Question: Why does this NYTimes style article about "bicycle chic" make me want to barf?

Is it:
A) The increase of women on bikes finally picks up, but it's only fit to print couched in the angle of rich, sexy women riding bikes.
B) The ladies sound like annoying, entitled riders, one merrily laughing off people who "shake their canes" at her while she "speeds down the sidewalk" and another choosing to ride a singlespeed because "everyone in Brooklyn rides one."
C) I'm probably just jealous that they're New York supermodels with fabulous careers and custom built tricycles that they use to haul cute dogs named Stitch and I have none of these things.

Yes, yes, and yes! But mostly because the women interviewed seem to view their bikes as fashion accessories, the sidewalk-biking lady describes her bike as a "a kind of rustic enhancement" to her outfit. To them, riding a bike is a stylish fad and, with a change in the seasons, that "rustic enhancement" might go out of style and these ladies will be getting around by Land Rover or Razr scooter or whatever the next fad is.

Slate also sounds off about the article, arguing that there's only been a small increase in women riding bikes and, besides, the current Times bears a strong resemblance to a trend story ("The Spokes-Models" oh god) the paper published in 2007. That story began: "Meet the beautiful bicycle girls of New York, a breed that bears little resemblance to the hard-charging, Spandex-short-wearing species of 20 years ago."

If you're looking for bike news, stories, and, yes, fashion for down-to-earth, practical lady riders, I recommend Momentum Magazine.

ANYWAY, speaking of beautiful people on bikes, here's a cute video about cute people on cute bikes that Graham sent in: