Tag: Cycle Chic

January 9th – Back to work. Stomach is still a shade on the uncomfortable side, but I’m miles better and just need to get my eating back to normal. I kicked off the new working year with a morning meeting in Lichfield. Ye Olde City is always odd on Monday mornings, and was virtually deserted when I left town at about 11am. I did notice, however, that a nascent cycle chic seems to be developing there; I spotted the tiny Trek ladies bike with the spray of flowers locked up in Tamworth Street. Have to admire the style. Meanwhile, at the other end of the cycling scale, I noted the huge flying-bedstead Pashley locked up again at Lichfield City Station. That bike is massive, and clearly well loved. Who the hell rides it, the Jolly Green Giant? His inside leg must be greater than the adjacent railings. That’s one lanky bloke…

June 27th – On my way to work, I stopped on the Ring Road by the Leather Museum in Walsall for the pedestrian crossing. On this bright, T-shirt and sandals warm summers day, a breath of Copenhagen sailed gently and confidently over the crossing. A relaxed, normally dressed cycling mum, bag slung casually over her shoulder with a content, happy child in a seat behind her. No silly closthes, no fear, just  casual young woman out on her daily business.

Lovely to see.