Cycle Chic - the book!

It had to happen. There could be no better way to document the Cycle Chic movement than by compiling some of the many thousands of inspiring photographs from the blog into a glossy book.

The collection of images by Cycle Chic/Copenhagenize founder Mikael Colville-Andersen (and a handful of other gobal Cycle Chic Republic bloggers) is just gorgeous and perfectly encapsulates individual style.

It's launched world-wide today, published by Thames and Hudson and available online here.

Happy riding!

Bike Century - Back to Our Future

Cycle Chic likes humour. We also like this group and we hope you will too.

Our friends at Copenhagenize are proud to sponsor the second Bike Century. After seeing so many bike to work days/weeks/months they thought they'd take it to the next level. For the second time in human history, Bike Century is launched. The last Bike Century ended early, thanks to the advent of automobiles.

This time around, the Golden Age of Bicycling is well underway and this will the best Bike Century ever!

By joining this group you pledge to ride your bicycle this century.  Sign up here now.

Melbourne Cycle Chic

Last time I was in Melbourne it was to hear Mikael from Copenhagen Cycle Chic give his Four Goals for Promoting Urban Cycling talk during the State of Design Festival.  Oh and a little Melbourne Bike Share Protest ride.... fun times for sure.

Little seems to have changed as far as the bike share scheme goes with mandatory helmet law still preventing the "spontaneous" nature of bike hire.  So there were sadly still too many bikes docked unused.  

I did see 3 being ridden and overheard a lady in the 7-11 ask how much the disposable helmets were.

(They didn't have her size though so she left.)

I did, however, notice an awful lot of nice looking bikes, especially around St Kilda and my sources tell me that a certain suburb a little further North is a veritable hotbed of lawless helmet-free bicycle bliss.

I shall leave that for next time..... unless someone wants to send me evidence?? :-)

St Kilda Botanic Gardens

Outside the Prince of Wales Hotel on Fitzroy St - Bands, Bars and Bikes, lovely

Miss Eva's Tour de Chic - Amsterdam, Copenhagen & Oldenburg

Reigning Queen and Founder of Cycle Chic Sundays, Miss Eva, has left her home in sunny California behind to go in search of bicycle heaven on her Tour de Chic through Europe.
And judging by the photographs she is having FAR TOO MUCH FUN in the motherland, meeting up with fellow bicycle bloggers Dave from Portlandize, Marc of Amsterdamize and Mikael of Copenhagen Cycle Chic/Copenhagenize.

Check out her blog for the full story and more photographs.

[photograph via Amsterdamize]

[photograph via Amsterdamize]

[photograph via Amsterdamize]

[photograph via Mikael Colville-Andersen/Copenhagen Cycle Chic]

Sydney's Vision

Sydney's Cycleways Campaign has been getting much attention lately not just in Sydney but globally.  (See todays post on Copenhagenize)
The City of Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore has been described as many things and yet while her campaign has been met with strong opposition from some, her vision for a more "user-friendly" city can only be applauded.
Personally I think it's visionary and these are exciting times in what has been until recently, a city fearful of change.  If Sydney is to become a truly respected citizen-friendly city then we need to embrace change not fight it.  Be informed here.