Let’s Review: 60 Days, 30 Posts, 3 Favorites

It’s been just two months since I declared “The Summer of Juju” and started blogging on bikejuju more seriously. Thanks for joining me!

In those sixty days, I’ve posted about thirty posts – a lot of really fun stuff – and had about five thousand page views. Since I’ll be offline a bunch for the next week, on Mount Hood and then in Portland for a few days (Lyanda’s reading at Powell’s on Monday – stop by!), and since a lot of readers came late to the party, I thought I would post a quick recap of favorites.

First, my three favorite posts, that capture the spirit of where I want to take this blog (which is in the direction of more posts about bicycles in Africa and other places, bicycles as a tool for development and social entrepreneurship, and bicycle-related arts, crafts and creativity of all kinds):

1. The Bicycles of Ethiopia – Photos From a Bike-Obsessed Traveler
2. Beautiful Little Toy Bikes from Africa
3. Bike Arts Roundup (spray paint bike, brass knuckles bike, wood bike)

(Picking these three is a tough call – I also love the Grocery Getter, Yale-Vassar silliness, this amazing dreamy bike-in-flight photo, the 1952 freak bike, the upcycled innertube floggers, and my mom!)

Now your picks! Here are almost all my posts to date, in order of popularity (according to my stats):

• ‘Less gas, more ass’ at nude bike ride (A perennial winner – a handful of searchers looking for “nude bike rider” and its variants find the site and this post every single day. Hope this guy does not disappoint them!)
• The Bicycles of Ethiopia – Photos From a Bike-Obsessed Traveler
• My Mom Loves Her Trek Lime Three Speed
• Beautiful Little Toy Bikes from Africa
• Fremont Fair: More Naked Cyclists, and Bike Arts. De Libertas Quirkas
• Classic Schwinn Cruiser Fixie, I Covet Thee
• Naked Cyclists, A Blogger’s Best Friend
• Juju Compendium: Phat Hat, Emaciated Knickers Model, and Action Wipes Giveaway
• Awesome “Grocery Getter” Homebuilt Cargo Bike
• Bicycle Art: Innertube Floggers, Cuffs, Garter
• Bike Art Friday: Bicycle Wheel, by Marcel Duchamp
  
• Bicycling on Crow Planet
• Bike Arts Roundup
• BikeJuju Poughkeepsie: 1952 Yale-Vassar Bike Race
• The Dream of Cycle-Powered Flight
• Wonderful Stuff: A Juju Compendium
• The Ballard Chamber of Commerce are Losers. (And I am a Winner!)
• One-legged trick cyclist, 1921 style
• 1962 Schwinn Tiger
• Pic of the day: “Friends forever”
• Pic of the Day: “Tehran Bike Mechanic”
• 1952 Freak Bike
• Bike Art: “Duchamp Reloaded” by Ji Lee
• Pic of the Day: Shade Tree Mechanic, Africa
• Pic of the Day: Mountainbike UK
• Bicycle Artist: Taliah Lempert
• Bike Film Festival 2009
• Pic of the day: “Bike fail”

There is just NO WAY  Pic of the day: “Bike fail” deserves to be last, so let me close with it again. Am I really the only one that finds this image hilariously bizarre?