I believe she is simply delivering the bike to some needy child and will toast the good fortune of the family with his parents.

It appears the nymph can fly, so why would she need a bike?

Interesting. I have heard on Alabama's ban on sex toys... Do adult emporiums have that kind of stuff? I've never been into one of those, but I have seen a couple of them in AL. Maybe they dumped all their toyish inventory and now only carry seedy magazines and cds?

As someone who lives in AL, I can tell you this is just par for the course. :(

Obviously she is planning to do something highly immoral...like breastfeed.

I lived in Mississippi a few years ago when they banned sex toys (I think they get by by selling them as "cake toppers" and other loopholes). Heavens knows the state governments have nothing better to do than tighten the Bible belt--trying to actually pass useful legislation regarding schools, taxes, etc. is just out of the question.

I'm glad I live in Colorado now.

@Snaptastic: Vibrating cake toppers?

We had a huge copy of this image, it's a bicycle ad. Perhaps there's a copyright issue here as well,... nah.

dude, cycles gladiator rules. I regularly drink their pinor noir or the cabernet sauvignon. course i don't live in 'bama.

@tmed: I think she is Santa Claus.

Maybe they can have a special reprint of the label just for the ignorant states. Her breast area can be covered with a bible.

@MostlyHarmless: Generally adult emporiums do carry taht sort of thing (and I suggest going to one ASAP, it's an interesting experience, if nothing else), but I assume the Alabama ones must have dropped the sex toys. For shame.

Fun story: my hometown's motto is "The city of village charm" (all you stalkers can quickly google and figure out where I'm from), which is plastered on signs at the town line and all the highway exit ramps. One of them is placed directly in front of a huge, BRIGHT YELLOW adult emporium with neon lights and an animated LED billboard. Glorious.

@Smashville: No, no...if that were the case, Alabama would have just ordered the liquor stores to store the bottles in the bathroom.

@Smashville: Vibrating, ROTATING cake toppers. Nothing says Happy Birthday like a Rabbit!

Hey owner, your product isn't the label, it's the wine. Just create another design so you can sell it.

You're not an artist.

don't you get in a immoral and sensuous manner after drinking anyway.

"Kif, bring me a bottle of your most sensuous wine... and a sensuouse glass to drink from !"

2 point and homemade cookies to those who know who Im talking about

Alabama, everyone. The state that until recently limited ABV in beer to 6%, while allowing wine with at least twice that amount. Not exactly a paragon of rationality.

@madame_underpants: Ahh, Futurama, how we love thee.

@corkdork:

FTW!!!

I thinking bender would have to tell 'bama to bight his shiny metal hiney on this one.

@madame_underpants: Which explains why there are so many dry counties in the state as well. And some that aren't completely dry only allow alcohol in restaurants, which are required to sell a certain ratio of food to alcohol in order to prove that they're not bars. Because who knows what might happen if you have one too many glasses at the Olive Garden.

Yes, I live here. No, I'm not from here. And at least my county doesn't bother with those types of restrictions.

@katstermonster: You've dropped enough hints before this already.

In other better news, I'll be in DC later this week for 4 days. Good food, here i come! And I will feel /sooo/ much better walking along the national mall this time. Last time I went, Guiliani was beating Hillary in the general election.

Nothing like a bunch of bible thumping fools to sexualize the breast. Do they also get their knickers in a twist when women breastfeed their babies?

Isn't it just a bit ironic to comment on Alabama's censorship of a wine label, while partially censoring the image yourselves? Oh, right, a glimpse of a female nipple will lead to the collapse of civilisation, I forgot.

@Brian James Schend: If you can say "you're not an artist", I can only surmise that you've met fairly few folks in the field; there's a lot of work (and a great deal of personal taste) that goes into tuning the product, and keeping it intact (even down to the packaging choices) is absolutely the maker's right.

@madame_underpants: Yay Captain Brannigan!

@Brian James Schend: Or, if they don't care about the state of Alabama (do they even drink wine?), they can just dust off their boots and take their product elsewhere.

@corellia40: Don't feel bad. I'm in Kentucky, and also in a dry, bible-thumping hypocritical as well. They won't even sell it with food here. We have to drive the next county over to get a couple cases of beer to last a while.

