bike snob video: we made the final cut!

if you look closely you'll recognize some familiar faces in the video. heh.

as you'll recall a few weeks ago, KT and i had galavanted all over SF doing various cycle-related things while the weather was like a nice spring day back in what is technically called winter.

here is the result of one of our fridays about town.



can you see us? if you squint hard enough, i think you'll see a familiar face, or a pattern of clothes or something.

WE MADE IT!

friday fun times: we cycle SF (on a tandem)!!

there's a new event in town kids. the people who put on the SF marathon are now truing their bike wheels on a new concept: Cycle SF. it is a nice fun ride to benefit SF parks & rec. there are options for 13 mile or 24 mile rides. both of those options might seem either super "easy" or super daunting to people, but just know this FUN ride is to benefit the parks! more bike parking! more infrastructure! more costumes! more tandems! register here, and we just may see you for the costume competition.



more from their website:

The mission of the event is to promote cycling as part of a healthy lifestyle, and to highlight and celebrate the role of our city’s Recreation and Parks Department in providing a healthy living environment. CycleSF aims to build civic unity through an event that invites bicycle riders of all levels to traverse our city together, and communally experience San Francisco’s diverse neighborhoods from the seat of a bike. Thousands of bicycle riders will raise funds to support the programs and infrastructure of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. We are proud to have San Francisco join other cities around the nation and the globe that also host city-wide, community supported cycling events.

as KT mentioned over on velo vogue, last friday we went to the photo shoot. if all goes well, we just might be up on a muni bus. or a bus stop. or the website. who knows.

on our way to the shoot...



blogging preparation



and finally....KT! hehe.

friday frolicking in the park with bike snob and velo vogue

continuing on the bike snob theme, it's quite possible he saw the pacific ocean on friday.

a few friends, mamakSF and velo vogue, and a music bike came along to the 2nd casting call. here's some pictures that jenn chan took.

on the way to snobbery.


not quite ready for my closeup. i need my SAG card first please.


KT took the dressing euro part very seriously. so cute!!


preparing for scene.


what is snobbier than this setting? not much.


mamakSF about to deliver bread all around town.


windmills and birds.


our golden gate park has so many beautiful nooks and crannies! the queen wilhemina garden is one of them!


speaker bike.


rookie came too!


it was such an awesome time. until i left my pannier behind. but i got it back quickly...and i subsequently passed out (in a bed) from the stress. saturday was a new day!

can't wait to see what the video will look like. did we make the cut, or the cutting room floor. we just have to wait and see.

and now will just have to leave you with the theme song to my life. ;)

friday fun times: female bike bloggers unite.

and have fun at the san francisco bicycle coalition's yearly fundraiser, winterfest.



CTX, ade and KT all having fun at the winterfest foto booth.



CTX, ade and ramona.

we also met up with a flickr friend. nice to meet you tarik!



more pics to follow. thanks SFBC for putting on a fun event once again.

friday fun times: world series edition

yeah, yeah. you heard. the giants are in the world series. again.

you heard they won the first two games.

some of us were at game one. here's some pics. enjoy!

KT stopped by the bike parking corral, because getting to and from the stadium really is easier if you ride your bike.

it's fun being a tia/cousin, cause can get outfits like this for the little one.

sf giants advance to world series

in case you didn't hear or don't follow sports, san francisco's own giants are going to the world series. ade and our friend KT over at velo vogue are huge giants fans. i work giants games sometimes parking bikes, and the energy is infectious.



here's some photos of giants inspired bike shenaningans taken by KT and me. congrats to SF giants and their die hard fans.

This Is San Francisco: The Outside Lands

We have a new series that we are doing in collaboration with the fine ladies over at Velo Vogue called "This Is San Francisco." check out the first of the series. this series will consist of pictures we each capture at one event, or place, during each month to show you SF through our respective camera lenses.

enjoy.

a few sundays ago was sunday streets in SF. it closed the great highway and that was fantastic to see!

here's how i experienced that sunday.

it started with joining a ladies only ride.



then we went through sunday streets, which is where i broke off from the ride.

penny farthing. april 2012.


deep and ian. music bike.


declan grinded delicious coffee beans.


this is sunday streets: band. cargo bike bbq. ade&camera. bike.



james. 1968 coleman camp stove. cargo bike bbq. grey pacific ocean.


here are the posts from velo vogue and wheelright.

pedal savvy fashion show

the SF bike expo happened a couple of months ago. i was busy parking bikes so people could be bike nerds without worry. as such, i missed this fashion show. the show is produced by CYLRAB friends over at pedal savvy. also a lot of the models hamming it up in the video are part of the regular bike posse that we love so much.

so here's to SF, and as KT said over at velo vogue, "this is how SF does it."

2011 Pedal Savvy Fashion Show from SF Bike Expo on Vimeo.

much love to all of you. now get out and ride this weekend if the weather allows! i know i will be, well, because i live in norcal.

more fun with fotobooths...

to follow up on KT's post from yesterday over at velo vogue, here's another one from winterfest's always fun fotobooth.



i love that foto! i like our camera one too over at velo vogue.



here's a fotobooth foto from a couple of years ago. i tell ya, that fotobooth rules!

fall weather means fall outfits

it doesn't really ever get COLD cold here in sf, but there is definitely a chill in the air.

a couple of days ago, on one of those chilly days, i was riding behind a woman and her great outfit...

tweed jacket, rad bag, jeans and boots?! love it.

btw, she's doing one of ade's bag and foot down (AKA the SF STAND) observations.

happy friday y'all!

