Babushka Winter Bike Style

I knew I could easily ride in 25º on Thursday morning if I was prepared. I love that my helmet straps held the scarf close to my ears. Who wore it better? 


When I saw this photo, I was happy to realize I've got on two vintage, gifted items. Green coat is from my mother-in-law and the jeans are from Ms. Buys, who gave me the Betsey Johnson swimsuit that got donated to the museum at FIT this fall. That's one of the coolest things that happened in '11.


These feel like pot holders, but they're necessary and they make bike life very pleasant.
Marmot ski gloves. 


Riding through Times Square, I saw that the stage is set-up. I still don't really have New Year's Eve plans. I bet we'll lay very low and continue our streak of winter domesticity.


Wednesday morning I wore some new flare-leg jeans and I decided that I didn't want to jeopardize exposing my ankle-skin to the winter winds by tight rolling them. I used these ankle-clip things. It was a good move.



Flare leg jeans. Made in USA from J.Crew - ultra-clearance after Christmas purchase.



My right eye cried the whole way to work despite wearing sunglasses.

It felt awful but I guess it didn't look so crazy. It felt like black tears were streaming down my face. I think my face was too cold to really know what was going on.

Happy New Year!

If you're new to my blog and you need pink tires to jazz up your gray winter, they are from Fyxation.
I'm so glad I've got them. They're so pretty now that it's so ugly and gray outside! 

Lonely Bike Times

I'm not lonely in LIFE but I'm finding myself LONELY in the bike community now that it's COLD out.
All by myself in the park tonight.

One older man was in there doing laps and we were so isolated that we spoke to each other.
We spoke to each other, people! This is New York City and me and this stranger spoke to each other.

The seasons have shifted.

My gloves tonight were not enough. I think it was in the low 40's. -Fahrenheit.


Good morning stop.


See- I'm not that crazy skinny- I'm still normal.

I'm downright ashamed of my hair so I kept the helmet ON. And I'm SAFE. So it's on.

However, I was HOT at this point this morning so the leopard coat came OFF.

Oh, leaves.


I saw Malaika tonight!


And our friend who we met on the Moonlight Ride, Julia met us out.


Malaika says it's too cold for bikes and Julia says mid-town is too crazy for riding so should I ask myself "Am I insane?"

Instead of really thinking about this question, I'll just ignore that notion and keep riding.

If I didn't ride- I wouldn't see nonsense like this:

January Totally Sucks. Next!

I used my new pedals today for a very very very short trip to my closest American Apparel location. Look how cold/red/gross my nose got. PS - I don't have any makeup on. I rarely leave the block w/out makeup.

What a MISERY!

It's so cold. I don't think I can ride to work this week. Maybe Friday if I can dress like a lumberjack or ice road trucker. We have a big market week (I work in a clothing showroom that hosts buyers) and I need to look cute all week long, so I think bicycles and ice-wind aren't going to mix for me this week.

But wearing sneakers with these pedals was amaaaazing! They're so much GRIPPIER than my previous ones/pedals. I had such better traction to push off the pedals and fight the blasts of ice wind.


In that canvas bag in the basket is a newly thrifted skirt that I took to American Apparel seeking answers to the question: What am I going to wear with this skirt?!

Sadly, I found no solid answers. I bought nothing. Unbelievable.

My bicycle was parked (along 3rd Ave.) for maybe 20 minutes and all this trash blew up against it. New York City is so windy and trashy right now.

I have this happy thought that next Friday will be Jan. 15th - the middle - We need January to move on asap.

Sometimes trouble...

I had an at-home eBay photo shoot yesterday and got in BIGS trouble with Flickr. They emailed me threatening to delete my account! I have about 12,000 photos in my Flickr account. That shit getting deleted would be DEVASTATING. I immediately begged them not to and deleted all my eBay photo shoot pics. And pulled my auctions that I worked so hard on.

Except for this one...


And this one...


Silly! They were going to delete me for using Flickr in conjunction with eBay. Flickr is not for commercial use! Even though I pay an annual fee to upload all the pics I want to it. Damn! I was really scared.

It was like 40 degrees today! I still rode my bike. I rode because I'm too stubborn to get on the bus... unless I really must.

I wore faux-fur and I was fine.