Bicycles!

Yesterday, I was visiting a friend and she showed me her new bicycle. My jaw dropped. It was quite possibly the chicest bicycle I have ever seen, replete with a wicker basket and – get this – an electric mechanism to help her get up the steep Santa Barbara hills. When I say steep, I mean STEEP. So steep, in fact, that Lance Armstrong used to train here during the winter months. Seriously.

Even though I am not an avid bicyclist (I became a tad skiddish riding in the streets of Chicago zig-zagging between cars, busses and taxi cabs), I still think that it is a beautiful and gorgeous sport. Anyhoo, after the visit with my friend, I found myself dreaming of bicycles and all of the wonderful accessories that go with them….Silver Lining.

Dust Jacket

This is Glamorous

Adeline Adeline

The bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created:  Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.

~Bill Strickland

Coco + Kelley

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

~James E. Starrs

Peterboro Baskets

FASHnCHIPS

Life is like riding a bicycle – in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

~Albert Einstein

Etsy

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

~Christopher Morley

Adeline Adeline

Chanel (Drool)

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

~John F. Kennedy

Vanilla Commuter (Made in Portland, Oregon)

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.

~Grant Petersen

Happy, Silver Lined riding, everyone!

PS – The photos with no credit came from Tumblr. If you know who is responsible for the images, please let me know!