site and check them out!
My friends at Open Bicycle have been posting some wonderful photos on their blog—lots of them featuring the logo I designed for them. I decided to yoink some of them to post here! Their new space in Union Square is now up and running and looking excellent, the official grand opening is scheduled for sometime in July.
I first heard about this story on the Boston Biker blog. Here is a little background:
According to police reports, a 40-year-old Watertown man was cycling east on Commonwealth Avenue in the 2300 block at about 5:20 p.m. and a car driven by a 38-year-old Watertown woman was heading east as well. According to witnesses, including an off-duty Wayland police officer, the cyclist was wearing a helmet and was traveling in a straight line in the far right portion of the road.
The car unexpectedly swerved to the right, according to witnesses, and hit the cyclist, knocking him under the car. The woman reportedly attempted to back up with the cyclist still underneath. Several drivers pulled over and lifted the car off the cyclist so he could breathe, according to police reports.
The cyclist was treated at the scene by Newton firefighters and EMTs and was taken to Newton-Wellesley Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. After interviewing witnesses, police determined there was no improper operation and did not cite the driver
Lt. Bruce Apotheker felt “a reasonable and prudent person would not be expecting someone on their right.”
WHAT?! This is an absolutely crazy and dangerous statement. It is without a doubt a driver’s responsibility to look before turning—or doing anything for that matter. You can’t just run someone over and be like, “Oh whoops—I assumed no one would be in my way. I am just steering this 5000lb pile of metal at high speeds, I can’t be expected to check my surroundings!” Furthermore, if the driver shouldn’t expect a cyclist on the right—where they should be riding—where should they look?
