Racing around San Fran

Thing's've been a little hectic (not to mention new environment, new friends and a wee bit of sickness.... bleah) but back to the blog!

On Sunday we took a day off. A few of us rode around with Shawn from 5lowershop and Duchy and Max (Duchy's dog). There was a song: girls on bikes, girls on bikes, girls on bikes, and Duchy and a dog (and Shawn). We rode to the Ace Junkyard where Cyclecide keeps their shit and Laird (the bugle guy from the Tour de Fat Post) showed us around. Then we kidnapped him and made him get coffee and food with us. After that, Laird said goodbye and Duchy took us to a jetty on the bay where we played ball with Max, then we went to the Box Shop (the place where a lot of Burning Man art gets made) and finally to Deige's place (a rad female artist making a mural overlooking a community garden in the projects) before returning to 5lowershop.

We tried to find a party, but it turned out to be at our home base: two bands and some DJs and a pair of double dutch ropes. A bunch of 'kettes learned to jump and Lulu tried to strip while jumping but it didn't quite work that way. Standard D, Crush and Sweetpea climbed up to the lottery sign but Sweetpea got all scraped up.

On Monday we took it easy as well, just a short meeting about the upcoming performances. Afterwards I took off with Xian (Bike Farm) to the Cyclecide junkyard to see the Nutstrippers rehearse, then to bike polo (played one game, my first, I', not very good but managed to learn to grab the fence and run over my own mallet without falling... even hit the ball a couple of times!). After that we got pizza and went to ArtSF (this rad collective gallery space that's also having a party on Friday... it's a benefit. Landlord issues) where we played with a slack line, and juggled. Then back to the 5lowershop.

Yesterday I was sick with the head flu (eugh) so I'm not completely caught up with everything. M.I.A.'s supposed to be doing a show in Berkeley on Saturday so we're trying to tell her about our Critical Mass thing.... wish us luck!