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Bike Sculptures in Takoma Park

Photos courtesy of LauraBarclay

From an email:

About reCYCLE The Art of Bike Project:
reCYCLE Art of Bike is sponsored by the non-profit Old Takoma Business Association and was designed to celebrate the art, bicycling and recycling cultures of Takoma Park. Artists were commissioned to build seven outdoor sculptures, using mostly bicycle parts, which will be installed along the sidewalks of Old Takoma (Takoma Junction, Maryland, to the Takoma Theatre, DC) to create a self-guided walking tour with the goal of attracting and engaging visitors and showcasing Old Takoma.

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Category: Bike, Sculpture, Takoma

By: Prince Of Petworth | 23 June 2011 11:00 AM | 17 Comments

JDC

trashy…i’d take small-time scrawling grafitti over these eyesores any day of the week….
Catchpa = RAPE????

June 23, 2011 at 11:57 am
- grumpy
  
  I’m sure the hippies think they’re “beautifying” the neighborhood.
  
  June 23, 2011 at 12:08 pm
d.

I love bikes but whenever people try to make “art” out of them it just looks like old junk… Face it people- there are some things in this world that just don’t make good art.

June 23, 2011 at 12:08 pm
SF

Sorry Takoma Park, but these suck.

June 23, 2011 at 12:11 pm
LisaT

We did two years in Takoma Park. Two years we’ll never get back.

June 23, 2011 at 12:11 pm
- Anonymous
  
  Ha! Better than my 3 years in Annandale, I’m sure.
  
  June 23, 2011 at 12:14 pm
  - LisaT
    
    No doubt. But you probably didn’t have to look at nearly as many Birkenstocks and Crocs. Or political yard signs. Or Subarus.
    
    June 23, 2011 at 12:20 pm
    - Anonymous
      
      No, just lots and lots of traffic and everything in Korean.
      
      June 23, 2011 at 12:25 pm
    - New
      
      You hated a place because of the clothes that people wore? And you think DC is less political than Takoma Park?
      
      How about the fact that Takoma Park has one of the best farmers markets in the DC area-and its year round.
      
      June 23, 2011 at 12:52 pm
      - LisaT
        
        I didn’t say I hated it. And I didn’t say I hated it because of clothes that people wore. And I didn’t say DC is less political than Takoma Park.
        
        How about the fact there’s a market there? Didn’t mention it.
        
        June 23, 2011 at 12:56 pm
- New
  
  So what did you mean by saying it is 2 years that you will never get back?
  
  June 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm
  - LisaT
    
    It wasn’t a good place for us to live. Takoma Park is an easy target to make fun of, mostly because it is representative of so many stereotypes–which we found to pretty accurate in the two years we were stuck there. At least we get some good laughs about it now.
    
    June 23, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Anonymous

The last one’s kinda cool but the others look really junky.

June 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm
ColumbiaHeights

I don’t want to be rude but I think these are pretty terrible. Esp the first one which is trash wired to a bike. If this was a temporary elementary school project, fine, but I can’t imagine one person walking past and saying, “Wow, look at the effort that went into designing that, I wish I could afford one for my front yard.”

June 23, 2011 at 3:11 pm
- ColumbiaHeights
  
  and it’s recycling, right? But won’t these end up in the trash anyway?
  
  June 23, 2011 at 3:13 pm
  - LisaT
    
    That’s the way Takoma Park rolls.
    
    June 23, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Bob See

Too bad those aren’t on h st they’d be lauded to the heavens

June 23, 2011 at 6:05 pm