Wait what...

"There's a girl, sitting at the curb with a coffee in one hand, and a camera on the other.
And she is taking a picture of me..."

I have replaced them ciggies for my precious little gadget. luckily, thanks ;-)
Happy Monday everyone -

scenes from the bikey lane: back to the grind edition

(unfortuntately, the above does not refer to coffee grindings and such)

i hope everyone had a great 4 day weekend. mine was full of cat visiting (oh hai, i'm in urz haus), christmas tree getting and decorating, veggie leftovers, beer, coffee, and a couple of bike rides. i didn't go on the longer one i had intended...but such is life ;)

1.) lots more traffic on page. grrr. i missed it when all those cars were elsewhere.

2.) hitting the lights, for the most part. niiiice. yet i was still 6 minutes late. oops.

3.) my gears sticking & me nearly falling over at the green in front of a car and behind the bus. luckily for me, the car driver was patient and followed behind us (me and the other commuters) slowly for a couple of blocks.

4.) a bike light totally destroyed at the interestction of 5th and market. doh! i hope it wasn't due to a hit...just a bump w/ a bike light fall.

5.) me riding to jury duty at lunch. :) i serve my civic duties as needed. now if only there was better bike parking available...i must investigate civic center garage if i get called back tomorrow.

happy monday everyone!

Day 2 Of The Copenhagen Invasion

This was exactly a month ago. Our month for us here in San Francisco has been a complete package of bikes, coffee, friends, visiting friends, let's go, we're here non-stop. Lots of fun, and I, am personally glad for this Thanksgiving break. I savored it to the max.

Anyways, this post is long due from the Friday night before halloween. Mikael (As you may now him from copenhaginize & CCC) had done his lecture about bikes and cities earlier that day, and he was probably more jet-lagged than anyone I had interacted with in a while. He was a trooper It was a great group for dinner, some blogging friends of Mikael from the Bay area, the girls and Ade's family.

3 big kids.

Bike light lane.

After some yummy Ethiopian finger friendly dinner, we went for a stroll around the post-critical mass craziness around the heart of the Mission. Mikael was more than thrilled to be riding with all the SF ladies, and concerned that the bar would be too far, you know in copenhagen we only go 2 blocks to a bar and back ;-)

Wait, we got 3 blocks to go - oh so far...

Ground control to major pirateskulzz. HAR HAR

La pirata y la de cabellera verde. Sounds like 2 mexican wrestling names ;)

Somehow we ended up drinking some of the local flavor, dancing and chatting the night away, mariachi's included.

Mariachi shots.

Table for 6 margaritas, gracias.

Dancing fun.

Gotz mi eyes on you missy.

After we heard last call, we decided to yes, head out and ride to each of our destinations. San Francisco may only be 7 mi. square so nothing seems 'far' but I guess those Europeans think of our blocks as big long miles (are we there yet?!?) It was a blast and we all enjoyed ourselves.

Duck and Dutch.

Wigglin /Calitexican and her invisible pirate sword. AYE AYE

Market street at 2:20 /Mikael, Ade and I.

I love this pic!!

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It was great having all our girlfriends, Ade's family, and Mikael around for a fun night in the city.
From the CPH to SF, with love. Cheers!
♥ 'Til next one everyone /m. ♥

Tweedsterz

Last week Caryl did a Tweed ride post, now her set is complete up in Flickr *wink-wink*. If she humbly won't say so, they are amazing shots of amazing looking lads and lassies around the City of Angels. Check out her whole set here: LA Tweed Ride

Black & White Saturday

Wheeee!~


happy saturday, everyone!

Depeche Mode

Fast fashion. That is what is starting to happen in more and more places- bikes on trains. The fashionable use their bikes to get to the train to get across the Bay. We need more fashions like this. The kind that stick and make everything better.



Do you have a multimodal commute? What is it like?

