The Cycle and Style Show was held on Friday, May 14th, 2010 at the Gallivan Center in Salt Lake City.  As Cycle and Style has always tried to show, there isn’t just one type of bike or clothes to wear on the bicycle for everyone. We love it all: road bikes, mountain bikes, cruisers, commuting bikes and bikes with step-through frames so a girl can wear a dress or skit and ride her bike. It was a family-friendly event with children, teens, men and women in the crowd and on the “stage.” It was a fun way to show how great people can look on and off the bike!

Marissa was outfitted in Specialized's PRO Rbx Short & Cosa Sleeveless Jersey. (Bike: Specialized Ruby.) Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Macias.

It was a great chance to show off the 2010 lines of road and mountain bike clothing from Pearl Izumi, Specialized, Bontrager, Oakley and Smartwool. Other clothes were from Carve Designs, Outlier, Kuhl, and Whimsy as well as great accessory-clothing items from Dohm-Icebox and bags from Reclaimed Wreckage (bags made from recycled bike tire tubes) and Glitch Bags. Check out our video of the event below. Thanks to the photographers whose represented photos are on this page, on our Facebook page and in thestill shots at the end of the video. (Check out the clip at the end;  our 20-minute show was edited down to an 8-minute video.)

A big THANK YOU to our sponsors: UTA Bike Bonanza, Salt Lake County Bicycle Advisory Committee, Pearl Izumi Factory Outlet, Bingham Cyclery and Salt Lake City Bicycle Co.!

Lauren wore the paddler short and rash guard from Carve Designs and rode the Trek Zara (photo by Daniel Bean.)

Megan wore a beautiful dress from Whimsy and rode the Globe Vienna. (Photo courtesy of Stan Orlob.)

Cycle and Style Show 2010 from Beth Runkle on Vimeo.

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given–when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.”
~ Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor.

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn." - Elizabeth Lawrence

“How silently they tumble down
And come to rest upon the ground
To lay a carpet, rich and rare,
Beneath the trees without a care,
Content to sleep, their work well done,
Colors gleaming in the sun.

At other times, they wildly fly
Until they nearly reach the sky.
Twisting, turning through the air
Till all the trees stand stark and bare.
Exhausted, drop to earth below
To wait, like children, for the snow.”
-   Elsie N. Brady, Leaves

Riding through the Autumn leaves on a crisp morning.

Sweet 16 and ready to ride!

Doors they move, and gates they hide,
Mischiefs that on moon-beams ride
Are their deeds, and, by their spells,
Love records its oracles.

Eery shadows were they then-
But to-night they come again;
Were we once more but sixteen,
Precious would be Halloween.

from the poem Hallowe’en by Joel Benton

Dressed up and ready to ride to a neighborhood party!

Halloween remains a popular festival because of its elements of mystery and magic interwoven together. Perhaps you are just a little too old for trick or treating but you’re still wanting to dress up in costume to join in the fun of Halloween. Get yourself dressed up and ready to go to a Halloween party, taking your bike for an especially magical ride…

Taylor is looking truly groovy on her Sunflower Green Electra Amsterdam!

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Off on a Halloween adventure!

Jillian the scarecrow uses her bicycle to get to a local party.

Angie is Queen of the castle on Halloween with her Trek 7200 in egplant

Leaving for a halloween party on their bicycles.

Kristi is looking ghostly on her Specialized Globe Vienna!

Julie, is she a good witch or a wicked one? Either way she will look great riding off on her Trek Allant insted of a broom!

Have a safe and happy Halloween!

Halloween as a Teen is a Scream!!

Thank you to the team at Guthrie Bicycle for the use of these great Trek Bicycles!

In the spirit of October fun, and a good dash of appreciation for the joy that Stephanie Meyer’s books have brought to so many, we did a special Twilight-themed fantasy feature for the enjoyment of our readers.

What kind of bike would Bella have had? We figured she’d probably have a bike that could take the dirt, mud and gravel. We also didn’t see her as having a brand-new bike…like a lot of us! We think Bella would have had a lot of fun on a bike. It would have taken her places her truck never could: on trails of the forests and along the ocean shores.

Natalie looks great in her fall wardrobe and feels even better biking in the crisp autumn air!

“I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house.  So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. -  Nathaniel Hawthorne