I've been thinking about UncleKudzu's initative to put some leggs under a National Movement with this. What would better promote it than Tee Shirts as it's Tee Shirt weather everywhere now. Those of us riding these things should have a few Tee's with different designs that are eye catching and dynamic.
I did this one as a one off while ago just to see what it could look like. It's open source so anyone who wants to get this printed.......this is on ol' eDJ.
The Cuban flag is just eye-candy as most people won't recognize what nationality it represents. But I thought it nice to pay tribute to their resourcefulness and talent. Shurely motorized bikes weren't their invention but they've made a statement with their machines the world should be aware of.
I used to have some bicycle graphic cuts on CD to use so I'll have to go dig now. But I was thinking of "slogans" example: "why pour your paycheck in the SUV......RIQUIMBILI !" and making some replicas of the old travel stickers once stuck to suit cases by wayfaring travelers. These could have a Tropical Cuban flavor...which again in this season would be perfect. These would be printed to the Tee Shirt to display by a rider and once mainstream by anyone if the graphics are intriguing.
An obvious Tee would be the translation of RIQUIMBILI....Rick'n'billy. But I've learned not to underestimate the public when dealing with young people spotting tends. The back of the shirt could have a black silhouette in 3/4 view of a rider. I'm thinking of something in the spirit of the old 1920's Speedway riders....or course riding motorized bicycles instead of Indians or Harleys.
How's everyone's imagainations on this ? Empty your thoghts out on the table please. eDJ can make magic with them.
In the wildest reaches of my imagination this may snowball and be like the early 1960's when HONDA brought the little 50 to these shores and started an explosion. Today that would be done with Chinese/Japanese bike motor kits that just clamp on. For the more advanced of us...possibly converted large stringtrimmers adapted to this duty or perhaps a cottage industry of making adaptors there the
mechanic customer buys the adaptor as the kit and adapts his own stringtrimmer unit to make his own Riquimbili.