Thanks Be For All

I have never had all four of my children on bikes at the same time. If you could see me in this shot, you would see my huge, greatfull smile : )



This is what it looked like : )

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! There is always something to be greatfull for. Feel free to share!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We are thankful for the good times, the bikes and our friends - Now stuff your bellies!!!!

♥ With love from the SF triple trouble trio. -&Caryl in ELAY ;-) ♥
& Look no mixtes!! /Butterlap last week.

Game face on GROWWWWRR

Did someone say styling!?!?

Watchout for this trio - run!!

He He He

Hubby the Bike Man found this for me. I dedicate it to him and his cyclocross bike (which is currently parked next to the bike he is building into a fixie : )

follow the light.

happy wednesday, all! :)

"my chrome is shining just like an icicle"

"i ride around town on my lowrider bicycle, bicycle, bicylce..." -- beastie boys

lowrider bikes at the SF bike expo. orale homes. badass, ey.

a werther's original.

childhood dreams bike club, san jose chapter


i'm diggin' the chain steering wheel.


crushed blue velvet seat? yes please.

Caution on Calitexican road.

Curvy nachos ahead

Tuesday Injection of Fun: Get Inspired.

We like photos. & I know we can all relate to this video. I love this piece. ♥Enjoy!

LA's first tweed ride

this past weekend, LA had it's first tweed ride and here are some photos from the ride..

Union Station

hmm.. what's today's date again? the year please?



good times!



-much love to CICLE.org for bringing the tweed ride here in Los Angeles.
(if you're wanting to see more tweedy action/ elegance.. there are tons of great pictures up on flickr :) I'll be uploading more on my photostream too! yayy pictures)

There Are Bikes At The Expo?

So yesterday was the San Francisco Bike Expo. There were lots of pretty bikes, many of them plant based.

Bamboo Mama! Not For Sale!

Can anyone tell me why you would go to the trouble of making a truly beautiful wood bike with an internal gear hub and not take the tiny bit of extra effort required to machine a horizontal drop out so a tensioner is not needed? I posed this question to a guy from Renovo and I guess they are looking at changing that. I hope so, 'cause that is way too cool a bike for something that visually lame. Much nicer to have it clean like the one below.



I am not, despite my above opinions, that fixated on actual bicycles. Most of the time they come in one of two catagories, useful or not. They are then differentiated by level of visual appeal.

There were only two reasons for me to go to the Expo. The second reason was all the people I knew I would see while I was there. I like bike people way more than their bikes.



This guy's scraper bike was my favorite bike of the whole day because it looked like him. Every spoke was covered in Red Vines!! He was super proud of it.



This guy, from the "Chopaderos Outlaw Bike Club" was so cool he had to wave his hands in the air to testify! I really want a vest with that drunk skull on the back! Anyone out there think they can hook me up? : )



My friend Lilia found us wandering around. When she jumped on this Batavus I instructed her to look "more Dutch". This is her interpretation.



This is Cali's.



I had fun watching the BMX boys show off.




Some of them are too fast for my camera!

My number one reason for going? Meli was in the fashion show at the end! They made her wear pants! I had to witness this : ) She looked fantastic!



That woman is too much, which is of course the reason I like her : )

One last happy shot of the day- a full bike valet!

a weekend bike haiku for you

slick rubber steep hill,

photo by geekstinkbreath

darkened valencia street.

three-speed fender bell.

written by sxl (98%) and calitexican (2%)

note: the main author of this haiku would like all of us to know s/he is working on improving their haikus from "american style" to its proper self contained 5/7/5 format. i, for one, am excited.

Ride Of The Sand People

I was playing around with my scarf the other day and, of course, took a picture of it. It was decided I looked like the sand people from Star Wars. Our friends over at Toronto Bike Chic took notice and declared that a panda shot while looking like a Sand Person would be called a "Sanda".

These are the results of this epic, international story of bicycle, and artistic, inspiration.

Toronto Sanda



San Francisco Sanda

I think I have the edge on this as my hair acts as a full face shield just about all the time.

