Folding bikes at Fashion Week

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Bike Friday teamed up with young fashion designer Telfar Clemens by creating five custom monogrammed Friday Tikit folding bicycles for Telfar’s models to ride as they presented his new athletically inspired “Breathe” collection for 2009. Bike Friday’s “customer evangelist” Lynette Chang showcases the model selection in this video (spoiler: they have to be comfortable riding […]

Bay Area bicycle fashion

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Shelly rides her bicycle around Berkeley, San Francisco, and Oakland, with frequent trips to Santa Cruz and Sonoma / Napa where she snaps photos of cyclists she likes and posts the photos to Riding Pretty – Bicyle Chic California, like this photo below. Several years ago, Shelly designed her Riding Pretty helmet covers because she […]

Venezuela and diplomatic crisis

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Hugo Chavez expelled the U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela in the wake of violence in Bolivia that Chavez blames on the United States. Chavez also accuses the United States of plotting a coup against his regime. While Chavez recalled its own ambassador to the United States, sources say they plan to declare the Venezuelan envoy persona […]