Arts & Entertainment Weekend Events: Fairs and Festivals Another weekend full of fun events is soon upon us. FuncheapSF and The Squid List have exhaustive lists, and here are a few highlights. ALL WEEKEND: 59th Annual San Francisco Juneteenth Parade and
SF News Fixie Rider Injured This just in from the SFBike mailing list. Does anyone know if this guy is OK? No Darwin jokes please. Park Station Officers responded to Divisadero and Golden Gate Ave with regard to
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Bike to Work Day Today was a great day for biking. Did you participate? How was it?
Arts & Entertainment Bike to Work Day Is Almost Upon Us Tomorrow's the 15th Annual Bike to Work Day! Cycling activists anticipate 150,000 participants tomorrow. If we had a bike and worked at an office, we would most certainly be participating. Also, if
SF News SFUSD Wants Kids to Bike to School Happy Critical Mass Friday, y'all. Here's some happy bike-related news for you: The San Francisco Unified School District is encouraging students to cycle to school. SFUSD and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition have
SF News Market & Octavia Bike Lane Removal Request Denied by Judge The controversial plan to remove the bike lane at Market & Octavia was denied by Judge Peter Busch. At least for now. According to Streetsblog: In a hearing that lasted for more than
SF News Something Happened... But What? When we see five police cars, half a block cordoned off by crime scene tape, and a bicycle laying in the street, we think, "this can't be good." Photo snapped at 20th &
misc Levi en Oro Poor Levi! Neither the New York Times nor his hometown rag, The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, took any notice of the victory, which entitles him to wear the coveted maillot oro of the race
misc Metromint Monday Bike races are typically held in faraway places like Brisbane or France, but this is a race right here in the city. Also not to miss: the Twilight Criterium on September 13, likely
misc Traffic Woes The author of the recently published Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) is on the west coast at this very minute doing "lots of media"
misc Air Is Still Free Until we saw people gathered at Market and Duboce yesterday, hooting at passing cyclists and waving tire pumps. Was a rally mocking Obama, or mocking McCain mocking Obama? Neither -- it was the
misc The Track Bike Enters Its Ironic Phase Recently spotted on BART was this track bike with an ersatz disc rear wheel. Mismatched wheels have long been a staple of fixie style, particularly when one of the wheels is an expensive
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.
misc Welcome, Fair-Weather Commuters And now, with the arrival of the easy, sunny days of spring, you’ve joined us. And we’re happy to see you, really. It’s Bike to Work Month, after all, and
SF News Six-Year-Old Girl Run Over By Mom A young girl riding her tricycle in her Pittsburg neighborhood on the 1000 block of Muir Creek Drive was inadvertently run over by her own mother yesterday afternoon. According to the Gate, Rachel
SF News See You Later, Crater Gator Pedaling to the train station this morning, we noticed a few fluorescent additions to the asphalt: bright stencils of monstrous creatures calling attention to the various pits and potholes of Townsend Street. We
misc Death of a Prius-Eater This monster pothole lurked on Townsend Street in the shade of the ramp connecting 6th Street to I-280. Under normal circumstances, we find the shrill complaints of motorists about pavement quality to be
misc "Stupidest Bike Lane in America" Found in LA Slate magazine claims to have found the "stupidest bike lane in America"... down in LoCal, of course. We here at SFist like to think that a bike lane is a bike lane, and
misc Yield to Life Image: Adobe Tour Tracker Pro cyclist and former San Francisco resident David Zabriskie (shown above leading the chase in today's stage of the Tour of California) has announced Yield to Life, a non-profit
misc San Francisco Zoo's BikeAbout Lets You Cycle at the Zoo Our impressions, plus a closer view of what that big kitteh is eating, after the jump.
SF News What We Need Is A Bike Valet Bike valet parking is great -- but what we really need is a bike valet, someone to lay out our freshly laundered cycling duds, to provide discreet, expert service and adjustments to our
SF News Bikes on BART -- Now 1/16th Easier? According to this sign in the Powell Street station, one of the 16 posted bicycle rules has been stricken from the record. Taking a companion bicycle on BART is now 1/16th less
SF News Octavia/Market Barrier: At Last After SFist (as well as a few others) specially called for this barrier, it has done gone up. Finally. Rejoice! Way back in early '07, we reported that after January's motorist/cyclist accident,
