How We Do Summer Streets

Two Summer Streets Saturdays down - only one to go - and it appears that we just ride downtown, meet-up with my #BikeNYC friends, hang out, take pics then ride off to get something delicious to eat, go home.

Dmitry took the best couple-photo of us. Ooh la la!

See all of his Summer Streets portraits on Flickr.  

We bailed out of the protection of Summer Streets to use the broke-down bike lane on Grand Street going to Doughut Plant.

I got a tip from Sharon's NYC Taught Me blog. She's mostly dealing with children- but I think like a 7 year old girl, so her advice helps me. 


We passed 4 different flavors back and forth to each other like maniacs and shared a Thai iced tea. 

GET READY FOR SOME CRUNKNESS BECAUSE AFTER DOUGHNUTS WE GOT SNO-BALLS! 

I've had Imperial Woodpecker Sno-Balls four times this week. I met the sweet little owner and we swapped southern-accent-love for one another. I did not tell her I've had four sno-balls this week. 

Matt went nuts and got ice cream inside his shave-ice/sno-ball! He had root beer & ice cream flavors with real ice cream tucked inside. Dopeness. 

We felt sick as hell from all the sugar, but we had to get our ill-selves home for an emergency nap and Summer Streets turn back into danger alleys at 1pm so we used the West Side Greenway of Love to get home. 

Next weekend is going to go down a lot like this too. Yaaay SummerTime! 


I suffered so many snowy, wintry bike rides...


Like this 24º commute and this snowy New Year's Eve spin around the city.

PartyHardee's Bike Style

Let's talk about Matt, my husband, @PartyHardee (not very active) on twitter.


He wears a shirt, tie and dress pants, dress shoes every day for work but he commutes in casual outfits like this:


But Friday I heard about a show- Radio Happy Hour - and he wasn't prepared so I had to bring him a shirt to put on outside.


I'm REALLY GLAD I told him to take some extra shoes on Friday. He rides his bike in his black socks and dress shoes and gives me a sartorial anxiety attack. He put his TOMS in his backpack, thank goodness!
So he ended up like this on Friday night and that was fine. We went to the show at Le Poisson Rouge, which is pretty casual but you could be a little fancy and then we got Sno-Balls. (My 3rd this week!)

Friday late-night Matt.

I have a very thoughtful co-worker who picked these up for me in Ohio at a store called Ollie's for $1.79 per package/set of 2.


And this was the first night I knew I would be out in real darkness and had fun using them. I could have crashed checking them out.

Yeeee! Fun!!!

And who cares but this is what I wore to work on Friday. I got these new vans hot pink sneakers to replace a pair of my fake keds. I felt very athletic on my commute in these sneakers if that makes sense. I'm definitely more passive and slow when I have on crazy shoes.


Friday night I put on some casual stuff and Matt gives all of this business the finger. :)

-But he's jealous of my new bike lights. They don't fit on presta valves. 

Couples Casual Chic Bicycle Style

Really casual cycle chic couple, I tell you. We just had some thirsty Thursday beers at the Pine Tree Lodge.


It was pretty fun riding home together.

He wondered if he should ride behind me - Gentlemen's bicycle etiquette.

We have very different style bicycles - his is light & fast and mine is slow & heavy. Mine is pretty and comfy and upright & civilized and has fenders and a rack, etc. Both are single-speeds.

I carried his downstairs to the bicycle storage room in our building and it's a dream to carry such a light one. Half of my white-trash leg bruises are the result of carrying my bike into the storage room and being strong enough to hang it up.

I'm wearing an old American Apparel dress. (Poplin cross front dress) My first summer in NYC, every 4th girl on the street had some color-way of this dress on. These are my $5 walmart keds that I'm very much in love with. They are so easy and comfortable. And versatile. And real keds don't come in this salmon-y pink color (to my knowledge, and def. not for $5.)

I scored Matt's t-shirt from an abandoned bag of clothes at our building.