Gf wants to get me a tattoo for xmas...I want a bike related tattoo. Suggestions? These are kinda cool... http://www.blackbirdsf.org/chainwheels/
Bike tattoos?
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Ridemonkey logo on you somewhere?
Find a design then wait a year, if you still want it get it then.
I'm also planning to get one. I've seen a few good ones. A BMX pro has a crankset and sprocket on his back, that looks like it's coming out his back. I've also seen a few sprokets with flames and chains with flames.
I was thinking of a whole drivetrain wrapped around my leg... too expensive. Flaming chainring sounds cool.
The computer game?the Inbred said:
Very good advice...Westy said:
I got a section (arc if you're into geometry) of a front chainring on my right calf muscle on the inside as if I was standing with my bike and leaned the bike's gear into the side of my leg, ever do that? It leaves a cool gear print on your leg. Well I got that tattooed... It always looks like I just got done riding my bike.
Getting the same tat as someone else is dumb, in my not so humble opinion. So is getting Chinese letters, but that's a whole 'nother story.blue said:
If you don't listen to this man, you'll end up with stupid ink.Westy said:
It took me six months to finalize what I wanted. I'm having it finished on new years eve. 4 hours left.
Be VERY careful in what you choose, and make sure your right about your decision. Tattoos are not a fad, it stays with you for a lifetime.
Your choices are cool, and one on your calf would be kinda cool. hell, to be honest, that maybe one I get next year.
Here is the first half of mine. I call her "Angel of Redemption"
Be VERY careful in what you choose, and make sure your right about your decision. Tattoos are not a fad, it stays with you for a lifetime.
Your choices are cool, and one on your calf would be kinda cool. hell, to be honest, that maybe one I get next year.
Here is the first half of mine. I call her "Angel of Redemption"
Pretty cool stuff, although i was kind of thinking that some of the more "ornate" cogs look so fancy you can barely tell what they are.
You could do a brake rotor/ caliper. Chainrings would be cool. You could have the bashguard clear (and see the ring) or have a word on it.
You could have a chainring with a chain with smoke coming off them.
Discoloring from the heat with smoke on either the brake or ring would be really cool, like the colors under a cd.
You could have a chainring with a chain with smoke coming off them.
Discoloring from the heat with smoke on either the brake or ring would be really cool, like the colors under a cd.
The arc of the chainring on the calf is a very cool idea for a bike tat.
The Unreal logo on the shoulderblade would also be pretty cool.
The Unreal logo on the shoulderblade would also be pretty cool.
A guy I rode with a couple weeks ago got a chainring inserted into the back of his calf... 15 stiches later.....
I did that exact same thing in '91. 14 staples.N8 said:A guy I rode with a couple weeks ago got a chainring inserted into the back of his calf... 15 stiches later.....
N8 said:A guy I rode with a couple weeks ago got a chainring inserted into the back of his calf... 15 stiches later.....
Yeah I have a tattoo like that. Nothing quite as permanent as having chain grease implanted under the skin.
my friend has this one - art nueveau bike ad
nice 
Westy said:
Words to live by. I found a cool tattoo a few years ago and was ready to have it done instantly. I eventually decided to hold onto it for a year and see if I still like it.
Sure enough within a year those tribal dragons were on every grade schoolers lunchbox and hoodie.
Glad I waited on that one.
N8 said:A guy I rode with a couple weeks ago got a chainring inserted into the back of his calf... 15 stiches later.....
I have 4 or 5 scars up the side of my calf from a BMX ring.
What about a chain wrapped around an ankle?
Maybe a chainring on the ankle and the chain coming off the ring and running around the lower part of the ankle.
Maybe a chainring on the ankle and the chain coming off the ring and running around the lower part of the ankle.
How 'bout a chainring tattoo...like the ones you get on your leg from the road bike, only it's there all the time 
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talk to a tattoo artist, tell him what you want. have them draw it up. this way, they can be sure to get exactly what you want, and custom is way cool 
Mumbles said:talk to a tattoo artist, tell him what you want. have them draw it up. this way, they can be sure to get exactly what you want, and custom is way cool
how about a head tube tattooed on your forehead ???
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I thought of a chain laid out to make the shape of a skull, but the design never looked good.
The grease mark on the calf is overdone, if you were real core, you would heat up a rotor with a torch and brand the inside of your calf. Ive done it with my DH rotors on accident, but it never lasts more than a few days. I think to make it last one would need a glowing red rotor....
The grease mark on the calf is overdone, if you were real core, you would heat up a rotor with a torch and brand the inside of your calf. Ive done it with my DH rotors on accident, but it never lasts more than a few days. I think to make it last one would need a glowing red rotor....
that's what i was going to do around my wrist. then i realized that having it look like it was laying "flat" would annoy me because, while it would look like a chain, it isn't physically possible to have a chain like that around my wrist. having it the other way, so that it would resemble a chain bracelet, wouldn't really look like a bike chain, more like some weird lines.robdamanii said:
I think I read an interview with Wade Simmons and he said he had three wheels connected by three bikes in a triangle. I think that, if done right, that would be really really cool.
Go for the RM logo in a certain place...you know: Ride hard, ride soft, Ridemonkey. That's like advertising two things at once
Just say no.blue said: