15 Cool Cycling Tattoos: When You’ve Got It Under Your Skin
By Frantiska Blazkova
Little ink never hurt nobody. Most people choose tattoos as a way of expressing their affection for something or someone and the cycling lot ain’t no different. Enjoy some of the best artworks and ideas for enthusiasts on two wheels we happened to stumble upon.
Add a little watercolour to your passion.“Till death do us apart” takes on a completely different meaning. The downside is probably you’ll never find a comfortable seat.This artful composition of bike guts.Check out the detail on this one. The inscription translates as “To live is to ride.”We aren’t exactly sure how do you achieve such perfection without making a sacrifice to C’thulhu, but the owner is a lucky girl.And now for something completely different. We can’t be certain what were the motives behind this masterpiece, but we do hope the collision was avoided!When you can’t decide what you love more – your bike or your old man.Feeling like a bear, trapped for life in a concrete jungle or a circus? Well, you’re not alone.When your morning ride is a pleasure out of this world. Literally.There’s beauty in simplicity.And also in this self-explanatory forearm piece.The words to live and ride by. Cycling leg pain – can’t live with it, can’t live without it.This would be seriously creepy in real life, but we all do get metaphors, right?For all the free-spirited souls out there. This piece’s real name is Gypsy Fat Bike.Like mixing up the usage of the word “biker” wasn’t confusing enough.
Indoor cycling strips away the distractions of nature, conversation, and wind. What remains is pure, unfiltered chaos. Magnified by a fan that sounds like a jet engine and a towel that gave up two intervals ago.
It starts innocently. Someone mentions a training block. Another casually drops their HRV score like it’s small talk. Before you know it, your group chat is full of lactate thresholds, recovery metrics, and arguments about the correct zone for threshold work (Zone 3? Zone 4?…
Ah, January. A time for fresh starts, bold plans, and lying to ourselves in our ride journals. If you haven’t set at least one cycling goal you’ll completely abandon by the 20th, are you even a cyclist?
You’ve emerged from the end-of-year glow with a belly full of roast potatoes and a head full of dreams. This is it. You’re going to ride consistently. Maybe even train. Maybe even stretch after rides instead of just collapsing onto the carpet like a haunted…