Berlin Cycle Chic

My good friend AK [you know her all too well from this blog post...] just got back from Berlin - the place Copenhageners go when they want to feel even cooler. This is the Cycle Chic goodness she spotted in the city. Fabulous.

Klara, Larry and Harry

When you purchase certain products you often have a hope that the people behind the product are cool. When that product is kick-ass sound systems or cargo bikes it's a must that the people behind the product are cool. Enter Klara Geist of Berlin. Enter Larry vs Harry of Copenhagen.


A match made in heaven. Custom sound systems fitted to the cargo bike.

Nuff said.

Berlin - Die Mauer ist weg!

Twenty years today I was out surfing. The waves weren't particularly thrilling that day. I was living in Gold Coast, Australia at the time. The only reason I can remember what I was doing that day and can remember crappy swells is because when I returned to the youth hostel I was living at, a German couple - friends of mine - were glued to the television and signalled for me to hurry over and sit down.

The Berlin Wall had fallen and the streets of the city were filled with people witnessing this monumental event.

We sat in front of the television, sipping beer and talking in low, reverent tones as the images unfolded before us. Wishing we were there but hypnotised by witnessing it on BBC World.



A few photos of Berlin Cycle Chic are hardly monumental enough to match that day 20 years ago, but it's my own humble way of saluting the city.

Die Mauer ist weg!

Copenhagen Cycle Chic International Roundup

Photo: Ruby Washington
The New York Times has a little slide show they call A Field Guide to the New York City Bicyclist wherein they feature five cyclists from the city. One wears lycra, but behold the others! Thanks to the readers who fired off the link to us.

Photo: Ruby Washington


A little splash of Copenhagen Cycle Chic as seen in lovely Karlskrona, Sweden. Thanks, Joel!


A bit of Berlintasticness from Der Spiegel.


Thanks to Andy for this fine example of Springfield Cycle Chic!


I've had this photo on my harddisk for ages and ages. I think it's a publicity stunt for The Bicycle Film Festival.


GQ's Taiwan magazine have a cool print edition with loads of my photos this month and here's a little online teaser for their Scandinavian design feature.

Global Cycle Chic Guest Photos

Time for some guest photos sent to us from around the world or posted in our Flickr group. Copenhagen Cycle Chic goes global. Thanks for thinking of us and keep the guest photos coming!

Constantin sent in this photo of his wife, Verena returning from her 10 km [each way] daily ride to work. She rides a 1998 replica of the first mountain-bike, "THE
KLUNKER" by Gary Fisher. With style, selbstverständlich.

Putting the Oh! back into Ottawa. Thanks to Chris. The lady is riding a fine Skeppshult bicycle from Sweden.

And here's some Global Cycle Chic photos from our Flickr friends:

The 10 Cent Designer in Calgary, Canada. Calgary seems to be doing just fine in the Cycle Chic department. Note: guest photos with cowboy hats will NOT be blogged. :-)

Montrealcykler in, quelle surprise, Montréal. Proprietor of the Montreal Cykler blog.

Michael from NYC and the Drunk and in Charge of a Bicycle blog. It's not Michael in the photo, it's one of his roommates on her new Velorbis Victoria.

La Meow in the States. Vintage Queen of the Internet! :-)

Elinor Zach in NYC.

JanneM in Osaka.

Copenhagen Cycle Chic Global Stickers

Copenhagen Cycle Chic Stickerliciousness begins! We've asked our readers to send us photos of Cycle Chic stickers around the world and they are starting to arrive.

From Pierre in Paris! Classic shot with Velib and le Tour. Quelle photo!

From Viry in Berlin. Lovely chictasticness. The very essence of Copenhagen Cycle Chic in the German capital.

Here's my bike with a sticker. A Velorbis Scrap Deluxe in the Nordic light.

Get your stickers at our Online Boutique. €1.92 / $3.00 each. And send us your photos of the sticker wherever it ends up!

Berlin Cycle Chic

ccc_Berlin Cycle Chic, originally uploaded by [Zakkaliciousness].

Copenhagen cycle chic went off to Berlin.
Chic is not age-related.

Berlin Cycle Chic

ccc_Berlin Cycle Chic, originally uploaded by [Zakkaliciousness].

Copenhagen Cycle Chic went off to Berlin.
It's mostly seems as though the eastern part of the city is more bicycle friendly, but there were many bikes on the Ku'Dam.