Munich Cycle Chic

The City of Munich has being busy trying to promote urban cycling and the city as a Bicycle Capital. The city currently has about 20% of its population on bicycles but they want more.

One of their major projects over the summer has been Radlstar - or Bicycle Star. Inspired by a similar project in Toulouse called À vélo citoyens!, they sent a photographer out onto the streets to take photos of all kinds of cyclists from the city against a white backdrop. The photos went onto a website and visitors could vote for the true Radlstar. It's pop, a bit kitsch, but it's great for selling cycling positively. There were scores of photos so I just grabbed the ones that jumped out at me, appealing to my Cycle Chic aesthetics, and here they are:



Once they got down to 20 finalists, they did some video portraits of them. Here's Amelia.

And here's Sophie.


And here's the winner. Andy, aged 15. No doubt cascading to victory on the teenage girl vote. :-)

Taunton Cycle Chic et al

Mrs Day's Green Leather Sling-backs.

A couple of cracking photos from the Taunton Tweed Cycle Chic website, one of newish cycle chic blogs gracing the internet.

Mr Sargeant on Raleigh Roadster.

Our little Cycle Chic movement keeps on expanding. Other new sites that have registered are:
Munich Cycle Chic
Aix-en-Provence Cycle Chic
St. Andrews Cycle Chic
Bandung Cycle Chic [Indonesia]
Sheffield Cycle Chic
Tucson Bike Beautiful
Buenos Aires Cycle Chic
Torun Cycle Chic [Poland]
ADDED:
I Dream of Cycling - Atlanta, USA
Did I miss anybody?!

As ever, we're honoured and flattered to have you all in the cycle chic family.

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.

Copenhagen Cycle Chic Goes Global

Copenhagen Cycle Chic is spreading. Thanks for all the guest photos!

Another stellar shot from Lucy in Australia. Lucy sells restored vintage bikes on Ebay and this is one of her happy customers in Gold Coast. I love this shot, not least because I lived there for six months back in the day and have surfed that very break in the background. Ah, memories.


Cool shot from João in Portugal. Check out his cool blog about Portugal's bike capital, Ílhavo here.


Cool Cycle Chic in Poland from the streetstyle blog Kajakowo
A splash of Munich cycle chic from my mate G-fried.

This landed in the inbox from a reader. Classic bike, as seen by the thousands in Copenhagen.

A splash of New York Cycle Suit Chic from Bicyclesonly on Flickr.