Begun in 2009, London’s Tweed Run, a quietly extraordinary fashion-and-cycling event, is billed with only a wee bit of hyperbole by its organizers as “world renowned for being the most sartorially impeccable event ever to take place on two wheels.” And it just may be that.
Undisputed is the fact that, as a rite of spring, traditionally a Saturday in late April or early May, the day-long event is hilarious and highly mannered. With headlong, passionate participation by some really well-dressed Londoners, the charivari manages to be both deadly serious in its attention to detail, and simultaneously, more than a little bit tongue-in-cheek. Pictured above: Only the bravest cyclists go whole hog for the ungainly late Victorian mode of cycling transport known as the penny-farthing.