If there's one thing local cyclists wear on their sleeves more than Chrome sacks, it's their victimization. And rightfully so. Some people, whether on foot or in car, are not so nice to cyclists. Here's another teardrop to add to bikers' river of pain: The Mission police station recently posted video of a louse stealing a bicycle right in front of the Walgreens at 30th and Mission streets. How rude. more ›

A wayward teenaged Jesus heads East, lovelorn bike enthusiasts pair up, and an award-winning quarterly magazine showcases the best work by world-renowned photojournalists. more ›

Mission Bicycle recently unveiled via Facebook a bicycle for children named after the area's neighboring 'hood, Noe Valley (a neighborhood stereotypically teeming with families and lesbians and lesbians with families) called "The Noe." Cute, right? Well, according to the Mission Bicycle employe SFist spoke with today, it's a joke. Said employee claimed it was a potshot at poor, innocent Noe Valley. Heh. Then again, the Mission District also bubbles over with, dare we say, native Latino kids residing in many, many parts of the Mission. But that's... well, it's not something any self-respecting Zeitgeist-going, Brian Wilson beard-growing, Tartine-queuing young adult chooses to think about too much. Kills the magic, you know? more ›

In this our modern age where Gen X and Gen Y fight over aesthetic and street credibility (hint: Gen Y wins, but only because they have youth on their side), fixed gear bicycles have typically signified the presence of a hipster during this war. What is a fixed gear bike, you ask? Well, a "fixe" will only allow a cyclist to ride using a single gear and the only way to brake the bike is to pedal backwards to skid the bike to a stop. They're also more pleasing to the eye than, say, a Schwinn ten-speed—is that still a thing?—which could be the main reason why so many young chic freaks enjoy riding the dangerous yet unfairly maligned bike. more ›

Christopher Evans, as known as DJ Toph One, sits in the Intensive Care Unit at San Francisco General Hospital with a broken pelvis. The well-known DJ fell victim to a hit-run while riding his bike after midnight Sunday at the corner of Ocean and Geneva near City College. The driver took off. And now a noteworthy DJ, one who's been on the scene for years and pleasing your drunk ass on the dance floor, needs your help. It's time to give back. more ›

A little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, a four-door Toyota sedan hit a cyclist riding at 17th and Valencia streets. "The full extent of the bicyclist's injuries was not immediately known," reports BCN (via SF Examiner). "[T]he victim was in pain but conscious and talking when emergency crews took him to the hospital." more ›

Mission Mission brings word that Martha Stewart, one of the most critical yet underrated philosophers in these our modern times, fell prey to San Francisco's sensitive cycling community over the weekend. It seems that, while shopping at Paxton Gate's Curiosities For Kids on tony Valencia Street, the (wrongfully!) convicted inside trader/domestic thinker parked her presumably gorgeous vehicle in the bike lane for a scant, very necessary five minutes. more ›

Infamous for their lack of vehicular finesse (and numbers), taxicabs will now be allowed to legally use bike lanes to pick up and drop off passengers. more ›

Two male juveniles riding bicycles shot a 15-year-old boy in the city's Mission District just before 10:30 p.m. last night. The teen was whisked away to a nearby hospital where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. more ›

Bicyclists. They ruin everything. Like, for example, your morning commute. As the SF Examiner dutifully points out, a heated round of words between a bicyclist and a Caltrain conductor delayed service by a shocking 10 minutes this morning. "Police were called to the San Carlos station around 9 a.m. The bicyclist was reprimanded for riding on the platform, which is prohibited, and got into it with the conductor." more ›

Mission Local has proof--proof!-- that cyclists are all evil. As you very well know. So much so that they continue to ride on city sidewalks, especially in the city's elite Mission district. Brace yourselves: more ›

When it comes to bikes, anyway. From the New York Times' report on Fixies in Paris: more ›

In a move that surprised absolutely nobody, the San Francisco Bike Coalition endorsed visibly progressive candidate John Avalos for San Francisco mayor. In a press release sent out to media, SF Bike Coalition beams, "As an avid cyclist who regularly commutes to work on his bike, Avalos believes that improving the bike infrastructure in the city will reduce traffic and pollution, increase physical activity and provide people with a viable transportation alternative." more ›

This nifty infographic (which you can click to enlarge) comes from the Christensen Law Firm ("Utah's bicycle lawyers"). It uses data from the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute; Bicycle Safety Almanac's statistics on safety, fatalities, and injuries; bicyclinginfo.org; Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's bicycle fatality facts 2008; and the American Academy of Family Physicians Bicycle-Related Injuries sheet. more ›

The San Francisco Bike Coalition, one of the city's most notorious political factions, recently posed a list of 23 questions for a gaggle of San Francisco mayoral candidates to gauge everything from their personal interest in riding a bicycle to how each candidate sees the city moving forward with new bike-friendly infrastructure. Sonce everyone is gunning for the SFBC endorsement here, many of the answers are standard boilerplate (of course everyone supports new bike lanes), but the responses to the first question, reprinted below, are delightful on their own: more ›

