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Gorgeous Sunday

August 12, 2008 1 Comment

This Sunday was super nice weather. No fog, no wind and loads of coffee.

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Sweet bike. Check out the dog’s decked out scarf. Cute

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Blue sky, blue ride, blue getup and hot hair. Fab!

ABOVE: (San Francisco Arts Commission/Public Art Program: “Ghinlon/Transcope,” by Wang Po Shu installed at twelve locations along the new Octavia Boulevard from Market Street to the Hayes Green. The artist created a series of slender pole-like sculptures equipped with kaleidoscopic lenses that function as miniature observatories providing pedestrians with a transformed view of the surrounding environment and passing cars. More HERE.

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typo&boy

friends and coffee // friends and some Gelato

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the Xtracycle® makes double-parking look good.
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Kaiser and the cute bike

August 9, 2008 6 Comments

Watching the fashion in the opening Olympics Ceremony (thank you Project Runway) along comes this gorgeous blue ride.
Even BART gets a shot. I’m pretty sure it is BART I spotted, unless there are other metro transit trains sporting the same very ugly blue wool dirty seats… 🙂
Anyways, good commercial. Kudos to Kaiser’s media agent for the best feeling in front of the tube 🙂 Wedges shoes, cute boys, the city(cities) featured, hauling your bike a flight of stairs, farmer markets oh my.
http://embed.break.com/NTUwNTMz
Kaiser Permanente launches Thrive video – Beijing Olympics – Watch more free videos

Kaiser Permanente kicks off its popular Thrive campaign with television, radio, print and outdoor advertisements that reflect the health care organization’s commitment to the total health of its members and the communities it serves. The first ad, “Community Bike” will debut during the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics on Friday, August 8.

‹Get your CurrentTV on›

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Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland

August 9, 2008 No Comments

Bikes, Copenhagen and Disneyland: what we have in common.
Steve Hymos is a blogger over at the LA times. He interviewed blogesphere celebrity (in the cycle-chicness world) Mikael Colville-Andersen -aka- Zakkaliciousness in Flickr™ and his series of Cycle Chic and Copenhagenize which, have inspired a myriad of blogs, Flickr™ groups and people around the globe to ride a bike, relax and look good while at it. Mind you, Copenhagen & Europe are quite different in traffic structure than here in the US, but we can still look good trying, right?

He notes interesting facts and history from both cities, Los Angeles and Copenhagen:
“There is no part of the world where cycling is in greater favor than in Southern California, and nowhere on the American continent are conditions so favorable the year round for wheeling. -It’s from a 1897 newspaper article, back during Bicycle Culture 1.0 and back when 20% of all trips were made by bike in Los Angeles. Impressive stats and an impressive cycling history in L.A.”
Hundreds of thousands of cyclists on the roads. Ironically, the world’s most impressive separated bike path was built to connect Pasadena to Los Angeles in 1900. At that time 20% of all trips where made by bicycle in the Los Angeles region so the construction of the eight-mile Arroyo Seco Cycleway — an elevated, multilane, wooden bike path, complete with streetlights and gazebo turnouts -– was a given.
Copenhagen was a congested, polluted city in the 1960s and more and more cars were being bought.
Now, 40-odd years on, a progressive network of separated bicycle lanes blankets the city. Doctors, students, parents with kids in a cargo bike, lawyers and shop assistants are all apart of a pleasingly aesthetic flow of human-powered goodness. Fifty-six percent of Copenhageners say that they ride their bikes because it’s easy and fast.
Bicycles are normalized transport vehicles and they are the lifeblood of the city, not the domain of impenetrable subcultures with political leanings. With my Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog I try to show how my fellow citizens ride each day. In style, with ease and every day of the week.

click ‹HERE› for full article & to find out what these 3, have in common
LA TIMES /August 08, 2008/ Steve Hymon is The Times’ Road Sage. He covers traffic and transportation in a region united by a confounding network of freeways that frustrate drivers daily. The Bottleneck Blog is Steve’s website home, where he breaks transportation news, reports on traffic tie-ups and brings a critical but humorous eye to commuting in Southern California.

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from the LA Times BOTTLENECK blog via [Zakkaliciousness] Flickr link ‹here›

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qué cute

August 8, 2008 No Comments

summer-School

better than any minivan

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<secret garden
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Photo del dia: petal pedal

August 1, 2008 1 Comment

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Qué cute!
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Bikes and Crafts: Renegade Craft Fair

July 16, 2008 No Comments

This past Sunday I strolled over Ft.Mason (Northside of the city) to check out lovely displays of arts and craft goodies. Such good weather, loads of handmade fanatics were out at this sweet event. Met loads of very creative people from all over the country and here are some of my favorites!

I met Erica, from SteelToeStudios, based out of Seattle. Cogs make pretty belt buckles.

For their belts, they have worked (Im not sure if always) with Alchemy Goods, also from Seattle.

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Arcane Arts is a doll. Loved her bicicleta drawings, specially. Muy nice! We talked about Portland (where she is currently based) bike culture, a little bit about Guadalajara, México (in the state of Jalisco) and the bicycle connection-relationship these two cities have. (more info about these two sister cities to come in the near future)


cute Mucca Pazza band boys!


Hugh D’Andrade and his wife, Mati Rose
I was very happy to meet them both in peson, as I have been collecting some of (his) work throughout the years. I was introduced to Mati’s work. Her illustrations are lovely. My favorite (from hugh) is the winterfest 2007 postcard (on my desk, & because I had a lot of fun at that event/SF bike coalition). Also bought a shirt with that same bike medusa gal graphic for myself. Mati’s etsy shop, which is listed under her website, is super cute. Links: –his- -hers-

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Check out his illustration is on the current cover of the Communication Arts Annual. Congrats!

The Frenchie made some new pals.



y bikes everywhere.

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Photo del dia: Cruiser love

July 16, 2008 No Comments

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