David Byrne: This Is How We Ride!

The artist and musician David Byrne writes, "The future is visible in the increasing number of bikes you see all over the urban landscape. This simple form of transportation is about to make our city more liveable, more human and better connected."

[Read more in the Sunday Review of NY Times]

reality check

nice one Steven!

let's roll!

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Fall of 2012 will see the release of yet another beautiful retrospective from Rizzoli, this time spotlighting the 65-year history of Milan bicycle manufacturer Cinelli. Entitled Cinelli: The Art and Design of the Bicycle, the 240-page hardback will feature insights from founder Cino Cinelli, professional riders like Felice Gimondi and Gilberto Simoni, and Cinelli collaborators including Mike Giant, Benny Gold, Paul Smith and Barry McGee. Set for a release this October, Cinelli: The Art and Design of the Bicycle. text from...HERE! Don't pre-order it from Amazon! Buy it from your local bookshop or bike shop!

bike on bike

spin the black circle

The city can make for fascinating viewing. At times beautiful, ugly, seedy, sublime and ridiculous. Every street, building and person has a story. And this story is best discovered by bicycle. The city rider's journey can be as perilous as it is rewarding but we all know those moments when the evening ride home gives you that scintillating feeling. A view across a bridge or down a tree-lined street, the twinkling lights at night or the morning mist lifting. The art of city riding is as visual as it is physical. Simply post your photo on Twitter, Instagram, or Flickr along with the following hashtags: #cityscopes, your #city or #town, and if you wish, #cycling text from...HERE!

Cycle on the roof of this pavilion!

'Bicycle Club' is a pavilion dedicated to bicycling in Hainan, China designed by Amsterdam-based NL Architects. Visitors set their bicycles within a recessed trough and easily walk up two staircases to the open-air velodrome.
[via designboom]

rolling good times

[photo: Michael Wong]

off the wall

Kiyo Keirin bike at Vicious Cycles

Go Matt! :)

baby Ezra has a custom car

by Vicious Cycles Singapore

view from up there

great bike parking facilities at Pasir Ris MRT station!

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John Buultjens Haro BMX collection from 1982 to1993

best place to roll down on a sunday

Vicious Cycles Singapore

bike delivery?

because i don't have time for ordinary

No Future Krew Worldwide

peace

let it roll!

rolling

thunder

Designer People - meets Biomega

'The hosts and founder of Biomega, Jens Martin Skibsted, gives the inside about the idea behind Biomega and its philosophy. The program gives unique background on why Biomega designs bikes as they do, and insights different approaches to bike usage. In addition to Jens Martin Skibsted, who is Creative Director of Biomega, comments are given by Jørgen Mads Clausen, CEO of Danfoss, and Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.'

Biomega Founder & Creative Director Jens Martin Skibsted in Copenhagen

Biomega in Copenhagen, from the SMG documentary series Creative Future (2012)

Lets Roll!

'Imagine the ideal city. If you're like us, that city is clean. Peaceful. Stunning. No less energized than the urban environments in which we currently thrive, but more focused, more pure, and in tune with the natural world. That dream is what drives us in the creation of our urban-landscape-changing bikes. Our goal is to create a paradigm shift in the way society imagines transportation. To compete directly with cars by constructing bikes that are so beautiful that they imbue our cities with new meaning, even as they make us healthier, happier, and more connected than a car ever could. Simply put, our bikes—and the trendsetters who ride them—have the ability to transform the world into a more beautiful place, and to blend our dreams for the future with the needs of the present. Our bikes are meant to usher in a new age in city living. All it takes is one look—and one ride—to understand the difference we can make, as bike, rider, and style become one.'

Cycle Chic Meets Biomega

When the man behind the iconic Cycle Chic website/movement [http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com] hooks up with the iconic Danish bicycle brand Biomega

to shoot a commercial - this is the end result.

Absolutely

 [via greenlikebathwater.tumblr.com]

PUMA & Biomega

lets roll!

Interview: Jens Martin Skibsted

Danish designer Jens Martin Skibsted talks about his bicycle brand Biomega

and the future of urban cycling.

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'Really stick it to Prolls with this Flag Hatchet approved little number.'

for your eyes only

'A celebration of the Work Cyclist. There’s a different kind of relationship developing at work with people falling in love with riding their bikes all over again. We explore how the Work Cycle is beginning to shape the work spaces we journey to.'

[theworkcycle.com]

'A short film about a day out cycling in 1955, made by the British Rail film board'

just look at the space available on carriages for bikes back then!

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here we go!

20 artists 20 bikes 10 days

making of Orto Bikes

Not Without The Bike!

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Alex Singer Cycles

step right in

puncture repair tins

via majortaylortalk

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Gruppo Fotografico

1898

cable top tube / down tube, curved seat tube, rod brake, 28iinch wheels, mountain paths...it just says alot..