Happy Friday! Send us your sanda!

mis bicis are my therapy

the most popular article in today's new york times is their well blog's "phys ed: why exercise makes you less anxious." having personally experienced less anxiety and depression after riding around, i was rather intrigued and clicked on through to the other side.

to summarize, princeton university researchers recently compared rats that run to rats that don't run. they put both sets of rats into a stressful situation: swimming in cold water. i don't know about you, but i believe swimming in cold water would be pretty stressful to almost anyone. anyway, the study found that the rats who run had new brain cells created by exercising (not a new discovery). these new brain cells, "the researchers concluded, appeared to have been 'specifically buffered from exposure to a stressful experience.' The rats had created, through running, a brain that seemed biochemically, molecularly, calm." the author noted that running is a form of aerobic (cardio) exercise, and, in theory, the conclusions should extend to cycling and swimming. also, for the exercise to start to work, it takes somewhere between 3 weeks and 6 weeks to for the difference to be noticable.

i am not a scientist or a medicinal doctor. i do, however, have a brain in my skull. this brain has been put through a lot of stressful situations. put simply, i have been both the rat that does not run and the rat that runs. and i can say with absolute certainty, that i have responded better to stressful situations after i started biking around the city. i notice i feel calmer, more ready to think rationally and in turn better cope with the stress.

for example. i am under personal stress in this picture (to clarify: the stress was not from hanging out w/ the people i was around). but...notice the smiles? i'm keeping the stress at bay, quite easily in fact.

Úna and cali kriss krossin' the bicis.

this study doesn't exactly break too much new ground, but it did get me thinking about myself and then about you guys, our lovely readers.

so what about you? do you feel less anxious after you have ridden for a couple of months? would you recommend biking as a form of therapy or medication for a friend in need? please let us know in the comments.

LA cycle chic ride

say hi to Heather's red heels :)

Proper Bicycle Fit

It's a must!

scenes from the bikey lane: tuesday is the new monday edition

-1.) the time!! i was running, oh, about 15 minutes late. grr. and i had woken up early too. :)

1.) a cop pulling up across the intersection. i make sure to make a complete stop, leaving nothing to interpretation, because i've seen cops pulling over cyclists in the a.m. rush hour traffic.

2.) a cyclist running through a stop sign and taking a left right in front of cop mentioned in #1. cop and cyclist have words. dirty looks were exchanged. everyone kept going on their merry little morning way.

3.) my favorite little traffic cop. no, that is not an oxymoron. she is responsible for directing traffic to turn from market street onto 8th street. she tends to do this in a way that is favorable to those who commute on two wheels. thank you!

4.) the traffic cop i almost hit yesterday while trying to avoid a pothole. oh heeeeey osssifer. sup? sorry about that!

5.) a silver fox of the architect-looking variety with a sense of humor. you know, he had the spikey silver hair, cool looking plastic glasses, rather large head. i do know of a bikey friendly architecture firm in the direction he was heading. it's not so far fetched a thought...

6.) said silver fox and i exchanged a smile after seeing two, um, junkies yelling at each other about how foiiiine each other is & how good it was to see them. sunny mornings are great for everyone.

7.) the time. i was only 5 minutes late. how did that happen? time slows down, in the best way possible, when you are in the saddle. even if it's just for a short commute.

happy tuesday everyone.

Newbie

She is small, but she is mighty! Our new partner in crime.







Stay posted. She is feisty! Of course, that's why we like her : )

Sheila After 20 Years

This is my friend Sheila. This is the first time she has been on a bike since 1989. This is the first day of the rest of her bikey life!



Altogether, she rode almost 10 miles, including in the street with all of us.





The big grin lasted all day : )



Now we just need to find her a bike of her own! It is aways a great feeling when someone gets excited about something you love. I can't wait for Sheila to really be able to hit the road. We have so much to show her and there is so much for her to show herself!

