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Etsy Finds: I Love to Ride My Bicycle

2009-07-22T12:00:00-05:00

While the Tour de France continues to race on through the streets and mountains of France, I've become inspired to reconnect with my good old friend, Betty. That's my beautiful blue vintage Schwinn Challenger I used to ride everywhere back in the days when I lived in Philadelphia. For some reason, Betty didn't make it with me when I moved to Brooklyn over two years ago and I am on a mission to finally get back into bicycling.

What's even more exciting are the wide range of handmade and vintage items available on Etsy for every level of bicycle enthusiast. From bike themed t-shirts, to cycling caps and messenger bags, to clocks made out of actual bike parts, I encourage you to jump on this healthy and environmentally-friendly two-wheeled bandwagon.

v1980 Restored Univega Mixte

By bikeburrito, $3500.

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Bicycle Necklace Choose Your Color

By GenevieveGail, $30.

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pannier bicycle bag CUSTOM SIZES

By purpurin, $100.

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2 Bicycle Pint Glasses

By BreadandBadger, $28.

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Wall Clock - The Magic Green Bike

By Roadside, $35.

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Reclaimed Wool Cycling Cap -medium

By weststarland, $28.

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Biking is Good for You Ring

By windfall, $44.

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Swiss Army Bicycle Pannier Bag (Pair)

From shmattson, $95.

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Blue and white stripe cycling cap

By baroquemyworld, $16.

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bike bag ... the Balzac in Striped Linen

By HamboneDesigns, $20.

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The Way To Go Since 1817 Mens Tshirt

By Deadworry, $20.

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I Wheelie Like You Letterpress Card

By chewingthecud, $4.25.

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Recycled Bike Wheel Clock

By pixelthis, $109.

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Limited Edition Art Print

By hillarietasche, $15.

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soaring bird made with reused materials

By urchinbags, $72.

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Paper Mache bike 012

By mumbreeze, $20.

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Greg's LeMond

By bicyclepaintings, $1500.

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Hip Pouch in Stone Blue

By DNTX, $36.

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Famous Bicycle Built for Two in Red

By letterpress, $4.

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I Heart My Bike Necklace - Red

By tizzalicious, $13.50.

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Keep Calm and Ride On print

By pleasebestill, $22.50.

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vintage schwinn Messenger / Laptop Bag

By CraftieRobot, $20.

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Bike Portraits

By DanaGils, $60.

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Summer Citrus Childrens Bicycle Tank

By SparrowCollective, $14.

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Bicycle Carcass

By MaureenDuffy, $50.

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fresh linen recycled bike clock

By 1byliz, $40.

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Handmade bike inner tube journal

By palepink, $29.

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black carved bike mug

By LASdesigns, $20.

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Bike Fork Lamp in Blue

By Lampcycle, $145.

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I Heart My Bike - Fine art Print 8x10

By michelemaule, $20.

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Phrenology Helmet

By bellehelmets, $250.

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reversible bike and cherries pendant

By shopmarmalade, $55.

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Bike Legs Are Sexy

By MeltBrianna, $15.

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Bicycle Tire Belt - Mountain Bike Tread

By julienjaborska, $20.

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Bluebell hat

By Muluk, $30.

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Messenger Boy and Bike Ring

By donmoti, $95.

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250 Personalized Calling Cards

By KootiesCloset, $45.

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NEW Heavy Pedal

By SaltyandSweet, $30.

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Vote! WearableByDesign on her Victory Ride

2009-07-13T10:40:00-05:00

We asked our readers to nominate their favorite bike-themed items in the comments of this post. Out of all the competition, WearableByDesign with her Harley Chic necklace garnered the most votes. Gears are hot — there's no denying the Steampunk aesthetic that unites those fueled by gasoline with those powered by their own two feet. Congratulations, WearableByDesign! This impressive hand-carved piece is one-of-a-kind.

