Artsy and branded bike rack in Rio

To continue with the Brazil bike rack blitz this month, today's veritable feast for the eyes comes from S.Finke (also, a feast for the eyes....rawrrr or some other animal sound inserted here) from her recent jaunt to the party capital of the world. We've got a variety of beautiful pictures capturing both the late-night Rio de Janeiro scene AND bike rack, in tasteful sepia tones. Me likey.

And, we also have a shot of Mr. D.Teater here, doing his best Japanese girl impersonation, complete with peace fingers and head tilt, in front of what looks to be GIANT bike rack. That's not a visual trick, friends, that is just some very, very, very tall bike rack. What a beast it would be to move that. The bike rack, I mean, not Duncan. 

Next up: getting architectural and all fancy in front of what looks to be some government buildings - or at least an old and fancy palace of some sort. To fit the fancy nature, looks like Rio sprung for some custom white bike rack, complete with their own branding and pretty blue logo to match the blue domes. 

Here's what looks to be a variation on the theme - squared off edges instead of roundness; a little less rusted (I mean, hard to keep perfectly clean in all that humidity, no?) and gridded off lines. How exotic.

Pretty fabulous, I must say. Just missing a carnival girl in a thong and a headdress! THREE bicycles out of four.

Bike rack splendor in Brasilia

Waving flag of Brazil...puffy white clouds drifting by in a stunning blue sky...and custom-made Brazilian barricade in the foreground.

Can't get better than that! Spotted by The Giff on a recent jaunt through South America, this bike rack specimen shows off a version not seen before - bike rack icons!

I'm not really sure whether or not the icon is a specific graphic for Brasilia (capital of Brazil, for all of you who didn't play Where in the World is Carmen San Diego for hours at a time when some other stupid kid was bogarting the Oregon Trail disk); but it is a play on the circle-in-diamond motif on the national flag. Well, uh, played. (I can do better than that. Come back later.)

For hidden messages in steel barricade...(maybe I'm reading too much into it) - FOUR bicycles out of four.