Do you have someone who needs to get back on a bike? Go help them get back on! You will not regret it : )

Hello Readers. Mucho Gusto.

Hi. Those rather enterprising sorts of readers may have noticed a new contributor as of this morning. Yes, that's me, calitexican.

You may have met me before on the interwebs, or not. I first appeared on this right here site right here (Texas grammar intentional), and then I popped up here. I kept bumping into Meli and Adrienne all over town and on flickr. Through our encounters, I came to believe we all share a similar philosophy on riding bikes, and how they can be incorporated seamlessly into one's lifestyle. I hope to make some of you laugh (or at least smile), and to make others of you think. Most importantly, I hope to encourage all of you to ride around over town just living your own life.

So no matter what sort of riding you do, please get to it. There's a lot of roads, trails, mud, grass, whatever and et cetera to explore.

I would like to officially shake hands with the internet for bringing the three of us to know each other. I would also like to thank Meli, Adrienne and Caryl for asking me to be a part of this venture.

Have a great rest of your day. New horizons await all of us.

Watchalookin at!?

Du'h.
No one can resist. Come visit us, we'll take you for what-we-Americans, according to an Euroboy, call a bicycle ride ;)

I took this from the bike lane on Embarcadero. Glad people take some time to enjoy a sunset, even if toursits enjoy it more than locals, which often times seem 'too busy' to bother.

Light 'Em If You Got 'Em

OK people. We changed the clocks a couple of weeks ago. It is getting dark really early and it isn't going to change anytime soon.

PUT SOME LIGHTS ON YOUR BIKES!

As much as we all like to get upset at motorists for not seeing us, it isn't a good idea to make it even worse for them (and us).




I write this because on my way home tonight I saw probably 20 cyclists on one of the roads I drove. Of them, 2 had lights! 10%! None of them could be easily seen in the dark. I was looking for bikes because it is a really popular route, but even with me paying a lot of attention there were several riders I just could not see until I was almost on them.




Lights are cheap, they are easy to install and they are important! So put them on your bike and use them!

TGIF: Strangers with candy.

I'll take Calitexican's bike for dessert. with a side of yehuda moon. easy on the flirting, Im vegetarian. -to go, thanks.

flowerized.

Have Fun Storming The Castle!

: )

Regular Folk

My friends are just regular old people. On bikes : )















I kinda like 'em : )

to jump or not to...

yayy for relaxing or waiting for the green light :D

nice way to sell music

he has on some nice pants/ trousers too! :)

Veteran's Day

It is Veteran's day here in the United States. Somewhere along the line it has become one of the less popular holidays. I guess people are uncomfortable remembering that today is the day to take a moment and remember the men and women of the world that have lost their lives fighting for what they believed to be right.

The Mercury News printed a story on Monday about a program for veterans that are struggling with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Menlo Park Veteran's Administration Hospital has created a road bike team for vets!



These pictures are from Richard Masoner, known by many for his always informative Cyclelicious blog (he gave me the heads up on the story and the links to the pictures : )

For those of us who ride everyday, the knowledge that it helps clear the mind and gives us the chance to set things straight in our heads has become one of the driving forces behind staying in the saddle. While there is no study to prove riding helps the Vets reduce their symptoms, the article quotes one of the adjustment counselors with the program as saying "Anecdotally, we have a lot of these guys who'll tell you that cycling has helped them as much as their therapy sessions."



Being able to hit the road with others who have been there must be a great relief. I know that the time I spend riding with my friends and family has gone a great way toward clearing my mind and keeping me positive when I have had to face the challenges that life brings.

Take a moment to read the story. Take a moment to remember the soldiers of Fort Hood. Take a moment to remember all of the soldiers that have given their lives. Take a moment to go ride with a friend.

One momentum, please

I'm happy to present this article with you, it is my first written-printed piece, I hope you enjoy it:

Momentum-The Magazine for Self Propelled People | What to Wear by Meli

You can now pick up your Momentum magazine around a number of local bicycle/coffee shops. Cheers!