Look for the winner, along with some of the top picks, featured in the Members' Choice Gift Guide. If you have a biker or cyclist in your life, send them here!

Want to get involved in next week's round? We are looking for Etsy's best "Fresh Shops" — shops under three months old that are ripe for being discovered. Know of a new great shop that has few or no sales? Paste links to your nominations in the comments below.

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Vote! Which Bike Item is on a Roll?

2009-07-07T10:15:00-05:00

Do you have what it takes to pedal your way up the steep inclines of French mountains for days on end? Are you brave in the face of such challenges as peeing in your bike shorts because there's no time to stop, blisters where the sun don't shine, and leg cramps that feel like you're giving birth out of your calf muscles? Neither am I! But I bet you're up for the challenge of finding the best cycling-related item on Etsy, non?

This week the Etsy Voter pays tribute to the Tour de France and all the bikers in our community — be they pro cyclists, bike messengers, mountain bikers, or fair weather three-speeders. We asked our readers to nominate their favorite bicycle items last week. Now it's your turn to vote! On your mark...Get set...

Next Monday we'll announce the winner. No, the prize is not a yellow shirt. The winner and the top runners-up will be featured in the Members' Choice Gift Guides and here on the Etsy blog, so show your favorite sellers some love and get out the vote!

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Etsy Finds: Bike Spinning Wheel

2008-09-13T10:39:00-05:00

I just saw this wonderful spinning wheel — using a bike wheel! — by ford4him. My family has a sheep farm, and I once sheared a sheep, spun the wool (it was smelly), and knit a hat. Within a few days, I had lost it. Even though I miss that hat to this day, I think back on that time I spent sitting at a spinning wheel with fondness, as it's a mix of being very focused and very relaxed.

To spin wool, you have to set up the wheel and feed the wool while stepping on the pedal. You must also make sure you're holding the wool with just the right amount of tension. It takes a while, but it's something you definitely get better at with practice. Using a bicycle wheel seems like a brilliant idea: it's got bearings for smooth and efficient spinning. It also looks very modern!

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Etsy Finds: Ride your Bike

2008-05-16T08:00:00-05:00

Reading about National Bike to Work Day (it's today!) got me wondering what bicycle-themed items Etsy had to offer these days. Father's Day is fast approaching and I need to find some bike nerd gear for my baby daddy.

I'm posting this extra early this morning so you all have to time to pull your bike out of the garage, fix that flat you've been ignoring since October, dig your helmet out of the back of the closet and RIDE THAT BIKE TO WORK TODAY.

Thank you, that is all.

Love,
Anda

Sunny Day

So many bike caps are made from brown and grey and black wool and that's that. I love the summer colors in this one. By rayzorsharp, $25.

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la bicicletta shoulder bag

I missed this sweet tote when I wrote about pleated bags a few days ago. By katedurkin, $62.

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LIGHTNING BRIGHT hoodie vest

Stay safe in traffic with the brightest hoodie vest in the world. Look at how it's reflecting off her arms in that picture!! No one will not see you in this. By builtinpittsburgh, $47.

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Softcover Bookplate - Tandem

Bike-themed bookplates by Etsy design fave unlesssomeonelikeyou, $10.

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womens rainbow bicycle T - medium

This shirt has been in my favorites for so long. Simple and cute and great for long springtime bike rides. By vital, $30.

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Recycled Inner Tube Belt

Back home in Richmond, kids I knew were always making themselves belts from spent bike tires. Apparently the tubes work well in a pinch, too. Belt by CyclonaDesigns, $19.

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Girl's Ride Bicycle Seat Bag

Need a chic way to carry your small things on your ride? Pouch by dogwoodlane, $18.

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Breeze Wheel - 4 note card set

I love the whole concept of this shop. The name says it all: bicyclepaintings, $6.

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Recycle Swarovski Bike Bell

It's a crystal-encrusted bicycle bell. Amazing. sparkledawne, $49.99.

