my father, an avid cyclist who’s been wearing spandex and shaving his legs since the early 70s, insists that adeline adeline (profiled in today’s nytimes) can’t possibly be a real bike store. we beg to differ! adeline adeline (147 reade street) was founded by a graphic designer who did not want a racing bicycle or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bicycles’
no more spandex
Posted in fashion, shopping, tagged accessories, adeline adeline, alternative transportation, bicycles, fashion, new york, spandex, the new york times on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
i think fixies are impractical
Posted in design, no but seriously, shopping, tagged alternative transportation, bicycles, fixies, republic bike on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
HOWEVER a fixie that can be converted to a single speed with a simple flip of the back wheel is a wonderful idea. republic bike is a wonderfully colorful company that custom makes bicycles fitting the prior description according to your very own chromatic preferences. they come in three sizes (although those of us under [...]
don’t let this happen to you
Posted in fashion, no but seriously, tagged allison arieff, bicycles, mini skirts, oil dependency, skinny pants, sustainability, the environment, the new york times, the sartorialist on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
from allison arieff’s blog on nytimes.com: For a couple of months there, it was sort of exciting to witness how dramatically higher oil prices were affecting human behavior. Ridership of public transit was up, homeowners were swapping exurban houses for urban condos, S.U.V. sales were down, people were walking. T. Boone Pickens threw cash at [...]
