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Get out your bike basket and find your scarf – Sunday December 11th 2011 will be the first Cycle Chic Boutique Ride, visiting the best locally-owned boutiques of the West Village and Henderson Ave. There’s a good variety of shops with guys and ladies clothes, bike-friendly home furnishings, and odds and ends perfect for socking stuffing.
We’re meeting at Transit Bikes on Blackburn at McKinney Ave so you can arrive early to air your tires, lube your chain, buy a basket, and get that red flashing rear light you’ve been meaning to buy.
At about 1:00pm we’ll leave Transit for our first boutique stop at the new Demerara before heading to Henderson for Gypsy Wagon, Another Time & Place, Pandemonium!, and We Are 1976. Around 4pm we should be ready to bike back to the West Village.
There will be holiday cookies, wine, cheese and snacks along the way and some good store discounts including 10% off at Gypsy Wagon and 60% off at Another Time & Place since they’re moving.
If this is your first adventure to the West Village by bike here are some handy directions from the Katy Trail and the Cityplace DART Station.
Happy holidays and happy holiday shopping! We’ll see you Sunday.
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
Dallas Cycle Style 