joanie met her twin. mixte love ensued.

this past sunday a few friends and i were going about our sunday routine to the farmer's market and to get chocolate cherry bread from our local co-operative bakery. i can write sentences like that because i live in san francisco.

anyway, as we passed the de young museum on our way to these aformentioned places, i saw the most beautimous thing i've ever seen. a pristine twin to my dear joanie baby.



light was not totally on my side that day, but i did what i could.



i left a love note.


and gasped in (sort of mock) horror when i saw this beauty was locked up with a CABLE LOCK! i wrote on the note for the person to pleaseplease get a ulock. note that person also has the same helmet as me. WHO IS THIS PERSON?!



i left my calling card so they knew i was serious. maybe they are reading today?



i've modified joanie quite a bit from the drop down bars when i got her, but i made her undeniably MINE. i ride her every day and i love her dearly. by extension, i love her twin dearly as well.



have you ever left a love note for a bike?

Cookie fuel

Meanwhile at the market: bake your cookies, ride a bike :)

friday frolicking in the park with bike snob and velo vogue

continuing on the bike snob theme, it's quite possible he saw the pacific ocean on friday.

a few friends, mamakSF and velo vogue, and a music bike came along to the 2nd casting call. here's some pictures that jenn chan took.

on the way to snobbery.


not quite ready for my closeup. i need my SAG card first please.


KT took the dressing euro part very seriously. so cute!!


preparing for scene.


what is snobbier than this setting? not much.


mamakSF about to deliver bread all around town.


windmills and birds.


our golden gate park has so many beautiful nooks and crannies! the queen wilhemina garden is one of them!


speaker bike.


rookie came too!


it was such an awesome time. until i left my pannier behind. but i got it back quickly...and i subsequently passed out (in a bed) from the stress. saturday was a new day!

can't wait to see what the video will look like. did we make the cut, or the cutting room floor. we just have to wait and see.

and now will just have to leave you with the theme song to my life. ;)

ARTHURSDAY: the procrastination post

ARTHURSDAY arrives fashionably late, late like an art school student to a Friday morning* 'History of Typography' class.. :)
*morning class denotes noon...

"The history of the bicycle is peppered with curious and wide-spanning cultural resonance — from powering the emancipating (and subjugation) of women to reining in incredible design innovation to serving as a manifesto for the creative life" ...  

Cino Cinelli and the design (and logo!) of the Bicycle:

How Cinelli Revolutionized the Art and Design of the Bicycle by Maria Popova -via brainpickings

friday fun times: sf (via nyc) video shoot

apologies for the quietness, but we've been hard at work over here in SF. just tryin' to make a livin'.



and in the spirit of that, a couple of days ago i happened to see there was a tweet laying for me to pick it up as the sun shone in my eyes begging me to wake up and face the day.

Xtras needed for SF video shoot. 12-1pm Thu. in South Park, 3-5pm Fri. at Windmill.Wear your interpretation of "Euro," Dutch bikes a +!

— Bike Snob NYC (@bikesnobnyc) February 4, 2013

well, being that i don't appear very "EURO," whatever that means (i've heard rumors that my ancestors surely have heard of these european fellas), i decided i'd go to people watch whether they would have me or not. i mean i've got to be at least 5-30% european. so my lips show and tell me.

oh, and also the place for the open casting was very close to where i work 9 to 5.

and this is a little bit of what transpired yesterday afternoon. it was lovely to see ladyfleur and bike pretty and their gorgeous bikes as well!



this afternoon there's more open casting calls for people that have flexi time schedules per the tweetie bird above. and yes, bike snob, we do work, but some of us are lucky enough to be able to do our work from wherever the world we may be, only if it is connected to the matrix. having reasonable supervisors helps as well...

so now where did i put my music bike?

beer & bikes

:)

have a great weekend everyone!

:)

happy tuesday, all!