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MLK Day

January 17, 2011 No Comments

January 17, 2011. San Francisco Calif.

January 17, 2011 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday. This milestone is a perfect opportunity for Americans to honor Dr. King’s legacy through service. The MLK Day of Service empowers individuals, strengthens communities, bridges barriers, creates solutions to social problems, and moves us closer to Dr. King’s vision of a beloved community. via mlkday.gov

back flag
Flag. Photo from July, 2008.

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Previously, MLK post from 2010

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My hyggelig: Creative bicycle blogger guest post

January 13, 2011 No Comments

My long time bloggie friend out in the MSP area Sigrid, asked me to do a little q+a for her blog my hyggelig, which is all about cozy, cute diy, exploring the seasons and the best mix of slow bikes with lycra.
Check it out here:

post: Creative Bicycle Blogger Women: Meli-g…

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♥Thx+Hugs Sig!

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Photo del día: live in the moment

January 10, 2011 2 Comments

Like a mural, like life, like a companion, like good friend. 

Taking a second to appreciate someone, appreciate a moment out of the daily grind, is good for the soul.

Wall street art pieces stand in a parallel similarity to life, they are there one minute, and they could be gone the next.

This photo of the wall piece by local artist Eddie Colla was taken about a week or so ago. It is no longer there.

A life can never be duplicated or replaced. 

My prayers and thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones from the Tucson shootings [link via LAtimes].

Frenchie +Eddie Colla
Frenchie +Eddie near Sutter street. (*update Eddie and D young V collab)
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Linktastic: new year, new bloggie peeps

January 7, 2011 6 Comments

New finds, fresh views and cool stuff. Your dose of linktastic! is here:
Each title links to the site.

♥ Bike it!
Bay Area/West Coast
Fellow butterlapper shows us rides and adventures in his tumblr.

♥ Rides a bike  (tumblr)
My bike pal A.M. from across the pond (UK) informed me of this cool site. “Movie stars and their self-propelled vehicles”. I’m a fan!
eew haaaa

♥ the Julie blog
New York
This gorgeous woman on wheels shows us how to roam in 30° weather in full-on fashion mode. Love her!

♥ Biking in Dallas
Dallas, Texas.
Always a pleasure to hear about my peeps in the bike blogging community in the Lone Star state.
“We’re  couple of long-time Dallasites (one north, one east) who intend, through this site, to promote the enjoyment of exploring the City of Dallas and its’ surroundings by bicycle.”

♥ Ladies Unite!
All bout the us awesomee women, women!:
“This blog celebrates the joy of women riding bikes. It strives to be as diverse as possible; to represent women of all ages, colors, sizes, abilities and identities.”

♥ Chicago Ding Ding Let’s Ride
Lots of bike parking/racks exposure around Chicago, mostly from a Pashley WorkCycles-Oma bike persepective.
“This blog is a little bit of bike activism,  a place to extol the virtues of city bike riding on upright or dutch bikes, and a place to promote bike riding for the entire family- especially those families with adaptive riders.”

♥ A few words too many
Sindeejoe keeps it real in her Bay Area roaming adventures. We are both not fans of Rainbow grocery. I like her.

♥ Purple Traveller
UK (Dorset)
Trevor rides long distances with his road bike, and all over the UK mountains.

♥ CHIRP
Seoul
A visually cool tumblr. Lots of bike love.

♥ Malaysia: LOVE PEACE + CYCLE
Malaysia bike blog =)

♥ San Francisco: treatzone
Cute and crafty San Francisco young couple. win win =)
“This website is where you can find out all about what we make and do, our adventures, and what inspires us.”

♥ San Francisco:  AshCan Magazine
With a great overview of fresh arts, articles and posts such as “As I would say: It’s like an acid trip you can read.”, “The handmade ho-down” and more. It sure covers some ground.

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Photo del día: bikes and the Yosemite

January 6, 2011 1 Comment

I headed out of the city last week for a two-day trip with a few of my girlfriends to go snowshoeing in Yosemite.
It was nice to remove ourselves from daily urban zoo and go play in the snow, enjoy the tranquility in the snowflake soundtrack and admire the National Park tremendous mountains. So beautiful, so beautiful.

2010-12-29 13.19.40
// Taken from mi mobile
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SF bike party core group test/ride, from December 2010.

January 6, 2011 8 Comments

This was back in early December, a core group of San Francisco bike extraordinaries+enthusiasts, rode a testing a route of what would be the 1st unpublished SF bike party. A lot of outstanding efforts, time, and planning has been discussed and the route for this upcoming Friday event was tested a few times.
Many props to all the organizers, volunteers and chefs in the bike party planning kitchen making all that noise.

In preparation for this Friday’s ride, below is a little video I made last year (at the time there was no URL available but now you can find all the info at sfbikeparty.org.) I think I’m liking this presentation style of including a video, what do you think?! not bad huh..
I have also included the set of fotos below, these are too from the first test/ride Dec.2010 =)
[vimeo] Video:

2 photos of the crew: awesometasticos!!! missing a few, but mostly there.
San Francisco 1st bike party  
minus Deep (Photo taken by him)
San Francisco 1st bike party
minus me (same)
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
parteeeey
YEAH!
More fotos of the ride: Distance of about 16-18 miles.
 The route was smoething like panhandle>Bernal Heights>Bayview>3rd>Howard>Dolores Park. 
Good times.
lights at the statues
The start at the Baker street statue.
the guys
The boys.
on valencia
On Valencia street.
you!
You!
oh haaaaaay
hot chocolate duo
ramonsitta
ramonsitta
kevin +mary kay
peace duo
cue ef si
qfc beats duo
friends
blue and red duo
up the hill team effort
Push team duo! — up a STEEP hill. (Deep’s sound tricycle weights a ton!) Go teamwork!!
mustachow
fashionable duo
qfc
chatting-the night away duo
dogpatch
dogpatch duo
friends
amigas duo
casitas y bicis
The view from the back of bernal heights.
cristina
Cristina is a star.
bayhsore
Bayshore stop.
monkey electric by a kelleys mission rock
Dan +his monkey electric bike by a kelleys mission rock
Alongside the water
on howard
on Howard.
La CTX
Stripey socks smileys. Calitexican.
super good times from all the by-standers
Super FUN good times from all the by-standers. Be aware of the tremendous amounts of smiles this ride causes =)
deepsaurus
Deep and the Trikeasaurus
las spice bikers
and let’s hear it from the WOMEN!! yeyaaaaaaaaa ♥!!
golden standard
golden standard.
dial M for troubles
M+M: We say you can ride hills, all levels, all bikes. There is no shame of walking up a hill if you need to.
We like routes, we like hills: they do a body good. Your legs will thank you. kthx
the end.
the end.
+Don’t forget to join the party tomorrow night. Bring your neighbors, bring your friends.
More details at SFbikeparty.org

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//// The San José bike party will be in the family of parties with SJ Bike party (posts from August and April rides), as well as the East Bay party.

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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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