Bicycle Chic Gains Speed

Loving this N.Y. Times article on Bicycle Fashion, and especially these quotes about New Yorkers who ride:

Ms. Page-Green, who runs a nonprofit group that provides meals to needy children, likes to charge around town on her bike. Sometimes she’s done up in sparkly necklaces and towering heels; other times she coasts to appointments, sans helmet, in a blazer and fresh-pressed jeans. “I get sweaty a little, but it doesn’t bother me,” she said. Her bike, after all, is a stylish appendage, “a kind of rustic enhancement,” she said.

A desire to look workday glamorous impelled Michelle Tillou, an art dealer, to ride to her gallery on Beekman Place the other day wearing a blazer, elasticized trousers and patent-leather wedge-heel shoes. More often she slips on kitten heels. “The better to hook onto the pedals,” she said.

{Thanks Zandria!}

Comments

[Melissa Oklahoma]

You bike posts always make me wish my town was more bike accomodating... I have two bikes and ride them when I can.
You should do more posts featuring you on your bike!

[rachel]

Fun story but she really should wear a helmet. Tramatic brain injuries aren't trendy or cute.

[Leah]

agreed with Rachel. Otherwise, go bike culture! I bike to school (most days . . . moving soon to a closer apartment so that I'll bike every day) and wear my helmet. I think I've seen two other people in town wear their helmets. One of my big goals, when I get done with this round of school, is to have a job where I can bike to work.

[Belmblums]

I like this quote, La via esta duro, amigo.

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