Guest Photo: Bernhard Shipper

This year we did a cycling tour by the Baltic Sea. In this photo you
can see our bikes and the clothes. My girlfriend is riding a brand new
Retrovelo bike - I've used a 25 year-old Diamond bike from East-German times (I bought it 2006 in a retro-bike store - and I didn't need any repair or new tires) as you can see it is in excellent condition.

Bernhard also informed us that you can find Retrovelo through the following U.S. distributors:

Clever Cycles

Dutch Bike Co. Seattle

Sunday Streets / Family Streets

Sunday Streets provides the opportunity for families to enjoy the street unharmed by dangerous vehicles. Here a dapper man in hat totes his child:

A woman enjoys a leisurely ride with her dog:


A little family, mom in fashionable flowy skirt and matching brown tights and cardigan, ride along the waterfront:

and a woman pulls her tired buddy back home again...

More Sunday Streets photos to come

Staying together

I ran into this little family. She asked me: "Are you going to the Tour de Fat"?
"Why yes," I replied. "You must be too?"

"No," she said (earnestly). "We dress up like this every day."

It bears repeating:
Families that dress up in clown outfits and ride their bikes together, stay together.
How do I make sure I will be like you when I grow up?

THE Hot New Accessory: A Baby

I would have taken this woman's photo anyway in her lovely summer dress, but then I noticed that she was accompanied by her partner and their baby.