This place is run by old time politics, and for those that have ever been in a small town in the south would understand what Im talking about. They don't want to sell liquor here because "it's against the bible" pbbbt. (***no religous debate here, just stating what I heard & know)

What they don't get is that if they opene up even a little 'county line liquors' the county would generate some much more from the sale of it, and then our county would benefit instead of the next county. But they won't listen to reason, and just pretend that everybody agree's with the old way, even if they are losing money.

maybe they should put pasties on the nymph?

Alabama sucks. I've been there.

@Brian James Schend:

A good label isn't going to turn a crappy wine into a good one, but I think it's a good thing that the owner of Cycles Gladiator is standing up for his product.

Legislating morality is complete bullshit. I think any 21 year old who can legally purchase wine can handle seeing a titty.

@Thoria:

I think the point of the image at the head of the post is supposed to be ironic, Thoria.

@MostlyHarmless: Haha true, true...I've definitely talked (complained) about CT before, and mentioned the school I attend. Funny, though, I live neither in my original hometown nor the town my college is in, so they'll have to work a little harder to sneak in and watch me while I sleep.

I love DC, it's definitely one of my favorite cities. Going to my most favorite city (Boston) tonight, though...can't wait!

@I Love New Jersey: I'm sure they do.

@I Love New Jersey: Because everyone knows that only fools and bible-thumpers think of breasts as sexual!

@I Love New Jersey: Why yes. Yes they do. Something tell me that going to the titty bar in 'bama is not going to be very fun.

@madame_underpants:
"I suffer from a very sexy learning disability. What did I call it, Kif?"

@MostlyHarmless: uhhh.yeah, I've never been in one of those places either.

Yet you can get married at age 16 with both parents present or if they are dead you pay $200.00. Common law marriage is A-OK, too! Just don't let the people see a breast on a label.

@Hate_Brian_Club_I'mNotOnlyThePresidentI'mAClient: Exactly. Plus Alabama residents can watch TV on their porch next to their washer and see things that are 10x as explicit every day.

[Sorry, I couldn't resist]

@veg-o-matic: "Sexlexia *sigh*"

@HomersBrain: They're fun, even if you have zero interest in buying anything. It's eye-opening, more than anything else. Like really? There are really people out there who will buy porn about a vampire schoolgirl in search of a midget lover? Similarly, does ANYONE need a dildo thats 4 inches in diamater?

@Snaptastic: Not Cake toppers, Drink stir sticks...why waste your energy stirring your drink with a swizzle stick when you can take this battery operated device and...I'll let your imagination fill in.

@tmed: You are correct. She's part of Bicycling Magazine's Biketown program. [www.bicycling.com]

"In 2003, Bicycling traveled to Portland, Maine, and distributed 50 Trek hybrids to residents who'd won an essay contest asking why they deserved a free bike. We dubbed Portland "BikeTown," and watched closely to see if cycling changed the lives the way we hoped it would. It was a big hit. Now, more than 3,000 bikes later, BikeTowns have been established in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin.

Additionally, BikeTown Africa has provided 500 bikes to healthcare workers in Botswana, Senegal and South Africa."

So if Michelangelo's "David" ever came through Alabama on a world tour, I suppose they'd put a pair of cut-off jean shorts on him?

Sorry, I'm just not about states telling us what kind of sex we can have, whether or not we can buy sex toys, or limiting what we can view in the art world. True, it is just a wine bottle, but I think that label falls under art, not smut.

@madame_underpants: Yeah, I toured the Makers Mark factory back during my 1976 & 1980 bike tours and when we asked where we could buy the stuff (ok, pop quiz: what do you sacrifice from your supplies to be able to carry a fifth of booze?), we were told in so many words: Not around here.

Maybe its a safety issue. It looks like she's gonna get that thing caught in the spokes.

@katstermonster: So, just to be clear, what's the difference between the old raincoater's adult store and an adult "emporium"?

@Smashville: Be decent and put a blanket over yourself when you drink!

@MostlyHarmless: Bring an umbrella and lots of water, it is supposed to rain here in DC every day this week, and be the typical 90 degrees, 90%RH

If you live outside of Alabama you'd get the idea that we're all a bunch of toothless, inbred, bible-thumping rednecks. The truth is that the people elected (or appointed) to represent us don't actually reflect the attitudes and opinions of everyone in the state, but there are enough of the hellfire and damnation conservatives to keep them in office. After a while you learn to tune out the bullshit and get on with your life.

@3skr1mad0r:

she's flying through space. A nip in the spokes is the least of her worries.