friday fun times: pacific northwest bikey times

last week i went on vacation in the pacific northwest and saw some fun pro-bikey sentiments.

we need three patas feet of space!


yeah, most of us do this (safely) anyway, make it legit!


not unique just for seattle, but cute nonetheless


and my personal fave...the bike corral in the shape of a car. it visually represents the car parking space, which is for one car or the car parking space that can fit a lot of bikes!


have a great bikey weekend everyone!

ARTHURSDAY is here: Cyclemon

Found this short and sweet video the other day, isn't it cute?

Cyclemon from Thomas Pom on Vimeo.
Title: "Cyclemon"
Motion: Thomas Pomarelle
Design: Romain Bourdieux / Thomas Pomarelle
Music: "Vagabond" by Greenskeepers
Website: www.cyclemon.com
Shop: http://cyclemon.com/shop/index.html

I'm not a fan at all of labels, steryotypes, generalization or categories depending upon what you chose to ride …or rather, which bike chooses you =)

–however– the clean flat-style illustrations are OK.
See the complete article here:
Mundoflaneur: ilustraciones “You are what you ride”

--
xxomeli

Monday View Of Sunday

A little, happy moment during Sunday Streets  this last Sunday.

It has been awhile since riding and holding a camera at the same time have been possible.  Nice to have someone smile at me when it happens.

the future smart "car"?

The other week I was volunteering at a fancy pants bikey event. I was outside in the wind and this guy rolled up in this ride. He tried to say he was involved with the event, but I had a hunch that he just wanted his product to be seen with the current transportation movers and shakers. 

Either way, lots of people along market street stopped and gawked at this latest transportation vehicle. What do you think about this trike? It is electric assisted...

Trying out this blogger app while waiting to board a plane to go far far away for a couple of days! See y'all on flip side of the border.

two for tuesday: basketball and bikes take II

well, we are now on the other side of the nba finals. the heat has another ring under its belt. took me a few days to finally be able to write this post. ugh! :)

i'm very proud of the effort that san antonio spurs put forth (fun fact: they will be playing the timberwolves in mexico city this december...road trip anyone?), but they were just one or two free throws too short.

so my advice to pop during the offseason: get your guys on bikes already!! next year i want to be able to google them and find tons of pictures of them on bikes.



heh, i just can't help myself...can ya blame me?

anyway, rainy here in our (weather) offseason. time to bust out the rain gear that remained virtually unused this past winter. also there might be a bart strike. which should be...interesting if it starts today.

two for tuesday: basketball and bikes

basketball season ends this week. hopefully it will end tonight, so i can get my life back and stop watching tv and do more riding, but you know, THIS IS THE SPURS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT!

but the video below is not the spurs. it's an ad for deodorant with a player who very well might have been in the spurs place this year had a key player on his team not been hurt. but that's not how things worked out this year.

this "do more" commercial shows durant wearing his UT colors (woot!) and talking about using road riding as cross training for basketball. waking up at 5 in the morning...that sounds familiar.



GO SPURS! ONE MORE WIN!

Happy Father's Day!

It has been a long time since I have been around.  May be a bit before I return. Who can say?  In the meantime, after 8 weeks off his bicycle after a highway accident on his scooter, Hubby The Bikeman made a brief, first post-crushed foot ride.  Fittingly, it was on the Grandma.





Happy Father's Day to all you Daddy-types out there, but mostly to HTB!  We are all happy to see you riding again!