It sure is nice when you get to combine 3 of your great loves all in one day. For me that was the kind of day in July that produced another great shoot with Monocle. They were sending me to Globe Bikes in Morgan Hill near Santa Cruz to go shoot a story on the new Globe commuter line. Globe is a Specialized bike company. I’ve been riding Specialized for 15 years now so you can imagine how thrilled I was being sent off to a child’s equivalent of a candy store. It was a whirlwind of a day with a ton of shots to be done at headquarters and in town. But with bikes, images and good people on my side, I was feeling lucky.

Globe bikes are perfect for running around going to the farmers market, being a hipster in skinny or as we like to call them ‘drainpipe’ jeans with your U lock in your back pocket, going to the community garden, going to work, going to the dentist, whatever. Perfect solution to get you out of your car, release you from the dread of another late train or bus commute, help get the air cleaner and your buns and calves harder. Personally I’m the Vienna or the Roll.

The story is out in the Sept issue of Monocle which is on the newstands now. And surprisingly it looks a lot like this…

You can even read it online which is great in it’s multimedia approach to it’s online version. Here’s the splash page on the Globe piece.

Now roll along now to pick up your issue of Monocle. The cover you’re looking for looks like this.

Many thanks to everyone at Specialized who helped make my job a little easier and also to my editors Poppy in London for offering me the story and Ann Marie in New York who spent the day with me, wrote a great story and was fabulous company.

and for those of you interested in seeing some that landed on the cutting room floor..