My SF Day - Green Festival - Bamboo Bicycle - StalkBicycles

(StalkBicycles/photo by RidingPretty)

Yeah! A Day in SF and it's been awhile...Attended the SF Green Festival where I spied this fetching bamboo bicycle by StalkBicycles. SO green in every imaginable way.

Very tempting it is....My BF hasn't bought a new bicycle in ages (nor have I for that matter, being strictly a vintage kind of girl in all my bicycle choices) but I digress. So my BF is seriously considering getting this frame and doing his own build out with some of his really old esoteric components he's been saving forever. We'll see. StalkBicycles are hand built and made right here in Santa Cruz, how convenient. Ample oppurtunity to go by and visit the shop and watch the build process - being in the same town and all.

Hmmm...I wonder if they could do a mixte frame, guess I'll have to ask. I suppose the geometry of the diamond frame is the best use of bamboo and a mixte would be out of the question. Still...

Matthew Modine, Bicycle, Fashion Charity Show and Other Fine Tweed Gents

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Matthew Modine carried a bicycle up the runway, (only appropriate) - His charity is Bicycle For A Day. The event was the recent "Dressed to Kilt" Charity Fashion Show.

Matthew looks awfully much like a Tweed Ride Tweeder to me, then again the charity event was part of the New York Tartan Week. Tartan a close cousin to Tweed.

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Speaking of Dapper Gents this is as good a time as any to share this with you...

(photo credit: Mark Rainey & Bill Poindexter)

The Gents you see above are two of the organizers for the recent Kansas City Tweed Ride.
More on the Kansas City Tweed Ride when I do my April Tweed Rides - a recap of all of the April Tweed Rides....coming soon, as in when the month of April is over. April looks to be another fine month for Tweed Rides. If you haven't already done so please do check The Tweed Report for upcoming Tweed Rides. Maybe there is one coming to your town?

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Now for a little summer fashion inspiration for a "non Tweed" - Tweed Ride!

(via esquire.co.uk)

Say Linens, Khaki anyone? Seer Sucker?

Cool Mixte Bicycle - Flower Crazy

The best Mixte I've seen in some time...There is just so much to like- the paint colors, the honey colored brooks saddle and DIY pannier side basket, the dinosaur totem in same shades of green, the handle bars. Ok, you get the picture.

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Flower Craazzy!!!

Enjoy the spring flowers!

p.s. so enjoying taking photos with my new camera, yeah!

DIY: Shoes Stay-on While Bicycling

DIY - How to keep your shoes/heels from falling off (in traffic-yikes!) while riding your bicycle...

I use to have this problem - certain shoes would fall off, worst of all in traffic!
I know others have had this problem too.

It's even happened to me during this photo shoot whilst jumping on my bicycle (last photo). There is a solution that came to me one day! One that I've been using for quite some time now - though not in the prior mentioned photo shoot. Anyway I decided to share it now in this post....

Scrunchies to the rescue! My scrunchie collection.

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(photo credit: Style Bubble)

While on the topic of scrunchies, Susie @ Style Bubble wears scrunchies with her heels too!! She does it to pretty up her shoes, though not necessarily having anything to do with keeping her shoes from falling off while riding a bicycle.

♥♥♥Susie is one of my very favorite fashion bloggers!
And she does ride a bicycle .....

(photo credit: Style Bubble)

Green Bicycle

(photo: RidingPretty)

Green bicycle, red jacket, aviator sunglasses, khaki pants, vans, brown leather satchel on the back bicycle rack, I said in rapid succession. Style Inventory of a cool girl...

March Tweed Rides-Memphis, Buffalo, Coral Gables, LA, Sacramento, Berkeley

March was another fantastic month for Tweed Rides - Memphis TN, Buffalo NY then Coral Gables FL to start...

(Memphis Tweed Ride - photo by Danny Wilson)

(Coral Gables Tweed Ride - video by Francisco Moraga and via miambikescene)

Buffalo Tweed Ride - photo by Maki Tanigaki

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Over to the West Coast for more Tweed Rides! - Sacramento, Los Angeles and last but not least SF /Berkeley...

( Sacramento Tweed Ride - photo by JenPK)

(Los Angeles Tweed Ride - photo by kr_cn

(Berkeley Tweed Ride - video by g0rd0nmackenzie)

All and all another good month for Tweed Rides I'd say!

Do check out the photo credits/ hyperlinks to see more photos.
Tweed Rides are FUN!

Happy April Fools Day

Happy April Fools Day!

Jokes and foolish pranks aside.... California poppies, cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Okay, it's time to take off now, ride my bicycle all the while capturing some more spring time flowers to share with you. I'll be bringing my trusty new camera to practice with. Oh fun. Bye now.