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Urban Velo once again partnered with Spokepunchers to create cycling caps with the skyline of 9 major cycling cities. We chose most of them because of the number of readers from the area. Choices include:
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Philadelphia
Chicago
Toronto
Denver
Minneapolis
London
No Baltimore?, No DC?
What??? No option of your own hometown, Pittsburgh? Guess I won’t be buying one. ::: sad face :::
Every hat we’ve made so far has Pittsburgh on it. We figured it was time to share the love.
By the way, we actually had 10 each of 10 designs. We brought these to the Handmade Bicycle Show, and a woman from the Cherubim booth bought all 10 hats with the Tokyo skyline. The Chicago hats sold pretty well, too, so there are less than 10 of them available.
Damn it, Jeff, I need some Superdome in my life (and on my head).
You should continue making these and do a different set of cities every round. New Orleans has to be in round two or I’ll use my clout in the cycling community there to get everyone to remove UrbanVelo from their blog lists (the Louisiana corruption is rubbing off on me).
Please do Seattle!
You missed it by not having Portland and/or Seattle in the mix.
Boston? You have to be a cat-1 urban cyclocross racer to commute to work in this city.
c’mon, where’s austin?
Seattle wouldve been so easy! space needle and bam! there ya go.
Wow, it’s great to hear these grumblings… By that I mean, I’m happy to know people in other cities want them. We will work on it. Keep in mind, it does take a little time to do these simple designs, and it costs a pretty good amount of money to do short runs of lots of designs.
But before we do all that, we gotta file our taxes…
yeahhhh T.dot!
BOSTON! Historic, beautiful, challenging, and so much fun! I have ridden most of these cities and agree with your choices and understand the limitlessness of choices but to not have Boston in your top-ten… that’s just asking for someone in Boston to steal your skyline idea.
DC! I have 40 cycling hats hanging on my wall. I need one more!
Jeff, all you need to know is I have connections to the bike “gangs” in this city and I’ll make sure all those New Orleans skyline caps sell.
But seriously, around October some friends are going to be hosting a bike polo invitational (plus alley cat race if I have anything to do with it) and those would be really awesome prizes.
Flashroute, people have been stealing our ideas since we started. It won’t be anything new. But it is our logo, so hopefully people will respect that.
Portland, man. Bike capital of the nation.
Yeah Dave, no Baltimore? Then again, I’m not sure if we’re known for our skyline. A crab maybe?
Boston, Seattle and Portland all seem like pretty major oversights.
It is inevitable that when you pick only 10 out of thousands of cities across the world that some will be left out. That’s how the math works. In fact the vast majority of cities in the world where people have at one time or another enjoyed themselves on a bicycle have been left off of this list.
We’ve made shirts in the past featuring the Pittsburgh, Portland and Indianapolis skylines and will continue to spread the skyline love in the future.
Love these designs, especially Philly. What’s on the other side of the brims?
As a Bostonian, I was bummed at not finding us on the list. Then I thought, “Maybe it’s cause our skyline sucks.” It does. Suck. Just like our road, our drivers and often, our attitudes.
I think Boston is definitely the top candidate for a round two of skyline hats. I don’t get how the current cities were chosen? Simply notoriety of the city or for their actual scenes. Boston!
The other side of the brim has the Urban Velo logo, tilted and off to the side, with the skyline of the respective city skyline atop the words URBAN VELO.
I used our Google web stats to help determine the cities. Boston was pretty low on the list at that time. Portland and Seattle aren’t particularly huge sources of web traffic for us, though we would obviously like to change that.
We found we were surprisingly popular in Denver. SF and LA are our biggest markets overall. We chose Toronto and London because we get a lot of traffic from Canada and the UK. We weren’t huge in Tokyo, but just wanted to make a Tokyo hat.
Salt Lake City? Any chance?
No Boston hat… come on guys.
We have a ton of love for UV up here, kinda hoped you’d reciprocate.
you guys need to get Portland in there. Lots of bicyclists there!
berlin and copenhagen and amsterdam are the real bike cities, whats up? london, say what? bikes?
Boston… Oh, we love you, too. But love is hard to measure. Web traffic, on the other hand, is kind of easy. Not that it was the sole determining factor…
Although the numbers have changed since we ordered the hats back in December, the number of visits from the past month are still somewhat similar to what they were then: http://urbanvelo.org/where-our-web-traffic-comes-from-part-ii
Boston! I’m telling you, the city is about to become a legit biking city!
NYC shoulda had the towers.
no seattle? what the hell
It makes sense that you’re not getting hoards traffic from Portland, OR. We’ve already got bikeportland.org.
UrbanVelo is nice too.
Gotta do Boston my friends, the Bike Messenger Championships are here this summer.
You should include the top cycling cities, at the very least.
In terms of canadian cities, Montreal is missing, number 4 in North-America, but Toronto is there.
Again, Boston. As Dan pointed out, Messenger Championships.
The other side of the coin when it comes to web-traffic is where do you want more traffic from? A Boston hat would increase exposure from here and that’s a lot of college age bikers.
On second thought, there’s a few local hatmakers that would do a fine job…