Sometimes You Just Gotta

I like to ride in wide legged trousers and a cute hat. That's me. Sometimes, though, I can see the lure of the pelaton and the open road and wonder to myself "where did I put my old bike shorts?"

car back! (pedale. barrique)

Photo by pedale. barrique

Lock up your sports drinks! And your daughters! (Photo by pedale. barrique)

Cyclocross ain't just for young guys (photo by Giorgio Vianini)

photo by EricM.

photo by Rocketdog

Now, who out there has some pictures of woman out racing? We would like to share them!

Chain links linking to blog links.

We are very happy and flattered that the SFBC has mentioned us under their link page for Bicycle Blogs and Magazines»
Don't forget to check the rest of the listed local flavor. Pretty nice blogs there!!

Keep Pedaling

happy monday, all! :)

Weight Watcher

While I am a Canadian citizen, and both of my parents were born and raised in England, I pretty much consider myself an American at this point in my life. I was educated here, I got married to an American here and my kids were born here. Thus, I have to admit that I am a bit of a "weight weenie" when it comes to my bikes (a throughly American trait). I didn't realize it until recently, though.

Tonight, I weighed 2 of my bikes with all of the stuff they would normally have on them.



S.A.M., my early 80's Raleigh mixte (with the addition of a rear rack and Basil panniers)-

41 pounds!




My 2007 Batavus Socorro, pictured here with my friend Lilia, and including my front rack, Topeak basket and Bobike Junior seat...

62 pounds!!!!!!

Holy cow! Add on a 45 pound kid and various other things like my purse and minor daily grocery purchases...

The moral? If you want to you can ride anything, anywhere. It may take time to get used to it, you may need to be patient while you get strong enough to make it easier but you can do it. But, if you chose something a little less dense, I will understand : )

Sunday: Love, youth and bicycles.

After roaming around the city last Sunday, once again I ran into the same group of BMXers. Our city is quite small, you can run into a friend and 3 hours later, 5 districts away, see them again. Anyways, they were doing some rad tricks. I could've stayed there for hours. I'm a fan :)

sssup.

5 minutes on Church street.

Last Sunday while having lunch at a recently discovered yummy restaurant (Chilango) I turned around and this herd of BMXs blazed by. The energy was great. Made my day to see them. Enjoy.
And see the slideshow LARGE here»

Teach Your Children Well

Do you have kids? If so, I bet you remember the last time you took a look at your precious angel and thought "do I really need to be with you today?" as they sprouted a second head and whined about whatever the hell it is they decided to whine about this time.

For myself, that was today. All day.

After running errands and grabbing a snack, I decided to tag along with James and Cameron. James just finished building Cameron a road bike and they wanted to go ride and play at the big empty parking lot at City College so Cameron could learn about his bike (which is very different from his every day bike).


I figured that a few acres of smooth pavement, free of cars and open for bicycle speeding would help contain the beast that Declan had decided to emulate for the last several hours. James loaded up the F.U.B. with his bike and Declan's and off we went.



James wanted to ride his Miyata around one last time before he turns it into a fixie (I know. You don't need to point out to me just how much opportunity there will be for teasing here).



While James taught Cameron the joy of the "brifter" and how to pedal with one leg (bonding),



I played with Declan.

There is a path that runs the length of the reservoir and leads nowhere. It has a great view and is one of those places a little kid can feel like they are having an adventure without any real danger of anything happening. I let him lead me up there so he could show me the stellar view of the motorcycle class taking place (as well as the McDonald's he has never been in but always tells me is his favorite).


When everyone was done, Declan was in a much better mood. He has been wanting to ride his bike on the street with us ever since we took off his training wheels. The streets in the neighborhood were unusually quiet and I had James with me to play sweeper so now seemed like the time.



After firm instructions to stay on my right side and a promise from him that he would listen, we started off.



