Happy belated July 4th + back home after 10 days

patriotic bike love at the Nordic Skier Sports Shop in downtown Wolfeboro, NH

Indeed I've finally downloaded the Hipstamatic app for my iPhone. (They simply make photos with my damaged camera lens look so much freakin better!) Admittedly I got hooked using it while in New Hampshire for the past week+ so you'll be seeing a lot more analog-styled documentation from my trip up north... that primarily being my first time cycling up the Mt. Washington Auto Road yesterday!


In the meantime, a little re-cap from recent bike-centric news/happens that I'm just now catching up with...

• photos from the Skirts on Bikes Ride  
• DARGELOS joins the Pratt Incubator + adds the UtiliTEE to their line of cycling accessories
• the opening of another new bike shop in Brooklyn! - this time in Fort Green
• NYTimes' article about women not feeling NYC is safe enough to ride in and Janette Sadik-Khan's response
• PUBLIC's One-Year Anniversary photo contest with spectacular prizes
• and the exciting proposal for a velodrome in the abandoned Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx ♥

vintage Schwinn Breeze as planter on Rt 109 / Governor Wentworth Hwy

and what a New England trip just wouldn't be complete without