girl.bike.dog.

I was wandering around the weird triangle area around Grace Tavern this weekend, trying to recall where the hell I had parked my car the night the Phillies beat the Dodgers, when I wandered into the storefront of girl. bike. dog., at 23rd and Bainbridge.

The titular dog. His name is Vince.

The store sells a mix of store-made bike stuff and dog stuff, and, looking at the website, offers dog-walking services, which I didn’t notice when I was there. It opened the storefront this June.

The beer cozies, which come in standard and 40 sizes, can strap onto your bag or your bike so’s you don’t have to ditch your drink just because you’re ditching a party.

I asked whether the lack of traditional foot traffic at 23rd and Bainbridge was a problem (because seriously, the streets can get a little deserted down there during the day). The answer was that the foot traffic wasn’t as thick as on Walnut, but that the people who DID walk by tended to be on their way to the dog park at 25th and Spruce, and thus more likely to be interested in some of the dog accessories like the collars above.

They have a selection of messenger bags in the store (the one on the above left was made of a fallen billboard), and they also do custom stuff (below).

Top tube protectors:

They’ve got a blog, too, and when I looked it up, I was somewhat startled to find several pictures of my little sister’s boyfriend at the Wild Wild West race, 2008, and shooting a rifle in the woods with the store’s owner? Hee hee. Hi, Eric, you just turn up everywhere I look!