Woo hoo I found a great website for you ladies out there who dig on style and function! LadyRide Active Wear strives to provide ladies with quality, beautiful, modern cycling apparel that is fun, sporty, feminine and tough. It just so happens that I know a few women who are sporty, feminine and tough as nails!

Although LadyRide is based out of South Africa you can still get this cycling couture by way of this wonderful new invention called the internet… who’da thunk?

In any case you’re going to love what LadyRide has to offer, super cool designs that are form fitting and functional and get this… they also do custom work! Yeah that’s right if you submit your artwork to them via vector format, i.e., Freehand, Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw they work their magic and bada bing you got your own jersey!

So what are you waiting for ya’ll… check out the LadyRide website and tell’em Echo Roberson from Women’s Cycling Magaine sent ya! Hmm on second thought maybe it’s better that you not mention my name, I think there’s still a few people upset at me for that one time when I…

NEW Retro Cycling Jerseys, The New Yorker

Well, well, well looky what I stumbled on! Check it out ya’ll some really cool new jerseys from one of our favorite apparel makers RETRO! If you’re not already familiar with Retro Cycling Apparel then you’d better get on over to the website and bust out that Visa card. You do want to be cool right?

LOL, what better way to impress all your MTB, Cyclo or Rodie friends than to show up sporting something super-fresh that nobody else has? Tell ya what, we here at WCM have the scoop and we think you’re going to like it. Retro just released some new cycling jerseys featuring some old-school artwork from The New Yorker magazine and they’re like totally Paris Hilton – HOT! Please excuse my use of Paris Hilton but I was dared to find a way to get her name into my blog post today and darn it… I never lose a bet!

In any case you get the point, cool new hotness… now go get some!

More Info For Your Brain

Portland, OR-based Retro is excited to announce their partnership with The New Yorker as they release two new cycling jerseys featuring iconic illustrated cover art from The New Yorker’s archive. The new cycling jerseys spotlight illustrations from two acclaimed artists: Theodore G. Haupt and Ana Juan. This year, The New Yorker celebrates 85 years of publishing. Retro is thrilled to offer these singular jerseys to the international cycling community. Jerseys will be available at retail outlets nationwide and online starting June 1, 2010.

The American artist Theodore G. Haupt contributed 44 New Yorker covers between 1927 and 1933, including his art deco cover for the March 9, 1929 issue. On this 1929 cover, Haupt’s style brings to life a rich, action-packed bicycle race, an inspiring image on race day or any day. Haupt’s work is beautifully brought back to life with Retro’s new men’s cycling jersey. The Spanish artist Ana Juan has designed cover art for The New Yorker since 1995. Juan’s “Blossoms,” depicting a femininity that is both delicate and strong, appeared on the cover of the March 10, 2008 issue and is featured on Retro’s women’s jersey.

Yesterday at around 3 in the afternoon all eyes and attention went to the east wing of the Interbike convention center to see the start of the fashion show and (see if anyone would fall)!

The show started off with a boom boom pow thanks to Dj Miss Dust who was by far the best female dj I’ve ever seen. Having 14 solid years under my belt as a dj myself and turntables in my front room to prove it, you can rest assured when I say this girl was slamming… she was slamming!

So with the beats bumping, beer and vino flowing it wasn’t long before the area cordoned off for the fashion show had swelled to a nice little rowdy crowd of the cycling industry elite and wanna-gonna-bees. The heads where bobbing, hips where shaking and if you were there you would have thought to yourself as I did all it’s going to take to get this party started is one person to start dancing!

If I wasn’t there representing Women’s Cycling Magazine you better bet’cha I would have gotten out in the middle of everyone and got them all dancing! Since we’re not living in Echo’s fantasy world nothing of the sort happened.

What actually did happen is the host came out after the crowd had gathered and was completely liquored up and announced the show would be starting in five minutes! All the media shutterbugs, bloggers and who’s who of the industry gathered around one of the three different stages set up and that’s when the show began.

This fashion show was unlike any other fashion show I had been to or been in. What was so different about this show to start with was that there where three different stages as I mentioned, in addition all the models were not only wearing different fashions from head to toe but they were also modeling bicycles and accessories.

I’m happy to say nobody fell down, thank god. I’m actually surprised because one of the gents pulled a couple of wheelie’s on his bike and people were passing him beers as though he was in a cycling road race or marathon… it was extremely entertaining to say the least.

This year was my first Interbike convention and now I can tell you with conviction and certainty that I love the cycling industry! There was so much “stoke” going around each day, thousands of positive folks rushing around feeding off each others positive vibes it was great! Who’s to say that you can’t mix business with pleasure?

These past 5 days I had the perfect mix of business and pleasure. I got the chance to meet a lot of really great people, see tons of new product and I networked my little butt off. Women’s Cycling Magazine definitely got the word out, we’re here with a great quality product and if you haven’t heard our slogan already… “IT’S ABOUT TIME”!

Stay tuned for video from the fashion show in a couple of days. I’ve got to get back to the office in SoCal and edit the vids! As soon as I piece everything together you’ll all be the first to know!

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Weather you’re looking for a stylish new bicycle to commute to the local farmers market or you need a unique riding helmet, CycleChic has got what you need.

Surfing the web today I happened to come across this very unique website and thought I’d share with the rest of the WCM community. Although CycleChic is based in the U.K. that doesn’t mean you can’t get some of their stylish products.

In an industry saturated with choices and every manufacture from Tokyo to Seattle vying for your business it’s not to often you find a line of products that truly stand out from the rest. It just so happens that CycleChic is in a category all it’s own.

Check out their website and see for yourself.