I am a big fan of urban biking. Not the crazy kamikaze messenger style biking, but I always feel tres chic and fancy-free going around town on a bicycle. It's often the easiest way to get from point A to point B, taxi and semi-truck hazards aside. I've been without wheels for a while now, and in my fantasy life my replacement bike would be a sweet Euro-style baby that would come with a special magical forcefield ensuring that it'd never be stolen.
The bike above from Jorg & Olif is close to my ideal (without the forcefield, so far as I can tell). It's a little more sexy-ugly than the Skeppshult I coveted on Unbeige nearly two years ago (see below), but both share that utilitarian yet fetching aesthetic I love so much.
Jorg & Olif bike via Treehugger
Oh boy, that brings back memories from when I was young. Those kinds of bikes were very popular in Europe when I grew up - I think for some reason, in Germany they were referred to as "Dutch style". I don't think the craze for those kinds of bikes made it even into the 1990s... In any case, the stealing bit can be dealt with easily by getting a lock.
Posted by: JM Colberg | 11/08/2006 at 07:00 PM