The Pininfarina Designed Bicycle

Sticking with the green theme of the last post, I came across this Pininfarina designed mock full suspension bike just sitting around on the streets of Stockholm the other day. That's right, just like the Bugatti bicycle I found last year in Lund, here we have another big brand name beingused on bicycles.

Unfortunately I was saw excited about seeing this (or desperate to get out of the rain) that I was shaking my camera with anticipation whilst taking these.

Is this a Pininfarina Bicycle? Well, no. These bikes seem to happen when Chinese bike factories are producing no name bikes and are a bit stuck for what stickers to attach to them. Just like the Bugatti bike below (or here for the full post), the bike manufacturer will put on a big name brand without much fear of reprisal from the lifted brand as the production might only last for one run or the difficulties in pursuing a trans-national intellectual property case are too great compared to the return.

Either way, sometimes you end up spotting some ratty Pininfarina pretend full sus'ser or a battered Bugatti in the bike rack, and I think that's pretty funny.

I see a red bike and I want to paint it... green.

An advertising bike I saw in Stockholm. I take it that it's green to attract people's attention, but whether that works beyond people who look at bikes for obscure blogs is rather unclear.

The light is rendered quite useless by the process.

The job done on the Monark badge reminds me of the pink King bicycle I saw ages and ages ago. Except a bit more thoroughly!
A strange fate for a bicycle.

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.

BKC Bicycle Company

Not the best logo ever, but I think it's improving with life in the wild.