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Beautiful Santa Barbara
Visiting Santa Barbara last weekend, Cycle Chic was on my mind. It’s a chic hippie town to begin with. I was surprised, however, to see how few people on bikes were wearing anything more stylist than hippie workout wear (which is pretty typical attire in beachy Santa Barbara even for those not on bikes or working out.)
There were some pretty chic bikes locked up along State St though.
Two of the fancier bikes spotted on State St
Not to mention a cute little dog in a bike basket (love it!)
Biker mutt in a makeshift crate-basket
Even saw a bike in the storefront window at Dear Diary.
- Dear Diary shop window
After biking around a bit (albeit on a borrowed bike that frankly needed a good tuneup) I could understand why people have electric bicycles. The hills along Shoreline Dr are exceptionally steep and go on forever. With my minimal tolerance for biking hills (Dallas is mostly flat), I’d had just about enough of that by the time I reached La Mesa Park. (Check out the little sign in the photo below warning cyclists that the hill’s steep! And, yes, there’s a sidewalk and a separate 2-way bike lane, with the car-lanes to the left just out of the shot. So accommodating!)
Shoreline Dr bike lane - headed to the beach
It’s such a beautiful place though, with bike lanes all over, and fairly courteous drivers I’d say (pedestrians do have the right-of-way by law – and there are so many bikers you get accustomed to looking for them.) They even have bike parking at the SBA airport (smiles!)
My question: are they bikes of employees, or day-trip passengers with minimal luggage?… Either way I loooove this hippie town.
Bike Parking at the Santa Barbara Airport
Kate Spade has jumped on the cycle chic bandwagon with a bike prominently displayed in its sales window. You can even buy the BIKE! This here from their Northpark store.
International clothier Boden strategically integrated bikes into a few of its shots for this season’s catalog.
So cute!! Makes me want to buy these shirts and dress to bike to work in. I just wish I could pine over their cute bikes too! Supposedly you can see more of the bikes in the physical catalog.
Thanks to all the chic cyclists who came out to the Cyclist Census this last Saturday. We had such a blast & hope you did too! (Seriously, cyclists have to be the nicest coolest people to spend an afternoon with.)
We picked our favorite 30 and now it’s up to all of you to vote for the winner. You’ve got until high noon Saturday, and we’ll announce the winner at Main Street Gardens downtown Dallas just before the movie starts at 9pm. Hope to see all the finalists there – we’ve got some some sweet prizes for you all.
Good luck!
Spotted at Northpark: the Gap’s sporting a bright orange urban commuter bike in their display. Nothin too fancy but it’s definitely made for jumping curbs and protecting your khakis from any mud you encounter.
Well, the Neiman Marcus store in downtown Dallas has the bicycle front & center sharing the limelight in its Main Street window. I don’t think Chanel is going into bike manufacturing, but I do believe that’s a beautiful little Chanel pannier on the back there.
Dallas Cycle Style 