Cycle and Style

We love jewelry and have special weakness for jewelry with a bike theme or whimsically made with parts from a bike. It was great to talk to Jodey Hathaway, a mountain biker who makes jewelry and home décor items from bike parts, often using “Chainmaille” techniques to make very  intricate and unique pieces. Her work [...]

Icebreaker, a New Zealand-based company with a conscience for sustainability, makes merino wool performance and travel clothing, has a line of technical sports clothing including cycling jerseys and high performance merino socks made for cyclists and runners. What’s so great about merino wool? Merino wool is very different from traditional wool which though warm, was [...]

     Carve Designs put their Southern California touch in the design of the clothes. Their line is perfect for your summer sojourn at the lake or seaside: sun-kissed, soft to the touch clothes, which are well made and will stand up to hard play. Carve Designs’ dresses softly drape and can be dressed up for [...]

There is a sense of seasonal freedom in wearing a skirt as you bike down the street feeling a warm breeze on your bare legs.  I especially love the fluffed-out skirts that I have in my wardrobe which are loose and flowy and swish softly as I walk. With that type of skirt I can [...]

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country [...]

By Sasha Aslanian I’ve had a few days to savor the sore muscles I earned on the ride. I wanted to do a wrap-up of sights and sounds of the Seattle to Portland Ride (STP), and leave future rookie riders with some advice. (See how Sasha’s ride went on Day One and Day Two.) Sounds: [...]