snoball at night

This shot was taken year ago in the shakespeare garden in ggp. it feels like forever since then.

Audrey is good

rambona

this is what I look like.

forks organized neatly

this beautiful image showed itself up on things organized neatly
and is credited to the working bike cooperative in Chicago usa. i love the blue schwinner.

bikes y coffee

this beauty of beauties photo is from dapper lad cycles, on flickr and part of an "homage to la meligrosa" group called coffee y bikes. te kiero, mg. carinosamente, rambona

what a caracter!

my friend Jacquie Phelan, dressed as a car.

Ramona for Bike Drawings

Ever since I found the blog, Bike Drawings a few weeks ago, I've been excited about sending in a submission. I've been doodling bikes for years, amongst other things like anthropomorphic animals. So rather than sketch up something new, I started thumbing through some old notebooks and voila, Look Ma No Hands. My art is usually a bit dark and cynical, can you tell? So here's your wheelright preview, let's see if this ends up on the site. :)

Riding Indoors

This lovely photo is of Jean Claude Brialy and Anna Karina, in Paris of course, from the site Rides A Bike- photos of famous people on bikes. I love this shot in all its frenchness and I love the idea of riding indoors, in open spaces with wood floors. My apartment is 24 feet long and I can ride a revolution or so in a straight line before I run out of space. What if I had an old converted warehouse type space where I could ride in circles and figures eights? Parties would certainly be more fun.

bike drawings

from bike drawings, a tumblr site of people's drawings of bikes.

1 mph chase

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cops and robbers on filbert between polk and larkin.

vintage bike snob

red balloon tires and it's lightweight! found this beautiful poster on flickr courtesy of hebegebeez. danke.

wheelright in amsterdam 2000

new year 2000 i visited amsterdam for the first time. this is me in love. I drove a car from hamburg to a^dam after new year zwei thousand in berlin, and once i made it through the outer ring road, I realized amsterdam was a bicycle city. i feel silly now for not knowing that in advance, but it WAS my first time out of the country... I ditched the car and spent one of the first weeks of my life out of "urban" southern california and my first time ever in a true bicycle culture. I would never be the same.

i cry for a car free life. i live without a car, but i ride with cars, and every time i am on the road there is tension. biking in san francisco is a functional contrast of relaxation and stress, more lovely than not, but there is better. there is bike culture. give me bike culture(not counterculture), give me bicycle(mobility)asylum now. please.