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Good morning, at 39°

December 16, 2010 2 Comments

Because it does feel insanely cold after a heat wave of mid-70°s spoil Fall season treatment, oooookay!!!
Last night after finishing butterlap, I saw the temperature had reached 40°. It didn’t feel too cold, but my cheeks were nice and crisp. I love that feeling.
One of the mornings before the Thanksgiving break, my girlfriend Muffin and I got together for another one of our early morning coffee sessions. We try to chose different locations around town from time to time. The weather indicated 39° that day and it was also pretty windy. As a whimpy native Californian, I knew it was remarkably cold when my fingers got a little numb while riding.

coffee, girlfriends y botas
good morninglands
See, it wasn’t that cold if this guy was roaming in shorts. So was I, but with my tights under.
market st.
Getting some sunshine on Market.
layered
Layered.
morning shadows
This cute guy was spotted near the Ferry Bldg.
with mi michelin burrito jacket
Downtownlands

Well that was before 8am or so, after I caught some warmth and got rid of that jacket after taking this shot that morning. I almost that silly jacket which is not really functional but to feel like a mix of a Michelin-man and a human burrito at the same time. This jacket is not even water-repellant, a total FAIL in the lands of fog maximus. I never wear it, but I can almost say it was nice to wear it that morning and my friend loves to tease me since I have been saying for almost a decade that I will soon donate it. So I wore it to make her laugh about it. Soon…

bike to work
We split ways and off we go.
Til next time! — Chauu!
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With love from: Manchester

December 16, 2010 3 Comments
“Greetings from a slightly snowy Manchester China Town brrrrrrrrrrrrrr”

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 Winter snow parking in Manchester, shared by long time blog reader Georgie
♥Gracias/thanks for sharing!!
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Behind the scenes: the SF bike expo 2010!

December 15, 2010 3 Comments
catwalk list
Bike catwalk list

It is finally here! Another MEGA fun behind-the-scenes post, for the day we were all fashion bicycle models for Pedal Savvy at the SF Bike Expo in the Cow Palace, November 6th.
This was fun, we modeled, got tons of hairspray and fancy stuff on our hair, got our make-up done and off we went.

hair
getting lots of hair spraysssssstsssssss
cheeeez
cheeeeeeese
wheeeeee
here I am!!
all smiles
KT
I love this photo of KT, while she wasn’t looking =)
racks
zzzzzzzz
make-up session. and I was ready for mi second dose of coffee!
Listen up everybodyyyyy
“…Shall we read the following chapter…”
sssssup
sssssup
Gwen's mom
the show isn’t complete without Gwen’s mom around =) We love her!!
patricia
Patricia
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/meligrosa/5177470017/" title="Katieeee <img alt="Katieeee
Katie super star doing some finishing touches on the bicycles.
The bikes included brands like Felt (mine came with a coffee cup holder…how apropos) Public, Electra, dutch bicycle, Globe, Dahon, and even a bamboo bike!!
bisous
bisous for everybody
!!!
Gwen at work
HAAAY
Gwen and us — HAAAAAAAY

There was some review around the interwebs, blabbing upon how this stuff was so hip, unnatainable and how much it didn’t represent the bicycle community across the states. You know what —- this is San Francisco and it is a world-class city with all its flaws, beauties and struggles. We were all there because we opted to do so, opted to support our friend Gwen and the SF Bike Expo team and we are ALL riders between the ages of 18 to 40+, and although we don’t represent everybody, we do our best to do so, work our ass off either in school or jobs, and bike every day. We also had two young children to model for the evening show with their dad, so cute!
Know that the companies and tailors, many of them locally-based, that provided their goods to be shown off, were more than proud to do so. We all don’t buy an entire outfit, nor buy the latest and greatest to ride — we are here because is fun, we are city people and if you don’t like to see us having fun and enjoying our day off by being here all day in this fabulous bike fashion show, then don’t get caught up judging against it. I’m also not about to promote the mentioned site link, which is in no big city, but somewhere in the east coast and probably snowed in. So that’s that and that said..

Let your body move to the music, hey, hey, hey. 
Come on, vogue.
We had our favorite paparazzi and friends in the house!
paparazzi
we all love Richard
dusty is hereeee!
Dustyyyyyyyyyyy
and then, the camera loves you
…and then, the camera loves you
howdy
scoreeeee
JD scored some rims
brush up session
the we had a brush-up session
heeeeeeey
we are readyyyyyy to go!
adm love!!
Robin’s finishing touches
Dad and kids
triple troubles!! =))))
with Joe
Matching reds – I hearts Joe!!
amour de ma sunglasses
amour de ma sunglasses — mi amiga KT of VéloVogue   
last pose
KT et moi had way too much fun back there!
frenchie et freinds
We had a huge bike pile going on, so here are most of our bikes. It does a body good.
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And what is a bloggera to do, asides drinking coffee and taking photos….
Richard caught me right-handed doing both, here is me and below the shot I took from the stage:
Meli and a camera
and here is, once again a shot from the bikecatwalk shot from the stage! =)))
the crowd!!
the crowd!!!

  

+++can’t get enough?! Here are more goodies

Photographers were Dusty (set not up yet) and 

Richard (with assistant Ivy and friend!) of cyclelicious whose set can be viewed here: link
Adrienne recently posted a cute SF Bike Expo “tribes unite” post at CYLRAB here: link

Just this week, the video sprung out from the blogesphere, was so happy to see the clip, which quite sums it up. +Eeek and whose legs are those sans tights?!? The videos sum up so much fun!!

Gracias y thank you to everyone that dropped by +enjoyed the show!!feed the models. and bring all the coffee to me!!
♥xxo.meli

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Butter up, buttercups. It’s butterlap!

December 15, 2010 No Comments
Stretch your legs and break a sweat, come get your weekly dose of butter.
clementos

♥Butterlap| Meets Wednesdays at Ferry bldg. 7PM r
Ends at Bender’s around 9PM • about 17-18mi ride

Garmin map from 12/1, via ButterBill! : Butterlap

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The 2010 SF Bike Expo roundup

December 15, 2010 1 Comment
Cow Palace — Saturday, November 6th

The SF bike expo was a long but super fun day of everything bikeuniverse.
We had a break between the fashion shows at around 1PM and later that afternoon, so we got to wander around and enjoy some bike action. Was nice check out the booths, meet up with my peeps, super fun to see the cyclocross races and the butt-kicking women, and the awesome BMX/dirt jumping events. SO RAD.

And so it goes, the day began like this:
KT, Kevin and I in the morning. We met for coffee but I don’t think I was fully conscious yet – I certainly needed lots of my beloved caffeine that morning.

KT joy sunrise
wheeeeee
dave +his crew
Dave, Ed and their schwinn crew. These peeps of ours are always such early birds, love it!!

The scraper bikes from Oakland, were in the house. The always bring a freshly made soundtrack/CD and sell it for about 5$-10$. Sweet!
ssssup
flat top extraordinaire
scraper circles
Scraper circles

i got 5 on it
I got 5 on it.
Lots of people were outside checkin out the events, races and Etc. 
A stylin’ lady stikes a pose with her classy blue bike

pretty lady

And then, a tremendous hour of pure awesomeness:
my favorite!!
up there
mega wheeeeeeeee
soooo awesome
– – – –
sara murdaaaaaaaah
meanwhile back inside, miz Sara Murder and team at the Pushbike booth
pushbike to go

Pushbike to go, that bright pink Bullitt rocks!!
eva lu
I got to hang out for a bit with cutie patootie Eva-Lu
from the other sunny side of our Golden state. watsuppppp!
hallo!
hallo!
nan at the b.spoke tailor
Nan and friends at the b.spoke tailor booth.
Mia in the house
Momentum magazine’s Mia all the way from Canada!
dan + public gals
Dan and the Public crew
rickshawnettes
The pretty Christine and company at the Rickshaw bagworks booth.
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Riding back

And then, after a long day of bikes and fun, we were ready for some food and then, more party!! A few of us from the fashion show, Dan from Monkey Electric, Mia and many other of our peeps, oined the Bike Savvy pedal ride back into the city. Good times!

I’d say we bike about 8-10 miles on the way back (Geneva> Alemany> San José> Valencia — Etc.)

evening savvy ride
Evening savvy ride crew

monkeylectrique
Monkeylectrique of monkeylectric.com
fixing to fix
A mid-size ride is not complete without a flat. This is in the Excelsior, on Geneva and Mission
san josé in its entirety
We. Are. Traffic.
Riding on San José in its entirety.
oh hai
oh hai.
dinner for 16. at los jarritos
FOOOOOD!
lucky charms
Lucky charms

Sad face our new fixie friends didn’t get into the after party, which was 21+.
They had the coolest bikes. KLaw got to ride the one without brakes. Insane — Maybe next year!!
how the hell do I brake?!
“how the hell do I brake?!”
parking our bikes at the afterparty
parking our bikes at the afterparty

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The afterparty was fun, but all good things come to an end. And this concludes the blog post for this year’s SF Bike Expo 2010.
‘Til next time!!
♥xxo.meli

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Photos del día: is the sighglass half full, or is it half empty?

December 14, 2010 3 Comments
either the sightglass is half full
...or the sightglass is half empty
Sightglass coffee bar and roastery. December 2010
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With love from: Illinois

December 14, 2010 5 Comments

I received this super nice photo and story from Illinois by Tim B:

Dad and his new Schwinn Varsity, May 1973

Dad and his new Schwinn Varsity, May 1973

Pictured: My dad’s 197X (1974?) Schwinn Varsity.  Put some air in the tires, gave it a test run, and took it out for a GREAT ride  this morning. It needs to be greased, tuned, de-gunkified, and have all the other things done to it that have not been done in 20+ years.  But for now… Perfect. Solid. LOVE that bike. I’ve been window-shopping for road bikes for years, but I think my resources will be better spent “tuning up” this one. Love it.  If it ain’t broke…

from Tim’s blog: life at 1901

– – – –
Vintage classic bikes live on and get to see adventures from generation, to generation
♥Gracias/thanks for sharing Tim!!

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