People who aren't bike-oriented sometimes have a very hard time understanding that for bike-oriented people, being on the bike is not a hardshipI went to a party tonight with some work friends and had a very nice time, but did wind up bumping into this ( Read more... )

Too bad it's not a more upbeat article. Oakland: continuing the ongoing efforts to be a No Fun Zone.


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This charmer pulled the standard (and utterly pointless) "I'm going to honk while I'm behind you, then I'm going to speed up and zoom around you in the left lane, then I'll zoom back into the right lane just ahead of you and THAT'LL SHOW YOU YOU STUPID BICYCLIST!" maneuver as I was riding in to work this morning ( Read more... )

Had a run-in with a real prize of a cager this morning. I was riding up 14th Street towards Broadway when I heard a honk, pretty far back, and then with increasing volume the sound of a revving engine, clearly coming up on me at speed. Before I knew it, this scheisskopf had moved to the right, into the empty row of parking spaces, and had zoomed ( Read more... )

Despite the siren song of "so much to do!" and the influence of my introvert tendencies, I got myself out of the apartment yesterday and over to San Francisco for the Bicycle Music Festival, and I am so glad I did ( Read more... )

The San Francisco Bicycle Music Festival will be held this coming Saturday, July 31. Anyone want to go?


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While taking a break from getting ready for tomorrow's Sunday Streets SF - additional bubble-solution reservoir for bubble machine hacked together from 3/8" tubing, empty Gatorade bottle, and PVC pipe, check; bubble solution supercharged by adding glycerine, check; fresh flowers to adorn my hat and my bike, check - I was clicking through the ( Read more... )

As spiritualmonkey and I were riding along through Adams Point this afternoon, we came across a traffic obstruction, with an SUV stopped blocking the bike lane (apparently vulturing a parking space) and a bicyclist pulled up next to it, facing against traffic, having a seemingly-friendly conversation with the driver. The motor vehicle traffic was slowed at this ( Read more... )

To our great pleasure, Pirate and I have been taking advantage of my time off this past week by getting out on the bikes just about every day, including a couple of long rides: Monday we were down in Palo Alto, visiting my folks, and then yesterday we took BART out to Walnut Creek and went riding along the Iron Horse Trail and the Contra Costa ( Read more... )