Shyheels

Oubliette

Nicked

I think something similar occurred with Ugg boots. I remember them from my long ago days at Sydney University as cheap things students wore around the college, comfy study wear. In Melbourne people joked snobbishly about Uggs being 'Heidelberg Stilettos' - Heidelberg being a working class suburb where you would often see people wearing Uggs on the streets, in much the manner people wear sweatpants now.  The notion that they could one day be, and indeed now are, considered high fashion - and very expensive - still flabbergasts me.   

Sable

Eagle

Talent

Acumen

So live well!

1 hour ago, Steve63130 said:

Whoa! You forgot tobacco! LOL

Steve

Left that one out deliberately. Figured that one genuinely is bad for you - in a more serious sort of way.

Summer

Psychedelic

Good point on the Dutch bikes with the covers on the drivetrain!

I am not at all into racing bikes myself, all of mine are custom built classic tourers, but the drivetrain is still exposed. Believe me, it is not just racing and MBT bikes and really, really old derelict clunkers that have exposed drivetrains. 

With your Dutch bikes of course, you'd be perfectly safe in heels. Didn't think if them when I wrote. Nice serviceable bikes they are too!  Now that I think of it, the women I have seen cycling in heels in London were ridng Dutch-style commuters - and looking very regal and elegant too!

Purple

Sugar, bacon, coffee, alcohol, fizzy drinks, fruit juice, red meat, spaghetti sauce...the list of things that are bad for you grows and grows and grows. 

I cycle a hell of a lot, thousands of miles a year, and the presence of traffic has nothing to do with the dangers of riding in heels - it's the chance of having your heel slip into the drivetrain on your bicycle. You could have tgat happen on the quietest country road or bike path.

i take your point on the listening to music whilst riding, though. That to me would be a much bigger risk than riding in heels, especially in traffic. It astounds me when I see cyclists coccooned in their headsets, oblivious to everything around them. Not only is it dangerous but it detracts from one of the great joys of cycling - the immersion into the landscape, and the immediacy with your surroundings

Love the puns. I liked number seven, and having nit long ago endured root canal appreciated the humour of number six

Rock Positano?

You couldn't make up a name like that...

(I Googled it - apparently he really exists!)

Valkyrie

Grilled

Platypus

Event

Constellation

Zeppelin

Jacob

Rastafari