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These beautiful wooden bike-pedals caught my eye a while back. They are handmade in Arezzo, Italy, a teeny-tiny town in Tuscany. I passed through there on my way to the Perugia Chocolate festival a few years ago and found it to be typically charming and very sleepy on a Sunday afternoon. The pedals are made of beech wood by local artisans under the label...

Bow ties and tight lacing at San Francisco Tweed Ride San Francisco's Tweed Ride proved to be the best occasion to give my cycling corset a proper airing. Fortunately, The Bold Italic showed up.

Kelly's Cycle-in-Style Summer tip no. 1: "Layer a 50s/60s-era beach romper over padded bike shorts for a long-ride look that's both quirky and practical. I love me a good vintage romper. Felt like a genius when I realized it was perfect for cycling. They're actually more useful for that, as you and I both know how much I go to the beach (um never)...

  I've never seen my friend Lauren on a bike here in San Francisco, but she went to Napa last weekend and sent me this gorgeous snapshot. Thanks for the sweet photo, Lauren. You look amazing!

I'd like to say that I dressed up specially for the San Francisco Tweed Ride we'd just been on, but actually I dress like this all the time. I'm posing in front of my prettiest bike: a belt-drive bamboo beauty that I made at the Bamboo Bike Studio in San Francisco. The mural was on the side of the Sycamore, but it has since been painted...

A gorgeous job decorating a bike with neon tape. Functionally fun. I saw this pretty bike outside of Cell Space on Harrison St. in the Mission.