How to Pick Up Chicks (while riding your bicycle through a typhoon)

I just picked up a box of 4 week old chicks! On my bike! Through a TYPHOON! WHAAAAT??!? With the power of Craigslist and an RSS feed combined, it only took 2 weeks for me to find someone with chicks in the Berkeley/Oakland area (take them! for free!). I saw the CL post this morning, […]

Arrived in Iceland

Amory and I set off Thursday morning for our 3 week bike adventure in Iceland. After a 7 hr flight over Hudson Bay and Greenland, we skimmed over the lava fields of southwest Iceland. We decided to set up our bikes at the airport. What a silly idea! The plan was to bike the boxes […]

Yacht with a Heliocopter!

We rode over the Golden Gate to see Philip Krohn’s installation at Gallery 111 in Sausalito…very cool, and I found out that he created the Earth/Art bumper stickers I’ve been seeing around town. Along the way, we saw a gigantic yacht moored just offshore with a helicopter on the back! It was Flaunting It Hard […]

Fourth of July Ride to Santa Cruz

Since moving to a new house in May, we had spent nearly every weekend packing, unpacking, DIY home improving, and hauling load after load of manure for the garden. In short, cabin fever had set in for good. Nevermind that I had a deep, chesty cough and Amory was getting over yet another episode of […]

Point Reyes Overland Overnight

We’ve always taken Route 1 out to Pt. Reyes from Mill Valley, and frankly, it sucks car exhaust. So, I finally got a copy of the Marin County Bike Coalition’s map, which details the dirt tracks across the Marin Headlands. Saturday morning, we geared up the bikes for an overnight and tackled the overland route […]

East Bay Casual Carpool Sites

Thanks to local biker and car-pooler Amory S., East Bay commuters now have a google map of casual carpool sites. “Casual car pools” or “ad hoc car pools” are informal car pools that form when drivers and passengers meet — without specific prior arrangement — at designated locations. There are a number of East Bay […]

Half Moon Bay Overnight

A couple months ago, I read Harriet Brown’s write-up of her Paris-Brest-Paris ride, where she brought along a whole roast chicken in her handlebar bag. Inspired, I made a Brooks-look-alike handlebar bag for myself…a boxy old-style camera bag secured to my bars with a piece of belt, pop-rivets and a velcro strap. I had already […]