Where have we been?

Well, funny you asked. You'll have to excuse our negligence with no substantial posts for some weeks--we were nursing hangovers from our photo shindig--but we think you'll be proud of our latest exploits.  These include schmoozing with the creme de la creme of SF's bicycle advocates at the SFBC's Golden Wheel Awards:

Bike shopping yet again for Libby. She first discovered that her picture-perfect aerodynamic '91 Masi racing bike was not steel as was alleged by the craigslist post, and then she found a crack in the stem!  She let it roll off her back, though, and made a late-in-the-game purchase of last year's steel Fuji Finest, which we'll attempt to build on our own, with the Shimano 600 components from the Masi. Victory is ours in the end!

 

But first, the Fuji needs a paint job. I mean, it has a website printed on the frame. And at that, Lindsay's old-school sparkle-black Specialized could use a little brush-up with the old rattle-can as well. So (drumroll) we're painting our bikes!  Check back to watch them change into shiny beauties!

And of course, we're up to our usual no good: making offensive T-shirts and wearing them to large-scale public events (luckily surrounded by thousands of cyclists--i.e. Critical Mass SF):

Please note: If these shirts offend you, that means you're gay. Or, of course, you're a car. Same thing.

We have a donate button!

Friends and countrymen:
We finally figured out how to start a PayPal account and add a donate button to our blog, so we can accept online donations and not just the old-fashioned check in the mail. We are hard at work on posting our route map and our budget, so you'll know where we're going--and where your donation is taking us!

Thank you for your donation!

Thank you for visiting our blog and making a donation for our trip! We are humbly and forever grateful. Look for our upcoming "Budget" post to see how your donation is helping us mile-for-mile. Please visit again to keep tabs on our crossing of a country.

Love and thanks,
Libby and Lindsay

Photography Up for Bids at the Mojo Party

Our winner photo! This picture received our highest bid of the evening. 80 big ones. Thanks "E" for forking it over big time. And thanks to everyone else who came and emptied your pockets.

For those who cold not make the event, fret not. Here is a link to part one of the photo show, and a link to part two of the photos that we selected for the show on Saturday. (I couldn't fit them all onto one page!!) If you are interested in buying one, send us an email with a description of the photograph and the size you would like. We'd be happy to print you one.

another gem...from a precious night.

the show! :

so it went a bit like this

and if you came, you may have seen this

You have no excuse.

If you are reading this on Saturday, April 12th, click on this link:

getawayfromyourcomputerandcomehaverealhumaninteractionsatourphotoshow

We assure you--good things await.

this is also what we've been up to

live from mojo, welcome to pedalwise!

When there's time, we like to get things done. And in between getting things done, we like to relax and own it.

For those just coming into the blogset of Libby and Lindsay, we are the lassies behind the handlebars, on the saddle, and behind the lens. Right now, we're in photo show preparation mode. We printed the photographs....(yay!), and today's goal is to mount them, and get them in shape for their debut at Mojo Bicycle Cafe. If you're in town, we invite you to our bicycle photography show and fundraiser event, "Bay Area by Bike" this Saturday, April 12 at 8pm.

Live music from bike shop John has just been confirmed.

And, if you didn't already know, all photos will be available for silent auction bidding, and the winners will be announced and handed their photo to take home that night.

Come to see the photographs, mingle with like minds, and celebrate with us!

weekend update

Today it is cloudy, so our plans for a glorious jaunt on our bikes has been replaced with visions of productivity: at 3pm, we pick up the final prints for the "bay area by bike" photo series (which, may we add, is a mere 6 days away), and now, we are sitting down with iced vanilla lattes to finish plotting our route across the last third of the country. Currently we're enjoying the 20-mile lakefront bike trail in the good old Windy City.  

Yesterday, au contraire, was not a special day. We decided to work on our route at the much-acclaimed other bike cafe in the City, the Velo Rouge Cafe. Now, we had heard about this place as a biker's haven--though we'd also heard that it recently changed hands--and we'd passed it a few times entering or exiting Golden Gate Park on Arguello Blvd. So we pulled up, parked at the rack provided (check), and entered to order our customary IVLs (see above). After taking our seats on their wrought iron chairs (fashionable, perhaps, but comfortable?), we began to take stock of our surroundings: 

-do any of these people actually ride bikes?

-who's chicken scratch is on the menu board? 

  cause we can't even find the word latte.

-not everyone is obsessed with Blue Bottle Coffee 

  and willing to pay $45 more for it.

-why do you ask "for here or to go" if you serve it 

  in the same damn (read: non-recyclable) plastic cup

-$5 for a cold one at 4pm? more like "sad hour"

-and why do you even serve beer if you're gonna 

  close at 5pm--on saturday

As we chugged the last of our beers and were pushed out the door at 4:58, we found the answer to our query, advertised on the window: "Velo Rouge is open for private party rentals starting at 6pm on the weekends!" 

As we unlocked our hogs from the trendy rouge velo racks and started pedalling homeward, we felt justified in our denouncement of the other bike cafe, and we thanked our lucky etoiles for the boys over at Mojo, who are hosting our party, gratuitement.

look for our stickers!

we made one round of flyer-ing and sticker-ifying san francisco's windows, telephone poles, and bike racks. so fun.


ps. these little bikey stickers will be available at the show next saturday. or you can order them: send us an email, and let us know how many you'd like.

pps. they come free with donations.

exciting!

And then this happened:

Malakoff Diggins State Park. I know, we hadn't heard of it either.