on bike safari

i went to portland and look what i found. meet timmer. just rode up from tucson. impeccably suited for the road.

San Francisco to St. Helena- Wedding and Wine!

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I'm going to the Princesa's wedding next weekend and just found what looks like a swell route from sausalito to st. helena, courtesy of a bikely.com user. i'll be riding and camping and weddinging with Al Farid all weekend long. Any tips for the route before I go?

Update: Ride never happened due to sleepy man. Zipcar'd to Napa instead. Boo for no ride, although it probably wouldn't have been the best idea to cycle with the (Fake) Labor Day car crowd sharing the road.

my mixte

I am obsessed with bikes. I am obsessed with bike touring and step through frames. I just purchased a SOMA mixte that I am building up all custom and quite special with the help of pedal revolution. I have such stories to tell and coming soon- the ultimate ladies touring machine!

Touring Thoughts

Touring is the next big thing. It seems like everyday I am hearing or reading or thinking or talking about bike touring. Other people are thinking so too. Here is a group of fine San Francisco cyclists I met at Sam P. Taylor state park. They too were on an overnight, cook out type of ride from the city.
Among the group were two fellow SF bike journalists, authors of SF Wiggle and Post Car Adventuring. Both blogs are great and the latter is specifically about touring. It's easy to understand the touring appeal, since you can load a bike with everything you need to comfortably travel the world. And in our back yard, sights like this:
See you on the road!