Sunday 10th - Festival - Newtown - Cycle Chic - BLING!!!!

We're rolling out the bike bling again this Sunday for our favourite festival of the year!
You'll find us near the bike valet parking in the Bike Boulevard - or maybe we'll find you first?

No parked bike is safe from the guerrilla recycled bling.....

Expect to see us roving the kids area too on the hunt for blingtastic Cycle Chic Kids!

Newtown Memorial Rest Park from 9am on Sunday 10th November - see you there.

We're Back and We Mean to Bling!

As Sydney Rides Festival (and Summer) rolls around again, so do we....

October 13 marks the start of two weeks of bike fun in Sydney and we'll be in Sydney Park to help kick it off with some recycled bling for your bike.

So Cycle Chic Kids, young and old, stop on by and get crafty with us - your bike will thank you!

Ride Happy - Bike Bling for Everyone......

It's been a long time since WOOP! so we're a bit excited to be rolling out the cargo bike of bling again this month to the East Side Ride.

We'll be in the cycling hub with recycled, up-cycled crafty stuff to festoon your bikes and ride day sale specials on our lovely ibikeSYD t.shirts & bike bags....

So Cycle Chic Kids big and small, come and join the fun.

It's fun, it's free and you'll be guaranteed to ride away happy!!

BIKES! BLING! WOOP!

Ah yes, another WOOP! and another year of chic'd bicycles... it's always a pleasure to roll out the Cycle Chic Kids craft extravaganza.  Upcycling really has never been so much fun.

BIG thanks to the WOOP! guys, my gorgeous crafty helpers Kerry, Mel, Bella, Maddie and Lucy.  And of course Mr Chic, GoGet driver, cargo-bike rider, lifter of heavy stuff, flaunter of the ibikeSYD tshirt and person responsible for my sanity.

We'll be at it again at Newtown Festival too on November 11 so if you missed us at WOOP! you know where to find us.....

Er.... did you get guerrilla blinged???

Cycle Chic Kids do WOOP! - AGAIN!

Come for an afternoon of bicycle crafty goodness this Saturday for the 2nd annual WOOP! celebration of bikes.  The official launch of the Sydney Rides Festival.

We'll be in Wimbo Park opposite Bourke Street Bakery from 12-4 going craft crazy.
Come and join us for some bike bling fun - it's not just for kids!!!

Cycle Chic Kids Roll in to Taylor Square

We're excited to be kicking off a series of bike-themed urban sustainability workshops and events this weekend at Sydney Sustainable Markets with the return of the much loved Cycle Chic Kids!

Little kids (and big ones...)  can drop by the stall at Taylor Square from 9am-1pm on Saturday 25 February to pimp up their bikes with our re-purposed, re-cycled crazy craft.

Guaranteed to make your ride more colourful or your money back.   No wait, it's free!

These monthly events in partnership with Sydney Sustainable Markets are part of our Green Chic Project and we have big plans.

Want to weave your own bike basket or make a bamboo crate to get your veggies home in?
Fancy checking out some cargo bikes and seeing just how much shopping and kids they can hold?
How about racing one - are you game?
The Slow Bicycle Movement - how slow can you go?
Finally want to learn how to fix up that old Schwinn you have in the garage?
Maybe you just want to show off your handsome bike in our pop-up instant photo-booth - we have props :-)

Surely one of the loveliest, friendliest local markets in Sydney we're very happy to have found a home so please stop by, have a coffee and say hello, we'd love to meet you.

Event details will be posted on the facebook page or email us to be added to the mailing list.

A Whole Lot of Chic Fun in the Sun

I love a Cycle Chic Kids event - happiness reigns and we get to play with ribbons and weird craft and funk up bicycles and scooters all day - usually helped along by some wicked cakes from the local school - what could be better.
So thanks to the manic cake bakers from Newtown Public School and those caramel kisses.... holy moly....

Oh yeah we upcycled some pretty bikes too and the kids (and adults) went away smiling - happy days.

     

     

Thanks too to lovely Lord Mayor Clover Moore, Carolyn, Michelle and the crew from City of Sydney for another glorious day and gorgeous Kerry for all your brilliant help and of course Mr Chic for the fully sustainable cycle chic kids extra cycle event transport and everything else :-)

And we couldn't do these gigs without the crazy inspiration from the recycle folks at Reverse Garbage...

More Cycle Chic Kids stuff here and email us if you want to be on our mailing list for future events.
More pics here on flickr.

Oh Happy Day

What a fun day we had last Sunday with our bike craft workshop in the Happy Talk House.  The bamboo bike crates looked gorgeous as did the ones made from re-purposed irrigation pipe crates.  It was so wonderful to see everyone interpret the basic design in their own way.

We were so inspired that we've started work on a range of re-purposed timber crates too so if you're at the Sydney Rides Festival Street Fair this weekend, stop by the Cycle Chic stall for a sneaky preview.

Now I just want to see all these crates on bicycles and some flower wheels riding around Sydney!

    

    

    

Thanks to everyone who made this event so joyful - you know who you are.....

More photographs on flickr and the Happy Talk House is still creating magic so stop by if you haven't already.