--CTX

guest contribution: with my own two wheels

this was a post passed on to us over by KT over at velo vogue. thanks KT!!



For many Americans, the bicycle is a choice. For countless others across the globe, it is much more. For Fred, a health worker in Zambia, the bicycle is a means of reaching twice as many patients. For Bharati, a teenager in India, it provides access to education. For Mirriam, a disabled Ghanaian woman, working on bicycles is an escape from the stigma attached to disabled people in her community. For Carlos, a farmer in Guatemala, pedal power is a way to help neighbors reduce their impact on the environment. For Sharkey, a young man in California, the bicycle is an escape from the gangs that consume so many of his peers.

My Own Two Wheels weaves together the experiences of these five individuals into a single story about how the bicycle can change the world - one pedal stroke at a time. Find out when it airs at linktv.org.

ViewChange: With My Own Two Wheels Airdates

(Times in Pacific time zone)
Friday, October 21st
05:00 pm
Tuesday, October 25th
08:00 pm
Thursday, October 27th
02:30 am
Saturday, October 29th
05:30 am

DIRECTV Channel 375 | DISH Network Channel 9410

crossposted over at velo vogue

here comes the rain again...

falling on my head like a memory....

one of the things i like about riding a bike is the constant challenges it brings. if you are riding loaded, you have to think differently about all the junk in your trunk.

or if you are super late to work because you were looking for your keys AND THEN it wasn't raining when you were looking for them BUT WHEN YOU WERE READY TO LEAVE it was pouring out....and you have steel rims on your older bike...what do you do?

foto by ade, guest starring declan

one of my fears is going down a hill in the rain on joanie because one of the first times i did that, i crashed into a biker at the end of the hill. i was pulling my brake levers as hard as i could for most of the way down. so when i see rain and know i have to head out on my bike, i think i'd rather be doing this:

foto by sibadd

on my new commute, i have a rather large hill i'm sort of nervous to go down when it's not raining. i'm mainly nervous due to the car traffic and because not everyone who drives a car signals when they want to turn, not because of anything else. i love to bomb that hill when i get the chance. WHEEEEEEEEE....

well, today was running late, so no better time than to face that fear. rain + joanie, round one. no time to really ride in a roundabout way, so i took the plunge.

and here i am. i just went slow and steady. per usual. joanie - 1, rain - 0.

for more tips for riding in the rain, please see this video over on vimeo starring KT from velo vogue.

all fotos taken from our flickr pool! we love to see what you guys do with cameras and bikes!!

video: ramona's one minute ride

ms. wheelright, over at velo vogue and at wheelright, managed to be at the right place at the right time today to take some awesome spur of the moment footage of bombing a hill in SF with a bunch of bmx bikers.

this hill is part of my new commute. sometimes times i bomb it, other times it terrifies me, so i have to really congratulate her on the ability to capture this footage! you go grrrl!

halloween critical mass

last year the three of us who are in SF rode in the halloween critical mass. fun and lots of hijinks ensued post ride. here's a video mikael of CCC and copenhagenize made of his experiences last year, and the yours truly three are in it along w/ KT:

Copenhagenize Rides San Francisco Critical Mass from Copenhagenize on Vimeo.

wow. it's been a year? really? crazy.

and here are a few of our pics from that awesome evening:

feather face
ade's flickr set

La pirata y la de cabellera verde
meli's flickr set

the bay bridge had a cable fail last year around this time.
ctx's teenytiny set

tonight it's supposed to rain (& wash away those badbadbad baseball spirits), so turn out might be lighter, but i'm sure no less fun, than last year.

enjoy the CM in your city tonight as well!

one away

from the world series ladies and gentlemen.

the lovely hosts of your (almost) daily CYLRAB posts have been busy spending the past few nights glued to the tv/computer/phone watching our very own sf giants win some baseball games.

most likely we'll be doing the same tonight. AHEM.

posting will most likely be light again tomorrow, if it exists at all.

in the meantime, i leave you with the biggest SF giants fan i know.... the lovely KT of velo vogue.

authentic giants fan, foto by KT

this one, personally, can't wait for a TX/SF match up. BRING IT. gotta beat dem damn yankees first though.

much love to everyone!

friday fun times: biking to watch the game

on the first day of the world cup, KT and i met up at a cafe to watch the mexico v. south africa match. they didn't have sound at the cafe, so we relocated to the irish bar nearby. oh did they have the sound. and lots of south african fans. errr..?

anyway, here's her video of her arrival

England vs. England - Si Se Puede from Kristin Tieche on Vimeo.

as you know, that game resulted in a draw. BORRRRRRIIIIIING. but not yesterday!

stay tuned for more world cup updates...as that is what i like to do in the mornings. bikes and futbol. what could be better?!