the electric arc bike or something like that

look what I spotted the other day on market street.   he was so fast all I could do was shoot, and he was gone.

a good night in the bike garage

yes, it was.

do you think i have a bike problem?

we are traffic

what if all these people were in cars?

bike in the basket

the best thing about bikes is that they carry things, namely the rider, but also other things. I'm not of the messenger bag wearing, heavy ass load on my back carrying variety, so baskets and racks and panniers are important to me. let the beast carry the burden I say. here's a shot of me carrying home a bike with flat tire, in my basket. vintage, 2006 or so.

downhill races

wheeeeeee! I think this is the phillipines, but not sure. doesn't matter cause is rad.

2008 Santa Monica Freeway Ride

heck yeah.

Pimped Ride

 photo credit Jamal Alayoubi. Location Kuwait

bike breakfast

pan de queso from la cocina, new  orleans iced from blue bottle, at the saturday farmer's market , ferry building usa

Bike Burden

This guy with his burden of bike parts reminds me of a sam flores painting

Testing Riding a Bike: The Bakfiets Experience

Enough said.  The bakfiets is an experience we should all take part in.   The bakfiets is a Long John style cargo bike which according to longjohn.org is a two-wheeled cargo bike with the load area between the steering tube and front wheel.  The site doesn't clarify who designed the first long john, but does attribute a Danish company with first manufacturing the bike in the 1940's.  One thing is for sure, long john cargo bikes haul ass, and then some, and the modern editions handle like a dream.

Thanks to MyDutchBike.com, I had the privilege of riding a bakfiets home, loaded (the bike not me),  after KT and I finished the Vélo Vogue Bike Wardrobe Remix photo booth at the Disposable Film Festival.  I had to figure out a way to get the photo booth equipment AND my bike home too, but with a huge cargo box I knew it wouldn't be a thing.



Loading the bakfiets was cake and it took about 15 seconds to adjust to riding, the 8-speed nexus hub was perfect even with a little incline, handling was smooth enough that I could ride one handed and snap photos of myself, getting the bike on and off the kick stand was a breeze, and if I could afford it, I'd stock my bike garage with a bakfiets today.  Experience the feat of engineering that is this bike.  Get on a bakfiets, find a load to carry, GO!

tp basket

ladies room farmer brown

Carrying a Load

I found this folding table and four chairs (inside storage cabinet in table) for cheaps at a garage sale and decided it would help facilitate a proper dinner party or two.  No more sitting around the coffee table.  Rode her home on my schwinn cycle truck.  it was hard.