Feria de las Pulgas Ciclísticas

 bike swap meet in santiago chile.  anda.

this is san francisco: the outside lands

golden gate park is in fact a gateway to the pacific ocean running west through san francisco. the 3 mile park was planted with hundreds of thousands of trees to create a root structure that would stabilize the natural sand dune topography of the area, once known as the outside lands. Now this route is all park and then ocean.

 

bicycle and pedestrian signal at panhandle and masonic. watch out for cars running their red arrow when you have the green.

 

as you cruise the panhandle bike path be aware of hippies, dogs, and other road users.
westward toward the ocean

on sundays without cars

All the way to the mighty pacific

where the great highway should be the boardwalk.

san francisco love.

This post is a collablogorative effort to showcase San Francisco neighborhoods. Sister posts can be found at Velo Vogue and Change Your Life Ride a Bike.

before she was filthy

snoball was clean and had fenders

building the mercian: bottom bracket and cranks

back in november 2010, i bought a mercian frame and fork set at the bike expo and offered that I would blog about the project here. For those of you that have been waiting 1.5 years for me to start this project, I apologize. for those of you psyched to join the adventure of building a bike, i welcome you. This will be a chronicle in mechanics, tools, parts, and challenges and stereotypes specific to women cyclists.

Let me state for the record that I AM the family mechanic, and can do most bike repairs myself. I have a stand and tools and a well researched base of knowledge. I have street credibility from "building" snoball, although all I really did with her was pick every part and have a shop put it together for me. this time I want to employ my skills, learn, and advance to the next level in cyclist clout. I will do as much of the work myself as is reasonable. I plan to assemble, adjust, and then have an expert fine tune.



For those of you faint of heart, please be aware that I fully expect that this project will not be easy and out the gate it already is not, but challenges are for overcoming! the headset was already in place when I bought the bike and so here begins the rest of the process:

Step 1- bottom bracket. my son greg gave me a campagnolo bottom bracket to use for the mercian. I wanted him to give it to me and to lend me the tool, but he told me it would be risky for me to self install. so I let him do it, but was a little frustrated because many times in my life men have actually taken the tools from my hands when I am doing repairs in their valiant efforts to do what is stereotypically a man's work. phhh. I let him do it anyway because I really didn't want to fuck up my new frame and figured I could concede when it makes sense.

Step 2- crank. I had a set of campy cranks and this time the tool i needed was an allen wrench. easy! turns out the size was uncommon so i had to borrow the allen key to install the cranks. that was a cinch.

Stay tuned for the next step, building the wheels!

Fixie Boy

another sweet san francisco bike video. epic lyrics. *its a shame you're bipedal, riding cars should be illegal. one speed one love no gears no fears*

two hander panda

me at sunday streets two handed. below, one hand on the camera, one hand as proof of danger. wind in hair.

suckers

market street san francisco

velo vogue: susie

faithful readers, you may know that I post fashion related bike stuff at velo vogue, in addition to what you see here at Wheelright. Below is a post that i made for VV but thought I should share here too:

meet Susie!

today, the first sunday streets of the year opened the embarcadero for a six hour celebration of glorious car free public space. Susie was my favorite person of the day, a new commuting cyclist and attorney whose firm reimbursed her for her new ride. yay, for employer supported cycling! Decked out in red boots, houndstooth wool, and a union jack helmet, Susie is style.

NAHBS: Michael Cleaver

hey there mike cleaver. nice to see you at NAHBS. your bike was lovely as are you in a little bastard kind of way. mama loves you even so.

cleaver you brought this awesome long john. i especially like the bucket and am intrigued by the potbellied truss.

inside the bucket, a street sign. delightful!

all that and a bag of chips

is what i carried today, if you care to know. both panniers were loaded and a paper bag slung over handlebar.


the cargo included:
fruits
vegetables
champagne
wine
orange juice
jam
eggs
olives
pasta
cheeses
meats
bread
tp
tulips

and a bag of primavera tortilla chips!

a close up of the load:

reflecting on bicycles

my backyard

not bad, huh?