騎游者的逍遙生活

????《自行車風尚》（Cycle Chic）一書收錄了368張騎游者與其愛車的合照。我在紐約植物園里偶然看到了這本書，一打開就看到一張騎車妹的靚照。妹子長發長腿、身著短裙，或許這本書這么受歡迎，跟這些靚照也有關系吧。不過好戲還在后頭。

????除了年輕姑娘的靚照，很多照片——確切地說是快照——拍的都是小伙子和大男孩、小屁孩和淘氣鬼、帶寶寶的媽媽、騎雙座自行車的夫婦、把狗放在車籃子里的車手，如此等等，不一而足。大多數照片的拍攝者是米卡埃爾·科爾維爾-安德森，他是時尚博客“哥本哈根自行車風尚”（Copenhagen Cycle Chic）的博主，所以他拍攝的大多是穿著入時的自行車車手。由于照片取景于世界各地，這本書還可以作為一本不錯的旅游指南。不過我最終把它買下來是因為上面的照片都是按照主題分組的，從照片上看，不管車手們身居何地，車行何處，他們的風貌和舉止大體是相似的。

Biking Bliss

????Cycle Chic?contains 368 photographs of people and their bicycles. I ran across it in the bookstore at the New York Botanical Garden, and the fact that it opens with a photo of a lovely young cyclist with long hair, long legs, and a short skirt probably had something to do with its attraction, but that was just for starters.

????In addition to young ladies, a large number of the photos -- they're actually snapshots -- are of men and boys, kids and toddlers, mothers with babies, couples on two-seater bikes, bikers with dogs in their baskets, and loads of other variations. Most of the photos were taken by Mikael Colville-Andersen, founder of a fashion blog called Copenhagen Cycle Chic, so the bikers tend to be well dressed. Because the pictures come from all parts of the world, the book doubles as a nice travelogue. But the fact that the photos are grouped by theme provides the real take-away: Regardless of where they live and bike, people tend to look and act pretty much alike.