That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 22, 2023

Alma and Maja eyeballed each other… then the first all-girl bicycle drag race in Copenhagen was on!

/// How each pedaled, at first, was distinct,

but, (new roommates), these women are linked.

Sleeping ‘neath the same moon,

all their rhythms attune,

until now both their cycles are synched.

Excuse me? My bicycle riding is not feminine? say that again and I will punch you.

Two women proving that riding a bicycle wasn’t bad for their health; until they hit the ditch.

stay in your lane sister, stay in your lane!

I was expecting them to pull their skirts out of a different location.

Let’s do the cobble stone road. We came that way this morning.

Gotta say that Fischer’s painting is very realistic.

ON A BICYCLE? How did you keep your balance? Sweetie, you must tell me how it’s done.

I heard there were some women pedaling their a$$e$ around town.

Regarding recycling and inflation, the gals spoke until two tired.

Removing the seat before sitting on the bike was guaranteed to put a smile on her face.

Young Edna finally asked why Mrs. McGillis always smiled so blissfully while riding her bicycle. “I removed the seat last year,” the elder woman said. “Now my rides are much more enjoyable.”

Nuthin is as addled as a cyclist sadly saddled in the mor-ornin’..

Why would your seat make riding down this bumpy road better than mine?

A bad comment about a hat and suddenly the start of another incident of road rage

“This saddle is making me sore,”

Cried Griselda aloud, ”and what’s more”/

On top of the hurt/

My most favorite skirt/

Can never again be wore !”///

“The designer must be demented !”/

Her companion replied. She resented/

The grease from the chain/

(It was leaving a stain)./

And that’s why Spandex was invented..

“Watch out for that parked car.” “What parked…”

Men insist we should not ride bicycles because it excites the female organs of passion, but honestly I’m getting nothing.

“You know, Griz, we could have a lot more fun on a pair of Harley’s..”

“Does this saddle make my áss look big?”

Helen, why did you tell me to go commando….…got it!

“We mustn’t stop here. This is bat country.”

“Our great-granddaughters will do this on electrically powered bicycles, while looking down at some mysterious device that sends and receives messages.”

When the ladies are riding together/

The shapely behind’ll /

do better on vinyl/

or a saddle well tanned leather..

Two young women riding their bikes on a summer day: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Cyclists in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string Fischer, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3174 (August 22, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 3 works by him have been used here (the April 24, 2023, strip artwork, misattributed to him here, is a copy by an unknown artist), the August 18, 2023, strip being the prior.

I don’t know how those ladies survived… I had enough trouble keeping my jeans out of the chain when I was a kid

For the actual dialogue search “The Road to Wellville” bicycle smile scene.

This client we are visiting has such weird fetishes, I’m wearing underoos under this and what are we supposed to do with the bicycle again?

The reason ankle skirt garters were invented.

Hence: bicycle clips.

Funny, finally…

Merigold (in gray dress) liked using bike with no seat just the post.

If ya look closely, string has been laced from the dropouts to the wooden fender, forming a skirt guard. And her bicycle is drawn with an extremely short wheelbase.

Why … yes, I do have some grey poupon!

Look closely at the picture. The rear fenders on those bikes have holes in them for strings that go from the fender down to the frame. The strings are radial, like spokes, but you can see them crossing the tire. Those strings were there to keep skirts from blowing into the wheels and getting stuck.

Props to Paul Fischer for getting that detail right in the painting.