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Critical Mass 20th Anniversary

nospam@example.com () — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:00:55 -0700

Lots of cameras at the 20th anniversary of Critical mass in San Francisco. This video is at Grant and Market and doesn't show the whole thing, but it's 20 minutes long. It took 30+ minutes for everyone to pass, so it gives a pretty good idea of how many thousands of bikes there were. The time on the video is off by one hour. It should be 7pm, not 6pm The photos are from Justin Herman Plaza just before it began

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Critical Mass 10th Anniversary, September 27, 2002

nospam@example.com () — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:12:24 -0700

my own photos from the Critical Mass 10th Anniversary, September 27, 2002. Published for the first time, 10 years later. It will be the 20th Anniversary this Friday, September 28, 2012

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Critical Mass 20th Anniversary stickers

nospam@example.com () — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:58:31 -0700

Coming soon to a bike post near you. This one in Mid Market

San Francisco's first bike protest

nospam@example.com () — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:09:26 -0700

San Francisco originated the bike protest 'critical mass' in 1992, and September 2012 is the 20th anniversary ride

But the very first mass bike protest in San Francisco was almost 100 years earlier on July 25, 1896. This was published in the San francisco Call, July 26, 1896 and can be viewed at the Library of Congress

There's also a nice write up at The Great Bicycle Protest of 1896 (PDF) and is during the great bicycle craze of 1896

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biking for meteorites in the gold country and gold rush history

nospam@example.com () — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:13:14 -0700

Biking the South Fork of the American River Trail, hunting for meteorites in Coloma, and visiting Sutter's Mill and Placerville

With the slowly evolving quality of public transportation in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, a big question I always have is 'how far can you go without a car', either on a day trip or short weekend camping or maybe a little more, with only a bicycle

It is possible now to get to Folsom or Placerville from San Francisco without a car in four hours. This has been described a few years ago in the Bay Guardian and now there's updates.

You can take Amtrak with a bicycle from Oakland or Richmond BART to Sacramento in under 2 hours on the Capitol Corridor for 37 dollars. From there you have two choices close by in downtown Sacramento. You can take the Folsom 507 train to Folsom which has bike racks on the train (unlike Muni) or there is a commuter bus from Sacramento to Placerville on weekdays, or you can transfer at Folsom and use the Iron Point Connector to travel all the way to Pollock Pines which is at 4000 feet up in the Sierras. All of this is on El Dorado Transit You can also bike along the American River from Sacramento to Folsom. There is a bike trail the whole way

But what I did was take the train to Folsom and biked all the way up to Folsom Lake via Salmon Falls road to the Salmon Falls Bridge. The newly opened South Fork American River Trail which is the heart of gold panning country along that river and where gold was discovered in 1849. This is also the same area where parts of the Sutter's Mill meteorite exploded and landed

The South Fork of the American River get's the 1989 Marin Pine Mountain steel frame San Francisco bike messenger trash bike treatment. The same trash bike that was stolen and recovered in South of Market

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Mayor crushes cars in bike lane with a tank

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:47:40 -0700

Ah, no, this isn't San Francisco, it's Vilnius, Lithuania. Let's find out what the San Francisco mayoral candidates think about this

From the New York Times

Fed up with the number of luxury vehicles parking in a bike path along a main thoroughfare in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, the city’s mayor, Arturas Zuokas, released a video in which he uses some military-grade machinery to crush an illegally parked Mercedes Benz.
“Mayor Zuokas wanted his message to be loud and clear that the city will not tolerate brazen and disrespectful behavior by drivers who disobey parking rules,” his spokeswoman, Irma Juskenaite, told the Guardian. “The mayor hopes that he will not have to repeat his performance,” she said, “although he says that he is prepared to do so.”

Posted on the mayor’s YouTube channel and clearly staged, the gonzo public service announcement quickly struck a nerve online, drawing some to imagine their own cities’ mayors in such a role.

rad bike

nospam@example.com () — Sat, 14 May 2011 21:41:35 -0700

456 rads per minute to be exact

San Francisco bike thieves - you do not want this bike...In fact, just stay 50 feet away and you'll be just fine....yep the U-Lock, saddle bags (paniers), wheels and water bottle are contaminated too...better off to just keep walking

my new 20 year old rad bike is the hottest thing on the market....as in overheating and having a meltdown and you better run

rare bike messenger poster - russian river ride 2009

nospam@example.com () — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:07:32 -0700

The Harvey's depicted in the poster is Harvey's Place, 5th and Shipley, South of market, San Francisco, it's the official poster of the 2009 Russian River Ride, a long time tradition for bike messengers

The Senior Bike Messengers of San Francisco

nospam@example.com () — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:46:31 -0700

This little project was started partly because of this SFist article incorrectly proclaiming Junior to be the oldest bike messenger in San Francisco. The truth is that there are five bike messengers in San Francisco over the age of 60 with Junior being the youngest out of all five. Assembled in one place for the first time, here are all five of the senior bike messengers in San Francisco, starting with the oldest

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bike rack bulletin board

nospam@example.com () — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:14:41 -0700

the new phase of bulletin boards - bike racks, where you can even find health advice