Sea Side Bicycle Path

(photos: ridingpretty)

A view I pass by often. There was this pretty blue cruiser parked alongside the path.
Joy Joy - learning to use my new camera, this is from my first day of shooting with it.

Wheee! Bicycles Sheer Joy

Wheee! It's Spring - Ride Your Bicycle

(images top to bottom: via lovazah, twiggy, vintage photo of english girl, miss dior)

Sheer joy!

DIY: Vintage Looking Bicycle Basket

(photo source: A Lemon Squeezy Home)

This one is really a good DIY for a making a complete bicycle basket. It is not just a simple liner for a pre-existing bicycle basket... it is an actual bicycle basket in and of it's self!

This DIY tutorial comes from A Lemon Squeezy Home. It is just so perfect, especially now with spring and all the flowers waiting to be bicycled home. Go to the DIY.

Hmmm. I think I'll make mine in a plaid or a tweed fabric with some flower rosettes...

Bicycle Riding Cape, Red Legs, Fashion

(photos by RidingPretty)

Fashion, my bicycle...feeling chic, remembering Paris. Homage (especially) to the beret, to the shiny satin bow (worn on my pony tail and which by the way matches the ribbon trim on my dress) and well, to my old ex French boyfriend and his parent's Paris apartment. How beautiful those times were, enough to still get in my blood and inspire me to dress for the romance of my old memories. I don't know about you, but I do this all the time...
Besides my bicycle can bring out the best in me, and here's hoping your bicycle does the same for you!

p.s. there is a story to the last photo. I will follow up a with separate post and explanation soon my dears...

Tweed Ride Kansas City - Art Raffle- It's a Beauty!

("High Societweed" by Kevin Nierman)

There is a lovely story behind how and why this amazing art work came to be. You see it all has to do with the Kansas City Tweed Ride...oh please just go exactly here and read all about it for yourself!

The original story (raffle part included) is better than any re-iteration I could possibly do in the telling of it. Honestly. So go there.

Thanks to Mark for sending this in!

1970's Cool Bike Girls

(unknown: can't remember where I got this photo)

Just threw this one in to go along with the 1970's Bicycle Patches.....

Bicycle Patches - 1970's

Warm up for Bicycle Fender Bumper Stickers - Part II ???....

After posting the bicycle bumper fender stickers photo it was only natural to start looking for more fine examples. How about these 1970's bicycle patches featured above from veloclassique!

Just a prelude, a warm up to more possibilities on the horizon - as in more bicycle stickers. Let's see what happens.

Bicycle Lifestyle Musings

Yesterday's post about Fergie's closet (and the bike she keeps in there) got me thinking. Surely there are more photos of people's living spaces in which a bicycle can to be found? Because, it’s amazing don’t you think to discover the visual clues that give insights into the lives people live - once a bicycle becomes a part of someone's life! It can be so inspiring!

Admittedly I am a visual person given over to often fantastical, beautiful imagery. I can’t help it. I swoon every time I encounter a photo of a life style that encapsulates the essence (in this case a bicycle lifestyle) that I see myself living - right now!

'Life' and 'style' photos of 'Fulvia Farolfi at home in the hamptons' via The Selby. Of course there is a bicycle included!

(all photos: The Selby)

Maybe one of the reasons I love these bicycle lifestyle photos so much is because the surroundings remind me very much of places I ride around here in Santa Cruz. Plus I can't help but wonder if Fulvia makes a good bouillabaisse*?

*err...my prior reference to bouillabaisse

Fergie- Bike in Closet

(celebritystyle&homes)

Where would you keep your bicycle?
Not to detract from the lovely photo of Fergie--I marked up the photo to make sure the reason for this post was not lost on anyone. (Fergie's bike reminds me a little of a combination of these styles --here, here, here, and here). Amazing blinged out bike.... and where else to keep it stored other than your closet!

Bicycle Fender Bumper Stickers

(photo:ridingpretty)

I couldn't help but stop and take a look -- Bicycle Fender Bumper Stickers!

Hmmmh, somewhere I have another photo of this bicycle - it was taken with another camera that I was shooting with yesterday/today. Anyway this was a cool bicycle and one worth sharing with you...once I find the other photos I'll share those too.

