Vivid Pic of the Night Prize!

Hope you are all looking forward to the Vivid Bike Light Spectacular (link here to our facebook event page).  We have 3 prizes available on the night.  

1. Best Bike Decoration

2. Best High Vis Use

3. People's Favourite

Prizes include: saddle bags, backpacks, high vis wear, movie tickets, lights and more!

And an additional prize for the most Creative photo from the night.  We will hold a facebook vote for this.  If you want to send your favourite pic in from the night, just email us at featherbrigade@gmail.com, with the subject "Creative Pic Comp".  We also welcome your pics from the night to share with everyone who attended via our blog.  If you are happy to share please send your pics to us via email as "Vivid Pics" (just so we don't get confused).  Here are our lovely prizes for the photo comp:


A copy of Cyclepedia, includes more than 200 pages of beautifully photographed bicycles!  Oooh la la (think bike porn).

And a print from our Feather Brigade Artist, Laura Carey. Laura is a print based artist from Ireland and a happy-go-lucky bikelist with an extraordinary ability to carry hat stands on her bike..  This gorgeous print is titled 'The Bird in the Grass'.  (you can  see more from Laura's etsy shop here).  

Happy snapping!

Vivid Bike Light Spectacular

Guess what bikeling friends...?  Its time for the Vivid Festival again in Sydney which means we are organising our Vivid Bike Light Spectacular!  For those of you new to our Vivid ride - check out pics from our last Vivid event here: http://featherbrigade.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/vivid-night-of-lights.html

This year we are doing things a little differently.  For starters it will be a longer bike ride, starting from Sydney Uni.  We will wind along the waterfront of Glebe and Prymont before bedazzling Darling Harbour and then whizzing around Walsh Bay before heading up to the Rocks and then finding a suitable stopping point near the MCA.  There we will have a vote for "Best Decorated Bike" and "Best Decorated Person" with prizes (oooh).  After that the fun you have is up to you - check out the lights of Vivid on the festival walk (and don't forget your camera).  We will have a follow up competition on our blog for the "Most Creative Photo" from the night, so happy snapping!

Ideas for lights - think battery-powered fairy lights, glow sticks, light sticks, twirlywhirls, wheel lights, light up toys, solar powered lights.  Let your imagination take over!  Our favourite was the glow sticks taped to wheel spokes - very effective.  We found our lights at Kmart, $2 dollar shops and Ebay.

Ideas for high vis - wear your high vis in different ways, snap bands, arm bands, Tron stripes... the possiblities are endless!!   We ask that you come ready to ride on the night so we can all admire each other and then GET BIKELING!

Feel free to contact us via facebook or through the blog if you have any questions.  We look forward to seeing you there, no matter what 'type' of bikelist you are and  - SPREAD THE WORD!