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This bike gang was the best thing to come out of my June trip to the Anjou Vélo Vintage. (Besides the hundreds of cycle chic pictures.) I'm so lucky to have spent a long weekend in France in the company of people who love bikes as much as I do. Meet Gang Mélange Japonais, named in honor of Jenni Gwiazdowski and our favorite French snack...

photos by Kelly This past June I found myself on a vintage bike ride through the Loire Valley region of France: the Anjou Vélo Vintage. Along with my good friend Kelly, her French boyfriend Sebastien, Jenny and Peter from the London Bike Kitchen, and about 2,500 other well-dressed cyclists. Despite quaffing obscene amounts of the delicious local champagne sparkling wine the night before, our...

I've traded in rainy France for rainy England. After consuming heroic amounts of sparkling rosé, it's a nice to rest the palate with some delicious English ales. Not that people in England let a drizzle slow them down, but life in the countryside is a bit sleepier. And I've been able to start going through my pictures from the Anjou Vélo Vintage. I have...

On July 28th we grabbed our warm layers and suited up for the first official San Francisco Tweed Ride in nearly two years. It had been so long since the last Tweed ride that when the e-mail arrived, I had forgotten ever signing up for the blasted thing. No, Sir, I thought to myself, I want none of your muted woolens as I wear only...

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' new cd, The Heist, will be in stores October 9, 2012.  I've shopped at thrift stores for second-hand clothes ever since I was a tiny child and I've never stopped. As a teenager I used to take the train up to San Francisco to visit Clothes Contact on Valencia St.