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.
I’m just petite so the cruiser chic bikes simply don’t fit me: I would be overly laid-back, stretched out. Note: I’ve never had a dropped down handlebar road bike and I have 4 bikes, been cycling regularily for past 20 yrs. By now, I’m not totally convinced I want to learn being dropped down.
Just leaning slightly forward but not totally upright is great for me. And no, I won’t be wearing my business clothing: it’s a real heache for someone @ 5’1″ and at 53 yrs., to find off-bike clothing that fits me well without looking like a teenager or frumpy baggy lady. So happy to cycle short distances in walking shorts, cheap chamoisless long tights, etc.
http://thirdwavecyclingblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/cycling-chic-not-for-me-i-cant-afford-it/
i add my name to the endorsement of the soma buena vista. i love mine. it can handle a quick sprint through the village, or hop over the east river bridges, or a quick lap of the park, and home with a load of groceries. anyway, its a quick responsive frame and you can build it up to be what ever kind of bike you wish it to be.
Funny blog! Keep it up. Cheers!
Lil’Jacare
http://bikejitsu.blogspot.sg/
Too funny, my daughter has a one year-old “kitten” named Midnight (all black), if she were a bike she would look exactly like your drawing!
If you had a Panther bike would you name it Bagheera?