tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88100997081465696852024-03-17T20:00:24.121-07:00Change Your Life. Ride A Bike!Adrienne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.comBlogger1263125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-23738463687790404892022-05-16T19:09:00.000-07:002022-05-16T19:09:41.457-07:00So Long, And Thanks For All The Bicycles!<div><p> Wow. It's 2022. Six years since last we met! Sorry for that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in 2008 I was tired of always being stuck in my car- driving to work, driving 3 children everywhere, driving to the grocery store, drivingdrivingdriving, and never having time for anything other than driving. Life was stressful enough, and constantly being in the car wasn't making the situation better. My husband (you remember Hubby the Bikeman!) was finally back in stable employment after the god-awful post 9-11 tech crash, I was able to cut back hours in a career that was sucking me dry, and the world was waking up to the idea that life could be different. Living a slower, more deliberate life of lower consumption/more joy was grabbing hold, and I was spending a lot of time exploring the world of Slow Food (a movement that completely changed my world) and Buddhism (another exploration that changed everything). Suddenly, those searches were coinciding again and again with what was at that time called "Slow Cycling" (ironically, it stopped being called that pretty fast), and I kept stumbling on (the now defunct) "Amsterdamize" blog, by Marc Van Woudenberg (a lovely, funny man who will never know how much that blog meant to me). Repeatedly, while researching local food sheds and seasonal eating, my searches would turn up his photos and stories of people on giant, traditional Euro-style bicycles while wearing normal clothes, and not worrying about helmets or heart rates. They all looked content, and unhurried, and healthy. There were kids in bike seats eating snacks, and women wearing high heels, and panniers full of backpacks and groceries. </p><p>I needed that. I needed that bad. </p><p></p><p>I started with what I had- a 1988 Rockhopper Comp that I'd had since college, a crappy 8MP point and shoot, a brand new Flickr account, and a desire to try something different. <br /></p><p> And then I met Meli after stalking her at Bikes and the City. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6_YKUsfrVJF-QRkUNLSComxJlPZwfIl64WB95iGxXcHli9YrVEa5khTz_6EQr3KwOmkHAWKugazGkJSxxrYdG6Uc_Htms77QNQH0XS0q0QPsuvwNxh7vo-0ZdCrS52qHdSDUUi8afH99B2Ci0zVq5S32Ocz0DwTh4_VnzBbVpuE9LAYopyJXC0xy3=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6_YKUsfrVJF-QRkUNLSComxJlPZwfIl64WB95iGxXcHli9YrVEa5khTz_6EQr3KwOmkHAWKugazGkJSxxrYdG6Uc_Htms77QNQH0XS0q0QPsuvwNxh7vo-0ZdCrS52qHdSDUUi8afH99B2Ci0zVq5S32Ocz0DwTh4_VnzBbVpuE9LAYopyJXC0xy3=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our first of hundreds of lunch dates, the</div><div style="text-align: center;">day CYLRAB became a</div><div style="text-align: center;">real thing.<br /></div><div><p>Before I knew it, I had a blog, a new bicycle, my first good digital camera, and 2 more friends to share it all with- Calitexican, and Caryl!</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgodc94iiIiggeDRZZ-IlKxGZgOqitn3jihNkkdleDzh_d0RXf3SgiF-b4vBeGZoCLnTAhxT7TtU_aWxZC36bN5YQJDF2UWxaynWwhidB81rHtJuc9nW-YsVWEbMC3IA_NXSPFGJhDFv1yb_O3vwvFV2hgvpQWFmOEieb1PH7o-0Oh_C2pQsVAvh3XI=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgodc94iiIiggeDRZZ-IlKxGZgOqitn3jihNkkdleDzh_d0RXf3SgiF-b4vBeGZoCLnTAhxT7TtU_aWxZC36bN5YQJDF2UWxaynWwhidB81rHtJuc9nW-YsVWEbMC3IA_NXSPFGJhDFv1yb_O3vwvFV2hgvpQWFmOEieb1PH7o-0Oh_C2pQsVAvh3XI=s320" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Calitexican!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Ez8Vb74mjf0ACEuhYYfvwtVT-6V9poho4IiCJr4zABg2W7sl8xSDebD6it-xRWu45KGkJhfpag3YQ3lGaLB3pjJLREJvcFmNjp3AFPE7W2F5iJc3OegEPhhpsGcS-PuluOioewAOkZXIJ9VszQOrpb3QixSx_YeQjUUTpqrX9Dq5RpYO3syPuuPW=s800" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Ez8Vb74mjf0ACEuhYYfvwtVT-6V9poho4IiCJr4zABg2W7sl8xSDebD6it-xRWu45KGkJhfpag3YQ3lGaLB3pjJLREJvcFmNjp3AFPE7W2F5iJc3OegEPhhpsGcS-PuluOioewAOkZXIJ9VszQOrpb3QixSx_YeQjUUTpqrX9Dq5RpYO3syPuuPW=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div><div></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Caryl from our LA bureau.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">If you were around back then, you remember. The amount the world has changed since those days, which still had that 90's feel of possibility, is astounding! <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We are now 13 years past those early days, and we are all in different lives. That adorable little boy who was always eating something in the seat on the back of my bicycle graduates from HS in a couple of months. My daughter (Meli's Mini Me) is a research scientist in regenerative medicine (commuting to her lab on an e-bike, looking fab the whole way). The oldest is an economist who advises the Governor of Colorado and is looking to buy his first home. Hubby the Bikeman is still fixing everyone's bicycles (something has to be a constant!).