Some of my Favorite Decks

[cosmicsecret]

I also enjoyed your postings.Some of the decks you had shown were very nice!
Would be a pitty if you stop doing that.

[Sharpie]

I also enjoyed your postings.Some of the decks you had shown were very nice!
Would be a pitty if you stop doing that.

Ditto.

[RSLancastr]

Thanks for the words of encouragement, everyone!

It's nice to see that there are several of you who enjoy the images I've been posting.

My first impulse was to create a new Topic for this post (perhaps "My Favorite Bicycle Decks"), thinking that some of the "USPC-centric" users of UC would read it, whereas they may not read this topic.

But I decided to honor what the Moderators feel is the better approach, and so am posting it here.

Here goes:

Since my playing Card collection has always primarily focused on decks with non-standard courts, I had always turned my nose up at Bicycle decks, with their ultra-standard courts.

Then about a year ago, I was searching through eBay for interesting playing card decks. I was also searching for things that are Purple - it being my favorite color (My Susan says that I am "obsessed" with it).

On a whim, I mixed the two searches together and looked for purple playing cards.

I don't recall what I expected to find, but one of the items listed was a Bicycle "The Purple Deck"

With its rich Purple card faces, it combined two of my obsessions (Playing Cards and Purple!) into one object!

Unfortunately, the courts in it were Bike Standard design, though colored radically differently from typical Bike courts.

I decided to relax my definition of "non-standard courts" to include standard courts with non-standard colors, and so justified (to myself) purchasing a "lowly" Bicycle deck.

My standards successfully "lowered", I soon purchased many other Bikes where the courts were only "non-standard" in their coloring:

Some, like "The Purple Deck" had "full bleed" faces of various colors (such as The Purple Deck, The Black Deck, The Red Deck, etc., and the Reversed Back decks)

Others had white faces, but the colors the courts were drawn in were non-standard.

I bought all of these I could lay my hands on.

Then, wonder of wonders, I started finding Bikes where the courts were TOTALLY non-standard (or "custom", as seems to be the preferred term around here)!!

Here are the Bikes I have which fall into that last category:

==========[ Bicycle_2008ElectionEdition_Democrat ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_2008ElectionEdition_Independent ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_2008ElectionEdition_Republican ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Actuators_ArtistsEdition ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Actuators_BlackEdition ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Actuators_WhiteEdition ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Americana ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Bearbrick ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_BlueBlood ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_CoffinFodder ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Galvanic ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Robocycle_Black ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Robocycle_Blue ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Target_Bungalow ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Target_Flirtatious ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Target_Rejuvenate ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Target_Twilight ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Tokidoki ]==========


==========[ Bicycle_Zombie ]==========


Needless to say, with more than 100 Bicycle decks in my collection, I am over my former "Bicycle Snobbery"!

If anyone can think of other Bikes with fully custom courts, PLEASE bring them to my attention!

[Strag]

This makes me think we should have something similar to "likes" on facebook. I don't know if this forum system supports it, but a way to show appreciation for something with a simple click just makes it easier. I know I've seen forums that have something like this where the "likes" follow a point system and are added up and displayed next to ones name.

Sorry for the sidetrack. I have also enjoyed these posts and hope they continue

+1

[RSLancastr]

Ah Strag, but will the forum software keep a running total and display it next to the post for us?

[neongrey]

There's lots of phpbb plugins that should do that or something similar, yeah.

[DelMagic]

I have also enjoyed seeing these decks. Don't go away!

[RSLancastr]

Thanks, Del!

[RSLancastr]

Add this to the list of Bikes with fully-custom courts:

==========[ Bicycle_Grimoire ]==========

[acetofive]

Inspired me to look for a few of these. Thanks for posting.

[Merlebird]

Inspired me to look for a few of these. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for bumping it! A lot of really neat-looking decks in here I'd never seen before. OP last checked in about a year and a half ago, but I hope he wanders through again and sees folks are still appreciating his posts.

This makes me think we should have something similar to "likes" on facebook. I don't know if this forum system supports it, but a way to show appreciation for something with a simple click just makes it easier. I know I've seen forums that have something like this where the "likes" follow a point system and are added up and displayed next to ones name.

This chucklehead should delete his account, though. Thank god nobody ever implemented this garbage idea.

[Harvonsgard]

OP last checked in about a year and a half ago, but I hope he wanders through again...

Only if they have proper wi-fi in the metaphysical realm ...

[Merlebird]

OP last checked in about a year and a half ago, but I hope he wanders through again...

Only if they have proper wi-fi in the metaphysical realm ...

Ah, I was afraid that might've been it. That's a shame. Well, he lives on shiny and chrome on the information superhighway. On the Internet we are all immortal.*

*Predictive text wanted "On the Internet we are all immoral," which, while perhaps true, is not really what I was going for here.