Cycle Chic Belgium

BXL is beautiful

Posted by Stefan | Filed under Brussels

Brussel is vuil en lelijk, stelde de Frans krant Libération onlangs. Ze hebben duidelijk niet naar de fietsers in de hoofdstad gekeken. Wij wel. En we vonden jullie beeldschoon! Hier is het resultaat van de Brussels Cycle Chic fotoshoots. Taggen, delen en stemmen kan tot en met 14 juni!

Bruxelles n’est pas belle, suggérait le quotidien français Libération récemment. Ils n’ont évidemment pas regardé les cyclistes dans la capitale. Nous avons fait exactement ça. Et nous vous trouvons magnifiques! Voici le résultat des Brussels Cycle Chic photoshoots. Taggez vous-même, partagez et rassemblez des votes jusqu’au 14 juin!

Another perfect job by photographer Johan Martens!

Tags: Brussel, Brussels, Bruxelles, Johan Martens, Photo Sessions

Read more | Comments (0) | June 5th, 2013

Man in a meeting

Posted by Benedicte | Filed under Brussels

Man in a meeting, supported by his Brompton in a tough negociation. I’m sure he won the discussion!

Tags: Brompton, Brussels

Read more | Comments (0) | April 30th, 2013

Heading home

Posted by Benedicte | Filed under Brussels

Heading home on a sunny afternoon, I met some beautiful cyclists who were enjoying their ride, just like me.
Let me introduce you to: Stefanie

wearing a bicycle on a bicycle!

Ario & Enea, 2 students who look like cool Flemish boys, but where they actually come from, I don’t know…

Ilse, a friend on the road!

Tags: Brussels, canal

Read more | Comments (0) | April 25th, 2013

Royal lady

Posted by Benedicte | Filed under Brussels, fashion, hats, walk with a bike, winter

I met a very classy lady on her bike one of these winter mornings. Dressed in a beautiful dark green coat with black furry finishing, accompanied by a warm fur hat and leather gloves. Kate is even is brave enough to come out in a skirt. Against the background of the royal palace, Kate could almost be a royal lady!

Tags: Brussels, furs, hats, winter, wintercoat

Read more | Comments (1) | January 24th, 2013

Summer Profile: Théophile Calot

Posted by Stefan | Filed under Brussels, Summer profile

It’s summer in the city, the temperatures are high – occasionally, that is – and our activity level rather low. Not that we mind, after a really, really busy spring. We had our portrait sessions in Bruges and Hasselt in May, an outdoor exhibition in Hasselt, a Tweed & Vintage Ride in Ghent, Cycle Chic Castings and a rather wicked fashion show in Antwerp.

Does that mean no more buzz on the blog? No, of course not. For this summer, we decided to start a new series: Summer Profile. We’ll be doing some portraits or profile features on people we like, people that are doing something cool that includes – in one way or another – a bicycle. For now we’re not looking further than Brussels, simply because everybody thinks Brussels is the most bicycle challenged city. But it’s also the most bicycle creative city.

Unlike most series, we have no idea how many or how periodically we’ll do a feature – most likely when we feel like it.

We’ll kick it off with Théophile Calot, from Théophile’s Papers. Théophile has a passion for graphic design (working for the T.H Studio, Studio Jurgen Maelfeyt and APE), independent publishing, OSB and bicycles.

Théophile’s Papers is an indie & itinerant bookshop with permanent corners in Brussels (Abilene Gallery) and Paris (Artisan Social Designer), providing a platform for the diffusion of independent publishing houses, fanzines, journals, magazines and other print material focussing on art, photography, typography and illustration. His pop-up installations and book displays are created in cooperation with designer Valerian Goalec. All OSB, all absolute design coolness.

Théophile decided that the best way to get around and to distribute all of the zines and printwork in Brussels and beyond was by bicycle. So he got himself a decent transport bike, and by doing so re-invented the whole American newspaper boy concept.