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The last few years have brought enormous changes in the lives of the CYLRAB women. We have collectively changed careers, returned to school, survived tragedies, bought homes, recreated ourselves repeatedly. For myself, l decided to formally study photography after having to leave my Physical Therapy career to care for both my family, and myself (something the blog showed me was possible). Autoimmune arthritis has changed how I do everything, and so many of the things I learned from my bicycle and creating the blog are what have made that process successful. I don't ride like I used to, and even typing this brief letter is hard on my hands, but I keep going!<br /><br />And wasn't that the point of what were saying back then? It doesn't matter how fast you are, how fancy your bike is, how you ride, or how you look doing it. It matters that you show up, that you try, and that you love it. Bicycles were the vehicle in our message, but they were only ever a metaphor. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After the end of next week, I am archiving CYLRAB. It's time to let go of this (officially), and embrace the things that are happening now. The world still needs us to ride our bicycles, maybe more than ever before. The world needs us to all change our lives! We started that together back in 2008, and now we need to find the next ineration.We thank you from the bottom brackets of our hearts (see what I did there?) for the years you shared your stories with us, and for joining us in ours.</div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Change your life! Ride a bike!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVOS9e_wksV_QGv1H-5Jjhi9cR3PbUxe19dZTTqdmCi5KUcldfo6UR3Hq4GZpHzjROSmXiUHI3OBS2d6WkHw2xKsLvcEwcwsYEf45yg_HBXWHk-hWDEeV9bFDZbh2Yz2q0CyksJ4w6VnaGKMAm8DhGA0izLUuJ62Z9U-AYcFRLN7Qjn56gkLsDRjiy=s1416" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="1416" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVOS9e_wksV_QGv1H-5Jjhi9cR3PbUxe19dZTTqdmCi5KUcldfo6UR3Hq4GZpHzjROSmXiUHI3OBS2d6WkHw2xKsLvcEwcwsYEf45yg_HBXWHk-hWDEeV9bFDZbh2Yz2q0CyksJ4w6VnaGKMAm8DhGA0izLUuJ62Z9U-AYcFRLN7Qjn56gkLsDRjiy=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><p><br /></p></div>Adrienne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-66933116378271650592016-12-04T13:13:00.002-08:002016-12-04T13:16:20.468-08:00gotta keep looking up2016 is a beast of its own.<br />
here is a groovy photograph to brighten your day.<br />
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× submission by rockstar local photog <a href="http://thomashawk.com/" target="_blank">thomas hawk</a> – <i>via our beloved flickr love-child the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/1131848@N22" target="_blank">CYLRAB</a> photo pool =]</i><br />
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xomeliMELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-89248536270645115852016-10-11T23:07:00.001-07:002016-10-11T23:28:01.114-07:00artuesday: up. down. night, and day.couldn't wait until arthursday, so hi artuesday.<br />
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there are many good —great— memories i have earned riding way up (making them legs cry) and down monster mountains like these one below, just a few miles north from san francisco.<br />
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i have fond moments with two out of the three other ladies that have written this blog in the last few years. our lives are all on different roads however <i>quasiparallel</i> to each other, at times they intersect. at times we just missed each other. three of us are within single digit miles and a few bus stops away, and well, with caryl in the same state, coast and time zone.<br />
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i was reading a few graphical things as i try do every day and came across groovy one below.<br />
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the eye cannot stop seeing.<br />
the mind cannot stop speeding.<br />
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mi brother's birthday is today. he would have turned 27.<br />
it has taken years to be okay talking, without completely falling apart in an emotional spiral.<br />
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reposed, and observant, i try to stay afloat.<br />
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miss mi brother.<br />
sometimes i miss bikes, and their incredible simple force and power. empowerment.<br />
that freedom to feel every inch zooming as one rides down a long hill.<br />
some days i feel incredibly scared to do it again some day, if ever.<br />
some days i feel incredibly lucky to have experienced that so frequently.<br />
and so on.<br />
and that is okay.<br />
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i hope that wherever, you the reader, are — come across something as<i> </i>simple and complicated as a piece of art, you too go you back to this trip. with so many memories, so many contrasting feelings.<br />
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art is life.<br />
art is powerful.<br />
more.<br />
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to nano, and october.<br />
love, meli.<br />
