Comments on: Mobile Fashion: Exploring Cycle Chic

By: Christa

Christa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:50:51 +0000

“kind of like posting photos of sand dunes and not including any from the Sahara”

I like your analogy, but it seems this post presents the leaders of cycle chic/velocouture in developing bike-cultures.

By: Christa

Christa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:35:55 +0000

Lovey post! You and this group are such an inspiration.

Love Meli’s dress with the red belt – great style.

Gee’s photo (Curitiba Cycle Chic) is brilliant!

By: Lovely Bicycle!

Lovely Bicycle! — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:31:03 +0000

Oh dang, I missed that call for papers! I would have much preferred to attend your Symposium than my stupid neuroscience one. The ladies are looking beautiful!

By: Elle

Elle — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:32:59 +0000

Very cool! But how odd not to see anything from Copenhagen or the guy who started this entire Cycle Chic movement at copenhagen cycle chic… kind of like posting photos of sand dunes and not including any from the Sahara…

By: meligrosa

meligrosa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:57:17 +0000

Hi academic ladies!! thanks so much for the props.

Why is it that because we are in dresses and bikes, oh the helmet must not make you look ‘cute’ – PFFFT.
Get it over with and ride your f-ing bike. Doesnt matter what you ride and / or how you ride it. I wear dresses, have a loud mouth and my hair looks the same on or off the bike. I could give a rat’s butt if I have helmet hair.

One of the benefits of riding is that you learn to oversee every judgment and observation as such. There is always excuses to point out some kind of flaw.

I wear one even if not ‘posing’ for my own photos (http://tinyurl.com/yf4snhg) and I dont wear one, when I feel like it. Done?!
I’m not out there to impress anyone, I prove a point that the bicycle, even at my slow pace, is the most efficient and sustainable way of transportation and that if I can do it, most people can. But if someone rides a bike everyday, they know this.

btw/ lovely blog and nice set. Happy to discover new blogs <3

By: Cosmo

Cosmo — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:17:49 +0000

I am so jealous of Miss Sarah’s wardrobe.

I also do own a helmet but I don’t always wear it.I usually only wear it when I ride with my daughter who has to wear one by law. My hair makes finding a helmet that fits properly pretty much impossible. I feel the opposite of safe in a helmet for that reason.

By: fur nyc

fur nyc — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:40:03 +0000

all are lovely pictures;
the helmet in these photographs may looks boring..

By: bettyspec

bettyspec — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:09:09 +0000

Great to get some inspiration. I tried cycling in a pencil skirt – possible but not comfortable. Have you seen these helmets? http://www.yakkay.com/ I think they have potential.

By: Marc (Kasmeneo)

Marc (Kasmeneo) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:20:40 +0000

Thanks for the kind words and including me in your post! It’s so great to see such a stylish selection of cyclists from all over the world.

My personal commute to work is almost completely flat along the river bank. As I’m a bit on the lazy side, I have great respect for people cycling in hilly towns like San Francisco or Edinburgh!

Considering the helmet question, I don’t wear one and completely agree with Richard.

By: Richard Keatinge

Richard Keatinge — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:15:20 +0000

Miss Sarah, don’t worry about the helmet! Helmet laws have stopped a lot of people cycling and have done nothing for head injury rates, see http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16565131 (Robinson’s work uses the best scientific methods, all available control groups and so on.) It appears that helmets break easily, but don’t absorb the impact, see the engineers quoted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Criticism_of_current_standards.3B_new_designs. A broken helmet has simply failed, and the widespread anecdotes on the theme of “a helmet saved my life” seem to owe more to wishful thinking than to science.

Helmet propaganda relies on overemphasizing the very small dangers of cycling and seldom seems to emphasize its large benefits. At my moderately advanced age it’s far too dangerous not to cycle – regular cycling, Danish style, not too far, not too fast, nearly halves the death rate, see http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/11/1621. Taking up moderate exercise is about as beneficial as giving up smoking. Bicycling is good for health, but bike helmets don’t seem to be.