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About Bike Babes:

We are a sassy social cycling club that meet every Tuesday to cycle our city. We keep a steady pace and aren’t afraid to work up a sweat. But we don’t race, we just ride, and we look pretty cute doing it. If you’re keen, here’s the lowdown:

WHEN: Every Tuesday, leaving from Taylor Square at 6:50pm
WHERE: Alternate weeks of Centennial Park laps and routes out of the city limits (Mascot, Marrickville, Bondi etc)
BRING: Lights, helmets, water, coins for pick ‘n’ mix pit stops, and your favourite cycling gear (wear your lycra – especially if it’s of the fruity 80s variety!)

On the first Tuesday of each month we have a special group dinner after riding, somewhere cheap and cheerful in the Surry Hills region.

Be prepared to have a shit load of fun, look and feel great, and hang with like-minded babes who love cycling as much as you do.

If you’ve got any questions, email the babes!
bikebabessydney@gmail.com

*** No racing, just riding. Be fit, ride far, have fun. ***

More info here.

Photo Via

Via mixedplateblog I just came across this pretty new online shop by singapore-based creative director thomas yang.

It offers a collection of art prints that feature the passion for cycling. All of the original designs are limited to 100 pieces, each item being watermarked and labeled with the title and edition number.

early stage of our camp build with the headless unicorn bike

A month ago I did a little post about the bike I was planning to take to Burning Man and the heap of bikes in a dust lot in Reno that I picked it out of. I never did get to ride that red Specialized because the friends who took it up to the event early sent me a text saying that it had a totally busted tire and to just grab another one from the lot. So I did. They gave Big Red away. There’s a lot of gift giving going on at Burning Man. So, I picked out another bike, a beautiful silver cruiser. I didn’t have much luck with bike number two either. It turned out that under Silver Lightning’s sparkly coat was a bright lime green finish, meaning that she was a “yellow bike”, a shared community bike, and I got busted by the crusty yellow bike police. While the loss of this second bike nearly broke my heart, I knew that she had community duties fulfill.

The thing that people say about absolutely NEEDING to have a bike at Burning Man is totally true. Black Rock City, the town that exists for just one week of the year in the Black Rock Desert, is a big place and a bike comes in handy for getting around to all the many things you want to see and do, plus when everyone else has a bike and you don’t it just sucks. It was a great pleasure to just cruise around in the open desert at night all lit up on a bike, avoiding pedestrians, other cyclists, and art cars, and trying not to get lost from my friends. I learned that when going to the massive parties in the club districts at either end of the city, it is imperative that you leave your lights and EL wire on and blinking or you will spend a good chunk of time looking for your ride.

So, on that sad sad morning when Silver Lightning left me, what did I do? After a few moments of feeling sorry for myself, I remembered that Susan, the lovely lady from Reno who had let me pick my first two bikes out of that pile had had the smarts to pack an extra bike in her RV, just in case. At the time back in Reno, I thought she was crazy, but I was blessing her that day out in the desert. I just walked over to her camp and picked up the spare bike and took the opportunity to borrow her kids trailer and hauled some water back to my camp. Bike problem solved and hydration provided! I even inherited some EL wire to light up that last bike, I’ll call her Lucky. So, I rode Lucky through the potholes and fluffy patches of dust for the rest of the week. I cruised around with new friends to the perimeter fence and airport, to various bars, parties, and burns. I checked out art and participated in Critical Tits, the largest group ride at Burning Man with around 5,000 riders, women only, tops off.

Third try's a charm. Me and Lucky hauling some water.

out by the perimeter fence with little planes landing and taking off just behind it

Me and some camp mates all set for Critical Tits with the Man behind us

Dude taking pics of all the tits. Expectedly, still sadly there were many like him.

looks like some sort of Critical Pink is about to happen...I was just passing by in the wrong colour

It was such an amazing week that was filled to overflowing. If you haven’t been to Burning Man and you have friends who have and they don’t stop talking about it, just forgive them a little. There’s just so much going on and it’s tough to describe. I was so into experiencing it that I didn’t take many photos. There were tons of crazy bikes lit up in crazy ways, some super tall, others with antlers, or unicorn heads and ponytails. I did however document the parking lot at the casino hotel I went to after the event. There were cars with crazy dusty bikes all over.

Good ole Lucky served me well and is now is storage in Reno. Hopefully I’ll get to ride her again, perhaps even next year.

Sometime ago my friend Nasta from reflecteurbandi.com had a chance to visit Europe, and when she get back home  she post a bunch of pictures on her blog. I found many of  her Euro Trip snap shots  are very enjoyable, because we have a very different riding atmosphere here in Jakarta. You can see more of her post here

Pictures by Nasta Tataqwa

via Reflecteur Bandi

…”I love my bike!!”

Just stumbled across this on etsy…I think it´s supercute.

LOOOOVE these limited edition bicycle jerseys from Andrawis George‘s ‘Ride Preppy’ range. Only producing 30 of each design. Get in touch with Andy if you’d like one $120 plus worldwide shipping.

The Sydney Tweed Ride is on again, MC Cyclery and Ride Sydney to bring you an even better event and thank you to Daniel Dittmar for this year’s poster art.

Once again the Sartorial needs of the city will be met with the 3rd annual Tweed Ride Sunday July 31st 2011.

A slow and elegant ride through the city streets in dapper and ladylike apparel.

8am – Registrations start at Town Hall. You must show your helmet at the sign in and wear it during the ride. No helmet no ride.

9am – Ride to start following pre assigned route and stopping at pre assigned photo points and marshalling points before coming to the finish of the ride.

Cute cycling kits, more info here.

And here.