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[more art by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chivertron/" target="_blank">Sam Chivers</a> on <a href="http://grainedit.com/2016/10/03/sam-chivers/" target="_blank">GrainEdit</a>]<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chivertron/17084367962/in/dateposted/" title="Wired Magazine"><img alt="Wired Magazine" height="640" src="https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7652/17084367962_5bc661ed4c_z.jpg" width="393" /></a>MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-28440619484361891402016-01-14T07:10:00.000-08:002016-01-14T07:10:03.984-08:00arthursday 1/2016the year is twenty sixteen, is this thing on? is blogger the new myspace or mtv is this 1984 ;^] well hi there.<br />
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happy new year to you too.<br />
if you like me love letters and all things letters on colored shiny things, this is for you:<br />
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“Every <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/headbadge?src=hash">#headbadge</a> has a story of provenance & personality to tell” Get ready for some of our favourites <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FontSunday?src=hash">#FontSunday</a> <a href="https://t.co/sPTGTg8Cmg">pic.twitter.com/sPTGTg8Cmg</a></div>
— Boneshaker Magazine (@boneshakermag) <a href="https://twitter.com/boneshakermag/status/686116125864779776">January 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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A full house from Pontiac on this <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/headbadge?src=hash">#headbadge</a> Bike, plane and what looks like a car wheel <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kitchensink?src=hash">#kitchensink</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FontSunday?src=hash">#FontSunday</a> <a href="https://t.co/GaJsrXxHOS">pic.twitter.com/GaJsrXxHOS</a></div>
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beautiful!<br />
feel free to check out the full article via bonshaker mag, link here: <i><a href="http://boneshakermag.com/a-cycling-lexicon/" target="_blank">A Cycling Lexicon</a></i><br />
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til next artsy fartsy minute-<br />
× MELI.<br />
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<br />MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-21795747608839132742014-07-24T23:50:00.002-07:002014-07-24T23:50:33.979-07:00arthursday: hola MART<br />
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Loving these super vibrant murals by Buenos Aires-based artist MART. Would love to see these giant bike murals through Argentina, and the world!<br />
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Read his most recent interviews:<br />
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¡♥! → His murals in all of their pixel glory are on <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/martcolores/" target="_blank">Flickr</a>.<br />
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<i>*All low-res screenshots, this is for hobby/blog recreational display only :)</i>MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-35045043255824800362014-07-20T23:42:00.000-07:002014-07-20T23:44:14.974-07:00melrose trading post<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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vintage playboy in the basket ;)</div>
carylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11175329294732754408noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-56290052036863272572014-07-20T23:32:00.000-07:002014-07-20T23:32:05.113-07:00street art on abbot kinney<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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summer 2014</div>
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venice, calif.</div>
carylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11175329294732754408noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-50322185468157582072014-03-06T08:46:00.000-08:002014-03-06T08:46:00.230-08:00Arthursday is here: Pictoplasma -- Character Selfies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Illustration by <a href="http://cargocollective.com/ossi" target="_blank">Ossi Pirkonen</a></div>
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– found via Ignani's super fun & creative tumbler: <a href="http://www.ignant.de/2014/02/26/a-warning-of-the-selfie/" target="_blank">A warning of the 'Selfie'</a></div>
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Looking through Ossi's website, I found an illustration he did for <i><a href="http://www.ipanapa.fi/musiikki/ipanapa-liikenteessa/" target="_blank">Ipanapa</a></i>:</div>
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<i>“Traffic Safety celebrating this year its 70th anniversary as one of the main theme of children's traffic safety measures. Road safety initiative in the autumn of Ipanapa Records of new songs in the production of children's traffic. 3.6 The result of the cooperation will be published. Five new children's traffic songs that will revamp children's traffic vocal tradition with a fresh, fun and touching way.”</i> – from <a href="http://www.ipanapa.fi/musiikki/ipanapa-liikenteessa/" target="_blank">Ipanapa.fi</a> </blockquote>
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<i>–Screenshots of their work for showing+admiration purposes only–</i><br />
<i>Visit artist's site [</i><a href="http://cargocollective.com/ossi" target="_blank">Ossi Pirkonen</a><i>]</i> <i>to see more.</i></div>
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MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-5477124074696454542014-02-27T08:30:00.000-08:002014-02-27T08:30:02.456-08:00Arthursday is here: Shintaro Ohata<div style="text-align: center;">
