SF News Friday Morning’s ‘Bike Bus’ Drew More Than 100 Kids and Parents, and May Start a New Monthly Cycle One dad’s vision has turned into a pedal-powered Critical Mass for kids, as the second iteration drew more than triple the number than last month’s morning bike meetup.
SF News Well Known 86-Year-Old Cyclist Killed In East Bay Collision An 86-year-old man who was well known in the Lamorinda area for bicycling hundreds of miles every week and advocating for bike safety on the roads was hit by a car and killed on Tuesday less than a mile from his home.
SF News Busy Wiggle Intersection To Get A Self-Appointed 'Referee' Next Week Imagine the horror of being publicly shamed by a concerned citizen after blowing through an intersection on your bike along the Wiggle. Well, you won't have to imagine it much longer. Next Thursday
Arts & Entertainment Photos: The 2015 'Mission Crit' Fixed-Gear Bike Race A photo posted by Vahe Hovhannisyan (@vhpoet) on Apr 12, 2015 at 10:09am PDT "I'm still trying to recover," James Grady, who organized last Saturday's Mission Crit fixed-gear bike race, tells SFist.
SF News Of Course The Mission Gets A Fixed-Gear Bike Race This Weekend Picture a race from the Fast and the Furious. It's quick, its urban, but this time, it's on bikes. Fixies, to be exact. Also, it's street legal. James Grady is the force behind
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 1/4: Hottub/Upcycle Ball, American Made, Go Van Gogh BENEFIT: Yellow Bike Project, a volunteer-powered community bike shop, is hosting its inaugural Upcycle Ball, featuring a live performance by Hottub, and DJ sets by maus haus, DJ Deep, and Mr. Pillz. Be
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Reopening Separate Bike Lane Ahead of Schedule Good news for bicyclists navigating the bevy of Golden Gate pedestrians: the Bridge will reopen the west side bicycle throughway sometime in early to mid-September. Closed since May for retrofitting, the east side
SF News Chuck Nevius, Unlikely Bicycle Advocate, Would Like Everyone to Grow Up The Chronicle's resident sit-lie advocate and Tenderloin poo surveyor, has discovered bicycles today. And behold: "Bikes are the future" ! As it turns out, even those of you who aren't "fanatic bike messenger types"
SF News Former Professional Cyclist Goes Missing in Oakland/Berkeley Hills 29-year-old Anthony Michael Martin, a former professional cyclist, disappeared Saturday afternoon, according to friends, while bicycling in the Oakland/Berkeley hills. Ominously, his cell phone was discovered by another cyclist on Tunnel Road
SF News Kids on Bikes Take Over the Streets Today Be extra careful out there today, folks! It's the 3rd Annual Bike to School Day, in which approximately 3,000 students at more than 40 schools throughout town will be pedaling to school
SF News How The City Can Get The Most Bang For America's Cup Buck SPUR came out with a report today outlining how S.F. can use the large influx of money that the upcoming America's Cup will undoubtedly generate as an impetus to make major, much
SF News S.F.'s Most Dangerous Streets for Bikes The Bay Citizen has created a handy new interactive map pinpointing all of the reported bike accidents that occurred in San Francisco during the past two years. Crashes reported to SFPD increased from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Revel in all things dark with a night of goth/punk/psychobilly, featuring Switchblade Riot, Plan 9 (Misfits tribute act), and Blasfemme. 9 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th St)
SF News German Cyclist's Death Determined Vehicular Homicide The Examiner writes that the autopsy report investigating the death of 22-year-old visiting German student Nils Yannick Linke, who was killed in a hit and run in August, was recently released. His death
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Looks like it'll be a nice weekend. Enjoy! Saturday: Keep your wits about you at the big, annual, free Mission Creek Music Festival at McLaren Park. Put on your leather pants and let
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend It's another weekend with lots of fun daytime events. Here are a few big ones. Bonus: all of them are free! ALL WEEKEND Renegade Craft Fair Over 200 DIY artists from across the
SF News Update on Tandem Bike Hit and Run Streetsblog SF reported today that SFPD has issued a rare press release for the hit and run involving cyclist Andrew Bennett and his 4-year-old son while riding a bike with a tandem extension,
misc One of our Rare Pro-Muni Posts It's not often we get to say it, so let's relish the feeling: yay Muni! Today, Muni boss Nat Ford joined a bunch of other transit officials in making some nice suggestions for
misc Kirk Janes, RIP The name of the bicyclist killed yesterday has been released. He was Kirk Janes, founder of the American Flyer bike messenger service, and a well-known figure in the local bike messenger community. We
SF News SFMTA Wants To Know How To Better Suit Your Cycling Needs Starting tonight, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will host a series of public meetings, where your can voice your input on the proposed improvements to bicycle routes in San Francisco. (Map of
misc What Is Bicycle Gadfly Rob Anderson Doing on Bike to Work Day? Our Bike to Work Day took us down the bike lane on Alemany Boulevard -- one of the last bike lanes striped in San Francisco before the injunction against the city's Bicycle Plan.
