It’s artwork bike day! This week’s installment involves you from Issue Bikes. The corporate tasked certainly one of its ambassadors, Duke Agyapong, to render a colourful, statement-making tackle its all-around highway bike, the OSTRO VAM.
Agyapong is a motorcycle mechanic, author, multi-discipline racer, and mannequin for Rapha. They collaborated with Jay Gundzik, Artistic Director for Issue and Black Inc, to dial within the design.
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“We chatted about Duke’s inspiration and influences in life and in artwork,” Gundzik stated in a press release on the Issue Bikes web site. “We landed on three very targeted themes to seize within the design: range, poetry, and vogue.”
The designer mixed components of Agyapong’s poetry, the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat, hand-painted typography, hand-drawn graphics, and “photographs in acrylic paint and ink on canvas.”
“It was two to a few months of sharing concepts, backwards and forwards. Then Jay went quiet for a number of weeks and re-emerged with this,” stated Agyapong. “It captures every little thing completely. He made it genuine.”
The small print are noteworthy. Strains and pictures from Agyapong’s poem “BLK” speckle the body, and he and Gundzik selected every colour and texture with care and intention.
“Getting the correct steadiness of colour and story collectively was painstaking. I used to be blown away by the way it got here collectively,” famous Gundzik as soon as the method was full.
As for Agyapong, they hope the design will encourage different individuals to take up biking.
The Duke x Issue OSTRO VAM is accessible in “very restricted portions,” — because the body solely or with the groupsets Issue affords for the inventory OSTRO VAM.
These groupsets embrace SRAM Crimson AXS eTap + Quarq PM, SRAM Power AXS eTap + Quarq PM, Shimano 8170 Ultegra, and Shimano 9270 Dura Ace. Right here’s the geometry, straight from Issue Bikes.
You’ve acquired to present Issue your e mail to learn the way a lot the restricted version journey prices, however the inventory OSTRO VAM begins at an MSRP of $5,499.