So poetic! ♥ found via mi longtime cyber/IRL friend Dave:</div>
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<i>「さよなら三角」/ ''SAYONARA SANKAKU'', 2008, panting, polystyrene based sculpture</i></div>
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Please visit <a href="http://yukari-art.jp/en/shintaro_ohata_en" target="_blank">Shintaro Ohata</a> for viewing his beautiful work.</div>
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MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-34647908194842644042014-02-13T08:05:00.000-08:002014-02-13T08:05:00.113-08:00Arthursday is here: Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>– By author Daniel Handler, illustrated by the great Maira Kalman –</i></div>
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Read the complete post via brainpickings by by Maria Popova:<br />➤ <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/11/lemony-snicket-lisa-brown-29-myths/" target="_blank">Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown’s Charming Illustrated Allegory about Curiosity, the Imagination, and the Subjectivity of Observation</a></blockquote>
MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-59613034959192066952014-01-23T09:21:00.000-08:002014-01-23T09:21:00.082-08:00Arthursday!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>“How many times has this happened to you? You’re in Paris taking a brief nap at your zoo job and a walrus, who looks uncannily like you, steals your keys, locks you in the cage and puts on all of your clothes …”</i></blockquote>
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MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-75052815160662916312013-12-12T20:28:00.000-08:002013-12-12T20:28:00.549-08:00Arthursday: Walk This World<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/62080508?portrait=0&color=ff9933" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe>–via <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/06/walk-this-world-lotta-nieminen/" target="_blank">brainpickings</a>–<br />
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¡♥!<br />
xxom<br />
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<br />MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-51435446951796666382013-11-21T07:30:00.000-08:002013-11-21T07:30:03.088-08:00Arthursday: Luigi Prina builds flying model ships (and bikes!)He is 83. <i><b>Ma che carino</b></i><br />
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– via colossal: <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/11/flying-boats-by-luigi-prina/" target="_blank">Meet Luigi Prina, the 83-Year-Old Builder of Flying Model Ships</a> –<br />
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MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-46173269278319199382013-11-01T08:00:00.000-07:002013-11-01T08:00:01.153-07:00friday fun times: checkered fenders?wow, this bike sure was fun to see. i am surprised i haven't seen it around town until now. thought it was worth sharing.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/calitexican/10592178854/" title="What a fun and cute little bike! by calitexican, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2807/10592178854_f88fbc275a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="What a fun and cute little bike!"></a><br />
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i'll be in LA this weekend to celebrate day of the dead/dia de los muertos. have a great weekend! <br />
calitexicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16257014894653568163noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-88634583675333895882013-10-30T07:50:00.000-07:002013-10-30T07:50:00.507-07:00training day: bicis y miamiWe like our basketball.<br />
First things first: Golden State DUBS first home game is tonight.<br />
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OK, onward - As hardcore basketball fans –Warriors (myself) y Spurs (CTX)– we are far from being James fans, or Miami for that fact. However, this is a very cool video, found via <a href="http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/10/28/lebron-and-friends-reclaim-miamis-streets-in-new-ad/" target="_blank">Streetsblog</a><br />
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I hope that brands, teams and rockstar players of that caliber continue to display positive things around their community (or cities they represent) and invest in making a positive impact in the youth. I actually really enjoyed this commercial/clip and look forward to athletes to do similar partnerships or team up to promote good things for boy and girls admiring their sports heroes.<br />
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Also, Texas native (Port Arthur) and former player for both los Warriors y Spurs, Stephen Jackson while with the dubs, gave a basketball court in the city a little facelift. With program NBAcares they do frequent grade-school backpack handout days and they help to give a little make-over to basketball courts around the Bay Area. I read about this stuff often in the news.<br />
Here is (one of) our very own Warriors court in the dogpatch, the signs/tarps are pretty faded, but still there:<br />
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And former Tarheel Harrison Barnes, rocking an Oakland As shirt when the Warriors were in China. A boy after my little heart.<br />
