Me and You

skuut it up!

a couple of months back we went on a S240 (more on that later), and we were refueling on "sports drinks," when this lil bikey badarse came riding near us with his dad. check out how personalized his skuut is!

believe you me, this kid is gonna be incredible in whatever bikey sport he chooses.

there's way more of this lil one on the net, and this is just a preview of what there is to come. here's also a teeny tiny video i took of him.

again, this is just a preview. more on this once and future king to come.

DIY Enforcement

In the summer of 1988 I was driving along some of the back roads of Ensenada, Mexico. I noticed a lot of homemade Stop signs at the intersections of the less populated parts of town. This sign, found at the side of the road during the century we all just completed, reminds me of them. Gotta say, I like 'em!

We made it!

Just in case you were wondering. Total of 7 of us (us 3 +4 guys) completed our very first Marin Century 100K.
That is all for now, we will probably do a little recap soon. Cheers with Marin brie cheese!

At the half-point check, in Petaluma, Calif. Woot woot.

Cross-posted.

Century ladies

While you are reading this, we are busy riding the rolling hills of beautiful Marin County in the 2010 Marin Century. +I'm probably actively looking for the next coffee stop.
♥See you all next week!!

What's up Marin, here come the city dwellers triplettes de San Pancho attack. Wheeeeeee

And the winner is:

this kid saw us riding by and sprinted the hell outta of us. RAD.
Stretch between Mill Valley +Sausalito.

And stretch.

The 3 of us here in SF: Calitexican, Ade and I – kicked some butt and finished (last, but we finished!!) a 115K Brevet. Here as a quick teaser. I have a pic of our calitexican and the one on top borrowed from Adam's photostream of Grace, because I think they were at the same spot stretching, a bit earlier than us. Stretch those buff arms ladies!
More to come this week :D

Grace on flickr By TyrellVoightKampff

calitexican

The idiots.

A couple of weekends ago we went on to a ride up north of San Francisco. We were ready to ride at 8AM on a sunny Saturday and we all joined the now annual Fairfax Foray. For those of you outside the Bay Area, the weekend mornings at the Golden gate bridge are hectic if you are on a bicycle. Not because happy tourists attempting to capture a memory of a majestic beautiful icon. Not because of our splendid mid 50° degree summer fog. Not because of our views. Yes, as locals we can never get tired of that. But there is something that happens on the north end of the bridge – the lycra bullies.

The verbal abuse the daily, normal, typically everyday people like me and my peers, and perhaps most of you that read this blog, get on this bridge on the weekend mornings, is certainly abusive.

I have always say I have met nice folks with full-on lycra that are very nice and sweet. That does not apply 90% of the time when I happen to be with my friends, on our-OUR Golden Gate Bridge.

So here to share, some of the things that I overheard within 2 minutes. Mind you, as the photos below show, the bridge was rather calm.
Too bad we intruded for these people, to shave 3 seconds of their time and some use of their bitter spit, to let us know what idiots we are.

As we turned the corner (it is pretty sharp) it goes like this:

"You are all idiots"
"Stopping in this spot is DANGEROUS"
"Move out of the f***ing way"
"Riding bikes on the bridge is very dangerous"

In front of me: Matt and Melyssa aka Calitexican

Behind me: Volker – laughing at 'danger'

I just have to laugh, and ride.
These *ssholes that go out of their way to insult us are plain out lame.

Do I see them riding butterlap everyweek?
No.
Do I see them dodging doors day in and day out throughout the city on a daily basis?
No.
Do they have fenders, because when you RIDE so much in the city, you *know* that was urine?
No.
Do they haul their fancy road bike up and down Bart, Muni, AC transit or CalTrain because they commute, went to a party, or are so tired after you went bike camping 100 miles away from here that you are just trying to get home?
No.
Are they having fun?
Certainly not.

So who are the idiots now?

We continued our ride, we can put up with the daily hussle in the city - these posers on lycra don't intimidate us one bit. Suckers.

They have no idea we rode to Fairfax, (about 18-20 miles up from SF) looking freaking happy and had a blast. There is no heart monitor to measure that nor energy bars to put up with us.

Of course, there are a handful that as fast and mean as they look, take a sec of their bridge experience to say normal things, like 'oh hello' or 'good morning'.
To remind you what idiots we are, here are some pictures of our ride.

and also, don't they know we are doing a century in August?! :D
Thanks for insulting, but try again later.

dat's rite!!!

Update from the boys on the road.

Our friend Natan and other bikey friends of Change Your Life. Ride a Bike! around the blogesphere, are currently about to end their 200K around the northlands of San Francisco during today's 2 Rock/Valley Ford 200k which is about 13-14 hrs. Wow - super!!

Here are some pictures Natan sent me earlier today from the road, seems like coffee was available, I was started to get concerned ;-)
thx! you guys are awesome