Arts & Entertainment Tour S.F.'s Sewer System On Your Bike Did you know that San Francisco’s sewer system collects everything flushed down the toilet, washed down the drain and all the rainwater that falls on the city? Now, would you like to
SF News Public Nudity Fad (Finally) Coming to the Mission? San Francisco's tony (yet still gritty) neighborhood of choice, the Mission, saw a bit of the Castro drip down on it over the weekend in the form of white-hot public nudity. This nudies-on-bikes
SF News Video: Crazed Woman Attacks Bicyclists With Road Flare An obviously frustrated and possibly socially conservative female got out of her idling vehicle during Friday night's 20th Anniversary Critical Mass ride, and began stabbing willy-nilly at cyclists with a road flare. She
SF News SUV Driver Kills 12-Year-Old Girl in Novato Hailey Ratliff, a 7th-grade student at Sinaloa Middle School in Novato, died on Thursday after being struck by an SUV while riding her bike in Novato. The accident happened at around 3:15
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: Massive Critical Mass Ride Tonight Hey, guys. Just a friendly reminder that, in honor of their 20th anniversary, end-of-month bike ride Critical Mass kicks off tonight, and it's going to be a whopper. What is Critical Mass, exactly?
SF News Critical Mass Breaks Up With SF Bike Coalition Critical Mass is celebrating two decades of traffic-blocking bicycle advocacy this week, but from the sounds of this open letter from former mayoral candidate and community leader Quintin Mecke, the two decade-old bike
Arts & Entertainment Critical Mass Opens Pop-Up Merch Shop for 20th Anniversary Critical Mass: You either do it and love it, or you hate it and like to comment very virulently about how annoying it is. It's celebratory, it's rag-tag, it's kind of anarchist, and
Arts & Entertainment SFMTA Wants To Know Your Thoughts On Bike Parking "Bicycle use in San Francisco is increasing," says the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), and they would like to know your thoughts on long-term bike parking (i.e., "people who need to
Arts & Entertainment Today's Scenic Video Of Radical San Francisco Bicycling Here's Scottish trials rider Danny MacAskill, using a lovely accent to narrate a short film about himself hopping his little orange bicycle around on our city's lovely features like he's the Ewan MacGregor
SF News Marin Man Who Really Hates Plaid Pleads Guilty To Assault Eugene Thomas Anderson, 31, "took a plea deal and admitted to assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury" on Thursday in connection to a viciously vehicular sartorial and crime. On July
Arts & Entertainment Please Do Not Drive To America's Cup World Series If you plan on going to the America's Cup World Series, which starts today, please do not drive there. You won't find parking. You just won't. Instead, "walk, bus, bike or take a
SF News 'Bike Fridays' Pilot Program Allows Bikes On BART All Day Tomorrow and on each Friday in August, BART will launch a pilot program that allow bikes on board its trains at all times of day called "Bike Fridays." Which is to say, the
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Mission Bicycle Celebrates Olympic Fever The fine folks at Mission Bicycle crafted this spirited window display in honor of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Rad. The opening ceremonies are scheduled to begin today at 4 p.m on
Arts & Entertainment Don Your Finest Threads For Saturday's Summer Tweed Ride Sartorial-inclined gents and dames are encouraged to sport their kickiest tweed this Saturday for the 2012 San Francisco Summer Tweed Ride. It all goes down at 1 p.m at Justin Herman Plaza.
Arts & Entertainment Does San Francisco Need A Dutch Urban Cycling Infrastructure? By Alissa de Vogel Amsterdam is frequently and enthusiastically heralded as the best city in the world for cyclists, and for good reason. The entire city and outlying areas are covered with physically
Arts & Entertainment Important Cycling News: 9th Annual 4th of July Tricycle Races at Pop's by Alissa de Vogel The Tour de France is happening right now, but more importantly yesterday was the 9th annual 4th of July tricycle race at Pop's over on 24th and York. Unlike
Arts & Entertainment Scenes from Last Night: Quake City Rumble Goldsprints at Gestalt Haus (By Alissa de Vogel) Last night the San Francisco Bike Messenger Association hosted goldsprints to kick off this weekend's Quake City Rumble race series. Gestalt Haus was generous enough to let their space
SF News Market Street Car Ban Could Stretch From Hayes Valley To Embarcadero Three years after Gavin Newsom's hair started turning away cars on Market Street downtown, several city agencies have joined forces to eradicate automobiles altogether from Octavia Boulevard to the Embarcadero. Backed by SFMTA,
Arts & Entertainment Your Weekend Craft Project: DIY Bike Hanger Made From Repurposed Bike Parts By Alissa de Vogel Faced with an internet full of uninspired Etsy shops, we here at SFist consider ourselves fairly jaded to the twee, DIY sensibilities that seemed so unique just a few
Arts & Entertainment Lady And Man Parts Ahead: World Naked Bike Ride Photos [NSFW] Over the weekend, San Francisco hosted the annual World Naked Bike Ride. And naked it was, with private bits and pieces flopping about to and fro. But the ride is, it seems, more
SF News Reminder: Cops Now Issuing More Wiggle Tickets A friendly reminder that, as of last week, cops have started issuing more cyclists tickets on the wiggle for traffic violations like going through stop signs and other such erroneous behavior. This poor
Arts & Entertainment Mikes On Bikes Won't Happen This Year? Mikes on Bikes — a delightful response to the SF Gay Pride Parade's Dykes on Bikes, wherein (typically) local queer cyclists take to their bikes just after said lesbians jumpstart the festivities — won't be
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Ride Your Bike Like A Grown-Up By Alissa de Vogel Today we bring you the fifth (but not quite final) installment of National Etiquette Week here at SFist. So far we've provided you with helpful tips on how to
Arts & Entertainment Tips For Cyclists & Motorists On Bike To Work Day by Alissa de Vogel The San Francisco Bike Coalition's annual Bike to Work Day happens tomorrow, Thursday May 10th. With a 71% increase in commuter cycling in San Francisco over the last five