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/HBarnes">@HBarnes</a> proudly sporting an <a href="https://twitter.com/Athletics">@athletics</a> shirt while arriving at hotel in Beijing. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23WarriorsInChina&src=hash">#WarriorsInChina</a> <a href="http://t.co/yoIR0wiVK9">pic.twitter.com/yoIR0wiVK9</a><br />
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Anyways, could not be more excited for basketball season starting tonight and college basketball around the corner(!)<br />
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The song in Lebron/Nike video is <i>My Shoes </i>by John Legend and this was filmed in Miami, *hi to our friend Fidel out there*<br />
*melibrosa fact: John Legend has played at half time at the warriors game in 2008. I was there :)<br />
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/ <i>Previous NBA posts <a href="http://changeyourliferideabike.blogspot.com/search?q=Nba" target="_blank">here</a></i>.<br />
<br />MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-24512508484152816782013-10-24T08:00:00.000-07:002013-10-24T08:00:09.579-07:00ARTHURSDAY: Illustration Now!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Illustration Now! Fashion: Alexandra Compain-Tissier, Bill Cunningham – Read more: <a href="http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/fashion-illustration" target="_blank">It'sNiceThat</a></i></td></tr>
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<i>Styled by hand. The many incarnations of illustration in the world of fashion</i><br />
Illustration Now! Fashion Hardcover – November 15, 2013 via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Illustration-Now-Fashion-Julius-Wiedemann/dp/3836545209/" target="_blank">amazon</a>MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-61021000781732883712013-10-21T08:50:00.001-07:002013-10-21T08:50:15.216-07:00two dropped chains, two feel good storiesafter riding a bike for more than a few years, one is bound to have more than a few dropped chains. for me, they happen at the most inopportune times, like shifting my downtube shifters to go up a hill. there was an incident a couple of months ago where i looked rather funny on polk street trying not to fall. i was rather determined not to do so on my way to work. <br />
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this is not the dropped chain from either story, but to gives you all an idea what i'm talking about.<br />
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so, this not about my dropped chain, but rather two dropped chains from people i don't know.<br />
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one friday i was rushing home to work before rushing out to <a href="http://www.sfbikeparty.org">sf bike party</a> and a block away from home i see two bikers on the sidewalk. the woman appears in her 50s, and her bike is upside down. there's a younger man with her in about his 20s (son perhaps?) on the phone. both are looking around rather helpless. i decide to stop to see what the problem is because if it's a large problem, i know where the bike shop nearby is. <br />
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so i pull over, ask what's wrong, and i see the chain. THE CHAIN. it also looks like there is all that's wrong with it, so i get my fingers in, turn the cranks a bit, and voliá. chain back on. the woman and the young man look incredulous. she said they had been there for 15 minutes trying to fix it. i show her what to do if it happens again.<br />
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the woman clapped her hands, brought them to her chest, and said, "thank you so much!" i said, "it's no problem." she looks at my chain greased fingers, and apologizes, i said, "again, no problem since i live a block away."<br />
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i ride off feeling good that my limited bike knowledge helped out two people in minor distress.<br />
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fast forward to 10 days later, which was wednesday of last week. i'm off to a fancy pants dinner event on foot in the financial district. i see a woman with a nice and new cannondale, with a male colleague, in a similar state of distress, only this time everyone involved was well dressed. not going to get bike grease on anything this time.<br />
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i take a look, and again, looks like a dropped chain. i said "i can fix it, if someone has a pen." the woman says, "we're reporters, we have lots of pens." the man produces a pen, i pop the chain back on, and they again were so grateful. she said, "now i'll be on time for my meeting! thank you so much!" i forgot her name, but she introduced herself. <br />
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all of these scenarios took less than a minute to diagnose and fix. but the gratitude and the good feelings are still around a few weeks later. <br />
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so go out and help out some people. feels good. <br />
calitexicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16257014894653568163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-88208391292589997862013-10-15T08:30:00.000-07:002013-10-15T08:30:03.460-07:00inspiration: paso a pasito¡qué belleza! --<br />
file under awesome :)<br />
