The internet is brilliant for many reasons. One of them isn't that in the midst of winter we can see instant images of people enjoying a brilliant summer on the bottom half of the planet - like this fantastic shot from our friends at Sydney Cycle Chic. But we shall wait patiently and strike back in about four months time when they're shivering. Hah.
At least the sun never sets on the Cycle Chic Republic and it's always sunny somewhere - and always cocktail time somewhere, too.
Lucy provided the vintage bikes for the event.
While we wouldn't want to live anywhere else but Copenhagen, we certainly wouldn't mind a little Australian holiday right about now.
Remember, you always have Sydney Cycle Chic for more photos from Down Under.
Meanwhile, back at Cycle Chic Headquarters in Copenhagen:
Here's a little splash of Cycle Chic from Down Under. Sydney Cycle Chic, indeed. Nice. Thanks to Candycranks.
You may recall the story about Sue, the cyclist in New South Wales who is fighting a ticket for cycling without a helmet. She's getting ready for court and defending herself on the grounds of 'necessity'. You can see a little film about it here. Go Sue!
This popped into the Cycle Chic inbox today, from Sydney. It's a classic cycle chic poster advertisting the Sydney Festival First Night and encouraging people to cycle to and from the events. The festival night was held on 10 January. The poster lives on here at Cycle Chic.
The Dreams on Wheels exhibition of Danish bicycle culture was seen by a couple hundred thousand people in the main Australian cities through the last half of 2008 and now the exhibition has morphed into a bigger and better version 2.0. It has been given wheels and will be rolling into Edinburgh later this month.
If you love the photos here on the Cycle Chic blog, you can see them up front and personal at the exhibition since I did the photography. You can see Danish bicycles and learn about how we developed our bicycle culture.
Dreams on Wheels will be visiting many cities around the world throughout 2009. I'll keep you posted.
Nothing to do with bikes this, but it's a radio plague at the moment. A cool radio plague. Since this is a streetstyle blog, the line about "I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds" may ring true for many.
Here's a great shot of cycle chic down under from Lucy. Thanks for sending it along to us. Lucy restores vintage bikes and sells them on Australian e-Bay, if anyone is interested.
A wonderful shot from France from La vie en rose on flickr.
And here's a spot of cycle chic in Rome from Cappanelle.
CYCLE CHIC FOR KIDS Here's a shot from Carl in Colorado. Thanks for thinking of us! "This is my daughter just after she learned to “do it myself daddy!” Of course, if you are going to ride around the neighborhood, you MUST wear pink and more pink and knee high fuzzy boots. I guess I’ll have to get her a new bike now. (I bet it will be pink.) I really enjoy your site. Keep up the great work. Carl."
