Frenchy Friday Bicycle Tunes

Well if this doesn't get you ready for the weekend, nothing will!

Music for a Pink Bike

Music while you ride - one of the great things about the separated cycle ways in Sydney....

Vintage Bicycle Fun Bollywood Style!

This is just brilliant - who can resist?!  It certainly brightened my Wednesday.

Prince Rocks the Bicycle!

Well I just don't know how this escaped the Cycle Chic radar....

His purple holiness Prince taking his bike for a spin post gig at the LA Forum back in April this year?
Are you kidding me - just brilliant.
Funny little clip but worth every scream....

Oh Kate Spade - How Delicious This Is!

What a wonderfully sunny way to start the week, this being Australian Fashion Week and all - fun, frivolous and flirty.

A lovely green Abici from Adeline Adeline in NYC, a cute leather Kate Spade satchel that clips to your handlebars, killer wedges and cupcakes.

We like.  A lot!

Bikes, Music, Action!

Some days you just need a catchy tune and a bicycle.  Thanks to The Prudent Cyclist for putting me on to this this morning from the brilliant Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Clint Maedgen hot out of New Orleans.
Enjoy!  More music inspiration from the blog here.

Sounds of Summer - Corinne Bailey Rae

I'd completely forgotten about the gorgeous girls on bicycles in this clip until Mikael posted it on Copenhagen Cycle Chic this week.  So as Copenhagen cools down for winter and Sydney warms up watch and enjoy.  I know how I'm planning to spend my Cycle Chic Summer of Love!

Fietsen - Pep

And more happy cycling girls from Amsterdam... it's becoming somewhat of a theme this week...enjoy!

Thanks to Marc from Amsterdamized for hooking me up to this one.

Hier op mijn Fiets - Batiste en David

Yeah I'm fluent now.:-)  'Here on my bike' is wonderful, it's cheesy, it's Dutch and it's full of bikes and damn it's catchy.  Feel good song for Summer #2, gives Mark Ronson a run for his money....

Thanks for the tip PvB.

"Gonna ride my bike until I get home.........."

Catchy, very catchy, you won't be able to stop yourself singing along.  Just perfect for spring bike riding and a wonderful slice of cycle chic London stylee. 

Mark Ronson feat. Kyle Falconer and Spank Rock - I'm looking forward to some remixes!

Cycle Chic Sundays Sydney - to market to market

Well we experienced almost all four seasons in one day last Sunday for our Cycle Chic Sunday ride.
What's up with that ??

The day started with what we optimistically assumed was the first day of springtime so we made our way up to Jeds cafe for some brunch, popping in to say hi to Alex at Miljo en route.  The lovely Clare from Trails of Two Cities met us there for a final ride before she heads off to NYC for adventure ! Great to finally meet her, check out her cool blog.

We barely had time to cram in a latte and a berry muffin before the sky turned deep grey and just made it to the market in time amidst a sand storm and gusting winds as the rain started.  I've never seen so many people running in the opposite direction - like a bad disaster movie....

We hid out undercover near the sausage sizzle until it stopped then managed to cram in a bit of stall browsing before the rain started again.

By the time it had cleared we had disbanded, soggy and vintage free.  Sadly not so chic this Sunday...
roll on Summer !!!!

     

     

     

[Miss Clare, Miss Allana, Miss Annalouise and Miss Kerry]

My solo ride home, however, was one of those perfect rides, just me, my bike, late afternoon dappled sunshine and no-one to hear me sing out loud to the tunes on my iPod.  Good times.
I never get tired of shots like these.

    

Sundays with Joni

Well we weren't blessed with much sunshine on Sunday for the second Cycle Chic Sundays Sydney ride so I mostly shot in b/w which kind of suited the monochrome day.
I met up with Miss Sonja in Rose Bay and took the ferry in to Circular Quay, chatting to curious ladies en route who wanted to know what we were all about.  Intrigued as they were, I hope the lady who took my contact details is reading this and gets in touch !!!  We'd love you to join us :-)
(Incidentally, this seems to happen each time I ride my beautiful bike which is damn cool - thanks Velorbis).
So we arrived at Circular Quay to find the lovely and beaming Miss Kerry waiting for us, yellow flowers tied to her handlebars, knitted seat cover and Joni Mitchell playing on her handlebar stereo.  Wonderful.  She had found a link to our site through Bike Sydney and turns out she is a real bike ride veteran - so glad you joined us Miss Kerry !
Next stop the Opera House to collect Miss Bronwyn, then some quick pics before heading up to the Art Gallery for some brunch and art.  Met up with a supportive non-bike-owning friend Miss Gill (got to get you some wheels girl.....) who surprised me with some badges from my twitter pals @RocketFuelStyle that she'd bought from the Finders Keepers Winterland Market at Carriageworks.
Then slowly back down Macquarie Street, missing the ferry home by 2 minutes so Miss Sonja and I killed time at the Rocks market and laughed our heads off outside Royal Copenhagen Ice Cream shop - it appealed to us in an ironic sort of way - then back to the ferry with ice cream for the ride home.

    

    

And a final shot in colour just because I want to share my Grandma's emerald green vintage evening gloves with you - I have unearthed a box of vintage scarves and gloves long forgotten which will be making many appearances I feel.......

Regret of the day - missing a photo op with some half drunk orange clad Dutch guys because we had our hands full with bikes and gelato.  Shame, would have been a good pic.

High point of the day - Joni Mitchell accompanying us.

Lou Reed and his bike

The Man hits Sydney this week for Vivid Live at the Opera House.  Maybe he'd like to join us for a spin around town ?
http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/blike-cycling-blog/2009/11/lou-reed-rides-a-electra-towni.html