Category Archives: Cyclechic
True Love
Bicycles are one of my true loves, along with my family, pork, pickled anything and vintage clothing (not necessarily in that order). I am also a fan of the Cyclechic movement, which seeks to use images of happy, attractive people riding practical bicycles in regular clothes in urban environments to promote cycling to the masses. [...]
Wisconsin’s Inaugural Tweed Run Report
Despite some crazy pre-ride weather, complete with a rare waterspout in Lake Michigan, Wisconsin’s first Tweed Run went off without a problem. Most riders arrived at Sven’s Cafe in Bay View just before the heavy rain hit. Relaxing over tea, coffee and good food, Milwaukee’s country squires’ patience was rewarded with sunny skies in short [...]
Wisconsin’s first Tweed Ride Today
For a few years now tweed rides have been in vogue in bike friendly cities across the country, but for some reason Wisconsin has been tweedless. That is until today. Casey, from Milwaukee’s fashion forward Bay View neighborhood, has put together Milwaukee’s first ride featuring the original sporting fabric. Tweed is a made from the [...]
It’s summer somewhere
By Dave Schlabowske I’m enjoying biking to work without getting all sweaty, but I must admit that I did not get down to Bradford Beach as many times as I would have liked to this summer. Summer on a lake in Wisconsin is a wonderful thing. The ocean is great, but it isn’t really any [...]
COG Eurotour 8mm film
Milwaukee super hero Peter DiAntoni sent me this fun advance short of COG Magazine‘s recent trip to Europe for the 2011 Cycle Messenger World Championships in Warsau. Shot on Tri-X film stock, this is film is so fresh you can smell the D76 and stop bath while you watch it. I can’t wait for the sequel. [...]
Models on Bikes: Like or Don't Like?
Regular readers of Over the Bars know I am a big fan of the Cyclechic movement. The term was coined by Mikael Collville-Anderson on his Copenhagen Cyclechic website. One effect of the cyclechic movement has been that marketing firms have begun to use bicycles to sell clothing. In the same way fancy sports cars and [...]
Beat the heat: Tips for looking and riding cool
Commuting by bicycle in your work clothes when the weather is hot and humid can be done. Of course you can always wear shorts and a T-shirt or jersey and change when you get to the office, but I prefer to roll Cyclechic in my nice work clothes rather than change. While showers and changing rooms [...]
Schwinn versus Huffy
I’m all about the Cyclechic movement to encourage people to ride bicycles in regular clothes. Since I like vintage clothes, I personally take it a bit further and try to put together interesting, somewhat noticeable outfits for my daily trips around Milwaukee by bike. I hope that by drawing a bit of attention to myself some people [...]
By popular demand: Gary Poppins v. Lance Armstrong
My post last Friday was intended to make a point about the Mary (Gary) Poppins effect, not about what I was wearing. I used a tale about the comments I got on my outfit on Friday to make a point, not to show off my fashion sense, so I purposely did not include a self-aggrandizing portrait. After numerous demands to [...]
