Fashion blog Business Chic captured Malachi, the owner of Northside Wheelers in Prahran, looking ever so stylish and chilled out with his bike in the window and tulips at the door.
Archive for November, 2011
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Melbourne Tweed Ride 2011
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Tally-ho ladies and gents!
Thanks to some Sunday sun, the Melbourne Tweed Ride 2011 was a great success! A large contingent of tweed-wearers and vintage-stylers rode out from Federation Square along the tweedy brown Yarra River to Como House, which was hosting the Paris to Provence Festival.
We met up with lots of lovely people on their bikes, including Marianne of Esme of the Laneway, Cheryl from Business Chic, Lara from Wardrobe Wonderland, Pip from The Squeaky Wheel, Kealey from Thelma Magazine, Georgia and Alexandra from The Wheeler, Jen and Sondra from Frocks on Bikes Melbourne, Michael from Smart Alec hatters and a large contingent from the Vintage Bicycle Club of Victoria.
Here are some of our favourite pictures.
To see more images, check out our Flickr photostream. More pictures click here, here, here and here.
Colour blocking in New York
Monday, November 28th, 2011Colour blocking is a big trend for spring/summer 2011 and we love how it’s been interpreted in this colourful image from NYC.
Bicycle Wine Rack by Oopsmark
Friday, November 25th, 2011
We’ve got just the thing for your bike this party season!
If you like wine and you like biking, you’re going to love our new Bicycle Wine Rack. The handmade leather bicycle wine rack is perfect for taking wine with you on the go. It easily attaches to any 1″ bike frame with antique brass fasteners, while the hidden clamps hold the bottle securely. The olive oil-treated vegetable-tanned leather will only look better as it ages.
The Bicycle Wine Rack is in store now for $29. Something for the Christmas stocking, perhaps?
Here’s a great video showing off the Bicycle Wine Rack in its home town, Montreal.
Melbourne Design Market – Christmas edition
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
We’re back for the Christmas edition of the Melbourne Design Market next Sunday 4 December 10-5pm.
You’ll find lots of Christmas inspiration at our stall – stocking fillers like cute bells and skirt garters, Santa’s wishlist items like chic raincoats and helmets and stylish panniers and bags for hauling home your Christmas turkey!
If you’ve never been to the market you’ll find an ever-inspiring, ever-tempting array of great design stalls, cool grooves, coffee and happy crowds. For more information about the market go to www.melbournedesignmarket.com.au
See you on next Sunday!
Ally Capellino on a bike
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
We are very excited to know that Carradice have collaborated with Ally Capellino to produce a line of bags specifically for bike commuters.
We are big fans of the high quality British workmanship embodied in Carradice’s and Ally Capellino‘s products (we use a Timothy for weekend trips away). The new range is like dream-bag-squared!
If you can’t wait for the new bags to arrive in store (slated for Northern Hemisphere Spring 2012) then some of Ally Capellino‘s current range is suitable for bike riding. Here’s a video showing Frank on a bike.
The Smoothie Cycle
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
With the weather warming up, every day is just an excuse to drink another smoothie.
Brisbane business The Smoothie Cycle brings a slightly different experience to the smoothie blender – the smoothies are pedal powered! You can opt to pedal your own smoothie or a friendly staff member will burn the calories for you.
The ingredients are 100% certified organic and the smoothies include different combinations of seasonal fruits, nuts, seeds, cacao, cinnamon, cardamon, honey, agave, juice, mesquite, chia seeds, maca, yoghurt and milk.
We spotted them in Brisbane at the Finders Keepers markets and while we couldn’t leave our stall to do our own pedaling we did try one of their classic banana smoothies. Yum!
Image via The Smoothie Cycle
Aussie Beach Bicycles
Monday, November 21st, 2011Summer in Australia is all about the beach. And now it can be all about bikes too.
Aussie Beach Bicycles sells mens, womens and kids beach cruisers in an array of bright colours that really pop, at around $500-$600 a bike.
Obviously you don’t have to restrict your riding to the beach! We’ve spotted these kind of bikes all around inner city Melbourne, with their riders cruising to cafes and galleries.
Sunshine yellow with polkadots
Friday, November 18th, 2011Marianne from Esme and the Laneway gets frolicking on her bike with a lovely Spring outfit – sunshine yellow cardigan, floral skirt and a polkadot hair scarf. Love the matching sandals too!
CycleStyle at the Pop Up Shop Northcote
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
From 24 November 1 December to 22 December, some of our best-selling bike gear will be on sale at the Pop Up Shop in High St, Northcote.
Run by the people behind the Pop Up Markets, the Pop Up Shop will sell a mix of wonderful object and artwork designed or made by talented Melburnians, as well as a selection of cool things from independent Melbourne retailers like CycleStyle.
The shop at 122 High St, Northcote opposite Westgarth Cinema at the bottom of the hill in High Street. It will be open 11am-5pm Wednesday to Sunday.
We’ll have a rotating array of stock at the Pop Up Shop – if there’s anything you’d like to touch, feel or try on before buying just let us know and we can deliver it to the Pop Up Shop for you.
Glitter socks and heels
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011Marianne from Esme and the Laneway rocks her bike ride black and silver glitter socks and some pretty impressive heels.
Black wedges
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011We love how the black wedges on this chic cyclist matches the skirt guard and frame of her step-through bike.
via Lookbook.nu