This wooden bike is quite amazing!
Jan Gunneweg works with wood to craft benches, desks and tables as well as wooden bicycles. His bikes are made out of solid walnut or birchwood and are made to order, as each labour of love takes between 160 and 200 hours to build.
via Sydney Concrete Playground
Swedish high street label H&M has jumped on their bikes in their Amsterdam flagship store with their interpretation of cycle chic.
We think they’ve done a great job – breezy swing coats and capes for ventilation, layered tops, short skirts or shorts that won’t catch on your wheel or chain, colourful tights to keep your legs warm and a mid-height heel for elegance.
In May 2011 Paul van Bellen from Dutch city bike importers Gazelle Bicycles Australia will lead 30 Australian cycling thinkers over a 500km, 13 day tour in The Netherlands, the world’s most cycle friendly country.
Filmmakers Rowena Crowe and Paulo Alberton will follow and record van Bellen’s tour as his team studies innovations and attitudes in cycling. Rowena and Paulo will be detailing their trip at www.cyclingdutchstyle.com.au and developing a documentary about the journey at the end.
Rowena and Paul are currently raising money to enable them to participate on the tour and create content for both the website and documentary. You can contribute funds via their IndieGoGo site as well as help spread the word using social networks.
Here’s a video about with Paul introducing the reasons for the tour and what we can learn from the Dutch.
This great promotional video shows how the residents of Amsterdam, of all ages, sizes and professions, use their bikes to get around their home town. Mothers, businessmen, young couples – they all say ‘This is Amsterdam….and this is my bike.’
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Marre first caught our eye thanks to the high-high-high heels she was wearing. Then *gasp* that beautiful figure-hugging dress. And finally, her stylishly decorated bike.
We were not at all surprised when we discovered that Marre is originally from Amsterdam and has been living in Melbourne for the past two years. She explained that back in Holland, everyone decorated their bikes and of course everyone wears their (stylish) everyday clothes on their rides. Thanks Marre for bringing some Dutch style to Melbourne!
One of CycleStyle’s local suppliers, Trent Jansen, is currently jaunting around Europe as part of a two month residency with Italian design company Edra.
He’s written a travel diary in a week of guest blogs over at The Design Files. We are molto jealous – bright blue skies, sailing on yachts, eating prosciutto and cycling the Italian countryside – what a dream.
Why not get to know Trent a bit better by checking out his guests posts:
