The Bicycle Safari is back and brings you a snow bike

Ok, so I took a massive break over the 'holidays' without a post here at The Bicycle Safari, but now I'm back, hopefully with the usual blend of vintage, interesting and destroyed bicycles I find sitting around.

So in my usual Scandinavia hopping way, I was back in Stockholm, Sweden for the last week and thought I'd hunt down a few of the rad steel framed vintage beaters that I documented so extensively back in the early days of this Safari. But what I actually found was this...

... and when bicycles look like that, there's not much more to say really. Perhaps only that this is perhaps one of the most effective ways to lock up your bike, because I don't think anyone is going to bother to dig your bike out for you. Rust and crushed-by-snow-plough risks be damned!

Some where in this drift is a steel framed Mustang, gently crying.

Stockholm Special - Bianchi Beater

The Bicycle Safari is doing a lot of shifting around, travelling the globe, repositioning its cameras and general moving about at the moment. Today we come from the capital of Sweden, Stockholm where you can find a delightful range of old bikes, gracefully rotting away in the street.

Here's a fairly modern Bianchi city commuter.

Bianchi's one of my favourite bikes brands even if this isn't a stellar example of the breed.

"Foderi Forcella Bianchi Formula Columbus", no idea what it means, but no doubt someone will end up on this page after searching that phrase some time, so if you are that person, hello to you.