In our daily morning web rounds yesterday, we came across this note on Pitchfork.

It appears that former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne is quite the green cycling enthusiast. So much so that he was recruited to be on the jury for the CityRacks Design Competition, New York City’s search for new bike rack designs. Plus…

He also submitted a few designs of his own, which the city decided to make and install while continuing on with the competition. Thus, Byrne gets to remain a judge, and various New York City sidewalks get location-appropriate bike racks. Those racks include “The Wall Street” (shaped like a dollar sign), “The Hipster” (shaped like an electric guitar and located in Williamsburg), “The MoMA” (an abstract shape outside of the museum of the same name), “Mudflap Tammy” (shaped like the female outline on mudflaps and located in Times Square), and five others. All of these racks were installed on Friday, August 8, and will remain in place for a year, according to the Times. Then they will be sold as works of art.

That he is also writing a nonfiction book called ‘Cycling Diaries’ is just icing on the bicycle cake.