friday fun times: red bike and green's tour & las ovas

so in my not so much anymore spare time, i've been keeping up with the amazing trip going on in the east coast right now. it's led by red bike and green and they are traveling from dc to brooklyn's afropunk festival. as they put it, it does sound like the experience of a lifetime.



image is from red bike and green's fb page. check out for more pics. they are beautiful! here's a quick video they made for people living in brooklyn to join them on their last leg to the show!

RBG Bike Tour > DC to AfroPunk 8/24 @ Dixon's Bicycle Shop from eli•zah on Vimeo.

also, clitoral mass is happening again in LA this saturday. those ovas are something else. LOVE THEIR COMMUNITY BUILDING! here's their bikey check list.



have a fun bikey time peeps! i'll be parking at the america's cup. come say hi.

america's cup visits SF & spectators came by bike.

last wednesday, the much talked about america's cup started their trials in SF. i do not follow this sort of fast boat racing, but let's just say that people were a little excited in our bike valet part of the world. an international event gives us visibility into the service the bike coalition provides.



SFist reported that the viewership was pretty low during the week. my guess is that people were WORKING or in school and, despite their hopes and dreams, were not able to skip either even though this sport has a reputation for being popular with the haves (as opposed to have nots).

despite feeling pretty crappy due to a cold i caught earlier in the week, i was called to go into work. and lo and behold...there was some bike parking going on. time to get to work.





as you can tell by the pictures, we were busy. pedestrian, car and bike traffic were all bustling. good thing we were around and parked about 500 bikes each day.



on sunday, what i believe will be declared the first day of SF summer, the weather was lovely. i even got to wear a short sleeved shirt near the open waters. but the jeans, the jeans were still on.

i walked in the village and saw this life-sized bottom of a racing boat. crazy.



was an interesting event to be a part of. hopefully we'll be back and parking bikes the rest of the time they are in town from now until 2013.

until then, we always have this picture of the first day of summer. and no fog in sight.