Below, a bonus of Kayla and Ghazal on film:
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Another selection from the photo shoot we did with some of Fort Worth’s bike ladies recently – this image of Jasmine with bits of bikes in tasty lack-of-focus was one of our favorites.
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We often see Harley running up and down the Magnolia bike lanes on her vintage Schwinn Collegiate, so it was only natural that we’d grab a photo of her looking totally lovely in front of The Usual. Extra bonus points for the bike tattoo!
Here’s another from the session:
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We took some photos with Melissa when we met up with a local all-lady bike social group, the Bicycle Betties. Mel’s face will be familiar to anybody who frequents Fort Worth group bike events – she’s one of the most frequent Fort Worth bike event participants, and serves as ride leader on events like the twice-a-week Night Riders rides.
Here she is joined by other members of the group (Harley, Ghazal, and Jasmine).
Inspiration: Let’s Go Ride A Bike
Published on Jun 13, 2011 - In: Inspiration
While we’re going to be putting up our own photos on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and some Saturdays, we didn’t want the site to just sit here the other days of the week. Instead, we thought we’d spend our “off days” linking to cycle chic inspiration and bike news/advocacy stories.
Today’s inspiration is the great site Let’s Go Ride a Bike, run by Dottie in Chicago and Trisha in Nashville.
Let’s Go Ride a Bike covers a wide range of topics, from clothing & style to classic city bikes and advice for daily commuters. Everything from how to look good in the heat to the subtle differences between various European bicycles has found its way to the pages of LGRAB, and the site’s further enhanced by some gorgeous photography.
We were lucky enough to meet Dottie and her husband in Chicago last year, and she and Trisha have built a really lovely bike site that’s fun to read. Definitely an inspiration on what we do here. Go check them out!
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Welcome to Fort Worth Cycle Chic
Published on Jun 13, 2011 - In: News
Welcome, one and all, to Fort Worth Cycle Chic – promoting stylish urban bicycling in Fort Worth, Texas.
Fort Worth Cycle Chic seeks to showcase to the world the shifting, growing bicycle world of Fort Worth. Once the exclusive realm of the hardcore road warriors forced to fight traffic on streets not designed to safely promote bicycling, Fort Worth has begun building bike lanes and racks and promoting bicycle usage for all via its Bike Fort Worth plan. Today, there are many facets to the Fort Worth bike world, and we’d like to showcase the fun, the laid-back, and the stylish.
Fort Worth Cycle Chic will consist of photographs of stylish Fort Worth cyclists (both ladies and gents), in both posed portraits and candid street photography. For starters, we plan to update on Tuesday and Thursday regularly, with some Saturday posting as well. As we get established, this post frequency will likely increase.
Fort Worth Cycle Chic is a product of Kevin Buchanan, local writer and photographer and creator of Fort Worthology, which has promoted walkable urban neighborhoods and bicycling in Fort Worth since 2006.
Fort Worth Cycle Chic’s roots can be traced to the original creator of the Cycle Chic movement – Mikael Colville-Andersen of Copenhagen, whose Copenhagen Cycle Chic launched a worldwide movement in 2007.
A series of social documentary photos about Copenhagen started to include a number of shots of life in the World’s Cycling Capital, including fashionable Copenhageners on their bicycles. The feedback about these photos was positive and there was clearly a growing interest abroad in seeing how the bicycle was an integral part of life in the Danish capital. Specifically about how Copenhageners have demystified the bicycle and use it without any form of bicycle ‘gear’. Just as the bicycle was meant to be ridden when invented.
What happened after Cycle Chic was launched took everyone by surprise. There wasn’t any content on the internet relating to “girls on bikes” or combining style and fashion with the humble bicycle. Colville-Andersen coined the phrase “Cycle Chic” to describe the art of riding bicycles in regular, preferably fashionable, clothes and things started to accelerate.
The very first photo has been referred to as The Photo That Launched A Million Bicycles.
This Cycle Chic blog launched a global movement, a fashion trend and the imminent return of the bicycle as transport to the urban landscape.
Fort Worth Cycle Chic will respect the Cycle Chic Manifesto.
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