May 17, 2008 by Kingston
Another brilliant painting by Janet Karam, inspired by one of my photos. Art imitates art once again. This one was inspired by this photo:
Janet's Blog.Janet's website -
Funkytown Art.
Taking a literary angle, Inge in Antwerpen has a Dutch literature blog called
Plankje Ongeregeld and she
interviewed me for a new feature on her blog - Bloggers Read and Tell. Now I'm looking forward to photos/reportage about her and her new black Oma bike. :-)
Michael in Brooklyn has a cool blog started up.
Drunk and In Charge of a Bicycle. Michael and his roommates have been discussing getting cool 'normal' bikes and they are all casting themselves into the fray. Michael had a poll on his blog about what bike his should buy. Either an Azor Opa [some Dutch contraption] or a
Velorbis Churchill [bespoke Danish elegance and exquisite design]. Needless to say, the Velorbis won the Euro-challenge.
Michael will be posting about his new bike and his travels in NYC as they happen. He is also compiling a list of dealers/distributors for various European-style bikes in the States, which should come in handy for those of you who are in the market for one.
We have a backlog of guest photos itching to get online so we'll start with
another photo from Patrick in Portland. Pure Copenhagen.
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May 1, 2008 by Kingston
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.
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April 27, 2008 by Kingston
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.
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by Kingston
Here are some more splendid photos from one of our regular contributors - about time we calld him a foreign correspondant - Derek, from Washington State. Check him out at
bikerubbish.com. Thanks for the photos, Derek! Keep spreading the Cycle Chic.
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