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MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-63519913084599357542013-10-10T14:16:00.000-07:002013-10-10T14:16:31.890-07:00TrafficDon't we all know deep down that WE are the cause of all traffic in the world? We should be ashamed!<br />
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Really. We should be ashamed.Adrienne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-31908200798862806752013-10-01T07:38:00.000-07:002013-10-01T07:38:00.449-07:00tandem twins tuesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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/ via <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life" target="_blank">LIFE photo archive.</a></div>
MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-45781561068492530522013-09-23T16:13:00.002-07:002013-09-23T16:13:57.542-07:00Get It Together SF Chronicle This is a photo of my family I took blindly with the camera behind my head back in 2009.<br />
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It is not a terribly good picture, just a snapshot. But it is a snapshot of some of the people I love the most in this world doing something both terribly mundane and terribly important, riding our bikes through our city to do whatever it was we were doing that day.<br />
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Today, this picture was stolen and <a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/09/23/you-know-you-live-in-the-mission-if/#16156-25" target="_blank">used</a> without my permission in a vapid, stupid and insulting piece on the SF Gate blog. The writer, Peter Hockaday, decided it was OK to just take something that was not his and use it to write about something he knows nothing about. That something is the neighborhood I grew up in and always think of as home, even 20 years after I moved out of it. This neighborhood was the birthplace of SF's current bicycle movement. This neighborhood was the California birthplace of the <a href="http://sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=1067" target="_blank">Sanctuary Movement</a>. I could go on.<br />
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This is what I had to say to him about that.<br />
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<i>To Whom It May Concern,<br /><br />My name is Adrienne Johnson and I am
the woman who took picture #25 in your blog post of Sept 23rd, 2013
entitled "You Know You Live In The Mission...". First off, I am sorry,
but I never gave you permission to use my photo in your piece. As a
member of the journalist community you know that is not OK. As this is a
photo posted to my personal account on Flickr and is posted with a
copyright that barres your use of it without my permission, I can see no
reason for you to leave it there, or to have even used it in the first
place. This is especially true as you did not contact me through that
account, or any other, to ask for my permission. FYI, it would not have
been given, and here is why.<br /><br />I consider myself a San Francisco
native. I have lived here for all but 3 months of my life. From 1971
until 1983 I lived in the Outer Sunset- before Trouble Coffee, before
Java Beach, even before Other Avenues, back when there was still a Judah
Street tunnel to the beach. From 1983 until 1989 I lived in the
Mission. I lived there back when Valencia St. was half boarded up and
was populated mostly by the lesbian community. Back when La Rondalla was
still open and you could get midnight chicken soup and underage
margaritas while drunk female impersonators sang into their drinks at
the bar. Back when Pancho Villa first opened and the whole neighborhood
got food there after the '89 earthquake and took it to eat in Dolores
Park, not because it was cool, but because everyone was afraid to be in
their homes. Back when the Mission Theater was a shithole movie house
the whole neighborhood went to to see B movies in while yelling at the
screen (not in its soon to be fancy art house fashion which will only
show Spanish language films when they win Best International Film awards
for their brave portrayal of crossing the boarder illegally). My mother
was the person who got stop signs at 20th and Capp and helped the
police clear out the crack dealers in the mini park so that the kids
could play there once again in 1984. The garage of the building I lived
in was where the Carnival Floats used to stage from at the beginning of
the parade. My first apartment when I left home at 19 was on South Van
Ness between 15th and 16th in 1989, and so you know, at that time that
area was considered to be the most dangerous place in California with
the most rapes, robberies and murders of any part of our state. We moved
there because we were too poor to stay in the Sunset. We stayed
because it was the best place in SF to live if you were poor and wanted a
decent quality of living.<br /><br />And I LOVED IT. <br /><br />I moved out of
the Mission during college and I now live in Sunnyside, in an apartment
I have lived in for 20+ years. My four children, 2 of whom are in this
picture with my husband, were all born at CPMC (one while I still lived
in the Mission!). My husband was born at Chinese Hospital. We are not
hapless "visitors" to the Dark Side of Town hoping to get back to our
all Caucasian enclave of Noe Valley (your intimation, not mine). We are
