♥Thanks so much to Sarah in NY, for sending these over.
I’m so happy to share them, so much fun and full of girl-power awesomeness. Can we have these smoothie incentives, often, nation-wide please?! 😀

Sarah says:
“Wanted to share some photos from Whole Living magazine’s Bike to Work Day event today in NYC along the Hudson River Park bike path. We served up smoothies via a bike-powered blender and had lots of giveaways including two bikes – a Café 8 by Felt from Zen Bikes www.zenbikes.com and a Gazelle single speed from Gazelle gazellebicycles.us”

*Photo Credits: Emily Roemer

Whole Living magazine Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Postman pedals a bike-powered blender from Band of Bicycles
that served up smoothies for New Yorkers along the Hudson River Park bike path on National Bike to Work Day.

New York City bike commuters fill out raffle forms to win one of two bicycles at
Whole Living magazine’s Bike to Work Day event along the Hudson River Park bike path.

The other Sunday Omar and I went for a “short” ride up to Marin. To me, short means coffee. Otherwise it doesn’t exist. Well, we still have coffee, but it wasn’t until we got to the bottom of a mean steady steep hill, and I said:
-oh we are going back to the cafe that way right?-
Omar said: “No, we are going up, down and then back around. Then we go get coffee”

I hadn’t even thought about it much and Omar had taken off.
He said, you got the gears now…”

Errrrrrrr – ok I went. Was fun. Kinda windy, but OK. We drank coffee at CIBO, the one special spot in Marin currently (the only one perhaps in Sausalito?) serving Blue Bottle coffee. That, itself makes it all worth it. Yes.

So I enjoyed it while I can, then we headed another nasty hill (Alexander dr.) on our way back into the city. I was ready for a hot shower and some more coffee. Cheers.

The ladies from LGRAB have started the Summer Olympics Games.
Here are the details:

How to play, you ask? It’s easy. There are three main categories, and six events in each category. Complete events in each category over a three week period, and tell us about it via blog post link, email or photo addition to our Summer Games Flickr Pool. Entries must include a story and a photo of each event you complete. If you enter via a post on your own blog, please link to our blog announcement in your entry, include one of our badges and let us know via email.

Anyone who completes at least two events in each of the three categories will be entered to win the Batavus BuB by random drawing. We’re also giving away prizes as readers complete each category.

May 17-June 6: Social Cycling
• Go on a group ride
• Leave a nice note on a bike, or say hi to a cyclist at a red light
• Schedule a bike date with a friend or partner — dress up!
• Recruit a non-biking friend for a ride
• Ride with your family

June 7-June 27: Learning Experiences
• Perform a maintenance task — big or small!
• Decorate your bike
• Read a book about cycling
• Carry a load on your bike — groceries, etc.
• Test ride a different type of bike than you normally ride

June 28-July 18: New Territory
• Ride a greenway
• Have a bicycle picnic
• If you don’t normally ride to work, commute by bike, or by bike/train or bike/bus
• If you do commute, take the long way home: add distance to your usual ride
• Explore a new part of town by bike

Go to LetsGoRideABike.com for more details. Good luck!!

Got an email from the folks at Cyclorama. Check them out:

We are a small group of cycle enthusiasts who have put lots of time and effort into this project, and we’d like to share it with others in the cycling community. We hope you find cyclorama interesting and inspiring – there are already loads of articles and images to browse, and more added all the time!