It’s less than a week before our favorite city-wide event, CicLAvia, once again comes to town. At the studio, we’re gearing up with one of our favorite shop additions to date…these hand painted bicycle bells that just beg to be taken for a ride outside!

Painted and then baked, all of these bells are fresh out of the oven and covered in yummy bright colors.

Watermelons… yummy.

How about an orange to wake up your eyes?

We all scream for ice cream!

Get your just desserts; check out our hand painted bike bells on poketo.com.

Hope everyone had a great, long MLK weekend. It was perfect and sunny 80 degrees or so in Los Angeles. Yes, this is what winter can be like in LA…. rain like cats and dogs one week and then be gorgeous and bright the next. All we could think about was getting outdoors… we picked up Angie’s bike from the good folks over at Orange20 bike shop. Their staff is knowledgeable, have a keen aesthetic, and are super nice. We highly recommend them.

Geoff McFetridge for Orange20

Angie was super stoked on her new, old school ride…. steel frame, flat bar for a chill ride, shifters on the frame, and a Brooks saddle that makes the whole thing pop. Weekend rides to Pasadena and Burbank this weekend, both through dedicated paths- the LA River Bike Path and Arroyo Seco Bike Trail- Yes, even LA has dedicated trails!

Lots more to go before LA becomes truly bike friendly, but, little by little we see improvements every year. The next CicLAvia is on April 10th… this is when the streets of LA are closed to cars for bikers, pedestrians, and anything without a motor. The goal for LA really would be to move beyond special bike only days and truly make the entire city more commuter bike friendly- wider bike paths, dedicated trails, an overall safe zone for bikers throughout the city. Even our ride yesterday through Burbank, there was a three plus mile stretch of trail on Chandler Street in the middle median divider. What a great idea, instead of dead concrete medians that separates lanes, how about a bike/walk/rollerskating lane!

If you follow us on Twitter, you know we were in New York last week for the ice cream meet up. You also know that our baggage got lost in the the myriad tunnels and caverns of the airport system, with our precious camera inside. Luckily, we got everything back in one piece. Here are some super sweet photos of friends that came out to the Poketo ice cream meet up in Brooklyn. It was awesome seeing y’all! For those that couldn’t make it, we’ll be throwing a killer party next month. No need to be shy, Karaoke Dance Party II is coming! If you weren’t there last year, you need to be there this year! Stay tuned for details.

Artist James Gulliver Hancock and singer/songwriter, Lenka.

Poketo for Target artist, Mike Perry and Josh Cochran.

Designers Anna and Sean of Substudio. Dig the Poketo x Target goodies there guys!

Howard and fashion designer, Titania Inglis.

Former interns at Poketo, Lauren and Mingzi! Mingzi just graduated from RISD, Lauren just finished up another internship at Pentagram Design.

Thanks to everyone that made Poketo at Target Day a very fun day. Angie had a blast in NYC, caught up with tons of new and old friends, and the free ice cream went in a snap. Los Angeles was a blast, thanks to everyone that came out and enjoyed the beautiful day with us.

And thank you to all of the organizers that dotted the country for your wonderful photos and organizing your own Poketo at Target Day meet ups! It put a smile on our face to see the awesome pics! Here are some below from LA, NYC, Allie and Gabby from Texas, Raul from San Diego, Zelina from Northern California, and Rachael from Virgina. We are waiting for more pics from our other organizers, will post more as they come in on and you can see even more at facebook.com/poketo.

Colin and Shiho.

Thanks to the Mondette.com crew for making it out!

Melissa Contreras of Axelhoney, one of the Poketo for Target artists, is a little ice cream shy.

Emily from Tokidoki sharing the love.

Ellen and Terrence!

Digging the sunny LA ice cream.

Beth and Tim, the raddest, nicest people from Lake Street Creamery Ice Cream Truck. You need to follow them now!

This from blogger Vanessa of beetgoeson blog in NYC. Unfortunately, Angie was busy talking and not taking too many pics. But, it was good to know that artists James Gulliver Hancock, singer Lenka, artists Damien Correll, Poketo for Target artist Mike Perry, Anna at Substudio, and many many friends came out.

I love these photos from Allie and Gabby from San Antonio, Texas. They had some fun in the store, modeling practically everything, check out all of the photos here.

Raul from San Diego… a long time Poketo fan represented big time and made a video. Check it out below. We love fan videos.

Rachael from Virgina organized a meet up in her hometown of Williamsburg, love this shot eating Silvia Portella’s Poketo for Target design!

Zelina sent some adorable pics of her meet up in Richmond, CA. View them all here

View them all and more at facebook.com/poketo. Like us, join us, fan us there!