native San Franciscans riding through our own home town. <br /><br />There
are families in the Mission!!! Thousands of them!!!! They have lived
there for decades. If you see a family in the Mission and your first
thought is "how did they wander so far from Noe Valley", then you have
no business writing an article about the neighborhood in the first
place. Just because the wave of people coming into SF now is young and
childless and stupid rich does not mean the City is, too. If you want to
write an article about the neighborhoods of SF, then get off your butt
and go talk to some people in those neighborhoods! Go find out about the
family that started the Pancho Villa group of taquerias, or better yet,
go find some of the people who owned older taco shops that went out of
business or one of the older restauranteurs who don't make burritos and
talk to them. Maybe try talking to the proprietors of the old watch
repair shops on Mission street? How about the people that own Sun Fat
Seafood so you can get a perspective on the Chinese population in the
Mission (hint, it is big and has been there for a looooong time). Ever
thought of learning the history of the Victoria Theater on 16th? How
about the Anarchist Movement (much of which was recently booted out of
the 17 Reasons Why building that houses Thrift Town) that still
populates the area. Maybe you could go talk to Don Rafa's daughter about
all of the fixed gear bikes she doesn't sell. How long before these
businesses are run off because the landlord wants to charge more for the
crap building that was paid off 20 years ago that he refuses to fix? Do
I hear Jack Spade calling to take that spot? Oh wait, that already
happened.<br /><br />Most of all, do not poach my photographs and assume it
is OK to use them to ridicule anyone. The fact that I wake up every day
knowing that at any time my landlord can and will sell my home and that I
will be Ellis Acted out of it and out of the City I have called home
for 43 years makes me sick. The fact that I attended F.S Key Elementary,
Aptos Middle School, George Washington High and City College of San
Francisco will not save me from being evicted. The fact that the very
first burrito I ever ate was from La Taqueria 20 years before Zynga was
even thought of will not change the fact that the people who think
families only live in Noe Valley are the reason my old place at 20th and
Capp is now listed at close to $4000 a month! This attitude, this
cluelessness, is behind what is driving the families of the City out and
I do not want to be associated with it. <br /><br />You stole a photograph,
whose subjects and history are unknown to you and put them into your
story to make a stupid, racist, classist point. It is your bad luck that
it was the wrong photo to steal. I am quite sure that wasn't your
intention, but that does not matter. You didn't know that the Mission is
what I consider home and I know I am there when I see mothers picking
up their kids from school and carrying their backpacks home to change
into their play clothes. I know I am in the Mission when I see the
paleta sellers pushing their carts down the street. I know I am in the
Mission when Spanish speaking evangelists are yelling into bullhorns at
the 24th street BART station or when Mexico is playing El Salvador and
Bolompié explodes in screaming. Want to talk to a local family? Go to
any one of the funeral homes in the neighborhood and you will see huge,
local, multi generational Mission families mourning their dead. You will
see that those families are Hispanic, black, Asian, white... None of
them are worrying if their clothes are cool enough (only people who come
slumming in exclusive clubs in the 'hood do that). Or maybe try hanging
out at any one of the soccer practices or games around the entire
neighborhood. You will find out fast that they are all locals playing
and that none of them work at Twitter or want to be pushed out of their
own neighborhood. Maybe they can tell you about the days when the
Mission was a Sanctuary Zone for political refugees from Latin America
and you can tell them where the Sanctuary Zone is for them now that
their presence is no longer welcome in their own neighborhood.<br /><br />Stop
playing into this ridiculous farce of "hip". The Mission is not the
next up and coming neighborhood for the young and clueless. It is a
neighborhood with a strong history and culture that San Francisco can
not afford to lose. The Mission is a neighborhood that is being
systematically drained of everything that brings people to it in the
first place- the art, the culture, the diversity and the comfort of
being in a place where families live their daily lives. It is the canary
in the coal mine. My family, a native family, may not look like what
you think the Mission looks like, but then you don't know what the
Mission looks like because you chose the lazy route and bought into the
hype. Start writing about the people who need to be written about to
help them try to save their homes and businesses. Get off your butt and
be a real journalist who asks questions and looks for answers.<br /><br />And take my picture off your site.<br /><br />Thank you.</i><br />
