Sporting apparel is not necessarily the most stylish, it's meant to be functional over fashionable. Of all the sports, cycling has gotten the worst rap, for it's ultra tight and ahem, very unflattering apparel. With the recent insurgence of people commuting by bike there has been a plethora of street style photos of women in their fashionable finery perched on the seat of a bike. While I love that people are being more active and earth friendly by cycling to work, the one major piece of equipment absent from these photos...a helmet! I know that women riding bikes want to look cute and not arrive with helmet hair to where ever they are going, but not wearing a helmet is dumb and it could be deadly. Yes you want to look good, but there are some rules to follow when cycling to keep you safe. In that vein I want to introduce my newest collaborator Thomas Griffin of
The Bicycling Gryphon. Tom is here to lay the ground rules for cycling safety. Together in the next couple of posts we will discuss what to wear, what to watch out for and how to have a safe and stylish journey.
