This is an update listing the various letters of support that we have from agencies around the County urging our San Luis Obispo County Supervisors to spend the Parks Facilities Funds that the Parks Commission has asked them to spend… for the various parcels for sale along the Juan Batista de Anza Trail between San [...]
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lots of support for the SLO to Pismo trail so far
Posted in bicycles, city planning, tagged Bike Path, bob jones trail, Connect slo county, de anza trail, juan batista de anza, pismo beach bike path, san luis obispo bike path on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Class One Bike Path between San Luis Obispo and Pismo Beach through Edna Valley and Price Canyon… and from San Miguel to Santa Margarita!
Posted in bicycles, city planning, pismo beach, san luis obispo, tagged Bike Path, bob jones bike trail, bob jones trail, class I path, class one path, container housing, de anza trail, edna valley, Edna valley bike path, juan batista de anza, narrow gauge railway, pacific coast railway, pismo beach bike path, price canyon, price canyon bicycle, price canyon bike, railroad safety trail, rails to trails, san luis obispo bike path, santa maria valley railway, shipping container housing, slo bike path on April 15, 2012 | 10 Comments »
What you can do to help: Show up at the SLO County Parks Commission meeting at 1055 Monterey (county administration building) at 6 PM… on Thursday April 26. Tell the Commission to recommend that the County Board of Supervisors use funds from the “Public Facilities Fund-Parks” to buy these old railroad rights of way. Doing [...]
Copenhagenizing Sao Paulo Brazil!
Posted in bicycles, city planning, tagged bike advocacy, bike culture, bike lanes, bike paths, copenhagenize on March 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Saw this cool poster recently on Copenhagenize.com as regards the way Rio de Janeiro Brazil feels about transportation Infrastructure. I’m in sort of a big bike advocacy mood as of late… so I thought I would repost it here. The City of Sao Paulo Brazil is reworking their complete infrastructure with the help of Copenhagenize. [...]
Bicycle infrastructure… Opposite land…
Posted in bicycles, city planning, san luis obispo, tagged ab 1358, bicycle, bicycle advocacy, bicycle commuter, bicycle commuting, bicycle infrastructure, bike, bike culture, bike lanes, bike paths, bike snob, Bike Snob NYC, bikes, circulation element, complete streets, cutter bicycles, cycling, cyclotouring, john cutter, multi modal, portland, road bike, san luis obispo, San Luis Obispo County Bicycle Coalition, TF-LUCE on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Opposite land. In Opposite land the roles of bicycles and cars are reversed. Every street is a bike street. Every house has a bike garage and bicycles dominate the transportation environment. There are elevated commuter trains over grand central Bike stations with tons of bike parking and restaurants and showers and mechanics on staff. Roadies [...]
Bicycle Sink by Benjamin Bullins
Posted in architecture, art, bicycles on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A friend sent me the link to Benjamin Bullins art. I particularly like this Bathroom sink he designed.
Sears’ Best bike… made in Austria!
Posted in bicycles, tagged 3 speed, 3 speed bike, bicycle, bike, classic bicycle, classic bike, made in austria, made in switzerland, raleigh, sears, sears best, Sears bike, three speed, three speed bike, tweed ride, vintage bike on May 14, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This Sears 3 speed bike, circa 1966 or so, is one I have had for a long time. I sold it to a friend though about 3 years ago and today I bought it back as he wasn’t using it. It is from Austria. I doubt you can buy much made in Austria at [...]
Play video in the moving spokes of your bike!
Posted in art, bicycles, tagged art bike, Bicycle advertising, Bicycle wheel video on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I recently discovered Monkeylectric.com . They make LED lights that attach to your spokes to create crazy patterns as you ride… BUT THEY ALSO make an insane bike wheel video player using the same LED light type set up… that plays low res video on your spokes as you ride. Kinda hard to imagine… so [...]
recently finished Porteur bike
Posted in bicycles, tagged porteur bike, velo orange on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently finished building this single speed Porteur bike. It used to be a metallic blue 70′s “Nashbar” mail order special ten speed. All those old French Porteur bikes in a previous post (scroll down a bunch) kinda got me jonesing to build one. Still need to get some green leather bar tape for it. [...]
What is truly cool?
Posted in architecture, art, bicycles, california cultural anthropology, tagged advertising history, beat culture, beatnik, Bicycle culture, Bike Snob NYC, california modernism, cool, cool advertising, cool hunting, design history, Eric Meyer, Eric Meyer Simple, gerald rupp, gerry rupp, hip, hipster, History of Cool, History of Modernism, History of Simple Shoes, Jazz age, Lucille Meyer, Lucy Meyer, modernism, morro bay, morro bay history, Simple, simple shoes, trend forecasting, trendy, what is cool on March 3, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is a really long post. You may want to get a cup of coffee first. You may actually not care at all… but it would have been my mom’s birthday a couple of days ago… So I thought I would write about her… and the concept of the word “cool”. Lucy… in Florence Italy… [...]
meet artist Eric Staller
Posted in art, bicycles, interesting autos, tagged amazing art, art car, crazy art, Eric Staller, modern art, performance art on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Eric Staller created this amazing art car years ago. The lights are computer controlled and create a vibrant visual display. Down a bit further is a link to the video of this car in action. I am still amazed by it and his many other creative endeavors.. Check him out! He also made these clogs… [...]
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