Our fellow blogging friend and constantly glamorous Super Kawaii Mama loved our shop, including the Disco-bright reflective legwarmers, Lemon Straw Deluxe Shopper, Pink and red floral pannier and Edith handlebar bag.
Archive for June, 2010
Super Kawaii Mama
Friday, June 18th, 2010Rhinestones and Telephones
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Giddy-up for the Sydney Tweed Ride
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Sydney is holding its Tweed Ride next weekend! Yay for chaps and ladies decking themselves out in their glory in the Emerald City, we wish we could be there.
We think it’s time the Tweed Ride came south to Melbourne too, maybe when it’s less super-freezing….
If you need more Tweed Ride inspiration, check out this video from Brooks England of the London Tweed Run.
High Viz Vogue
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Melbourne’s Craft Cartel, as part of Moreland City Council’s Coburg Carnivale, are presenting High Viz Vogue, a DIY cycling fashion workshop which aims to get cyclists out of lycra and into something with a bit more style.
The workshop is free – all you have to is bring your helmet and/or other clothing you’d like to make cycle-friendly, or start from scratch using the supplied materials. If you don’t know your needle from your thread, local designer Miss Viz will be there to help out.
The event will end with a fashion parade of the end products, with prizes for best design supplied by Crumpler – and then everyone will ride their bikes with style through Moreland, led by Sugar Spokes all female bike crew. We can’t wait to see what people come up with!
Details:
11:00 – 13:00
Saturday 19 June 2010
Coburg Library
Cnr Victoria & Louisa Streets, Coburg
Take your bike on a plane with an inflatable bike bag
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010We once went cycling in Tuscany and contemplated taking our own bikes on a plane with us. Wish we had, actually, as we ended up trying to climb a mountain from Pisa to Lucca with 3-gear city bikes.
The decision to take our bikes on the plane would have been much easier if we’d known about this inflatable bike bag. The Binkd Helium is an air-cushioned bike bag that’s designed to pack up your bike as small as possible. It fits a 64cm road frame or a full-suspension road bike and has places to strap all of your components in. All you have to do is zip it up and roll it right up to check in with the handy wheels!
We wonder whether you could avoid aeroplane bike cargo fees with this handy bag?
Via Wired
Matching outfit to bike – Swanston Street
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010In the 50s and 60s, proper young ladies were instructed to never to leave the house without matching gloves, hat and shoes.
Now, we love seeing how cyclists match their outfit to their ride. This girl has given herself a red, white and blue theme – red step-through frame, red scarf, red and blue check coat, red and blue Crumpler messenger bag, topped and tailed with a white helmet and white shoes. Love it.
Herald Sun
Monday, June 14th, 2010Australia’s largest selling daily, The Herald Sun, did a story on CycleStyle. Check out the beautiful photo of our model Marianne, fashion blogger from Esme and the Laneway. She’s sporting the Disco-bright reflective legwarmers, Cashmere and leather gloves and Edna handlebar bag.
A different kind of rush hour
Monday, June 14th, 2010We can only dream…
Rush hour in Utrecht, Amsterdam. And look! Everyone riding around in their normal, every day clothes.
DOYOUVelo? Oui, bien sur!
Friday, June 11th, 2010
We have been dusting off our schoolgirl French and lusting after DOYOUVelo’s trench coats.
This French company mainly produces high-end (we’re talking up to around $350) trench-style raincoats for men and women made from waterproof, breathable, and reflective fabric. Each coat has extra pull-out armband reflectors and a roomy hood which might even fit over your helmet.
DOYOUVelo’s range also includes rain hats and messenger bags.
DOYOUVelo is currently available only in Paris and Lyon and through the DOYOUVelo’s French language store.
But us a ticket to France! Je parle francais un petit peu…
PS DOYOUVelo are also developing a light and compact helmet in a ‘honeycomb’ design. Thanks to our friend @howard61 for pointing us to this tres interessant post.
Lawyers on bikes
Thursday, June 10th, 2010National Ride to Work Week is happening on Wednesday 13 October and I’ve already registered myself with Bicycle Victoria for this year’s ride and events at Federation Square.
Coincidentally on the same day as I submitted my registration I came across this fantastic article over at Cyclelicious in the Washington Post about a law firm that’s started a bike share program for its employees. With city bike share programs just starting to launch around Australia (Melbourne‘s only a week or so ago, Brisbane in September), maybe other companies in Australia will be inspired to start a smaller scale bike share program themselves, just like Nixon Peabody.
And as a former paralegal/lackey who was responsible for carting documents all over town, I know that I would’ve loved to have been able to hop on a bike to get myself to court faster.
Charge your gadgets by bike
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Our friend B has the awesome idea of one day powering the electricity in gyms by harnessing the energy of gymgoers as they bike, row and run on the treadmills.
E-Werk is almost something similar- it’s a charger from Germany that powers your gadgets with your bike. Basically, you strap E-Werk onto your bike, and start pedalling. Using the power of your movements, the generator produces electricity, which then transfers to the E-Werk. You can then plug in your phone or iPod into it, and voila, charged up batteries.
Nokia has also recently launched a bike-powered phone charger (presumably only for Nokia phones) which will go on sale at the end of the year.
Now you can become your personal power source!
Daily Melbourne
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Daily Melbourne put it well – the Minnehaha saddle bags are a perfect match for your Brooks leather saddle.
Meet Guy Hills from Dashing Tweeds
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Guy Hills is one of the founders of the Dashing Tweeds, the supplier of our fabulous Disco-bright reflective wool legwarmers and the reflective, waterproof tweed fabric for our upcoming bespoke cycling capes.
It’s always nice to put a face and a voice to a name – so here you can see Guy in real life, being interviewed by Tom Stubbs for Finch’s Quarterly.
Colour in a sea of black – Swanston Street
Monday, June 7th, 2010Melburnians love their black outfits, especially in winter. Standing on Swanston Street, I despaired of finding any cyclists who weren’t wearing head-to-toe black fleece or lycra.
Then this adorable girl came into view with her pink bike, bright blue pants and green scarf. She gave me a fleeting glimpse of colour in a sea of black while she waited for the tram passengers to alight.
And off she goes!
Let’s Slow Bike
Monday, June 7th, 2010GQ Taiwan featured some urbane to kooky mens cycling fashion as part of a spread entitled ‘Let’s Slow Bike‘. Yes, let’s!
Get off the computer
Friday, June 4th, 2010Because CycleStyle is an online business, sometimes I can find myself spending hours in front of my laptop with a crick in my neck and stiff shoulders.
I think I’m going to print this off and stick it in my office.
via Schwinn
Sarah Wilson
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Video review of Freehands Gloves
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010If you’re wondering how Freehands Gloves work, check out this video demonstrating the magnetic finger tips. Seriously nifty.
Horns anyone?
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Wow if you got these handlebars installed on your bike you’d certainly turn some heads.
via Design Kug
Daily Addict
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Daily Addict told funky Sydney-siders and Melburnians all about CycleStyle with a picture of the Lemon Straw Deluxe Shopper.