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National Bike to Work Day: May 16, 2008

2008-05-14T18:49:00-05:00

Here in New York we've been having an unfortunate spring, as the past few weeks have brought us some yucky rain and surprisingly chilly temperatures. Note the discarded, busted umbrellas in the wind tunnel near the Etsy Labs:
However, we're closing in on the outdoor season and the bikes are getting pulled out of their winter hibernation.

May has been declared National Bike Month, and thanks to the League of American Bicyclists, the third Friday in May (this Friday, May 16!) has been National Bike to Work Day since 1956. Lots of major cities have events planned for Friday and the rest of the month, so if you're here in NYC with us, check out the Bike Month NYC site, or search online to see what's going on near you. So rain or shine, be ready to get on your bike and ride!

P.S. Plus, we can use the break from the gas prices...
P.P.S. Someone should invent a biodegradable umbrella...

Get ready for bike season by bringing out your bike this Friday. Here's to National Bike to Work Day!

Portland Custom Bike Culture

2008-04-25T15:21:00-05:00

Bike culture in Portland is maybe the awesomest in the country! (Care to debate? Let it be known in the comments below!)

We found this video on Youtube about a custom bike exhibit at the Portland airport and we were really excited to learn about Sweetpea Bikes, one of the only two female-run custom bike shops for women in the US.

Do you have a custom bike? Let us know in the comments below!

Spring Biking

2008-04-24T16:43:00-05:00

There's nothing quite like getting the ol' bike out after a long winter's rest. I know that mine is currently sitting with a flat tire in the deserted hallway of my building, despondent at being so useless for many months. (Yes, my bike has a personality.) However, I'm going to fix her up, and get out there to enjoy the fine weather with all the other bike people.

Before I go hit the road, I might want to get some thematic gear. There's so much bike related artwork, clothing and jewelry (as well as accessories!) that you can find just about anything.

(Also, how can we find people who make custom bikes and parts? We want them to sell on Etsy!)

Get out there and enjoy the weather! And tell your bike building friends to get on Etsy!

Handmade Weddings: A Last-Minute Article about My Last-Minute Wedding

2008-04-11T14:20:00-05:00

One last real wedding to sneak into the Handmade Wedding Series!

We were married last September in Virginia but procrastinated almost everything until maybe a month beforehand. Together we were working about 10,000 hours a week at Etsy and I was wearily navigating my way through the first trimester of pregnancy.

Inwardly, I was positive that if I ignored planning my wedding hard enough, a wedding fairy godmother would swoop down in a magical monsoon of glitter shimmer tulle and take care of everything for us somehow.

That actually did not happen. But, I am here to tell you that it is okay to have a wedding by the total seat of your pants. A really great wedding, even.

This is my husband, Peter. He also works for Etsy.

Like any little girl, I had always vaguely daydreamed of what my my wedding dress would someday look like. I did not daydream myself five and 1/2 months pregnant, however. We had gotten engaged in January and then just became a little too impatient. So, I designed and made my own super beautiful knocked-up wedding dress with a ton of help from Beni of Burdastyle. When I say "help" I actually mean that she sewed the entire dress for me while I whined about how difficult it all was. I have a phobia of sewing patterns and hadn't even attempted to make anything from one since Girl Scouts in 1986. It was a totally harrowing and last-minute experience and I actually used a stapler to hem it and handsewed the snaps in our hotel room the morning before the ceremony, but it cost me $80 and I still sort of resembled the ballerina princess fairy I knew I was inside.

Burdastyle is this clever website where you can download and print patterns and get sewing help and all kinds of other essential things for making your own fashion. Had Alchemy been around on Etsy last year I probably would have gone down that road and saved poor Beni from having to deal with me, though. A dress that hides, yet accentuates, a baby bump is definitely a custom request.

We got married in the Japanese Garden of Maymont Park in Richmond, Virginia. Next to a waterfall. How ridiculous is that? The best part was I had never seen the place in my life and chose it on blind faith when the date was nearing and we had no location in mind. The week before the wedding I kept saying, Don't we need to get some flowers or something to, you know, decorate it?

And then when I finally saw it, it was like, Oh, duh, it's an insanely beautiful unicorniverse paradise already! Because it was outside next to a waterfall. Lesson learned: you can avoid the hassle of choosing flowers and stuff if you just hold the whole thing outdoors where it's lovely.

If you are trying to plan a wedding from five states away and not do anything except occasionally glance at the calendar and panic, then you'll definitely need a friend to coordinate it all for you. We had Almitra, who coordinates things for a living and was able to swiftly handle all of our crises. She found us a cake (made by a really sweet lady in central Virginia) and a caterer (an old friend of hers who owns a restaurant in Richmond) and a couple cases of champagne, all amidst me crying on the telephone about how tiredly pregnant I was and sending her IMs like PLS HELP EVERYTHING IS A SHAMBLES I AM CRYING.

Neither Pete nor I have a family minister or church and we were at a loss for an officiant who could legally marry us. Eventually we gave up on the legal part and convinced our friend Brooks to do the honors as he was "our most stately friend" and we thought he could convincingly lead the ceremony.

We actually got legally married a month and a half later at the City Clerk Office here in Brooklyn. Friends, if you're crunched for time, take my advice and just fake it.

Pete wrote our vows the night before the rehearsal and I bobby-pinned them into a vintage copy of Treasure Island. We googled wedding vows and then added a really long Rilke quote to pad it. The ceremony still only was about two minutes long because we were all very nervous and spoke too fast.

But the best part of our wedding was the reception.

We held a reception at our friend's, well, cement lot in Southside Richmond. It's called The Bike Lot, and a bunch of folks we know rent garage space to work on bikes or mopeds or whatever else out there, they have a bunch of homemade ramps and the whole space is covered in beautiful graffiti. So we basically invited everyone we knew to come and have a big sweaty drunken dance party barbeque with us.

Everyone had a really great time. Pictured above on the left are Pete's sister and brother, in the latter stage of drunkeness.

My best friend Luke had pulled a wedding band together for me and managed a few superb covers of songs by Jawbreaker and the Misfits, among others. We had two other friends play records and our first dance was to Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship.

Etsy customer support expert Lori Weaver joined in with vocals at one point. I think this was a Gorilla Biscuits song.

And for days afterwards, Pete's motto was "If you can't skate at your own wedding, when can you skate?"

Here is the top of our melted cake. The cake toppers were a gift from Pete's mom and dad. They had accidentally dropped and broken the foot off the bride figurine at an antique shop, and had been forced by the shop owner to buy them. Pete's mom glued the foot back on and mailed them to us as a gag, but I sort of loved their weird Precious Momentsesque charm.

Our friends had decorated the Bike Lot with a zillion paper airplanes and not much else, which was totally sweet and beautiful. Someone had found a tandem bicycle and tied cans and such to the back, and at the end of the day we rode off together while everyone flung glitter and the contents of their cups at us. And we lived happily ever after. The end!

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Gift Ideas: Bike Buys!

2007-11-30T19:43:00-05:00

My dad gets car accessories for the holidays, but I'm on the other end of the vehicular spectrum. Cyclists are way too easy to shop for. If you're not getting us six packs of seasonal brews, perhaps go for a handmade bicycle themed gift. Who doesn't like the wind in their hair?! Get stoked.

Check out our bike inspired Treasury and give it some love!

Etsy Find: Custom Bicycle Headbadge

2007-11-28T01:27:00-05:00

One of my favorite parts of buying on Etsy is the conversations with the sellers and sometimes the ability to customize your purchase. One seller who offers customized items, headbadge, has combined her love of creating jewelry and her love of bikes to create these fun head badges for bicycles — made custom from a range of material choices.

I have a few bike-loving people on my holiday shopping list in mind for this one.