If you have a spare 40 minutes this interview with Mikael Colville-Andersen, the man behind Copenhagenize and Cycle Chic, is well worth listening to.

Click Here.

From New York to Singapore, from Copenhagen to Sydney, from Chicago to Amsterdam, and from São Paolo to Budapest, there is a groundswell of cyclists taking to the streets of major cities. Whether death-defying bike messengers, hipsters with a taste for cycle chic, or commuters simply cycling to work, cycling is viewed as more than just an alternative. It’s practical. It’s cool. It’s green.

In Cycle-Space, architecture professor and cycling nut Steven Fleming argues that understanding why people are choosing bikes, is key for discovering the full potential of the bicycle as a transformative force in the design of our cities.

Cycle-space is where architecture and urban design can begin to optimise conditions for cycling, and take inspiration from the aesthetics and ethics of cycling as well. It is where cities can begin reducing emissions, commute times, ill-health and sprawl. With portraits of major cities and their cycle secrets, Cycle-Space is the first book to view the city through the lens of the bicycle, and offer a new ways of designing better cities.

Bikes are turning up in very cool places. This one is in an organic shop and florist in New Town. And the oh-so-cool Seven Seeds Grocer in Nth Melbourne has staff and customers bikes hung all over a 4m tall wall in the cafe (and their food is awesome!) If you snap a pic of bikes adding to the ambiance in any other Tassie premises, post them here or email them in.

Click here to have a look.

And here’s a photo of a chimp on a bike.

Well worth watching.

It is an Achielle Craighton Opa and I was lucky enough to win it in the Tredlie Magazine subscription competition. Yes, people really do win those competitions!

I’d say this bike is something of a rarity these days, in that the frame is made and the bicycle assembled in the one factory in Belgium.

I wonder what was in the “special solution”.