Eyes in the Back of My Head

When a bicycle is your primary form of transport, strange things appear on it. Like these LEGO storage heads I found on sale at a supermarket here in Copenhagen and rode home with on my Velorbis. I like having eyes in the back of my head.

But it's also important to keep your eyes front. :-)

Copenhagen Lego Cycle Chic

If we lived in Toy-penhagen, this is what this blog would look like. Citizen Cyclists riding through the city.

Man in a suit complete with mobile. Supermum with her kid and her coffee. Flowers decorating a bike.

The elderly (with baguettes), a doctor, you name it.

Businessman with briefcase. 50% + female ridership. Etc.

One-handed riding. Yep... it's all there. All we need is for LEGO to make stilettos and mini-skirts... :-)

Life-sized Lego Cycle Chic

Life-sized (well, kind of) LEGO cycle chic at the LEGO flagship store in Copenhagen, as spotted by Sandra at the Classic Copenhagen blog. Love it!

Be sure to check out our Lego tag here on Cycle Chic for more Legoliciousness relating to lovely bicycle riding.

Cycle Chic Bike Gang Part 2

The badasse chicas from the Cycle Chic Bike Gang just got all stunt hip on our asses.

CCBG roolz.

Cycle Chic Bike Gang

Rollin' n' rockin'. The Cycle Chic Bike Gang. You don't want to mess with these badassé girls... but you secretly hope that they'll mess with you.

Lego Girl in Frisco

Heading down Market Street towards the meeting point for San Francisco's Halloween Critical Mass I spotted Lego. I suppose a Swede would be able to see meatballs at 5 km and a Norwegian could probably smell whale meat at 10, but a Copenhagener spots Lego. [and high heels on pedals at 40 km...]

This San Francisciana had made her own accessories out of colourful Danish bricks and we chatted about it as we rode. I told her I needed some photos and she obliged.

She asked if Lego had a slogan, which they don't, really. But I explained the the name Lego is an abbreviation of 'lege godt' - play well. And that later the founder discovered that Lego was loosely interpreted in Latin as 'I assemble' or "I put together". Which was nice.

She was decked out in Lego accessories and even had a Lego blouse in her bag. Very funkalicious, indeed.

A mid-Atlantic compromise: Lego and heeled boots meets American toe clips and no chainguard.


Continuing the Lego theme, I spotted this chap - on the left - with a Lego mini-figure head rolling down Valencia.

For the record, it's not correct to call them 'legos'. It's just Lego. Like rice. You don't say "I'm going to boil some rices for dinner." There. Got THAT off my chest.

Lego Cycle Chic

A dapper Dane in regular clothes on a sensible bicycle. With his briefcase on the back rack no less. Friendly smile, good posture and look at how he's ironed those trousers to perfection. What a catch.

Lego and bicycles. Of course. Two Danish institutions. Lego has actually recently launched another set for their ongoing Lego City series that now features a bike/skateboard shop. This figure, above, is included.


I'm so pleased, simply because this Lego Cycle Chicista, spotted by me at Legoland, is single and looking for a hot, like-minded guy with whom she can pedal about Copenhagen to cafés, cinemas and then back to her place for... um... 'coffee'.

Over at Copenhagenize.com we have a post about all the sets from Lego history that feature bicycles.


And if the frightfully stylish couple hit it off, I'll be out on the streets waiting to document it.

Resting on her Florals

A little Sunday hint of the summerliciousness to come.


I've posted about Lego has immortalised us in Legoland, but here's the ultimate accolade. A Lego version of yours truly. Perfect except for the hat. I'm not a fisherman.

We have some new postcards for your perusal over at the Copenhagen Cycle Chic Boutique.

Really... Honestly... It's not just us...

On a visit to Legoland [the original here in Denmark, not one of the franchises] last summer with my son I was thrilled to see that Cycle Chic was featured in several exhibits - as interpreted by Lego.

This is Denmark. We'll shut up soon about how it's not just us but we thought it amusing and appropriate to include these photos here to really hammer it home about how girls on bikes is an integral part of the culture and has been for a century.




We were finally caught in the act of recording streetstyle and bike culture. And with a town crier as a witness to it all.


Whatever the case... we're famous. We immortal. We are legotastic. We'll shut up now.