"I ride bikes, I paint them, I live for them. I simply love bikes. I just can't repair them."
As an avid cyclist as well as an artist, Michael Valenti is fascinated by the history of cycling and the people and places that are inextricably linked to it. The Illinois-based artist expresses his enthusiasm for the two-wheeled metier by mixing visual elements of times gone by with modern ones to create timeless, iconographic images for cycling fans all over the world.