Cycle and Style

Sometimes life’s setbacks have a way of leading one down another path to success. Brian Echerer lost a job and then “destroyed” his back racing cyclo-cross. During his recovery, he began making spoke bracelets for his cycling club and found out about a show called “Bike Craft.” Brian persuaded his mother, Mary Jane Musser, an artist and jewelry [...]

Cycle and Style loves when something new and fun finds us.  When it gets down to it, it’s a “networking thing” and we here at C&S like to play the Networking Game.  We enjoy hearing from our readers. We like to find out who and what’s out there and of course we love to share what [...]

Alaskabike Jewelry We love to be contacted by our readers, especially when they would like to share their creative and unique jewelry pieces with us and our readers.  Deb Winkelman from Alaskabike reached out to Cycle and Style recently with just that!!  Deb is a 2nd grade teacher who is always looking for creative ways [...]

Cycle and Style is “Spoke-n For” … and you should be too.  On a recent trip to St. John (USVI), I walked into a local jewelry store and I became “Spoke-n For” instantly.  It is always my travel goal to find a unique piece of jewelry on my adventures … and that I did.  Since [...]

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 [...]