This is an ironic picture to me. This is Phelan Ave. and it is currently one of the most contested streets in San Francisco in the battle for traffic calming and bicycle infrastructure. This is one of the things that has caused my neighborhood to be considered the least bike friendly neighborhood in San Francisco and my neighbors to be the most anti-bike.

I am very proud to say that this is the first City street that my 4 1/2 year old son has ridden on his very own bike.



Declan was great the whole ride home. He listened, he kept his eye open, he watched for cars and he made sure I stopped at the stop sign : ) We couldn't do this most days in my neighborhood, but I am glad we were able to do it today.

Get those kids on their bikes! They will thank you for it : )

Black & White Saturday

Happy Saturday! ^_^

at the pier

Time To Put Your Feet Up

It is Friday, after all : )

photo by Iam Sterdam

Taxi Service

Every time I ride across town I notice more and more people with kid set ups on their bikes. The best thing is that for the first time I am seeing an increase in woman carrying kids on their bikes! So tonight, I present some of the wonderful pictures of people transporting children that have been sent to us through the Flickr group.

photo by Xander n' Dante (Toronto)

photo by efeb (Copenhagen)

photo by Iam Sterdam (Amsterdam)

bicyclesonly (New York City)

photo by Meligrosa (San Francisco)

photo by Cleverchimp (Portland)

photo by fnagrom (California?)

photo by ktieche (San Francisco)

How do you get your kids around? Share the knowledge!

Silly Girl

There is a lot of interesting commenting going on out there in the cyber world of late. The "I Hate Cycle Chic" crowd is starting to stir in places. CYLRAB is not a "chic" blog, but it is not not a "chic" blog, either. Meli, Caryl and I try very hard to find pictures and stories from all over the world about what the people who ride bikes as a means of achieving their personal ends look like and how they live.

So what is it that makes cycle chic so compelling? Aside from the fact that we have not seen any in North America since the late 70's, that is. It isn't the clothing, it isn't the sex appeal (those are a small part to be sure). From my experience, it is because "cycle chic" is about people. For the first time in decades, we are seeing the people who ride bikes before we see a bike that happens to have a person on it.



This woman is lovely, to be sure, but is that what makes the picture? Is this attractive because she is young and thin? For myself, I am drawn to this image because this woman is so obviously comfortable, happy and confident. She is gliding down the street and loving the light and the feeling of movement.


I took this picture a couple of weeks ago. This woman is stunning. She looks like she could be my friend, and if she were, this is how she would dress to meet up for coffee. Her bike could just as easily be her back pack. It is simply part of her day. Instead of it being the center of her public persona, it is just her transportation and who she is shows on her face instead of in her gear.



This is one of my favorite shots of Meli. She has the whole "cycle chic" thing going here. Not because she is rocking those fabulous shoes or flashing those red tights. It is because she is happy to be in that moment. There is no way that looking at this picture could be damaging to cycling culture unless you look at it through the lens of self-loathing. When viewed as it is intended, as a window into a positive person's life, the fashion becomes so very unimportant.



Lastly, this is a picture of myself. It is a bit over the top, and admittedly, a little reminiscent of an old pin-up calender, but there was a point to it. After years of feeling completely out of place in my body and creeping closer and closer to 40, I finally feel like I have reclaimed my physical self. I wore a bathing suit for the first time in 3 years this summer, all because riding my bike around town instead of using my car has made me feel thousands of times better about how I look and how I feel inside my own skin. Despite what others may say out there, I do not feel exploited, I am not objectifying myself and I am fully aware that I am the equal of any person out there.



So if you feel this image damages the cycling world,

photo by bicyclesonly

or this one,

photo by Amsterdamize

or perhaps this one, then maybe it is time to deepen the conversation. If 20+ years of only seeing bicycle racers and urban bike messengers didn't get people out riding for transportation, then how exactly do pictures of people doing just that not count? If people are out on bikes, and their only reason for starting it is because they saw a photo of some beautiful moviestar on a cruiser why does that matter? If the goal is to get butts in saddles, then we need every sales pitch we can find, and for many Lance Armstrong and the X-Games just don't register.

