Cyclocross Anatomy
I believe that I have finally found the perfect marriage of two things I love in life, biking and anatomy.
This is the brand new cyclocross bike, handcrafted in Italy by ALAN and imported and painted by Stellina Sport. The wonderfully talented Noah Scalin of the Skull-a-Day blog was asked to design the graphics applied to the bike, along with an anatomically correct femur on the top bar to, according to Noah, “further represent the idea of this exposed structure and the powerful legs that are used to move the bike forward.”
They also ended up putting the femur on the ALAN North America Cyclocross team uniforms in the anatomically correct position “so that it has an x-ray effect.”
Noah let me know that there’s also a new bike in the works actually called “the Noah” that will feature a skull graphic specially designed by him. Can’t wait to see that one!
In the meantime, I’ll dream about owning that orange Roland-5 ALAN bike pictured above…
I’m surprised that here anatomy-art smashed into cycling via ‘cross and not freeriding or downhill or whatnot. How lovely is that? How long will it be until we can assemble a bike racing team of “vanessas” with anatomical skinsuits and pretty bikes?
I’m wearing my anatomical skin suit riiiight now.
(laughs) Sometimes I wear my boyfriend’s anatomical skinsuit too.
Greg Wittwer is so dreamy!!