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!

BVP at SFFN 2012

If you're in Sydney you'll have noticed that after a week of debilitating humidity, the rainy weather has closed in again, spoiling any "Summer" we might have hoped to experience. For a week or two though, in January, if the clouds didn't necessarily part, the weather at least partly relented, and we enjoyed Sydney Festival.

Like last year, Sydney Festival First Night, with the help of Sydney Cycleways and Bike Sydney set up free Bike Valet Parking, trying to encourage people to leave their cars at home. Considering that a large chunk of the city around Hyde Park and the Domain was closed off to make way for stages, roving performers, swing dancing, etc... two wheels were definitely the preferred mode of transport for a lot of Sydney-siders.

K-star and myself had such a good time last year, we made sure to volunteer early for a shift at Bike Valet Parking. The sun was miraculously out for the day, we had a picnic loaded up to enjoy after our shift, and we had Milky Joe "spoke cards" (read: postcards) ready to "distribute" (read: pimp) among the bikes we parked.

Our two hour shift flew by, almost too fast. We hung out with uber awesome bike peeps, like David from Bike Sydney and all time bike guru, Yogi. We met heaps of people, parked heaps of bikes (perved on heaps of cute bike boys- well, at least I did...) and had heaps of fun. When our shift finished it was only late afternoon, but between our station at Hyde Park and the BVP station in the Domain hundreds of bikes were parked for Sydney Festival First Night! Go Sydney! Towards the end of our shift we whipped the cameras out to take some close-ups of some of the good looking bikes and bike accessories we spied, as well as share the Milky Joe love...

After BVP it was time to relax, hang out with other Sydney-siders in the Domain and enjoy the sunset and the Festival First Night concert. More of these days please!

j.xoxo

I'm with the Band...

Vivid is coming to town boys and girls, and I have to admit I have a soft spot for this festival. Apart from the great vibe as everyone wanders Sydney between one light/art installation and the next, there's always a pretty good line up of bands... and this year is no different.

One of my all time faves is coming to town, ms. Bat herself for Bat for Lashes.

Tame Impala will be doing their psychedelic thing on stage.

Spiritualized are playing too.

ahem.. It's the best i could find.. ahem..

And even everyone's favourite (bizarre) kids television show Yo Gabba Gabba.

So if you've picked up on a theme, very astute of you... there are of course more bands in the line up, but these were the one's I could find doing their thing on two wheels. I highly recommend checking out what's on 'cause there are some excellent bands and dj sets happening.

j.xoxo