Spring is the air and the rain has let up, so it’s time to dust off your smoking pipes and take your tweed out of mothballs! Put that dapper cap on your head, oil your chain, and get ready to pedal with panache!
Join us for the first SF Tweed Ride of 2010, this ride will take place in the lovely town of Berkeley, CA. The ride will be anywhere from 6-8 miles with a break midway through. We have plenty of enjoyment planned for you all including games, contests, and a special performance by the wondrous Corpus Callosum! As always, the tweed ride will end at an establishment that offers libations and cheer.
Photo of the J.D. as the fabulous Twettle, the Tweed Beetle by the excellent photographer juicyrai
Update: We will be flyering the Critical Mass on Friday Mar 26th. If you’d like to help you can print your own flyers to hand out: East Bay Spring Tweed Ride March Flyer-6up [pdf]
As no tweed outing is proper without a bit of pedaling, we will be meeting up at Dolores Park at the Bell near 19th St at the far tennis courts at 18th and Church. for an slightly abridged tweed ride at 6:30 pm. From Dolores we will pedal off through the Mission with a quick stop for libations before we arrive at 8pm for the SFBC Bike-In Movie (Parking lot across from the Good Hotel, 112 Seventh Street, at Mission).
Note, due to the need to get to the movie on time there will be no scheduled BART meet up with East Tweeds. We still would love to see all our East Tweed cousins and encourage all to show up for libations and the movie!
UPDATE: we have changed the start location to the tennis courts because the Bay Area Derailleurs Bicycle Dance Troupe has asked the dapper SF Tweed riders to be extras in a short 10-15 minute filming session with their troupe!
Tweeds of Belleville
Wednesday Sept 16th
6:30 pm — Sally forth from Dolores Park at the Bell near 19th St at the far tennis courts at 18th and Church. 7:15 pm — Libations sojourn (location TBA) 7:55 pm — Arrive for Triplets of Belleville Bike-In Movie (Parking lot across from the Good Hotel, 112 Seventh Street, at Mission)
Tweeds of Belleville Whinnying Contest
In spirit of the cyclists in Triplets of Belleville, we will be hosting a Whinnying Contest.
With prizes for both first and second place, the top horse imitators will win a beautiful canvas bag graciously donated by Minnehaha Bag Co.
Whether you choose to use it as a bicycle bag or feed bag is up to you.
We know it’s been a while but we hope to see all our tweed friends at Tweeds of Belleville!
A pursuit across the city in 6 parts on the night of Saturday, June 20th 7PM.
Wear comfortable shoes, bring water.
The city spreads out before you. Rushing from point to point, lit by the slow strobe of fluorescent buses and dark streets. Stumbling into situations for a stranger's signature. Fleeing unknown pursuers, breathing hard, admiring the landscape and the multitude of worlds hidden in it. For one night, drop your relations, your work and leisure activities, and all your usual motives for movement and action, and let yourself be drawn by the attractions of the chase and the encounters you find there.
Journey to the End of the Night is a free street game of epic proportion, presented across the city of Oakland. Players will try to make it through a series of checkpoints, while avoiding being caught by chasers, many of whom will be pursuing on bicycles. Those who fall will become chasers themselves, rising to pursue their former friends and allies.
If a nice ride in the park isn't your cup of tea, you may want to take interest in this street game. Nothing beats the rush of being corned in an ally way with 3 cyclist ready to take your beloved flag.
Not to be outdone by the Sydney counterparts, the fine folks in Canberra, Australia are having their very own Tweed Ride on June 6th.
Canberra Tweed Ride
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Canberra Tweed Ride is a short bicycle cruise of about 15km through the Civic and Inner North areas, with stops at numerous cafes and pubs along the way. Expect a leisurely pace.
Tweed Ride has no agenda except the rejection of modern cycling “style”, to wit: carbon fibre, lycra, goretex and the like. Cyclists are encouraged to dress in their finest vintage garb, if only to prevent the onset of chill from inclement weather. Prizes will be awarded for best outfit, bike and facial hair.
…Hello dapper folks of Melbourne we’re waiting on you! Oh and of course I’m sure there are folks in Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane, Hobart, Darwin, and all parts of Australia that look dashing on two wheels.
Edison may not be as impressive as modern day bicycle tricksters like Danny MacAskill but he’s way ahead of his time! Not to mention, Edison certainly has some impressive video editing skills.
Since the last SF Tweed Ride was such a smashing success, we have decided to not only plan another ride but start one of these new fangled… I think they call them Tube-Logs? Anyway, SF Tweed’s main goal will be to help spread all that is Tweed!
The SF Tweed Tube-Log will also promote Tweed Cycling events around the world and will also promote more pedestrian Tweedy events right here in the San Francisco Bay Area — such as the fabulous Prim Queer Tea. We have a number of guest writers lined up to share their expertise on:
Vintage cycloculture
Tips on proper tweed habiliments for both lads and lasses
Reviews on various tea and biscuit combinations
Showcasing of innovative tweedy bicycle contraptions (Any inventors out there with a design for a bicycle tea cup holder?)
Exposé on the ne’er-do-well tweedpunk movement
And so much more!
And of course, we be announcing the next eagerly anticipated SF Tweed Ride on this very site!
More information on the next SF Tweed Ride will be forthcoming within the next few days so follow SF Tweed via your RSS feed reader or follow us on twitter @sftweed!
SF Tweed is pleased to announce the next San Francisco tweed ride! Wednesday September 16th, we will be joining the fine chaps of the 
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