Sweet Bikes
I’ve always been different from other girls…
So perhaps I have a different perspective. I’m planning to replace my everyday commuter bike this year and I’ve been test riding several bikes to feel out my options. However some of them seem to be marketed to some other audience…
Yet sales people seem eager to push me in this direction as if there’s no doubt this is what I’m looking for. After all, I’m a girl, right?
I like cupcakes, but I don’t intend to ride one around the city. However, if I could somehow get a bike with this personality:
Now that would be a sweet bike.
Yup, I like you. Another awesome post!
Instantly reminded me of this:
“He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat.” (Manhattan(1979))
Another mixte option: the She-Devil from Handsome Cycles: http://www.handsomecycles.com/bicycles/she_devil.php.
Like the Soma Buena Vista, it’s available as a frame-set only, but that just makes it easier build it up (or have it built up) just the way you like it.
Snort! Actually, that comment originally came from my three year old daughter who wants a kitty cat bike too!
Hmmph. *I* want a cat bus: http://www.google.com/search?q=cat+bus+totoro
*Cough* I want some decongestant.
It’s hard to find bikes with just the right combo of upright posture for looking around in city commuting with some lean forward so I feel like I’m pedaling more efficiently and have some go-fast. I think I’m looking for a unicorn bike: lustrous, pearly, and doesn’t actually exist except in my imagination.
I similarly love riding with drops, whether on the top flats, corners, hoods or drop parts, but I’ve been test-riding bikes with upright handlebars like North Roads and Albatross and, though they give you a completely different riding attitude, I’d like that option once in a while.
So, I’m now looking into supplementing my drops with handlebar extensions installed on the outside of the top flat area of my drop bars, just at the start of the corners, so they extend back toward me, approximating the feel and functionality of an upright riding position. Has anyone tried that?
Other choice is to get V-O Montmartre, and put hoods on them: http://dr2chase.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/goldilocks-and-the-three-bars/
Or maybe find a way to add those bars (pretty narrow) to your existing setup. Perhaps something like this: http://sheldonbrown.org/thorn/index.html
Don’t go down that path, lest you end up here:
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2010/10/first-and-last-annual-bsnycrtms-cockpit.html
Wow! What a collection! Not sure whether to be impressed or a little scared…