‘Bikes’ Archive

Silk Route

Jonny and I have long been fans of the like-minded folks over at the Tour d’Afrique, so we were pretty darn excited when we found out they were fans of ours, as well.
Turns out this very blog has been on their radar, and they wanted to know how much it would cost to tell people [...]

All you naysayers can spend $6 and read my riotous words

That’s me! That’s me! I’ve written an awesome interview with Evan P. Schneider, the awesome editor of the awesome “Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac.”
Buy a copy now and save it for your great grandkids! Send it to me for a real live autograph! Or just read it, cause it’s great.
Here’s another teaser (without the vowels removed):
…Is [...]

the BFF is my new BFF

The Bicycle Film Festival is always awesome, but I was really excited about it this year. A week before the event, an email from Brendt, the big papa of the BFF, mentioned that, to kick off the festival, Blonde Redhead would be playing at the Independent. Sweet! A little NYC goodness in SF! The email [...]

How janky is your bike?

Smart guy and official Brit (he adds U’s and E’s to all sorts of words that would be fine without them) makes some awesome fake-rust stickers, the better to make your bike look a little jankier, and less appealing to thieves. Brilliant!

All you haters can read my wikipedia entry for Awesome (the cat), except that those bastards at Wikipedia deleted it prontospeed

Awesome (the cat)
-Summary
-Awesome’s story
-Childhood, and gender revelation
-Feline adolescence
-Supposed abandonment
-Blatant falsehoods
Summary
Awesome the cat is a rugged beast who roams the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, DC, particularly Kilbourne and 18th streets. He has exceptionally thick black fur, with white spots on his feet, chest, and stomach. His whiskers are unrivaled, his tail is elephantine, and his [...]

Take THAT, Alcoholics Anonymous!

ZPG is biggering and biggering: more shops, more merch, more fun.
I’m most excited about new “53 miles per beer” stickers, and, at long last, “53 miles per burrito” patches.
Tell your friends Santa just woke up from hibernatation, went on a bender, shaved his head, got a skanky tattoo, and traded in his sleigh and [...]

Jonny, where do you get all of your rhetorical questions?

First the news, then the less-outrageous fun.
Some video-game designer made a video about a proposed law in Idaho that would allow bikers to treat stop signs like yield signs, which seems strange because it’s the hicks who shoot up the signs, not the bikers, but maybe things are different in Idaho.
It looked like one of [...]

I told you they were evil

from the NYTimes, 2/10/09

what's on your bag this Xmas?

The holidays are coming, and what’s on your bag? A bunch of tiny buttons? Some measly patch that you can’t see if you’re more than 4 inches away? A dim red blinky light? Or, worse, is your bag NAKED?
Show off your stuff with a bumongous ZPG patch! (Beer + mullet not included.)
[photo of me (left) [...]

a weekend full of bike love

Twas a weekend of bike-related fun… On Saturday, 150 people came out and rode in the 3rd annual Supermarket Street Sweep, and ended up collecting circa 2,000 pounds of food for the San Francisco Food Bank. Just before 4pm, Dave rolled in with 586 cans of food on his bike trailer, and 5 minutes later, [...]