A Rare Cycling Species

Ah yes, the chain smoking, coffee drinking, vintage bike riding citizen cyclist.... a rarely seen species often found skulking around theatres and street corners or inhaling espresso in urban inner city coffee shops.
They are known for their cool retro style and manic humour.

WOOP WOOP - Cycle Chic Kids Get Crafty in the Sunshine!

Wow, what a brilliant day we had yesterday.  The buzz was incredible as families, hipsters and everyone in between turned out to celebrate the opening of the Bourke Street Cycle Way and join the fun at the WOOP Festival.

The sun shone and Wimbo Park was truly alive with craftalicious fun as kids (of all ages!) upcycled their bikes with our flowers and streamers and bells.  Great seeing those handlebar ribbons appear on all the photographs today!

     

     

We even managed to get a bit of a ride in - it was so nice to see the kids out in force on the bike lanes.

Check out the rest of our WOOP photos here and if you have photos of the event to share, we'd love you to join and add them to our flickr group (or email me if easier).

Don't forget to like our Facebook page to keep up to date with future events.

So many kisses and thanks to my gorgeous team of helpers and Upcyclers who crafted up a storm!

(Liane, Milou, Heidi, Bea, Samorn, Tanja, Sonja, Jim - THANK YOU x)

And Reverse Garbage and Opera Australia for the bling!

     

Get Your Craft On Cycle Chic Kids!

Just one more sleep to go to the much anticipated WOOP Rolling Festival on Bourke Street and we're excited!

We have piles of wonderful recycled craft generously donated by Reverse Garbage and Opera Australia.

Gorgeous lucky dip giveaways for all crafty kids thanks to supporters Gazelle Australia & CycleStyle and a FETE STALL!
(It's my first fete stall, forgive me for my joy!)

     

Our team of BRILLIANT Crafty Upcyclers will be on hand to help you make art out of your bikes and then on to the beautiful cycle way you go!

It's going to be a gorgeous day - stop by and say hi (even you big kids) and grab some ribbon for your handlebars.... go on you know you want to :-)

We'll be in Wimbo Park on Bourke Street (opposite Devonshire Street) between 11-3 on Sunday 15th!

Cycle Chic Kids are go!!

Cycle Chic Kids Do WOOP!

It's been a long time coming but the kids are ready to roll again!

We're very pleased to be presenting the next Cycle Chic Kids event as part of the wonderful WOOP! Rolling Bourke Street Festival Extravaganza on Sunday May 15.

This well-overdue celebration of the Bourke Street Cycle Way is morphing in to a fabulous community festival with all sorts of things planned - live entertainment, a vintage bike exhibit, kids activities, street entertainers, bikes and MORE BIKES and a mega raffle to raise money for the Cancer Council NSW initiative "Do Your Thing."

Events will stretch the length of the Cycle Way from Waterloo to Woolloomooloo and riders are encouraged to ride the loop and show the local businesses (and Sydney!) some bicycle love.  It's time.

Cycle Chic will be situated in Wimbo Park (opposite Devonshire Street) from 11am-3pm, along with Bourke Street Public School and their sausage sizzle.

We are inviting all children (and their carers) to bring their bikes and join in the craft fun with us and our team of wonderfully creative upcyclers.  We'll provide all manner of recycled bits and bobs for you to play with (feel free to bring some bits from your craft box too) and we'll help you to turn your bikes into art!

Have a look at the last event to see what sort of fun we had and then why not finish the day with a ride along the new safe Cycle Way en famille??

We'll be posting more details over the next few weeks but please spread the word to the parents and children in your lives and hop over to like our Facebook page and the WOOP! page to keep up to date with all the details as they unfold.

Cycle Chic Kids Are Go!

Yep Today is All About the Fashion

It's nice to see someone taking notice of the little things.  Killer blue heels and matching rims - nice.

We'll be seeing more of Amanda and her beautiful Electra as she's another Opera Australia buddy.

I'm converting them all, one bike at a time....

Some Cool Kids on Their Cool Bikes For the Weekend

I think we'll be hearing more from Simon - he's just built a brilliant prop bike for a new Opera Australia production of La bohème.  The guys in workshop are a damn talented bunch.

And who doesn't love a candy pink chopper ?

Cycle Chic is Alive and Well at Opera Australia

My day job at Opera Australia has unearthed all manner of chic cyclists....
It turns out that only one of the below is ACTUALLY a singer, however, we have a conductor, a senior manager, arts administrators, production/props, language coach, choreographer.....and these are just the ones I have in my flickr group right now.  I have a feeling that there will be a singing bicycle ride in the not too distant future.

[Alex the Senior Manager with Harry and Jasper]

[Brad the Conductor]

[Grant the multi-skilled Production/Props/Van Driving Tour Manger]

[Annalouise the HR Person and Choreographer with Allana the Company Manager]

[Gill the Arts Administrator and Juvenile Talent Wrangler]


[Megan the Digital Marketing Guru]

[Margaret the Mezzo Soprano with Tanja the German Language Coach]

[and me, the Tour Manager and Bossy Two-wheeled Bike Moll - not my desciption]