Dreamy Winter Night Bicycle Ride

(artist unknown - please help ID- update the artist is Rory Kurtz)

Like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, or Santa on Christmas Eve - high above the chimney tops....

Hope everyone is enjoying the Holiday Season so far. Have Safe and Happy Holidays!!!

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Update: 12.21.2009 Happy WINTER SOLSTICE to Everyone!
Much Love from RidingPretty in California !!!!

My (New) Fav Cycle Chic Photo - Catherine Baba via Tommy Ton

(photocredit: tommy ton)

perfect bohemian luxe, beautiful chic heels, classy bicycle, classy & huge big bicycle panniers (said panniers all the bigger to stuff Paris fashions into)... Yes, it all adds up to make this possibly my most favorite cycle chic photo to date.

I'm so fantasy driven at times. Yet this is more than a fantasy. This woman, Catherine Baba is a well regarded fashion influencer, she actually did bicycle to and fro to the runway shows during the Paris Fashion Week Shows - and she was captured doing so by no less than Tommy Ton of JaknJill. That much of the story is all quite real and that's what makes this such a favorite photo for me.

Now to see this photo in much better detail just click on the image. I know in advance everyone is going to want to know exactly what bicycle she is riding and who makes those excellent panniers she has on her bicycle.

A little more back story on Tommy Ton. He along with a select group of other fashion bloggers are shaking up the established order of just who is winning the hearts and minds of devoted fashion lovers. Old school is to buy a magazine, new school is check in with your favorite fashion blogger. Creme de la Creme fashion bloggers are now being given front row seats at the big couture fashion shows.

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Just added a new design that so made me think of Catherine Baba....

Cycle Chic - Winner of the 'Cupcake'

Recently there was a Cycle Chic Fashion Show in Cork, Ireland - the winner of the goodwill gift I donated to be raffled off during the show was Niamh O' Brien. Her prize was the 'cupcake'....

(pink 'cupcake' helmet covers/photos by ridingpretty)

I hope Niamh is enjoying her prize and has found a pretty pink coat to wear with it! Maybe like one of these....

Vivienne Westwood Seen Riding her Pashley Bicycle (Again)

(photocredit:SplashNews/via The Hub)

Here she is - Viv Westwood caught again recently riding her Pashley bicycle. My, what a HUGE fan I am of Vivienne, but you knew that having read this past post and then this one. Okay then so you never read my old posts -

NOW go check out those two links at any rate and find out why Viv Westwood is a fashion designer you just have to know about. Hint: it's for her views on bicycling and climate change.

San Diego Tweed Ride! - Wet Streets

(photo by protorio)

Love this photo with it's shiny wet streets, the on fire foliage and of course the slightly rained upon, but happy looking Tweed Riders. Yes, it was a rainy day ride for the San Diego Tweed Ride, but by the looks of the flickr photos everyone had a Jolly good time. Thanks to protorio for this photo!

Artists on Bikes Calender - David Byrne / Cindy Sherman -December

(photo credit:Lukas Wassmann / photo source: Artists on Their Bicycles New York - 2010)

David Byrne and Cindy Sherman are the featured NYC Artists on Bikes- for December 2010...it's a calendar available from the Swiss Institute. This is a limited edition, 5oo numbered pieces.

What a great Christmas bicycle gift idea if you admire artists on bicycles! The artists are Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Collier Schorr, Ugo Rondinone, Richard Phillips, Amy Granat, Rainer Ganahl, Rita Ackermann, Aurel Schmidt, NN, Maurizio Cattelan, Ryan McGinley, Pierre Huyghe, David Byrne and Cindy Sherman.

I'm a big fan of David Byrne. This you already know - if you remember his book which I was so excited to read and then review.

Slow Food - Happy Birthday ! - Plus Freewheelin' Farm - "Plenty" & Transition Towns

(all photos: Freewheelin Farm)

Terra Madre Day was yesterday! Yes! the 20th anniversary of The Slow Food Movement - and importantly the core seed of all the various Slow Movements that followed.

So with Terra Madre Day being just yesterday and in that same spirit I have some favorites to share with you...

Freewheelin' Farm. How good can it get when you combine sustainable, local, organic farm foods AND delivery by bicycle - hence the name Freewheelin' Farm. Whenever I've witnessed the bike deliveries making it down the highway in to town, it always gives me a Big thrill. Oh, See the photos above, they're all from Freewheelin' Farm.

Plenty is a book I've just started reading having found a copy at my local library. So far so good.
It s becoming a favorite for me. It explores just what it would mean to eat entirely locally - meaning all your food comes from within a 100 mile radius and you do this for an entire year.

What is so intriguing is that I knew someone soooo many years ago who did just this. So Seth in Taos, New Mexico if you ever, ever come across this, please know my profound respect and amazement. You rock and what an influence you've had on my life.

Transition Santa Cruz is an organization (along with the concept of Transition Towns) that I will be sharing with you more in the future. For now I just wanted to include this little teaser within today's post.

So Happy Terra Madre Day!! To all you Slow Bicycle friends