All You Need is Love - and Bicycles

End of July: Take Your Time

In summer it's still the right time to enjoy life! Take your time... to kiss your beloved one at the traffic light.


Take your time... to wait for your friends when you're just too fast.


Take your time... to enjoy the landscape from a bridge.


Take your time... to call your friends to join a chic picnic.

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A Nocturnal Urban Intersection

In a mainstream bicycle culture like in Copenhagen, bicycles are never far away. They're beneath you, beside you, behind you and between you. This is an intersection between two main streets and it's a place many people say goodbye before parting ways. Here's a noctural hug.

And here's something more substantial. A solid kiss - one that suggests it's not the last time they'll see each other - before they rode off into the night.

Sub-cultures talk of bike love. We prefer love on bicycles.

For more love on bicycles, check out this earlier post: All You Need is Love - And Bicycles.

Cycle Chic Postcard - Zagreb

Tomislav works at the Danish Embassy and he deftly and elegantly led me around the city when I was there for to give my Bicycle Culture by Design talk and open my Monumental Motion photo exhibition. The bike belonged to his grandfather and was so cool it was painful. Suits the man, though, doesn't it?


A bicycle made for two.


Balkan cool.


A young Zagreb-ian ... uh... Zagrebite... um... Zagreber... uh... citizen of Zagreb out for a spin.


Unfortunately, I found myself in a car at one point. Fortunately, I only spend about 15 hours a year in automobiles.


It's scientifically proven... bicycles make you want to kiss more.


Or just flirt.

Bicycle Kisses

Ice Kiss

They took their time with it. As well they should.

Sandy Toes

Boy, do I ever miss Barcelona. Riding around on the Cycle Chic bicycle, down to the beach, on to a café.

Fortunately, I'll be speaking in Brazil on Saturday, in Sao Paulo. Followed by a great party in Rio de Janeiro next week. So I'll get my fix of barefooted bicycle riding with sandy toes. Which is tough this summer here in Copenhagen.

Here's a few other barefoot bicycle shots:

Springtime Love

We need to take a break from the Berlin Cycle Chic extravanganza to bring you this shot from the cycle tracks of Copenhagen. Intelligent and aesthetic use of your time while waiting for the light to change.

Love in the springtime.

Ottawa Cycle Chic

Some lovely shots from my friend, Joel, in Ottawa, with the Parliament buildings in the background.

Tomorrow - June 2, 2010 - there will be a Best Dressed Commuter prize at the Commuter Challenge / Clean Air Day event in the Canadian capital.

Sepia tones, but that wicked cool Bullitt cargo bike betrays the old school mood.

Better Months of May

So far, it's been a crappy month of May, 2010. It's as though Spring is stuck somewhere else because of volcanic activity on a bankrupt island in the North Atlantic and just can't seem to get home to us. The temperature is a measly 5 degrees, it's grey and drab and, frankly, it sucks.

So... let's fire up the Cycle Chic Wayback Machine and have a look at how May can be and should be. We'll start with the above photo from May 11, 2009. Beautiful weather with temperatures pushing 30 degrees, if memory serves.

Do we kiss more when the springtime is balmy and lovely? I daresay we do. This photo was taken on the same day.


Here's a Cycle Chic classic from May 6, 2008. Three generations all on one tricycle.


And here's a shot from May 2, 2007.

There is hope for gorgeous weather. May ain't over yet. We're crossing our fingers.

Greetings in Paris

She was looking around for him, and he for her. He spotted her first. Rang his bell. She caught sight of him. Waved. Smiled.

He rolled gently up and it was cheek kissing all round.

Goodbye

Two Copenhageners saying goodbye on the bike lanes. Embracing but still with each one hand on their bicycles.

The body language seems to tell a story.