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You can’t beat a BBQ with friends, perfect weather, and good food. Or can you? Water fight! I don’t think anybody left the park dry. Make it rain!
Summer is fast approaching. I can feel it. Welcome to the goooood life. Good liiiiiiiiiiiife.
-Photo by Michael Isip
-Photo by Michael Isip
-Photo by Michael Isip
-Photo by Michael Isip
-Photo by Mark Cosio
-Photo by Michael Isip
On my way home from work I ran into Richard Masoner, who is somewhat of a flickr and bike community celebrity. He asked if he could take a picture of my mini spoke card collection, and we spoke for a quick minute. Apparently his commute is 90 minutes each way, from Scotts Valley to Menlo Park and back!
-Photo taken by Richard Masoner
The City of San Jose was sponsoring a free light and helmet giveaway at the MLK Library, so I raced down there to try and snag one. I came a little too late, they had already run out of lights, but the scene was still crazy.
People snagging lights and helmets in front of the library
Luckily my buddy Raf was able to nab one, so he gave me his old light which is exactly the same, only with a North Face sticker so it “knows.” The headlight is worth $20! I owe you a drank doo. Unluckily for me, my battery died and I couldn’t take any more pictures for the rest of the evening.
The City of San Jose was giving away free Cateye lights!
After a quick ride and a couple of grub sessions, a few of us decided to hit up Sabor, for a “doos night out” (no aero). Best decision ever. Felipe was there, so he snapped a nice lil photo for us.
The craziest doos West of North Vietnam
I had the pleasure of watching these gents take on the whole damn scene! They were handling every female in the club, on the wall, floor, ottomans shooooot. Ahhh, Tuesday nights.
Last night the group headed out to Fowler Park in East San Jose. It was actually my first time on this route, and I was pleasantly surprised by the nice neighborhoods and views on the east side. The total ride was approximately 18 miles give or take. It really sucks because all I had was my point & shoot, so the pictures didn’t come out too nice.
View of San Jose from Fowler Park
Taking a quick breather atop Fowler Park
The weather was seriously cold, and to add to that I blew yet another TWO tubes going over a fatty pothole.
Spiro invited us to go to Sabor, and then decided not to show up for his own birthday. Haha. He missed out because the whole team was working it all night long.
Tina was able to find herself a man, err World War I survivor. Good for her!
I would post the next picture in the series, but I’ll try to keep this blog safe for work.
Also had a board meeting tonight for Works, and apparently there is a chance that the gallery could move to….my building! The owner of my building, has two closed shops underneath my apartment. One is an art gallery, and the other is a wine type boutique. Neither have been open for years now. I think it would be a great opportunity for Works, and also it could help out with filling the huge void in my building. And best of all, it would be right underneath me!
The empty gallery as it currently sits....except with more junk now
I was supposed to wake up in time for the 10am train to Sunnyvale, but almost missed it due to oversleeping. Luckily Tim called me at 9:25, and I shifted into turbo mode to make it to the station on time. Haha, I am sooo dramatic.
I carpooled with Tim to San Francisco, where the 3rd annual SuperMarket Street Sweep was being held. The sweep is an alleycat race that helps benefit the San Francisco Food Bank. How does it work? Basically each rider goes around to supermarkets in the San Francisco area, and picks up the items that are listed. Each participant was given a race manifest that included two different types of races; speed, where you try to pick up the items and complete the checkpoints as fast as possible; and points, where you try to purchase as much food as you can possibly haul.
Tim, Wilson and I decided to go with the points option, simply because it would be more laid back. Maybe a little too laid back. I have a few alleycat races under my belt now, and supermarket sweep was by far the easiest one. But the whole point is to raise food for the SFFB anyway. It was fun ransacking all of the stores for items, and then piling them into a shopping cart to take out.
The sponsors for the race donated some amazing prizes and freebies. Just for showing up to race, everyone received a Crumpler Bags cellphone holster case; which I used to carry my camera. Tim went balls out towards the end, and loaded up the Timbuk2 bag that he won from Goldsprints with cans of corn. He ended up winning a North Face hat for his valiant effort.
Tim's bag filled with food for the SF Food Bank.
Dirty Dave and a few others brought cargo bikes with big ass trailers, some so heavy that they were straight oakland scraping the ground.
Bennett trying out some crazy mini geometry cross hybrid flying car bike complete HED wheels.
After the race we jetted back down to San Jose, to watch the epic Manny vs. Oscar, aka Filipino vs. Mexican boxing match at Mark’s house. It was also Matt’s real birthday, so we celebrated in true epic fashion. There was plenty of food, vegetarian and otherwise, and “specialty dranks” to go around.
Hey look at the Filipino and Mexican punching each other
Celebrating the Filipino's victory and the Mexican's loss
Wet season is upon us, but for some reason there hasn’t been much rain in California. Chances are when it does start to rain, I won’t be able to do much riding outside.
That’s where the trainers and rollers come into play. I’ve mostly been looking at rollers, since they seem to offer more benefits than trainers. They also look a lot more minimalistic, since they are low and flat.
