update: just posted my photos of BYOBW2007 to Flickr.
easter means colored eggs, chocolate bunnies, and of course, adults on big wheels racing down lombard street.
From last year’s race:
San Francisco
9
Mar 07
Home, new home
The recent long silence here has been due to a move to a new apartment. We are the tan box on the corner, there across the street:
We were greeted by a fair sized earthquake the night of our move in. We’re on a big old rock of a hill on the border of Noe Valley and the Castro, so I’m not so much worried about quakes. The poor saps in the Marina, or SOMA, being built on land-fill are pretty much screwed in big quakes, though.
We just got net access last night, so I have an outrageous amount of feed reading to do – or maybe I’ll just “mark all as read” and start over.
Anyway, more to come on the move and other stuff to come.
(Photo via mimi @ flickr .)
1
Aug 06
car d’or
Well, I guess it is a rite of passage for any urban bike commuter to have a car (in this case, a taxi) door open into your path. I got off EXTREMELY easy.
I was slowly making my way through stopped traffic at Market and New Montgomery when the passenger side of the taxi started to open. Luckily for me, I was going very slow, and the door opened very slowly as well.
I had enough time to holler out “Woah!!” (my midwestern roots showing in the big city, i guess), and I slow motion bonked into the door, and tipped into the curb and against the BART/MUNI escalator wall.
I gave the young woman a LONG stare and said “BE CAREFUL NEXT TIME – OKAY?”
And I rode away telling myself the exact same thing.
16
Apr 06
Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2006
Wonderful silliness today in San Francisco with the annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down Lombard St – the most crooked street in the world. There was just enough rain to make it somewhat dangerous. We missed the first race but had a great view of the last two. The sun came out. There was a rainbow. A good time was had by all – near as I could tell
More pics at Flickr: My Set – Flickr tag byobw
