Going for a bike ride? Get the best gear!

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Check out some of the best and coolest biking gear to wear when you're out for a cycle. Wearing the right clothes when it comes to biking not only makes you look good, but will keep you safe too! Check it out from the Wall Street Journal:

Last month, at a dinner celebrating filmmakers and artists, the actor Matthew Modine was wearing what appeared to be a pretty standard sport coat. But it wasn't.

"Look what it does," Mr. Modine told a reporter, zipping up his jacket. He fastened the collar closed, for an all-weather look, and tugged on a sleeve to demonstrate the pliability of the cotton-polyester stretch fabric. Unlike Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts and many other stylish guests in the room, Mr. Modine had arrived to the party on a bike. And he'd dressed accordingly for both.

Simon Constable, Wendy Bounds and cycling enthusiast Reed Albergotti look at new bike-friendly, spandex-free clothing that's stylish enough to wear to work.

Nowhere in America is cycling as integrated a part of urban life as it is in, say, Copenhagen or Amsterdam. But things are changing. America's bike commuters have web forums and advocacy groups. In Mr. Modine, who modeled the same jacket a week later at New York's New Amsterdam Bicycle Show, they have a celebrity spokesperson of sorts. And most importantly, they're starting to get a wardrobe.

Read more at Wall Street Journal