Cheeky Transport

Fashion Parade was a blast!

Big thanks to Flash and the organisers from BFF Sydney

Photos and a video on Jakes excellent blog SydneyBodyArtRide

Big Bike Love Begins!

The Bike Film Fest is back. For 2008 there are a whole bunch of super cool satellite events happening as well starting this weekend. Have a look at the full program here.

Check out Road edge on Saturday night..

Cheeky Trucker in Alaska..

Matt sent us a link to a slideshow of his trip..

Just wanted to thank you once again for recommending and building up my cherry red Surly LHT in early 2006. Here are some photos of our most recent bike tour across Alaska. The bike performanced brillantly fully loaded, yet again, including on the 1000km of dirt roads that we traveled on this tour. To date the only major change I have made (apart from maintainence and replacement parts) is changing out the stock saddle for a brooks.

Alaska on a Bike from Matthew McCarthy on Vimeo.

Jen

Ride To Work Day Jen

Originally uploaded by Velovotee

Bromptons, Big Dummys and 3 Speeds..

Just a quick blog post from me (Nick) – a couple of cool links that I wanted to share:

• If it seems likes we’re obsessed with Bromptons on the Cheeky blog at the moment, that’s because we are. We’ve even heard rumours of an electric assist hub motor Brompton being secretly assembled in the foothills of the Blue Mountains. Check out “Inventing the Perfect Folding Bicycle” – A recording of a talk by Andrew Ritchey, the bike’s inventor. I was working on one of these last night, and it reminded me how every piece of the design works together so elegantly. Best. 2-speed derailleurator. Ever.

• We’ve got what will hopefully be the first of many Big Dummy’s built up in the shop at the moment. I I liked what the Surly blog had to say about cargo haulin’ pleasure -Big Dumb Love. If a Big Dummy is out of your league, do what I did and convert your boring, dust-gathering, fixie into a grocery getter of epic proportions..

• Finally – Hubstripping is a cool site for learning more about internal gears, their history and how they work. I thought this explanation of what’s going on inside a 3 speed hub was really good. They’ve also got details of a 2 speed automatic(!) hub from 1966. One of these made an appearance at Eurobike this year on a Moulton, teamed with a Schlumpf dual-drive – 4 gears, No shifters, No cables. Killer.

Cheers!

Cheeky Picnic coming soon

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Sunday November 16 1pm till sundown.

Yep, a little earlier than last years, but still warm enough for a juump into the harbour.

It’s going to be awesome as usual. Vego food by Ruby Murrays (byo barby for the meateaters). Bike-blender cocktails and smoothies. Bike Polo. Everyone friendly alleycat/treasure hunt. Kid friendly bikepath cruise from Cheeky to Pyrmont via the water and the Fishmarkets. Solar powered boombox. And more..

Lee is thinking about a folding bike race.

Anyone got any ideas for other cool stuff we can do?

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Cycle sport stockholm

When I was recently jetsetting around the world with the lovely Jennifer and our Bromptons we came across the coolest bike shop in Sweden. It’s in the old town near the palace, really small with a bunch of beautiful schkeppshults, Bromptons and a Pedersen on the floor. All around the place was antique bits and bobs . And the best brooks display I’ve seen. I met Martin, who was tuning a 2 speed for the brompton worlds and he gave me a shop calendar with pics of old bikes on it . I think Martin came on the top 20.

Brompton Bling

After taking a Brompton out for a spin on Ride to Work day, I can’t seem to get that bike out of my mind. There was something cheeky about the bike that made me feel like a teenager again (well we can all dream!). Then to make matters worse i found this flickr group. It looks like they are having fun over in Europe, customizing their bikes with the same passion and detail as the fixie scene.

here is one of my favorites:

Yes we do

Courtesy of my mate Jake on his excellent blog Sydney Body Art Ride

Basil Bags and Cargo Bikes.

We’ve got Basil bags back in stock, straight from Amsterdam, thanks to the guys at Gazelle..

We’ve got Blossom Baskets, Preston Shoppers, Postmen Bags and Mirte Shoppers.

In other news, these cool Cargo Bikes are available again. Have a look here for some details. Let us know if you’re interested.