Arthursday: baseball y basketball

Margaux Rides Her Bicycle by Creature Comforts

Bikey representations of the A's Stomper & Giants' Lou Seal :) 

Crafty fair shops in the Pumpkin festival 2012, in Half Moon Bay

Baseball season has started!
We are fans of Bay Area baseball – and Caryl in LA, maybe too :)


SF 2012/ OAK 2013
Last year, I was fortunate to go to the first game of the Giants 2012 opening series. This year I went to the first Oakland A's 2013 opening series game.

Jeff y big papi / SF Giants 2012 Opening Night  (First 2 fotos above via my friend Jeff)

Oakland A's opening game 2013 (this week).

It has been a great last few years in Bay Area sports: the 2x World Series champs Giants, 49ers went to the Superbowl, the Oakland A's were AL West champs last year. The San Jose Sharks have also made it a few times into their conference finals. In college sports, this year Stanford women's basketball made it to the Sweet16, CAL men's basketball made it to the NCAA tournament, CAL women's basketball are in the Final Four! and now mi personal favorites, Golden State Warriors with a high possibility of making it to the playoffs(!!) EPIC.

2010 World Series winning game

Ratta y Richie

It is pretty rad that the SF Giants provide bike parking service. The rockstar parking peeps will take care of your ride while you watch the games.

June, 2009

Our very own Calitexican parks bikes in her sleep I'm sure ♥, and she is at the ballpark rather often. I'm sure she'll continue to share her bike parking adventures with us all. Or awesome bike party pictures like the one she took sometime last year:

“Representing the empire” by calitexican

All of us here in SF (Ade, CTX y yo) frequent the Giants as much as we can, and no doubt with KT.. even her cute dog is named after Posey ♥ :)

“Rookie on a walk” Foto via KT

In Oakland, the A's don't have that pimp bike valet parking across the Bay, but they do have $2 Wednesday BART days... make sure you are ready to listen to some metal, lots of drums and fans cheering like it's the World Series any game.

Cheater Crab!

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Día de los Gigantes 2010

Diana's birthday 2010

Mixte Gals at Giants Game via KT, June 2010

2010 World Series winning game

2010 World Series winning game

Oakland A's 2012 AL West champs

2012 A's AL West series

A's banjo man

SWEEPSWEEP beer crew

Ratta y Guillermo. Detroit Tigers vs A's post season series.

This hat duo were so loud, super fun. Detroit Tigers vs A's post season series.

The Giants World Series game in 2012 was super mellow fun to celebrate (the city got pretty crazy once again) at a non-alcohol bar eating and enjoying a good time at StreatFood with Ade +fam, CTX +V, and crew. All ages, all good.

Anyways.
There are way more pictures and sports moments I am very glad to say “We were there” and to have shared with my family, friends and fellow fanatics. Good times!

Velcro checks out this season's schedule.


and if you have gotten this far, the above foto is from a decade ago at the Giants :)

For you fellow Dub fans, the WE BELIEVE 2007 Dallas series, my personal fave highlight..
OK that is all for now. GO SPORTS!
xxomeli

// Most fotos mine, a few borrowed from KT, my friend Jeff and this above from the internets/Big Bang Theory.

tandem bike friday!

i've seen a few, but none with the front rack like that. he also said that it was usually set up for three people (for him and his kids).

if you are reading this, sorry i cut off your head...but no time at the stoplight to move back to get the full picture.



see any crazy fun bikes on your commute today?

oakland was sold out!

oakland was sold out yesterday for the A's game and for bomba estereo, a band from colombia. what do they both have in common? putting a bike on it. of course.

put a bird on it! scraper bike that is!



put a bike on it en oaxaca...



bomba puts on a great show, saw them in ACL awhile back. last night tho, no bikes. we rented a zipcar since we knew these people like to party and put on a great show. i might be paying for it today, but life's short, right?



then just for fun, bomba estereo also brought on stage oakland's own, panama-bred, los rakas. i did a quick search for them on bikes. hmmph. gotta get them to work on that... ;) on a scraper bike perhaps?

black and white saturday

happy weekend everyone!

friday fun times: tandem photo shoot results

finally got word, randomly, that the cycle sf fotos are finally up! woot. look at KT! so awesome!

be sure to visit the cycle sf page for more info. and costume contests!



weather doesn't look that great for training this weekend. i'm doing the cinderella classic in a couple of weeks. eeek. i think it should be ok though.

in other news, this has, singlehandedly, been the busiest and most rollercoaster-y week of my life. today is a big day. wish me luck!

friday fun times: planning bike rides

really. after work, this bike advocacy thing takes up most of my time. whether it's here, or being involved neck deep in planning mass bike rides, or valet parking your bike so you can have a good time at an event, i can't help it. i love it.

part of why i do is to meet all different sorts of people who are all into the bike, the rides, the community, or just the solo road thing. but we all share at least one thing in common: the bike. oh, and probably not getting hit while riding one. as long as the last clause is always a danger, those of us who ride will always have a strong bond.

so the latest bike ride planning meeting i went to was amazing. the cusp of something phenominal: clitoral mass in oakland. sounds like the ride is national, and in no small part the idea is owed to those fierce latinas down south, las ovarian psychos.

the real beauty is we're planning this ride BY and FOR a non-male audience, as the name of the ride suggests. females, gender nonconforming, and trans folks all welcome. we have social media savvy, bike ride planning experience, website artists, and more importantly, the desire to put all this fierceness out in the world.

so two of my fellow bike party planners and i have to thank bart for their awesome "trial" where this week, all week, they have been allowing bikes on at all times. phew.



we introduced ourselves and sat back and then we all helped planned. a lot. then we took this picture.

foto credit to kanchan over on fb.

so what's next? ...just wait and see. ride coming up soon! save the date for MAY 25 for oakland's version of clitoral mass.

Arthursday: rawr

/via It'sNiceThat

*This, I'm guessing is an appropriation of this: [1886] ahoy!