Treadlie Hits Town!

Great to finally meet Faith from Treadlie Mag after months of talking, emailing and twittering....
The official launch of their Handmade Bicycle Show happened on Friday night - if you're quick you might just catch them today before they head back on down the Hume Highway.

A couple of my personal favourites, the Velo Orange guys bike with customised porteur rack and box on the front and the Black Beauty - a simple old vintage bike, resprayed and made practical with the old style handmade crate on the back.

And here's Debbie from the Powerhouse Museum "spontaneously" riding in front of the gallery on her crafted up Giant Via....

Mrs Fairweather's Bicycle Emporium is the Adelaide based home of gorgeous up-cycled vintage bikes each with their own story. What a discovery - just brilliant.  I think we'll be hearing more from Mrs Fairweather....

A great night with many bikes, people and empty bottles crammed in to the old Deus store on Oxford Street.  More pics from the event on flickr and the Sydney Design film we did here.

  

  

Sydney Design - Made to Measure

The brilliant Treadlie Handmade Bicycle Show has finally made it up the Hume from Melbourne after it's preview at State of Design.  It's part of this year's Sydney Design Festival which kicks off tonight for 2 weeks of fabulousness.  This year's theme - Is Old New Again?

A brilliant bunch of gorgeous bikes all entirely or partly made by hand.  Well worth a visit.  Catch us at the opening tonight from 7pm or over the weekend.  Details here.

Here's a little voxpop we did last night while Treadlie were making finishing touches to the space.

It's certainly inspired me to get the old vintage bike out of the garage and spruce it up a bit.

Am so inspired in fact that Sydney Cycle Chic will be holding a workshop in the next few months so you can join me in some crafty bike building/designing fun - watch this space for details!

(It'll be fine, trust me, I have no idea what I'm doing either but we sure will by the end of it.....)