Feel free to discuss. May I suggest putting on some high heels first so that you can get in the mood? : )

Circle Time

What do you get when you cross a 50's TV ad for a family getaway and bicycles?



Thanks for the heads up, Fritzy baby! (seen originally here)

Quick question- How did they find 7 women without visible tattoos for this shoot?

Day 1 Of The Copenhagen Invasion

This last weekend was very busy. I am not sure that I am entirely recovered from it to be honest. Over and above the usual craziness that occurs this time of year (my oldest son's birthday and Halloween with three kids), we were visited by Halloween Critical Mass and a visit by Mikael Coleville-Anderson of Copenhagen bike blogging fame. It has taken me a few days to decide how I wanted to write about this, especially as I was not the only local blogger at the talk, and there is plenty out there about the meat of the lecture. Suffice it to say that I came away with an even more firm conviction that bicycle advocacy needs to stay away from the bike (that is "bicycle enthusiasm", which is fun and I participate in personally) and stick to the people and their stories and needs if we want to grow this personal transport movement of ours.

That being said, I have one half decent shot from the talk its self-


I am unclear if these are poll results of the reason people cycle or if it is in fact a resumé (if so is Mikael good for 1% of the environment or good for it only 1% of the time?).


It was my hope that Mikael have fun while he was here and not be inundated by "bicycle infrastructure" talk all the time. SF was the last stop of his North American Tour, so I wanted him to see the fun side of American bike culture. The part that isn't obsessed with safety and how to make that happen (really, we all know how it works, we just have to decide to do it). Thankfully, the fun hit as soon as we left the lecture hall!



Waiting outside of the building was Eric Zo, of legendary SF messenger fame. Eric had his Bullitt with him and was able to give Mikael a lift back to the Hotel W so that Mikael could grab one of their free bikes


I wish I had got a shot of Mikael flying through SF streets on the platform of a cargo bike piloted by Eric, but alas, I did not and we will have to wait for Mikael to share those with the world. There is a picture of Lilia from Vélo Vogue hitching a lift from the hotel to the Ferry Building-

photo by Mikael

After lunch at the Ferry Building and drinks at XYZ, we all headed to Halloween Critical Mass. As we got closer to the crowd, we all got excited about joining in. There is something about being in a huge crowd of people who do what you do that gets the blood going!

Wildlife

Shooting Wildlife

Fast bikes, slow camera.

Why did the chicken cross the road? 'Cause the cow saw beer!

It was a great time. Mikael looked to be having a wonderful time amongst the cross dressers and the animals and the wigs and the fishnets...... I was happy to finally get my kids to CM

Declan in the red helmet.

Úna in feathers. Cameron was off being a teenager with his friends.

I was amazed at how well Úna rode through several thousand crazy people with utter ease. She was not in the least bit nervous or frightened by the crush or the noise.

Those who were left at the end (I did not get good pictures of our group. I think my camera hates me) all met up with KT and Meli at an Ethiopian spot in the Mission for dinner, after which a bunch of us ended up out drinking until 2 am (another event I have no pictures of so go here). I finally crawled into bed at 3:45 AM to be awoken at 7:05 AM by Declan, so we could finish his costume for later that day.

You would think that is the end of Eurobike SF, wouldn't you? Stay tuned for day 2.

Bicis de los Muertos.

••• For Dia de Los Muertos (pre-procession) Ride. •••
♥ You are invited, amigos. Details:
Monday, November 2nd
Meet at panhandle (statue at Baker st. /fell&oak) Between 5-6.
Plan on riding towards the procession (at 24th-Bryant) starting from the statue at 6:00 PM

Bring your Mexican dresses, skulls, bike shrines, trinkets and happy calaca spirits and be ready to shake your skeleton to the sound of your bike wheels ;)

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Carry on. /Golden Gate Park