Happy St. Patrick's Day -- XOXO

Happy St. Patrick's Day -- XOXO

Lane's Raleigh Sprite Bicycle via LugsChicago

(photos: LugsChicago)

Sometime back LugsChicago left a comment mentioning he was going to be doing some 'NextGirlFriend' bicycle building -- more in keeping, and with an eye out for rebuilds he could do for the ladies. I responded with sure send some pictures in when you do. Looks like he has kept good on his word...

"I built up this pretty Raleigh Sprite last week. The gem goes to Lane, who looks Divine in the saddle."

Ah..."vintage bicycles", "steel", "lugged", "531", are all words that are pure music to my ears.

Now if you are looking for a vintage bicycle yet don't have the desire to hunt down the bare bones of a 'beautiful bicycle in the making' - let alone have the desire to learn the skills to rebuild it---
Well, see if you can find some one like LugsChicago to give you a hand. It could be a solution for you. I learned (with a lot of help from the Bike Church) how to rebuild my own bicycle. This is not for everyone though.

Delightful Green Bicycle

I had this urge. I went out looking for the very first green bicycle I could find. In no time I found this one. It wins my shamrock award!

Tweed Bicycle Fashion - Spring Looks from Timothy Foxx

(Tweed Bicycle Fashions - Timothy Fox)

(Tweed Bicycle Fashions - Timothy Fox)

Need a little inspiration for some of the upcoming Spring Tweed Rides? I very much like the way the British designer Timothy Foxx does this take... his own 'exceptionally eccentric tweed' as he puts it.

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p.s. I especially like the first photo. Hmmh, it seems lately I've been crazy for the color red! With that said more of 'what I wore photos' in red posting soon. It's been so much fun taking photos in my impromptu studio - so of course I'm going to have to share the results with you.

Ava Gardner - Vintage Bicycle Photo

Ava Gardner on Her Bicycle!

Have a lovely Friday! Wait for that matter have a Wonderful Weekend...

Plaid Cape, My Bicycle

(photo RidingPretty)

The 60's! -- I had so much fun taking this photo. It was another one taken on a long, dreary rainy day...
The cape is a very heavy 'blanket' wool and it weights a ton. It's reversible - to a brilliant blue which you can just see a peek of. And those red plaid 'over the knee' socks - they were so perfect, I felt so lucky to score them. What else? Just having a blast that day. Maybe had something to do with listening to The Beatles Box Set and having just finished reading Miss O'Dell.

Bicycle Art - Around the House...Part II

More Bicycle Art...

(all art : JanetBikeGirl)

Hanging in various spots throughout my home. All of it is by Janet Bike Girl. If you've been reading this blog for long you may remember me mentioning Janet before in this post.
Thank you Janet!

Bicycle Art - Around my House

(bicycle pillow - Dixon Bike Shop B'klyn)

Amongst all the pillows piled high on my day bed ( or also known as my living room slash sofa -couch) you'll notice this one, the one with excellent bike graphics on it. It didn't start out as a pillow - it's a tote bag that I tossed there one day. I decided it looked so good I turned the tote into the charming pillow that it is now.

I want to take the time to thank Dixon Bicycle Shop, est. 1967--:

Park Slope
792 Union St
(between 5th Ave & 6th Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 636-0067

Maybe they still have some of these fine quality cotton canvas totes left and then you too can make your own pillow out of one!

Charity Bicycle Rides

Recently I was asked to help out by giving a little exsposre here on RidingPretty to some upcoming Charity Rides. To be honest I am clueless about the whole Charity Ride thing, so I began by looking for an all purpose calendar that listed ALL the various different rides taking place. I found this Calendar - it is primarily for rides in the US.

Last year I had the 2009 EJF Ride - London to Paris banner on my side bar. Check out the 2010 EJF Ride which you can read all about here!

There was a very nice gentlemen (UK) who emailed in regards to the Prostrate Cancer Ride (I've lost his details but at least remembered his Charity Ride). Another nice gentleman (Canada), emailed me about getting sponsored for the The Sears National Kids Cancer Ride.

As you're probably figuring out right along side me, there are LOTS of good causes and rides in 2010.