Posts Tagged ‘bike’
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
This shot shows the real steep block of northbound Masonic, just above Fulton.
Dude here uses the bizarrely-wide sidewalk, the way I and most other people do. Good times:
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And you should too, that’s what I’m saying.
Now, going south on Masonic is different. You should stay on the street ’til the cross-street Turk (which has a higher speed limit than Masonic, go figure). Then you go onto the sidewalk for one block (taking care to avoid the illegally parked cars put there by area homeowners who actually own garages, go figure). Then at Golden Gate, you cross and wait for the light to turn red.
Then you have two whole blocks all to yourself, if only for a few moments
Thusly:
That’s How I Go Up Masonic, How I Come Down Masonic.
Tags: 2013, avenue, bay area, bicycle, bike, boulevard, california, cars, cyclist, down, light, masonic, red, safety, sidewalk, up
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
A quick-release skewer on your new mountain bike is a bug, not a feature:
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Tags: bicycle, Bicycle-Stealingest City in the World, bike, crime, cyclist, lock, market, sfdpd, SFPD, skewer, steal, stolen, street, theft, Wheels
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Have you seen Lebron James on a Cannondale? It’s not pretty.
So, to solve that kind of problem, here comes The DirtySixer MTB with 36 inch tires.
There it is, parked at Erin Sherbert’s favorite bike rack - it’s next to the very same rack but look how different the bikes’ tires are:
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Looking at this thing freaked, me, out.
Now myself, I’m 6 foot 1 and a ton of fun so you’d figure one of these rigs would be great for me. But no, I’m not even close to qualifying for the DirtySixer club. You gotta be like 6 foot 5 or taller to fit proper.
Perhaps District Eight Supervisor Scott Wiener could use one of these rides for Bike To Work Day 2013 tomorrow? Why not?
Oh, the expense, what must be the crushing expense. I can only imagine what the MSRP is. That’s real titanium for the frame, BTW.
Now myself, I’ll have to make do with the MTBs sold for $200-something at the Marin Bikes Warehouse at 7th and Folsom in SoMA. (Fulton Street in 1st gear: Fuck, why can’t 1st gear be lower? Broadway Tunnel eastbound (scary scary): Fuck, why can’t 21st gear be higher? It’s like I’m being punished by Shimano for not spending enough or something.)
Anyway, contact Dave French if you’re interested.
All the deets.
Tags: 2013, 36 inch wheels, Bicycle Fabrications, bicycles, bicyclke, big, bike, BikeRadar, Black Ghost Electric Bike Car, ChoiceCollective, cyclkists, Dave DirtySixer French, Dave French, david, David French, dirty sixer, dirtysixer, district eight, erin sherbert, Examiner, frame, Freeride Entertainment, huge, Kappius Components, Kickstarter, Lebron James, mountain, mtb, mydutchbike, NuVinci, Octoly, Revolution MTB Magazine, Roll San Francisco, Scott Wiener, Supervisor, tall, tall guy big wheel, The SandBox Warehouse, tires, titanium, Topolino Wheels, Velo Cult Bike Shop, Wheels, yard
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
Near 5th Street:
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What’s that., you just paid over $1000 for your ride and now it’s being traded around like it’s a $20 bill?
Yep.
Sorry.
Oh wait, if your stolen bike is a Bianchi, its street value is more than $20.
As always, Biacnhis Cost Extra, just as IRL.
Tags: 2013, bay area, Biacnhis Cost Extra, bianchicurrency, bicycles, bike, bikes, california, homeless, San Francisco
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Monday, April 29th, 2013
I’m not finished yet.
Look at this official Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff car. What powers it? Gasoline. Evil, evil gasoline.
Now let’s leave aside the half-assed parking job directly in front of the latest Polk Great Streets Complete Streets “Improvement” Meeting. Oh wait, let’s not. Parallel parking involves being parallel, right? Work on that, BAAQMD. And should you have left your ass hanging over the official SFMTA red zone? Have you no respect for The Law, BAAQMD?
Hey BAAQMD, where’d you come from to get to the corner of Bush and Polk? Tell me and I’ll then tell you which crappy SFMTA bus line you all could have used to get to the meeting. I myself came up Sutter from the office ’cause it’s relatively flat. See? I’m loaded with info!
Conveniently using one of the many parking spaces it wants to eliminate in the Polk Corridor. Let’s call this shot The High Cost of Free Parking:
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Hey BAAQMD! Do you pay the meters when you park you gasoline-powered cars about town on the weekends? I think we had a big deal about this issue just last year, right? Oh no, you just leave the meter flashing EXPIRED EXPIRED while you tend to your bidness for hours? OK fine.
Oh well.
The BAAQMD isn’t an Air Quality Management program, it’s a jobs program.
It’s a jobs program for the people who work for … the BAAQMD.
Just saying.
Tags: 2013, ay Area Air Quality Management District, BAAQMD, bay area, bicycle, bike, bush, california, Complete, hybrid, meeting, meter, parking, Polk, prius, San Francisco, SFMTA, spaces, st., street, toyota, unpaid, white
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Friday, April 26th, 2013
OMG, would you look at this?
I mean check out all these deadly, beastly automobiles parked on Polk, the very same street that the SFMTA is trying to “complete” don’t you know:
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I know, why don’t you take out all these spaces and replace them with a separated bike lane or something, SFMTA?
After all, Transit First, right?
Oh, what’s that? These are the spaces that the Board of Supervisors and their aides park in for free every day so that’s where you just happened to end your campaign of completion?
But don’t you care about safety, SFMTA?
Mmmmm….
