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Bicycling & sport

Shoes: Nike Zoom Sly Sister One+ Women’s Training Shoe

October 22, 2010 Bicycling & sport

I do not wear trainers. I do not do organised games. I do not go to the gym. I have no need of trainers. I went into London’s Niketown once about ten years ago and ran away in horror. I have a pair of Converse hi tops which are great for dog walking & Manhattan […]

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Jean-Pierre Braganza for Boris Bikes, er Barclays Cycle Hire

September 15, 2010 Bicycling & sport

I do love the Boris Bikes, or the Barclays Cycle Hire bikes as I should properly call them. But they are rather dull in their gray & blue livery. But then I was sent this photograph. Jean-Pierre Braganza, whose show during London Fashion Week is sponsored by Barclays, has designed this limited edition print which […]

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Boris Bikes hit London

September 14, 2010 Bicycling & sport

So far, so good: I’ve been zipping around central London on London Transport’s new scheme, the Barclays Cycle Hire bikes, for the past ten days or so and there’s only been one big problem. Colloquially named after London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, who pushed the scheme through, there have been over 500,000 journeys, with over 80,000 […]

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Go Yankees! DKNY signs on as sponsor

April 8, 2010 Bicycling & sport

One of the more unlikely discoveries I’ve made since living in New York is that I love baseball. Really, properly love it. Of course it’s just glorious rounders souped up a bit, so there’s no reason why I wouldn’t. It helps that lovely Jill is to American team sports as I am to fashion designers, […]

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Copenhagen Cycle Chic

March 2, 2010 Bicycling & sport

As you’ve probably gathered by now, I adored being in Copenhagen. (Once I’d got over the shock of the £3.50 glass of Pepsi.) The beautiful city is packed full of interesting, creative people, the fashion & design is excellent and I felt warmly welcomed everywhere. I knew I was going to love it when I […]

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Object of desire

June 23, 2009 Bicycling & sport

The Pashley Princess Sovereign $1195. Only to be ridden in Manhattan if you have an elevator or a garage to chain it up in. Waaay to heavy to carry upstairs, and a magnet for thievery. But, oh so beautiful.

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Great Used Bikes

June 14, 2009 Bicycling & sport

Evil bastard sticky fingered immoral thieves have stolen my beloved bicycle from outside my apartment whilst I’ve been travelling. And I am FURIOUS. I’m now down $260 after replacing not just the bike, but the basket & locks too. I’ve had to replace way too many bikes here in Manhattan. There was the one taken […]

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How to make exercise pleasurable: Hiking & a Hotel Bel-Air picnic

April 24, 2009 Bicycling & sport

If I had been told a year ago that a stay in a sybaritic hotel was to be interrupted by a two hour hike, however beautiful the surroundings, I’d have pleaded an imaginary knee injury, stayed in bed, and worked my way through room service. I never used to be like this. I did the […]

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Evil bike nabbing bastards

March 24, 2008 Bicycling & sport

It takes a lot to stop me in my tracks, but this did it. BASTARDS. Evil bike thieves had tried to use the weight of the bike as leverage to bust the D lock. Props to K Mart for my $12.99 lock which didn’t snap. However, not only did they leave my bike hanging off […]

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Cycle heaven

March 7, 2008 Bicycling & sport

I love my bicycle with a deep and desperate passion, and am rarely happier than when I am bowling along the streets of Manhattan on a fresh spring day. As I work from home, a bike meshes perfectly with my lifestyle, & it’s only occasionally that there is a sartorial problem. (I’m pretty good at […]

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