The San Francisco Citizen

Today’s Pandhandle Bike Swap and Summer Party had a huge turnout with hundreds of cyclists doing all sorts of things. Check it out here.  

The First Annual Dustin Long Tubeball Toss was a smash success:

What’s a tubeball? This is. It’s surprisingly heavy:

At the end of the day, people pedalled off with bike frames, tires and wheels.

See you next year!

Cycles of Change Bike Benefit Party and Swap Meet

Sun., Aug. 17 | 12-5pm, Panhandle blacktop, corner of Masonic and Fell

Come out on Sunday for a day of bike-related fun! Cycles of Change and a few of your local SF cyclists are putting together a bike benefit party promoting the organization. Cycles of Change is an East Bay cooperative that builds bikes for kids and teens and promotes bicycling as a more viable form of transportation. Donate your old bike parts to help CoC continue to assemble more bikes for children. Come for a the big bake sale, fun game events (like Chainring toss) and swap meet with fellow SF cyclists. For more information, please visit www.summerbikeswap.blogspot.com

The Senior Action Network reminds us:

According to the City Traffic Code Article 5, Sec. 96, it shall be unlawful to ride a bicycle upon any sidewalk area, except juveniles under the age of 13 and not in front of schools, stores, or buildings used for business purposes.

To get the word out, they’re back with their sidewalk stencils. Take the bike survey, if you dare.

McAllister and Van Ness, San Francisco

Here’s what’s missing in your life - bicycles from Cadillac or Lamborghini. Get yours from Amazon or the Costco today!

Now when you drive your Lamborghini, you won’t need to stop for petrol. And you can be assured that your bike is the Cadillac of Bikes. But as the Cadillac Man says:

“Our target customer is someone not necessarily bicycle-brand conscious, but brand conscious.”

Oh, snap! That kind of sounds like an insult.

randomduck via Flickr 

Perhaps your new Caddy won’t give you the street cred you so richly deserve, but these branded bikes seem to offer a nice alternative to spending 400 bones at Valencia Cyclery. Actually, it seems that these two-wheelers are all sourced from Taiwan, or China (or one of the Chinas anyway), so prices seem fairly reasonable.  

Plus, you can get a back rest (just like an office chair!) for the saddle of your full suspension ride. Wouldn’t that impress everyone at the next Urban Bike Training session put on by the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition?

Some fixed gear bike riders have it tough because they don’t have brakes on their bikes. So when they have to stop on the bottom of an incline they need to skid their rear tires. This leaves a loooong skid mark on the pavement, as you can see. 

Take a look at this awesome video here to get the idea. Some rydahs run into trouble though - like Tony here, who was “surprised” to encounter a bus, at a bus stop, on a bus route, in Manhattan.

Let’s be careful out there:

“The EMT said if it wasn’t for my dreads, I would have had a massive concussion“

We’ll close with Morrissey’s thoughts on the matter:

“No brakes, I don’t mind.”