good-bye brown girl in the lane and welcome bikeSD

my philosophy on blogging is that there are no rules.  I am beholden to no-one, not even myself, really.   As such, one of my "goals" for this blog is to feature all the other bike blogs that I read and love.  suffice it to say little of that coverage has happened, but before the moment slips away forever, I want to recognize Samantha Ollinger (Sam) and her now defunct blog, brown girl in the lane.

I met up with Sam for a ride during a trip to SD in 2011

Sam is an articulate and brave cyclist with a wry sense of humor, dispatching from sad diego, my home town.  I call it sad diego, because I find it tragic that such a beautiful place was designed for cars not people.  My approach to cycling there, live somewhere else.   Sam's approach is far more courageous and elegant.  She went from writing a scathing, funny blog, brown girl in the lane, to launching BikeSD, a non-profit bike advocacy organization for San Diego.  I am so happy and proud to see her energy transformed into what is sure to amount to improved conditions for cyclists in San Diego and which could make it one of the best cycling cities in the world!   Kudos, Beany!  love, 1 of the 190

boy blog

screenshot from fyb&b

fuck yeah bikes and beards is not a blog about biking to sf giants games. its is, instead, a beautiful tumblr about bikes and boys with beards. i like a good beard and i love bikes. this blog is a well done winner and unique enough to get my lazy bones to post here.

bike drawings

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

Autumn Baiku: Only Bike

its a bike haiku.  i was inspired by this and this.  i  came up with this:

I'm armed with fenders

streets swoosh, silent but for few

whisky warms wet soul

photo: wet portland panda new year's 2010

beautiful

dear meligrosa,
it was nice to see you the other night and meet ms. diana.  thank you for the photo session with your camera.  i love those those ground lights. you are pretty, special, and nice.
love your freng, ramone-a

A Belated Let the Games Begin!

I first found Let's Go Ride a Bike (LGRAB) searching the interwebs for images of Betty Foy, a rivendell mixte.  LGRAB is one of my favorite bike blogs, offering up beautiful images and impeccable taste in bikes. Trisha navigating Nashville and Dottie in a dress pedaling through Chicago in the snow are two of the things that make the world a good place.  Needless to say, in true procrastinator form, I am making a last minute dash to enter the LGRAB summer cycling games.

Here we go:

Group Ride- 22 miles to Maker Faire

I'm on a little bikey bloggy san francisco email list and Gwen asked if anyone wanted to ride to the Maker Faire.  48 emails later, 13 of us met up for a coffee, picnic lunch and ride.

This is me, photo by the lovely Meligrosa of  Bikes and the City.



Here's  a shot of some of the group in front of me:


Lisa Marie, maker of Hambone bike bags, even looks cute from behind

and some more of the group behind me:


Gwen, producer of bike fashion shows and more, and Kristen

We rode through the city and past SFO, our international airport.  Nice to find out you can ride a bike to the airport, easily.  Helps make my dream more realistic: ride to airport, fold and put bike in suitcase, go far away, ride bike.  sigh 


Adrienne Johnson of Change Your Life Ride a Bike and Vélo Vogue
  
The best part of the day was seeing this guy realize that the model in the magazine in front of him,  was also standing in front of him.



Meli handles the Glitteratti with style.




Bike Date- Meeting KT for Mimosas

For my next athletic cycling adventure, I went on a bike bloggy business date with KT of Vélo Vogue


We met for mimosas at Cafe du Soleil



both looking fabulous in complementary solid color dress/ cardigan combos



and we sat in the sun next to Moses, the grey parrot, and his mom Jen, a self proclaimed crazy bird lady



At the end of the date I tried to convince KT to take Papi the Chihuahua home with her



Thanks KT for a great bike date. 

Super thanks  LGRAB for the fun contest!!!!!

Ride a Bike for Good Health, please

Special thanks to Patrick Sexton for his project Schwinn Cruisers.  He's currently in the process of documenting over 100 years of annual Schwinn catalogs, dating back to 1899 and he's looking for help.
This project is especially dear to me because I first fell in love with bikes as an adult due entirely to a purple schwinn hollywood.  I've been bike obsessed ever since and have fond memories of our decade long love affair.  It should come as no surprise that it also makes me really happy to see new editions of  Schwinn classics gracing our streets as modern city bikes.    

Thanks for your work, Patrick, you're serving up  a delicious slice of american pie.

the mixte gallery!

photo- velo cult bike shop san diego- pea green peugeot

ok bikey friends and faithful readers, did you know about this? the mixte gallery is a bike blog where readers submit photos of their mixte bikes. oh gush. snoball, the le tour, panasonic, peugeot, all mixtes i've know and loved. they're going in. the ladies love mixtes so let's get our bikes in there. did you submit yers, yet?