PEDALER • CLOTHING

Beautiful bicycle portraits…

Architectural bike tours in NYC from Refinery29, one of our favorite fashion/art/culture websites. Perfect way to spend a sunday afternoon.

Bust Magazine has been a long time favorite of mine so when I found out they wanted to feature Pedaler I was so excited! I hate having my picture taken, but the photographer was so sweet and put me at ease. I was also pretty nervous about the interview but writer Emily McCombs is a pro and made it painless.

Pedaler will be in tomorrows bike away from work fashion show in SF! Please go and support us and other cycling companies doing cool things!

Our east coast sales trip was a great success! Because it was my first time out and I do tattoos for a living (not sales), I was extremely nervous. Lucky for me, everyone I met with was very supportive and open to my “pitch”.

After Atlanta, I went to Asheville NC and met with Clark of  Hearns Cycling & Fitness.  This shop has been around since 1896 (not a typo, for real 1896) and have recently moved into a great new location down the street.

Richmond was the next stop on my list. I had never been there before and had a great time. I tattoo with Timothy Hoyer and since he worked in Richmond forever and is extremely talented and an all around nice guy, they practically gave me the key to the city! Name dropping Chris O’Donnell (another amazing tattooer) helped too.

Braden of Carytown Bicycle Company in Richmond was really helpful and gave me some great advice and feedback. Braden and my friend and ‘sales coach’ Brad Otts (of Toms Shoes) pointed me in the direction of a great boutique called Need Supply. Unfortunately the owner Chris wasn’t in, but I got to meet two of the best front desk people ever! Thanks to David and Alyssa for trying on the clothes and for being so sweet.

Travis from CycleLife USA in Washington DC was generous enough to fit me in on such short notice. I felt intimidated walking into such a nice shop, but him and his sales associates put me at ease. I decided to stay the night in Georgetown and take in the sights… Tip: never try booking a hotel from your iphone while drunk off 2 glasses of wine (yes I’m a light weight). The hotel was fine, but was located right on campus, and just so happened to be hosting the ‘Meet the Future Leaders of Tomorrow Conference’. I was wondering why all these business people were so short… it’s because they were all 16!

Baltimore and Philly brought torrential rain, but great success! And I got to test out our bag… yes it is water proof! I first went to Light Street Cycles new location and met with Penny and Marshall.  Penny especially loved that all of Pedalers Clothing is made in the USA. I hope to meet her  and Marshall again at interbike in September!

With the rain still coming down I made my way to Philadelphia to see Bryan and Heather (and their adorable dog Buda) at Bicycle Revolutions. They have two great locations right across from one another and offer lots of great bikes, apparel and service. While they looked at the clothing, I tried to coax Buda into sitting on my lap!

I’m back in Brooklyn now and will begin my sales here soon. I already went to meet with Peter and Jessica of Ride Brooklyn in my lovely neighborhood of Park Slope. Their shop is just what we need here! They are lucky to have Grant working there, and the three of them gave me soooo many ideas to make Pedaler even better!

Is your shop not on our list? Email us if you are interested! And stay tuned to hear about Trinity’s west coast sales trip!

look to the right of this page column…

see the “pages” heading?

look down the column and find “apparel”…

now click on “apparel” and you will see our catalog!

It’s been a year in development and design and we finally have a product that we can truly stand behind. I only wish our samples were small enough to fit me… I want to wear it now! Since we are a unisex line, we made our samples in a mens medium/ womens large so that more people could test it out for us.

Trinity is out on the west coast for her sales trip and I just completed the first portion of mine in New England. In Boston I had the pleasure of meeting with Zack (turns out I used to tattoo him when I lived there… small world!) and Jason from Cambridge Bicycle. They have a new location opening up soon in Boston called Superb… destined for excellence! I also went over to Wheel Works in Belmont…. great selection and friendly staff. Thanks Boston for all the great feedback!

One thing we’re really trying to convey is our efforts to make a sustainable US made line of clothing. All of our tops are made from bamboo, which is 200% more wicking than cotton and grows like a weed!  Bamboo feels like cashmere to the touch and is anti-microbial, which means anti-stink…. very important for all of us daily commuters.

Here we are picking up our rolls of bamboo from our dealer in Southern CA

All of our stuff is made here in the US and we want to keep it that way.

Next stop for me is Atlanta Georgia!

i ran across this article on some other bike blog and thought i would write a few words about it. it has been said that although the regular apparel industry has seen a dive in growth (due to the recession), cycling retailers have seen growth (due to that stint of high gasoline prices last year and increase in sustainability popularity). although I believe that the growth discussed in this article and other articles mainly circulates around bicycle sales, it would be a fair assumption to say that all things bicycle related (that are needed and useful) have also grown. clearly this is good news for pedaler clothing since we are entering a growing market and our garments are way better versions of regular wearable clothing and can therefore be considered “needed and useful” (well at least useful). *all interested investors please see the contact page for our email address*

future cycling apparel

this is chris, pedaler clothing’s fit and catalog model. i was at chris’s future wife’s bridal shower (did you get that?) and chris cruised up on his pretty sky grey custom fixie. he rode from costa mesa to laguna a short 13 miles of intense coastal hills. anyway… when i saw him, i just wished he was wearing pedaler clothing. i know his ride would have been better and he would still be wearing what he likes wearing… here’s a pic of chris, just look at the face of the groom to be! ha!

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