On Employee Discount
Seiko Cleancut. I am a freaking evangelist for this thing. Used in tandem with the T-Shape Personal Shaver (to get it short enough for the Cleancut to work), it's the only way I'll keep my lady bits bare.
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On The Life and Times of Bourbon Whiskey
Bulleit (bourbon or rye, they're both good.) Also Templeton Rye. Old Overholt. Makers. Buffalo Trace.
I love me the brown, vanilla-y, alcohol goodness.
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On The Life and Times of Bourbon Whiskey
@heliotropegerbil8 I make bourbon-bacon cupcakes with chile-chocolate frosting. Pretty good stuff.
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On Never Bike
@Carly Marie@twitter We're in Chicago, and online at Tiny Fix Bike Gang!
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On Never Bike
@Fig. 1 (formerly myfanwy) Holy informative, Batman!
I just wanted to chime in and say I have three bikes: A never-used-and-should-just-sell hybrid, a cyclocross bike that was my commuter and touring bike for years (and now I actually ride in cyclocross races), and a fixed gear pseudo-track bike. My cross bike is a Bianchi Volpe, is steel and can take fenders and racks but is also fairly nimble and quick (if a bit heavy), and I got it for $850.
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On Never Bike
@teffodee There is some adjustment your body needs to make when you first start riding bikes. A proper saddle will have your weight on your sit bones, and they can get sore at first. But keep biking, you'll get used to it. Slowly build up your miles; don't go out trying to do 25 miles all at once. (But before you know it, 25 miles will be like no big deal.)
Counter-intuitively, a too-cushiony saddle will make your butt more sore, because it spreads the pressure/weight to your soft tissues rather than your sit bones. On the other hand, the slight padding in bike shorts can be really helpful for long rides. Also, they are made to not have seams in the wrong place (you don't wear undies with them) so you don't get chafing.
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On Never Bike
@gigglefest I think trikes are pretty cool! I don't know about learning to ride, although when I got back into biking a few years ago, test riding the first bike I bought was the first time I had been on a bike in 15+ years. It was wobbly but fine.
How's this for motivation? I ride 10 miles each way to work as many days a week as I can manage. Which means I never have to go to the gym because I'm getting an hour and a half of exercise almost every day. And it's more pleasant and takes less time than riding public transit. And I am in the BEST mood on days that I ride my bike to work. And I eat pretty much whatever I want and drink lots of high calorie craft beers and don't gain weight. And I've made tons of bike friends and we have lots of fun and now we started a women's bike gang and throw parties and bar rides and stuff. And if I weren't married, I'd be pretty psyched about all the cute bike dudes.
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On Never Bike
@The Lady of Shalott I do like it. It's a little more squishy than I would prefer (It's the Liberator X Gel Saddle) but it's the one they had at REI so I just bought it anyway. I think I'd prefer one of their performance saddles more, or at least the non-gel version of mine.
That said, it's still pretty wonderful and I definitely can ride for days with no lady bits issues.
It makes me sad that The Hairpin is giving women reasons to NOT ride bikes. It should be the other way around!
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On Never Bike
@The Lady of Shalott Word! I ride centuries and stuff on my cross/touring bike and for that one I have a lovely Terry saddle with a cutout area to reduce pressure on my lady bits and have never had a problem.
I need a new saddle for my fixed gear, but for now I just ride the stock saddle and since I'm only going like 10-15 miles at a time on that one, I've never had a problem. And my bars are lower than the saddle which is the position the article talks about.
Bikes are the best. There should be more posts about women and cycling on The Hairpin. I could write some but I have my own blog/women's bike gang website and it would probably be too self-promotion-y.
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On Bridal Beauty: Five Things to Do to Your Face
@LeafySeaDragon Be careful about upper lip! I get my eyebrows threaded all the time, and decided to go for the upper lip the last time as well. I ended up with weird rashy bumps on my upper lip that lasted for well over a week. It was terrible. Never again.