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Let the SF Gate (a blog published by <a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/" target="_blank">The San Francisco Chronicle</a> who should know and expect better) be put on notice. I am tired of this crap. When I published <a href="http://changeyourliferideabike.blogspot.com/2010/03/police-state.html" target="_blank">this</a> article about being threatened by an SFPD officer in an unmarked car here on the blog the SF Gate chose to re-publish the article and then did nothing to stop the threatening, demeaning and offensive comments directed at me and my family on their site. Now they are stealing my property to put in their silly, vapid, unresearched crap blog posts that reduce human beings into stereotypes that destroy any real conversation from happening before it starts.<br />
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There. Now go back to your lives citizens.Adrienne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16658593098911314756noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-72933251092230301452013-09-11T07:55:00.000-07:002013-09-11T07:55:00.115-07:00Lost.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/meligrosa/9635444516/" title="green lane by meligrosa, on Flickr"><img alt="green lane" height="333" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5455/9635444516_48856db61e.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you<br />Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,<br />And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,<br />Must ask permission to know it and be known.<br />The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,<br />I have made this place around you.<br />If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.<br />No two trees are the same to Raven.<br />No two branches are the same to Wren.<br />If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,<br />You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows<br />Where you are. You must let it find you.<br /><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>–Lost</i> by David Wagoner</span></blockquote>
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<br />MELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-86441203303232868822013-08-23T07:00:00.000-07:002013-08-23T07:00:48.032-07:00friday fun times: red bike and green's tour & las ovasso in my not so much anymore spare time, i've been keeping up with the amazing trip going on in the east coast right now. it's led by <a href="http://www.redbikeandgreen.com/tour/">red bike and green </a>and they are traveling from dc to brooklyn's <a href="http://www.afropunk.com/">afropunk festival</a>. as they put it, it does sound like the experience of a lifetime.<br />
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image is from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/redbikeandgreen">red bike and green's fb page</a>. check out for more pics. they are beautiful! here's a quick video they made for people living in brooklyn to join them on their last leg to the show!<br />
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<iframe src="//player.vimeo.com/video/72950134" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/72950134">RBG Bike Tour > DC to AfroPunk 8/24 @ Dixon's Bicycle Shop</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/iamelizah">eli•zah</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>also, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/486704604728980/?directed_target_id=0">clitoral mass</a> is happening again in LA this saturday. those ovas are something else. LOVE THEIR COMMUNITY BUILDING! here's their bikey check list.<br />
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have a fun bikey time peeps! i'll be parking at the america's cup. come say hi.calitexicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16257014894653568163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-70643606678490764902013-08-01T08:00:00.000-07:002013-08-01T08:00:07.359-07:00Arthursday: Ben Javens - bici illustrationsHow adorable are these? Love finding simple, joyful prints around the internets.<br />
The work is by Ben Javens, a professional illustrator based in England.<br />
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Found via <a href="http://www.sharesomecandy.com/2013/07/ben-javens.html" target="_blank">ShareSomeCandy</a><br />
Ben's website: <a href="http://benjavens.co.uk/" target="_blank">benjavens.co.uk</a><br />
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xxomeliMELI.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01871688353021351859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8810099708146569685.post-91870244184129729492013-07-30T13:32:00.001-07:002013-07-30T13:32:11.679-07:00more nytimes bike style: portlandia video editionthe ny times is pretty good at delivering news in a timely fashion, but they are not always timely in their cultural trends. if only they had someone on staff who's been riding a bicycle for awhile now who watches style to alert them to this trend of cycle chic. (<a href="http://changeyourliferideabike.blogspot.com/search?q=bill+cunningham">pssst, they do.</a>)<br />
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the mama texican sent me <a href="http://nyti.ms/14w0iNv">this link</a> of portlandia types talking about their style in "the pearl." and yes, bikes are accessories. of course.<br />
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enjoy! and bill cunningham, why wont they listen to you more? heh.calitexicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16257014894653568163noreply@blogger.com0