3 March 2009

Style Over Speed

Style Over Speed
An old favourite here on Cycle Chic. The chap on the left is my hero. More Working-Class-Hero-Chic than chic but his look is proving popular among the male population here. Especially the sixpence hat, as we call it in Danish.

Style over Speed, indeed.

Oh, and I don't know if you've noticed our 'gadget' on the top of the right column. Copenhageners cycle 1.2 million km a day so whenever you're here visiting, you can see how many km we've ridden since midnight, Central European Time.
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13 comments:

  1. Anonymous3 March 2009 at 18:10

    Dammit, that dog's wearing fur!

    I have to ask - do you call it a 'sixpence' in Danish or do you call it whatever-the-danish-is-for-sixpence?

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  2. AJS3 March 2009 at 18:11

    Great blog, it should be nicer if more people (speacily the "power" people"), did the same. Nice kms so far, keep the good work

    Kind Regards

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  3. Colville-Andersen3 March 2009 at 18:20

    thanks, both.
    we call it a 'sixpence', not the Danish version of the word, since we never had pence or six of them put together. :-)

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  4. Colville-Andersen3 March 2009 at 19:12

    haha... didn't catch the "that dog's wearing FUR!" comment before.

    It was a lovely dog and made a lovely pair of mittens after it was cruelly run over by the pelaton during the 12th etape of the 1937 Tour de France.

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  5. Anonymous3 March 2009 at 20:17

    I want to precariously balance a woofer on the front of my bike! It must have spectacular stomach muscles!

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  6. Colville-Andersen3 March 2009 at 22:06

    Please don't call me a woofer.

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  7. Christopher Paul3 March 2009 at 23:32

    Well what if I really have to get where I'm going really really fast?

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  8. Adrienne Johnson4 March 2009 at 03:58

    Make sure you strap your dog down or else he'll fall off and Mikael will have new gloves :-)

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  9. Anonymous4 March 2009 at 14:08

    The reason why we call it 'sixpence' is that when the first ones were imported from England they carried a six pence-price tag. The at that time unfamiliar-with-English Danes of course mistook it for the name.

    Ulrik

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  10. Anonymous4 March 2009 at 19:32

    Nice blog, i'll definitely go for speed for fitness reason.

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  11. Anonymous5 March 2009 at 05:27

    Oh, please give us this shot as a hi-qual wallpaper.

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  12. Anonymous5 March 2009 at 06:58

    I'm trying to imagine my nervous little dog staying in my bike basket. It would never happen but I guess a girl can dream.

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  13. Anonymous13 March 2009 at 04:44

    Oh, but old school wool racing kits are so cool! Check out vintagevelos.com for some really spiffy looking reproductions of old race stuff. My favorite is their newest: http://www.vintagevelos.com/jer-cilo1.html

    Different looks for different riding. I wear suits and shoes on my brompton folding bike to work and lyrca on my "fast" bike!

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