I've seen a lot of different bike rack coverings - from bunting (my personal favorite) to black or blue Banjo fabric, to some weird tablecloth-like plastic, and even placards taped on in a futile attempt to cover the metallic gray expanses of welded piping. But somehow, the spray-painted variety has totally escaped my notice and my clearly limited and stunted imagination.
Today's lesson in decorative bike rack comes from J.Slider and Spicy, from a jaunt abroad in Beirut. Clearly, instead of leaving bike rack to be a cold silver, they jazz it up with some spray paint in the motif of their national flag. I mean, why didn't anyone think of this before? So simple. So patriotic.
Words totally fail me.
Which is rare. (And short-lived.)Anyway, you can see it being deployed here giving some color and cheer to an event with some heavy-duty military equipment in the background. It really makes the par-tay pop, don't you think? I think that home decorations dude with the extra H in his name from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Thom or something, would totally approve of the DIY-ness of the whole affair.
I give this bike rack THREE out of four bicycles - I'm withholding one star because the Lebanese could have gone the extra mile and put the tree on there too.**
** Although, let's face it - if and when I get ahold of my own piece of bike rack, and paint it in the manner of Old Glory, I may skip the whole fifty stars business. I mean, it's bike rack - it ain't going in the Smithsonian.
Yes, even though their bike rack was gorgeous, the 4 star generals and other military leadership didn't like it much when I placed it between them and the VP. Thus, everytime I went inside the adjacent building for something I returned to missing pieces. I eventually gave up, seeing as there were tanks, missle launchers and sniper rifles within their reach.
ReplyDeleteMan, you'd think they wanted to show off that excellent bike rack! Might have to take them down a bicycle rating or two for the disappearing act.
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