“This project seeks to implement aesthetic and safety improvements for all users of Polk Street between McAllister and Union Streets. In accordance with the City’s Transit First policy, improvements will primarily be focused on people who walk, use transit and ride a bicycle along Polk Street. The project is funded by Proposition B General Obligation Bonds and is part of an overall citywide effort to curb pedestrian and bicycle collisions and to provide a safe north-south connection for people on bicycles. Pedestrian and bicyclist collision and injury data on Polk Street point to a corridor in need of safety improvements for all those who share the road. In fact, the southern portion from Sacramento to McAllister Streets is part of the 5% of San Francisco streets that have more than half of the City’s most severe pedestrian collisions.”
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Friday, April 26th, 2013
Organizing people to support whatever the SFMTA wants to do? Yes.
Now, does the SFMTA give lots of money to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition?
Yes, certainly.
So what does all that money buy?
It buys this kind of thing:
The SFMTA has just announced it will be holding the third official Polk Street Improvement project meeting series on Saturday, April 27 from 10 am to 1 pm and Tuesday, April 30 from 5 to 8:30 pm at 1300 Polk St (at Bush) at the First Congregational Church Fellowship Hall. Please take a moment to read what’s at stake at these meetings. For a year, the SFMTA has conducted widespread community outreach and has developed proposals that will address the urgent safety needs on Polk Street (where once a month someone on a bicycle AND walking is involved in a collision).
If you support safety improvements to Polk Street, it is critical that you attend one or both of these SFMTA Community meetings on April 27 or 30 and speak up for the improvements proven to make biking and walking safer and bring more people to a commercial corridor.
RSVP below so we know that we can count on you to come to the April 27 or 30 SFMTA Community meetings to speak up for safety on Polk Street:
Polk Street Meetings RSVP
The SF Bicycle Coalition wants to know that you will attend the SFMTA meetings on Saturday, April 27th from 10 am to 1 pm and/or Tuesday, April 30th from 5pm-8:30 pm in support for safe biking and walking on Polk Street. Both meetings — hosted by the City, not the SF Bike Coalition — will be at 1300 Polk St (at Bush) at the First Congregational Church Fellowship Hall.
* Required
Now, could the SFMTA drum up support directly?
I don’t think so. BART, for instance, got in trouble for doing this type of stuff.
But what’s the difference if the SFBC functions as an arm of the SFMTA?
Hey SFMTA, what’s sample bias? Is it this?
“The SFMTA is looking to get input on how the proposed options for Polk Street meet your needs when you’re traveling on Polk Street. Click here to take SFMTA’s survey. and speak up for safety improvements that matter most.”
I think so. Let me Google that for you.
And actually, all the polling you do has sampling bias. Did you know that, SFMTA?
Maybe you don’t:
“Officials seemed taken aback by the anger at the Middle Polk Neighborhood Assn. gathering. Every seat in the Old First Presbyterian Church’s community room was filled. The crowd stood several deep along the walls and spilled out into the corridor.Audience members jeered when Edward D. Reiskin, the city’s transportation director, couldn’t say how many of the 320 curbside parking spots along Polk could be taken out under the plan. “I don’t have that data,” he said to loud boos, before going with “something like 170″ maximum. The response from the crowd was more of the same.”
All right, SFMTASFBC. Enjoy your staged meetings on April 27th and 30th!
Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle, bicycle coalition, bike, bus, businesses, california, CEO, ed reskin, lanes, Muni, Neal Patel, parking, Polk, polk street, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, save, sfbc, SFMTA, space, spoaces, street
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Look at them all go:
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Remember, Cyclists Alway Have the Right Of Way.
Oh wait a second, I just made that up. It’s not correct. I’ll fix my error by telling you I was wrong.
What I meant to say was Pedestrians Always Have the Right Of Way.
Oh wait, that’s wrong as well.
The SFBC knows by now that their statement is wrong but they still have it up on their website?
Yep.
What they should have done is had a lawyer do their bikelaw page.
Oh well.
Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle coalition, bicycles, bike, california, cyclists, fell street, lane, lanes, salmoning, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, san frtancisco bicycle coalition., sfbc
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Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Thusly:
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
All right, camera right shows a light-colored Chevy properly waiting at the red arrow light to turn from westbound Fell onto southbound Masonic. The confused driver is in the blue two-door Honda – she wants to make the same turn to get from NoPA to SoPA but she’s in the wrong lane.
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Of course back in the day, the Honda driver would have been driving properly but things changed at this intersection about a half-decade back. Check it. Anywho, she sat there waiting to turn left even though she had a green to proceed straight on Fell Street.
That pissed off the driver of the car behind her, so then its driver is all “hoooooooooonk!” You know, at the Blue Honda Chick.
She doesn’t budge ’cause she knows she wants to turn left, you know, from the wrong lane.
Oh, here she goes, around the Chevy:
Now all that honking attracted the attention of the Park Station police, who also made an illegal left from the wrong lane in order to follow the blue Honda driver onto southbound Masonic. Here they are near Oak:
The moral of this story is that drivers will never get used to this unique intersection set-up. The reason being is that the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition overruled the traffic engineers who originally had cars on Fell turning left at the beginning of the green light phase for Fell Street. But you see, that had car drivers “going first.”
Oh well.
On It Goes…
And oh, what you’re supposed to do when you mistake driving is to just go with it, go with the flow. You know, respond to stimuli. So like if you’re in the westbound lane and you have a green to go straight then you should go straight for a while EVEN THOUGH THAT”S NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW. Obliviously, you can’t just make up your own traffic rules…
Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle coalition, bicycles, bike, california, citation, cops, cyclists, dept., fell, golden gate park, illegal, intersection, lane, left turn, liight, msonic, NOPA, officers, panhandle, Park station, peds pedestrians, police, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, sfbc, signal, street, ticket, traffic
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