Dogs and bikes

Dog, copilot

Goggles not only help to keep out road grit, but add style to any touring pooch’s ensemble.

I love Summer Streets in New York City, three Saturdays in August when you can bike all the way from 72nd Street to the Brooklyn Bridge without dodging cars.

Dogs everywhere: in handlebar bags, baskets, and trailers, or running alongside or behind bikes.

Dogs and bikes

Two basketed dogs

 

Dogs and bikes

Basket dog not contributing, just along for ride

 

 

Dogs and bikes

Dog in covered bike basket

Dogs and bikes

Terrier in a basket

Dogs and bikes

The usual, plus a butterfly on a horse chestnut in bloom

Great day for a ride with a basket-mounted dog. Two bicyclists rode past each with dog in basket – I shot, but the camera was asleep, and in the moment’s lag, they’d passed, caught in blur…about the third or fourth photo down the page. I didn’t chase them down.

I stopped to zoom in on a butterfly drinking the nectar of a flowering horse chestnut tree (warning, their nuts are not edible), when the last photo rode by.

Dogs and bikes

Today’s dogs in bike baskets, New York City

 

Dogs and bikes

It’s probably a dog…

It’s probably a dog, possibly a reasonable cat. A little blurry, and lost in a shadow. I really can’t work out this business of focusing.

Dogs and bikes

2 dogs, 1 basket

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