Cycle Chic Global: Chicago

Cycle Chic in Chicago by 'Dream Dottie' on Flickr.

Cycle Chic goodness from the Cycle Chic™ Flickr group.

Guest Photos: Chicago, Greece, Toronto

As ever, I'm dreadfully behind on the guest photo front. Thanks to everyone who sends them and I'm sorry if I forget to post them. Above is Malama from Greece. The first guest photo from Hellas! Nice one. Looking sharp and lovely.

David Jensen on his Kronan in Chicago. Danish name, Swedish bicycle. We're loving it.

Dapper as hell.

And this one was sent in by another David, this time in Toronto. Angella in her splendid green dress on her bicycle named 'Bicyclette'.

Global Cycle Chic Guest Photos

Here is an update with guest photos sent in by our readers. This one gets a space all its own:
Dottie from Let's Go Ride a Bike.
My fanciest cycling duds yet. :) I wouldn't have attempted this, if I hadn't seen all the women on your site.

Thanks, Dottie!


Here's a pile of lovely guest photos that I haven't had time to post. Wonderful stuff. Thanks for sending them in.
New Orleans: Jillian from Button McSweet. San Sebastian: Raquel from Gratis Total. Belgium: From Cycle Chic.be. Sevilla: From Martin. Stockholm: Fra Cykelsmart.se. Great Britain: Shit, sorry! Can't remember! London: From Cyclodelic.
Copenhagen: From Hugo-Andres. USA: From LastNightsParty.com. Norway: From Per. Budapest: From Cycle Chic.hu.

Best Cities For Men to Live In

Now roughly half of our readers are female, but that also means the other half aren't so here's a new list from the massive Askmen.com website about the Top 29 Best Cities for Men to Live In.

We're featuring a guest photo from Chicago, from Kimberly, at the top so there's a clue as to which city was voted number 1.

The list was compiled was Askmen.com editors and they selected Chicago as the most inhabitable city in the world for the everyday man. Selection criteria for the top cities included the rate of employment, ratio of single women to men, frequency of cultural activities and sporting events and the cost of a pint of beer.

The “Top 29 Cities for Men to Live In” results were determined through seven unique rating categories including: Dating & Sex, Sports & Entertainment, Culture, Fashion, Health, Power & Money and The Good Life. Cities earned points and elevated their rank on the list through an evaluation process that assessed several influential features, such as: the population of single, college-educated women, how late bars/clubs stay open, the presence of a reputable menswear-only store, the rate of male heart disease, the cost of living and the occurrence of an annual international arts festival.

All we can say is that the editors didn't spend enough time in Copenhagen. This fair city features at #9. Oh well, we seem to do fine in other lists.

The complete list of AskMen.com’s “Top 29 Cities for Men to Live In” includes:

1. Chicago
2. Barcelona
3. San Francisco
4. London
5. Sydney
6. New York
7. Berlin
8. Hong Kong
9. Copenhagen
10. Paris

Visit their website for the rest of the list.


Copenhagen: number 1 in our hearts.

Guest Photos and Guest Art

Another Sunday round of Guest Photos and even more guest art. Enjoy.

Baton Rouge, Lousiana, USA - Christopher looking dapper on his fine ride.

Laura in Chicago was inspired by one of our photos and produced the splendid artwork above - based on the photo below. Thanks for showing us, Laura! It's lovely.



California, USA - from Alan.

Munich/München.

Chicago Dreams

We haven't heard much from Chicago from readers of the blog until today. Two great emails pop into the Cycle Chic inbox from The Third City. Both with clear an undeniable links to Copenhagen Cycle Chic.

First up, the coolest current gig in the Americas. HANK & ME is a blog about a Chicagoen and her bike, Hank. Here's her pitch from the blog:
This is the story of Hank & me. Hank is my oma bicycle make by henry workcycles. Inspired by Cycle Chic and Copenhagenize, we're going Dutch for 365 days in the city of Chicago. That's right - no car, no spandex, no toe clips. Just my everyday clothes, a bike, a lock, and a set of panniers. Can we make it the year? Hank and I think so.

Of course you'll make it! Because you're cool and Hank is cool and because 100 million Europeans do the same thing each day! :-) THIS is the kind of role model America needs in order to normalize everyday urban cycling.

We quickly suggested that she take Hank along to Erik & Me, a Danish restaurant and pub in Chicago as well as Wikstrom's Scandinavian-American Gourmet Foods to buy some Danish bread, cheese and herring and the all-important snaps [I think it's spelled schnaps 'over there']

GO chicaGO!
The other Windy City email is a fabulous guest photo from Kimberly:

Now THAT is cycle chic at it's best. THAT is a Friday night in Copenhagen. Classy and chic and a cooler than cool bike to boot. The undeniable link to Copenhagen Cycle Chic is that Kimberly runs the very bespoke Indigo Yacht Charters and among their destinations are the Virgin Islands - part of which was formally owned by Denmark until sold to the USA in 1917 for $25,000,000.

Thanks to you both for thinking of us! Any more photos? You know where to send them.