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. Since everbody is gunning for the SFBC endorsement, 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:

(Note: answers condensed for brevity's sake.)

How often do you ride a bicycle in San Francisco (for any purpose), and for what kinds of trips?

John Avalos: "Bicycles and punk rock changed my life."

David Chiu: "I ride a bicycle most days of the week. Since I don’t own a car... I know what it’s like to ride the Wiggle, Market, Valencia, Fell, Broadway Tunnel, and other main city bicycle thoroughfares."

Bevan Dufty: "I grew up in Manhattan, and never learned how to ride a bike. Though I always look forward to my tandem rides on bike to work day, my solo-cycling is limited to spin classes."

Joanna Rees: "I ride a bicycle for enjoyment with my family a couple times per month, usually through Golden Gate Park, across the Golden Gate Bridge or through the Marin Headlands."

Ed Lee: "I admit that as Mayor, I don’t get to ride my bike as much as I’d like to. Though I’m excited to start riding my electric bike more!"

Wilma Pang: "I don't own a car or a bike but I take public transportation and I walk everywhere."

Delightful, thank you Wilma.

As Streetsblog points out, two of the sixteen candidates the Bike Coalition reached out to didn't respond: Jeff Adachi and Michela Alioto-Pier. But interested cyclists (and anti-cycling hate-readers) can review the rest of the candidates' responses at SFBike.org.