Red Light Moments

This little film has been frightfully popular on Flickr - seen almost 30,000 times.

To my surprise, I found another version from the same spot in my archives today:


Red light moments in the City of Cyclists.

I Love Budapest I Bike Budapest

A film of cinematic brilliance from our lovely friends at Hungarian Cycle Chic. Nuff said.

The Great Escape

THE GREAT ESCAPE from Edouard Sepulchre on Vimeo.

What a lovely way to start the week. Bike light love. Brilliant little film from Paris.

Socially Nocturnal

Some more shots from the Copenhagen nightlife. It's like truck stops in America. The ones with the most trucks have the best food. In Copenhagen the bars with the most bicycles are the ones you want to be at. I was at (among other places) Mesteren & Lærlingen (The Boss and the Apprentice) in the meat packing district. It's an old bar that the butchers in the meat packing district used to hang out at and now it's a cosy restaurant in the evenings and a throbbing, pulsing bar at night.





There was music pumping away inside, but this guy was parked out front with his vintage Longjohn cargo bike, playing groovy tunes for the crowds hanging out in front of the bar, despite the temperature hovering around zero.






Mesteren & Lærlingen - Flæsketorvet 86. Meat Packing District in Vesterbro.

Night Riding

Copenhagen. Meat Parking District. 2:30 AM. Cafés are closing - time to move on to the bars.

True Bike Love, Baby

I saw this outside my window an hour ago. I've seen hundreds of bicycle users waiting at this spot in the evening, casting shadows from the car headlights. Suddenly, like a vision, a heart formed. It lingered there, imprinted on the asphalt for more than a minute. Until the light changed and the bicycle was set into motion. But the heart remains in these photographs. This is urban living. This is bike love. This is the future for our cities, baby.



And because we love you all madly, all you Cycle Chic readers, here are a couple of versions of the photo you can use as wallpaper for your trusty computer:

This one is 1400 x 800. Click on it, new window, right click to save as.

This one is 1024 x 768.

This one is 1900 x 1200. By special request... :-)

Have a lovely weekend.

Oh My Oh My it's Oh Land

Oh Land: Nordic Fantasia on Nowness.com.

Sigh. What a way to wander into the weekend. Danish songstress Nanna Øland Fabricius - aka Oh Land - features in this animated film by photographer Matthew Donaldson.

Nuits Nordiques

The light fades fast in Copenhagen at this time of year. Late-afternoon traffic is illuminated by city lights. Home we go to candles. Candles are second-nature to Danes and you'd be hard-pressed to find a home without them.

Automobiles are pretty much useless props in cities, but for fractions of time they serve a purpose - casting shadows to make the bicycle users look even more spectacular than they are.