City Cycling - a design for life

Sydney Inner-East Circuit

Cycling is about the journey not the destination. Time Out suggests freewheeling through the urban culture hub of Sydney's inner east and grazing on food, fashion and art on the way...

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Shop 01Sable & Argent, 85 Bourke St, Woolloomooloo 02Reverse Garbage, 1 Flinders St, Surry Hills 03Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, 387 Crown St, Surry Hills 04Via Alley, 3/285a Crown St, Surry Hills 05Grandma Takes a Trip, 263 Crown St, Surry Hills 06Published Art, 2/23 Mary St, Surry Hills 07Koskela Design, 1/91 Campbell St, Surry Hills 08I Ran the Wrong Way, 378 Cleveland St, Surry Hills 09Vivid Shop International, 558 Crown St, Surry Hills 10 Pop Shop, 330 Crown St, Surry Hills 11Metalab, 10b Fitzroy St, Surry Hills 12Sydney Sustainable Market, Taylor Square, Surry Hills Eat & Drink 13 Formaggi Ocello, 16/425 Bourke St, Surry Hills 14Bourke St Bakery, 633 Bourke St, Surry Hills 15Orson & Blake, 483 Riley St, Surry Hills 16Trinity Bar, 505 Crown St, Surry Hills 17Miss Chu, 150 Bourke St, Darlinghurst 18Bistrode, 478 Bourke St, Surry Hills

19Pizza Mario, 417-421 Bourke St, Surry Hills 20Doctor Pong, 1a Burton St, Darlinghurst 21Pocket, 13 Burton St, Darlinghurst 22Ten Buck Alley, 185a Bourke St, East Sydney See 23Object Gallery, 417 Bourke St, Surry Hills 24Outré Gallery, 324 Crown St, Darlinghurst 25Brett Whiteley Studio, 2 Raper St, Surry Hills 26Somedays, 72B Fitzroy St, Surry Hills 27Urban Uprising, 314 Crown St, Surry Hills 28Blank_Space, 374 Crown St, Surry Hills 29Chalk Horse, 94 Cooper St, Surry Hills 30Liverpool St Gallery, 243a Liverpool St, Darlinghurst 31Monster Children, 20 Burton St, Surry Hills 32Birrung Gallery, 134 William St, Woolloomooloo 33Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Rd, The Domain 34Australian Museum, 6 College St, Sydney 35Monstrosity Gallery, 93 Bourke St, Woolloomooloo 36SOHO Gallery, 104 Cathedral St, Sydney

Belle on wheels

City of Sydney cycling ambassador Nell Schofield offers her tips for chic chicks on the move.

Go for glamour

Lycra is so last century. Wear hotpants in and watch heads turn... Helmet hair? Stash your
favourite product in your pannier. (I love Organix nourishing coconut milk anti-breakage serum.) Gear for girls? Check rocketfuel or spokenspool.

Bicycles look fab with ribbons streaming from handlebars, cute bells and horns and reflective clips on spokes. Even bike baskets can be jazzed up – try popping a flowering pot plant in it for fun. Spokey Dokeys? Check out monkeysee.

Gang up

There’s nothing like riding with a posse of bikie chicks to stake your claim to the road. Link up with your local BUG (bicycle user group) for a social twilight ride and pick up some hot spunks on the way. Find your local BUG.

Win a Potential of Hydrogen bike

A stylish new fixie gets ready to hit Sydney like a hydrogen bomb - and we have one to give away.

Small Stories, Big Picture

As part of Sydney Design 2010 this month, a series of self-guided cycling tours are running around Surry Hills. These innovative bike trails are designed to unleash the artist within, weaving as they do between creative precincts and design hot spots.

Punters will be given bikes, a map, a LOMO camera to document their journey and a “passport” to be stamped by cafés, retailers and designers for future discounts along the way. At journey’s end, cameras are returned so select images can be woven into a rolling photo installation on display during the three-week festival and celebrated in a party and camera auction at the Beresford on Wed 18 Aug.

Bike tours run 7 Aug& 14 Aug, 10am– 4pm from Metalab, 10b Fitzroy Pl, Surry Hills 2010. FREE.

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