Limited edition Holiday 2010 53 Miles Per Burrito Tees

I like the holidays, what can I say. Twinkling lights, gifts, parasitic plants that offer an excuse to make out with someone at random. So this year, I’m not stopping with the free shipping. No way. Instead, I’m excited to introduce you to the new, limited edition holiday tee collection.

First off are the special, holiday-ish Navy and Cranberry colors–the perfect attire for your company’s black tie event (just tie an inner tube around your neck). Printed up just for the holidays, not only are these shirts a in new colors, they also were printed using a special water-based, dye removing formula. Consider it our holiday gift to mother nature (and our t-shirt printer. Plus, it results in an awesome, slightly off-white color underneath. There are close-up shots on each that really show you how cool these are. Cranberry and Navy tees are available in sizes S – XL.

And if drop bars and downtube shifters aren’t hip enough for you, our special edition fixed gear tee is hella what you need. Designed for Trickster Treat, a Halloween Alleycat in San Francisco, it features ZPG and I <3 TL (Tenderloin) spoke cards, a red toe strap, and glow in the dark aerospokes. Hot damn, that’s a fly ride. A portion of the proceeds from the fixie shirts will go to Up On Top, an after school program for disadvantaged kids in San Francisco. Sized only in M – L.

So there you have it. Order away before they’re all gone, and don’t forget to take advantage of the free shipping on orders over $30.

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But rather than dwell on federal regulations that could’ve made deep sea oil mining safer, or about how terrible BP is while filling up a thirsty tank at another oil company with an equally appalling environmental record, we need to be honest with ourselves. We have a place in this. We demanded cheap gas. We demanded our government make automobile travel more affordable–at least on the surface. We were unwilling to make sacrifices to our behaviors or to our pocketbooks to affect the change that needs to be made for a clean energy future. And for whatt? So our gas prices can remain artificially low as our taxes bankroll one of the most environmentally damaging and inefficient forms of transportation on the planet?

For an instant, America is awake to its problem. We may have a hard time realizing it all comes down to each of us as individuals, but dammit, at least right now we’re all forced to look at the grim truth. As happens with every addict, we’ve hit something close to rock bottom. So now is the time. We’ve got to sit this country down on the couch and tell her we love her but that she’s got to get help.

MoveOn is floating a petition out there to Congress and the White House asking them to accelerate the push to end our addiction to oil. I encourage you sign it. Out here in SF, there are a few events happening to grab the attention of oil-addicted drivers. But beyond the minute-long investment of throwing your name on a digital petition or whooping it up with a bunch of hippie San Franciscans, I ask you to get even more vocal in your support of the things that can get us to put down the crack pump. Let’s tell America how to get help. Even if she doesn’t want to listen.

Radical image courtesy of TheBoldItalic.com

Jonny was far too humble to post this himself, so he emailed me and had me post about it. Our very own Mr. Waldman is a legitmately trained journalist, though his battle against goats has left him out on a limb because of the goat lobby’s power among the major print shops in the nation. However, he’s got a suitably bike-related story up on San Francisco’s own independent web publication,  The Bold Italic.

The story covers streetwise Jonny’s stakeout of a bike thieving hot spot, and the noir-i-ness is palpable. So go. Palp it.