Granted. We're supposed to boycott mega-chain store Target for... wait, are we still supposed to be shun them? It's so hard to keep track here in San Francisco. We need some sort of multi-tabbed Excel spreadsheet to keep track of what corporate American cog we're supposed to boycott or not. So confusing. Whatever. Because we'd be fibbing if we said we weren't slightly giddy about the impending Missoni collection heading to your closest anti-gay Target store. ("Misso-who?" Google it, o' richly-texted DIY one.) more ›

Fans of alternative transportation just got a new way to catch their flights out of SFO: a new bike lane has popped up along McDonnell Road, leading right up to the terminal at San Francisco International. While you stand there wondering whether people are really donning their helmets and tossing suitcases in to bike baskets, intrepid bicycle commuter (and SFist commenter) John Murphy has given the new lanes a test drive and has some feedback to share with the bike activists over at Streetsblog. Observe: more ›

Similar to the way electric cars have regenerative breaking, the very attractive Maxwell von Stein, 22, a graduate of The Cooper Union, invented a bike that harnesses your pedaling power. His beta bicycle uses a flywheel (pulled from an old Porsche) spinning between the crossbars to create energy. According to NPR's Science Friday, "The flywheel stores the kinetic energy until Max wants a boost, then he can transfer the energy back to the wheel using a shifter on the handlebars." more ›

Dionette Cherney, the 67-year-old woman critically injured on July 15 after being struck by a bicyclist in a crosswalk at Mission Street and The Embarcadero, died this morning. "Police were called to the intersection around 8:30 a.m. and found the woman suffering from a life-threatening head injury," reports SF Appeal. "An investigation revealed that the bicyclist had run a red light, hitting the woman as she was crossing the street legally." Though the cyclist was questioned before being released, he could (and should) face the same charges that would be befall to a regular driver. more ›

Citing "quicker bus service" as the main reason, a portion of McAllister Street between Hyde and Market will go into two-way traffic mode "after previously only allowing westbound traffic." The change will go into effect on Thursday morning. more ›

Nancy Ho, the 25-year-old helmetless cyclist who was crashed into a truck at Fremont and Mission on Tuesday morning, succumbed to her injuries and died. If you recall, "Nancy Ho, of San Francisco, was traveling east on Mission Street when she was struck by a westbound Berkeley Farms truck as she turned left onto Fremont street around 8 a.m." Even though Ho and the driver saw a green lights ahead of them, "she was making an illegal left turn." [SFAppeal] more ›

SFPD issued a correction to their original report regarding this morning's Embarcadero bike-truck crash, saying that the cyclist actually suffered life-threatening injures. (The initial report listed her dead.) Also, it seems that a minor traffic violation on behalf of the cyclist prompted the unfortunate scenario. According to surveillance footage, she had been pedaling east on Mission Street and was hit by the westbound truck as she turned left onto Fremont Street. "Both the truck driver and the bicyclist had a green light, but the bicyclist was making an illegal left turn," SFPD reports. more ›

A cyclist was killed injured this morning after colliding with a truck at the intersection of Fremont and Mission. The incident happened a little after 8 a.m. Update: SFPD issued a correction, saying, "The victim's status is currently life threatening at the hospital. Earlier we reported the victim was deceased. Our apologies for the misinformation. It is important that we correct the status." more ›

A careless bike rider speeding at Embarcadero and Mission Street in San Francisco this morning ran a red light and hit a pedestrian. The Chronicle reports: "The victim, who is in her 60s, was crossing the Embarcadero in a crosswalk with the green light at Mission Street when she was hit by the northbound bicyclist at about 8:30 a.m., said Officer Albie Esparza, a police spokesman." more ›

Just what we've always expected, driving in a 2011 BMW X5 is safer and healthier than riding your bike along city streets. According to the Chronicle, "A new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives showed a link between biking in heavy traffic and heart health risks, with cyclists having heart irregularities in the hours after their exposure to a variety of air pollutants on busy roads." Kind of like how being behind the trigger it safer for you than being in front of the barrel. Got it. more ›

Cyclists have even more reason to relish perceived victimization today -- oh, we kid! -- after the SFMTA stripped plans for bike lanes on busy Cesar Chavez. What? Mission Local reports: "The cause of the abrupt change of plan, said David Beaupre, planner for the Port of San Francisco, was lack of communication between groups working on different transportation plans for the city. 'We realized as a city family we weren't communicating with each other,' Beaupre said, addressing a group of planners and community members. 'This may be kind of confusing to the public, but we're one city.' " In addition to being a major inconvenience for cyclists? It was a major waste of money. Ugh. Read all about it. [via SFGate] more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a gunman on a bicycle shot two teenage boys during a ride-by shooting in broad daylight in the Bayview. The victims, aged 16 and 17, were at the intersection of Third Street and Palou Avenue around 2:30 p.m. when the cycling psychopath pedaled by and opened fire before using his wheels to flee the scene. more ›