Bling Bling
Posted by Stijn | Filed under abroad, design
Old news but nevertheless quite impressive… As far as I know this is the most expensive bicycle in the world. There are only 10 of these bikes on this planet. Each one of them have been hand-built and then plated with 24-carat gold generously adorned with more than 600 fine Swarovski crystals. Pricetag: € 80000.
See Auromania for more info.
Tags: fixed gear, fixie, gold, swarovski
Vintage satchels
Posted by Stijn | Filed under Kids, design, fashion
With the first of September on its way, it’s about time to get your toddler a proper satchel. These three vintage satchels can be found on Lola Life Lines, a Belgian webshop full of vintage goodies.
Tags: satchel, vintage, webshop
WorkCycles Fr8
Posted by Stefan | Filed under Ghent, design
So imagine – or if you’re in that position: consider – you have a couple of kids that you want to ride around with. And you prefer doing your grocery shopping on two humanly powered wheels. Then you think what? Cargo bike!
Yep, we do like our cargo bikes. But what if you match the above description, but you don’t have room vor a cargo bike, or you think they’re too long or too big to handle? then you might like the WorkCycles Fr8.
Very functional and extremely cool looks – isn’t that first rule in the Design Book? Check out all the details on their website, or have a look at this little video to see one in use.
Tags: Kids, WorkCycle Fr8
A bicycle to go shopping with…
Posted by Stijn | Filed under abroad, design
Meet the Ville, a foldable bicycle that can easily be transformed into a shopping cart. It’s designed by Hyuk Jae Chang, who won the bronze medal with it at the IDEA Design Awards. The idea is simple. You ride to the shop, fold the bike and do your groceries with it. Unfold the bike when you finished shopping and of you go!
Thanks to Weekend Knack
Tags: award, bicycle design, folding bike, Hyuk Jae Chang, shopping, ville
Baubike
Posted by Joost | Filed under abroad, art, design
www.thecoolhunter.com.au
Take the basic shape of a square and you get this. Danish designer Michael Ubbesen Jakobsen took a real good look at some Bauhaus designs and created a wonderful bike. Maybe not very handy for your day-to-day bikerides, but it’s a piece of art and worth mentioning.
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/1559/baubike
Tags: abroad, bicycle design, design
VELO – Bicycle Culture and Design – WIN YOUR OWN COPY!
Posted by Stefan | Filed under design, fashion
Since we’ve been doing this blog, which includes a lot of research and surfing around the world wide information highway, for other blogs that present all things bicycle culture, we thought we’d seen a lot.
Boy, were we wrong.
But now that we’ve looked through Velo – Bicycle Culture and Design, published by Berlin based Gestalten, we can say we indeed have seen pretty much everything when it comes to bicycle (sub)culture, art and design. And some of it we saw with our jaw dropped to the floor.
Velo doesn’t have a lot of text. That’s because it doesn’t need to have a lot of text. This is book to look at and to be amazed and get inspired by some of the most passionate designers, photographers, illustrators and riders out there. All of them having one muze: the bicycle.
Though primarily focussing on subcultures that have their origin and focus on the street (fixies, grafitti, illustrators, t-shirts and caps…) and on dazzling bicycle design – be it practical or innovative, Velo also has a sharp eye for the growing urban and social relevance the bicycle is playing in modern day city transport. There’s even a pretty big interview with a certain Mikael Colville-Andersen.
The cool thing about this book is that is relevant. Not just to people who are in any way involved in bicycle culture or in transport. It has the power to appeal to anyone who’s even the slightest bit interested in arts, design and our constantly shifting society.
Therefore Velo is a vital document that shows us in how many different ways the bicycle has become a part of our lives and our cultural identity.
WIN! CYCLE CHIC PHOTO CONTEST!
So you’d like to have a copy of Velo on your own coffee table? You can! Thanks to the cool people at Gestalten we are able to give away one copy of this amazing book.
How? Simple: show us a photo of yourself, your girlfriend/wife or boyfriend/husband, or a friend of yours being all cycle chic. And by cycle chic, we don’t just mean fashionable. Cycle chic is just as much about attitude, posture and joie de vivre. It’s about your style.
The person who sends us the most cycle chic photo gets the book. And since this book is filled with art and design, you get extra points for being arty next to fashionable.
Post your submission up our wall on our Facebook (and maybe tag yourself), or send us your photo at info(a)cyclechic.be. The ones we get through e-mail will be posted on the FB wall by us.
The winning photo will be selected by a very special guest: Leen Creve, design journalist for Knack Weekend.
DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, MAY 21, 23:59:59.
Tags: bicycle culture, book, design, Gestalten, Velo
Taga
Posted by Stefan | Filed under Ghent, design
Reader Barbara Vanderstraeten sent us some photos of her children in their Taga.
I knew they existed, but I had never seen one in the city scene. Taga describes these bikes as a ‘a multifunctional vehicle designed for families on the go. It is a baby stroller and carrier bike all rolled into one’. Barbara tells us she loves the concept, which uses different modules – one or two childrens seats or a Maxi-cosi, a cargo bike or a shopping bike.
We’ll take the word of an actual user over any marketing chat, thank you.
And her kids sure seem to love it.
All photos and children by Barbara Vanderstraeten.
Tags: cargo bike, children, Ghent, Taga
Pimp my cargo bike!
Posted by Stijn | Filed under design, marketing
Just discovered this beauty!
It’s a website in Holland where you can order all sorts of prints for your cargo bike.
It’s even possible to upload your own design!
All pictures courtesy of www.pimpmijnbakfiets.nl
Tags: cargo bike, pimp, website
Recycle-Bycle
Posted by Stefan | Filed under Antwerp, design
In our categorie Lovely Little Bicycle Initiatives We Totally Digg, we present Recycle-Bycle.
These guys recycle bicycle parts or complete bicycles that most people generally would just throw out as trash by fixing them and transforming them into cool and rather unique bicycles.
New (re)designs sport groovy names like OMG! I’m so retro! or Give me some lovin’.
OMG! I'm so retro! courtesy of Recycle-Bycle
Give me some lovin' courtesy of Recycle-Bycle
You can get your hands and feet on a Recycle-Bycle for only €175. Students even get a discount. Speaking of bargains…
You want your recycled riding piece of art even more exclusive? Then you can give ‘em a call and let them customize your future bike to your own wishes.
Recycle-Bycle is based in Antwerp. You can also find them on Facebook. Go and become a fan.
Stijn Cycles
Posted by Stijn | Filed under design
A bicycle wearing my name, I wish it was mine…
Via Fixed Gear Flanders.
Tags: fixed gear, stijn
