Arthursday: back to school

Is that time of the year, back to school.
Found this video awhile back and wanted to give a shout out to the Workshop in Houston for doing what they do, and providing a great momentum in creative resources for the future of this country, our youth.

Workshop Houston has five shops that provide resources and support for young people: the Third Ward Bike Shop (do-it-yourself bike repair), the Chopper Shop (welding and metal fabrication), the Beat Shop (hip-hop music production), the Style Shop (fashion design) and the Scholar Shop (tutoring and academic enrichment). 

Workshop Houston's mission is to provide youth with creative, technical and educational resources. Our vision is to lay the groundwork for a just society by creating a community that provides youth with support, expanded opportunities and alternative definitions of success.Video by Jonathan Jindra / cinematography by Christopher Patterson.

-website: workshophouston.org 

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xxo♥meligrosa

share the road y'all

some wise words out of texas. my uncle is an avid road cyclist. this is on his truck. i saw more than a few of these on all sorts of vehicles when i was there.



have a great day y'all! speaking of, maybe this fellow texan will get back to mountain biking instead of embarrassing himself on tv.

scenes from the bikey lane: austin, super short bike hack, edition

i saw this from a car, but there is a bike lane right in front of it, so that counts, right?



mailbox bike hack. with lock, and everything. future CYLRAB headquarters. or perhaps our texas satellite office.

scenes from the bikey lane: austin, I'M HOME, edition.

in case you haven't guessed by the title of this post, i'm home in texas right now. yay.

i was a chauffeur for the mama texican earlier today (no u-lock required), and rather than going home, i went around downtown austin. it has changed a lot. i forgot some places i used to know, i forgot how to get to certain places, i forgot that i forget things.

but i didn't forget about the bikey time that i wanted to squeeze in. so, after getting a little turned around, i went to mellow johnny's because it is a few blocks away from the mama texican's workey times place.

i got some coffee and then cruised around the bike store.







i helped a(n admittedly clueless) guy buy a shirt for his sister, looked at clothes & bikey art, and looked at rows and rows of bikes.

as you may know from reading this blog...we over here have a weakness for mixtes.



"a powder blue 8 speed masi mixte soulville? i need to get on this bike right now," i thought to myself.

so i did. and this is what i saw:













if you have/had to travel far during the holiday season, did/do you incorporate your bike love into your trip? for example, besides my test ride of that delicious mixte, i am planning on going back and renting a bike from MJ's and teaching one of my cousins (who is 15!!) how to ride a bike. i also got another cousin talking about bikes, so i plan on visiting his bikey soon. i hear it has an old school iron child's seat on it.

please let us know in the comments :)