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Maybe it was love at first sight — a wayward glance on a crowded street. Maybe you met through a friend or a family member and the first date was awkward and off-balance. Yeah, our relationships are different, but one way or another, we all fall in love with our bicycles — and the way they make us feel. Taliah Lempert captures those sentiments on canvas.

The New York City-based artist is known widely in the cycling community for her bicycle paintings, that showcase the spirit and personality of the diverse bikes that bring us such joy and utility. How did she fall in love with cycling… and marry that passion to painting? Bikes were a big part of family life growing up, more as recreation than transportation.

Years after I finished school and moved to New York, I bought a bike on a whim — it just caught my eye while I was walking down the street.

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I immediately got on and rode across the Brooklyn Bridge to work in Manhattan and have been commuting by bike ever since. I think that was or I got all those kinds of style. My bike is my transportation, with rare exception.