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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010London Transport Museum Poster Competition
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010The London Transport Museum recently held a cycling illustration competition to show how cycling in London can be good for the environment, for people’s health and most importantly, is fun!
Here is the winner and the runners-up.
Plus our personal favourite.
Frocks on Bikes comes to Melbourne
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Frocks on Bikes is the gathering point for stylish lady cyclists in New Zealand – they organise rides, events and shows for ‘sustainably-minded, funky women to celebrate biking beauty’.
At the Northside Ladies Bicycle Calendar 2011 calendar launch I was handed a flyer telling me that the sassy and stylish NZ cycling phenomenon is coming to Melbourne, with the inaugural picnic ride in January 2011.
Here are some photos featuring the organising committee behind Frocks on Bikes Melbourne – frilly handbags, a retro-styled floral dress from Dangerfield and a cute Red Riding Hood rain jacket.
To receive updates on Frocks on Bikes Melbourne rides, just send an email to frocksonbikes.melbourne@gmail.com.
Supersonic futuristic bikes
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
The Coolist, a design and lifestyle blog, have compiled a list of 10 amazing bikes of the future.
We think the Artikcar by Ben Wilson is simply adorable.
And if you’re in Melbourne, check out what’s happening at the Melbourne Bikefest. Today’s theme is is all about bikes and design, including the forum today entitled Tomorrow’s Bikes: New Directions, presented by Design Victoria.
Wolf and Willow
Friday, November 26th, 2010
Korean Cycle Chic
Friday, November 26th, 2010We have a bit of a thing of Korean film stars. In fact, we once sat through a very long and boring mockumentary called The Actresses just because it featured five beautiful Korean actresses.
So we love the look book for Korean label Mind bridge, featuring Korean actors Gong Yoo and Lee Min Jung. Yes to preppy slim-cut blazers and cropped chinos!
Even better, tere’s the stylish, smiling and sunny behind-the-scenes video of the photoshoot.
Melbourne Bikefest Opening Night Party
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
There was no way we were going to miss the opening party of Melbourne Bikefest, Melbourne’s celebration all things bike-related for the next 4 days based at 1000 £ Bend (note that CycleStyle is also a sponsor of Bikefest, but even if this wasn’t the case this is so our thing).
Bike valet parking – a great idea thanks to Crumpler for when you have that many bikes all congregating in one place. Look how many more bikes you can fit in the same space in a carpark. Take note, city councils!
Crazy bike riding antics in the carpark!
Hear a story and/or share your story about your experience with bikes at Bike Story. Stories collected at Bikefest will be posted at the conclusion of the festival.
Some of CycleStyle‘s products on display (and for sale) in the Bike Shop – colourful bells and skirt garters.
More Cyclestyle goodness – La Pomme French bike satchel, Disco-bright reflective legwarmers, Ocean flower helmet and all sized bags from Po Campo for fitting on your bike.
The Bike Shop also have stocks of Outlier pants, I love cycling T-shirts, Pageant Queen reflective sashes, our most popular wicker baskets and a selection Kitsch Kitchen panniers – if you can’t see them on display ask the friendly store staff for them.
This is your chance to see, touch, try stuff on and save on shipping for those purchases you’ve been coveting from our store :–)
Two of our VIP guests for the evening, Cheryl from Business Chic and Kealey from Thelma Magazine.
Cute Bikefest badges – love the presentation too, using an old wheel. Might even borrow that idea for ourselves…
There is so much more stuff happening in the next 4 days that we can’t list or describe them all here – so why not go check out the program for yourself. To read an interview with Pip Carroll, the director of Melbourne Bikefest, click here.
To see more photos from the party, click here.
Claudia Phares and her obi
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010Claudia Phares is a Montreal-raised and Melbourne-based photographer whose work is included in the Northside Ladies Bicycle Calendar 2011. I met her at the calendar launch party and loved her colourful and practical outfit – a cowl neck mini-dress from Japanese high street label Uniqlo, some lace three-quarter length leggings and all pulled together with a bright red obi.
The obi is also featured in her colourful photo of the lady cyclist for January. Amazingly it is made from an old Aldi shopping bag (the ones that replace plastic bags but are in fact non-biodegradable). Her tip if you also want to create a belt from a bag is to cut on the diagonal so that it wraps around the body snugly. Pretty clever!
Northside Ladies Bicycle Calendar 2011 Launch Party
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
So I was at launch party for the Northside Ladies Bicycle Calendar 2011 at Edinburgh Gardens recently. Despite the threat of torrential rain, a group of stylish cycling ladies gathered by the rotunda for an exhibition of the works in the 2011 calendar, some wine and music, and to be part of the photoshoot for the cover of the 2012 calendar.
The Northside Ladies Bicycle Calendar 2011 celebrates all types of cycling and has been produced by Jay Rayner since 2009. The 2011 calendar features the work of 12 Melbourne photographers shot on the same film camera and printed on heavy matt paper.
After some bursts of unbelievably heavy rain, we finally found a gap in the light and took the opportunity to shoot the cover. A little sodden but with spirits high, we took our steeds amongst the trees and dinged our bike bells during the shoot.
The calendar is available online and in the following stores in Melbourne – Book Grocer stores, Polyester Books, Human Powered Cycles, Commuter Cycles, Readings Bookstore, Fly by Night Books (Elizabeth St), Kick Gallery (High St) and Villian (Sydney Rd).
We’re also hoping to have some calendars available for one day only at the CycleStyle + Jellybean Bikes stall at the Melbourne Design Market on Sunday 5 December.
Summer here, winter there
Monday, November 22nd, 2010While Helsinki is experiencing mere hours of sunlight and masses of snow at the moment, we here in the Southern Hemisphere can take inspiration from this stylish cyclist in the Helsinki summer.
I Buy Stuff Online
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
Our Spring/Summer Photoshoot – behind the scenes
Friday, November 19th, 2010We just love the finished photos from our Spring/Summer editorial and we hope you do too.
We also thought you might be interested in seeing some of the behind-the-scenes shots that we snapped of Jono and Marianne at work.
These guys deserve big kudos for their professionalism and positive can-do attitudes. Shooting on location can be pretty tough – being out of a studio environment means that you can’t control things like wind, glare, cold and sand. Goodness knows how Marianne manages to look glamorous in all conditions!
