See?
I’m sure that the bike rental place at the foot of Market Street pushed smelly neon-green helmets on this gaggle of northern Europeans heading outbound, but no dice.
Those are the Euros for you. (You could say the same thing about electrified bikes (helmet use required in CA regardless of age) or mopeds or motorcycles or whatnot, right? Where’s the line?)
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For better or worse…
Dude’s all over town, day and night. He’s got a bike lock and bike lights and he uses his Segway for everything, ranging all over the Ci-tay – Western Addition, the Tenderloin, you name it.
Bumped into him at a DCCC meeting on Golden Gate one time, the one where people were all upset about the rankings of the official Democratic Party endorsements. (Turned out the rankings didn’t matter, but Malia Cohen’s #2 endorsement that night, along with a few other things, is what made her your new District Ten Supe. Anyway…)
Truly, he is the 415′s new Segway Champion of San Francisco:
Now, ponytailed lawyer guy (at least he looks like a lawyer to me) is still Segway Master of Market, so that should be some consolation. Look for him betwixt the Castro and the Financh:
Who will become the next Segway King (or Queen)?
You certainly can say bicycle riding is a la mode these days in the 415, right?
But when fashionable people start hitting the streets, they find that wearing a helmet can become a burden.
So all you can do is just sling the thing over your shoulder with all your other accessories and then ride, ride, ride.
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The Helmet Issue is a toughie for those who want a vast increase in the number of bikes on the Streets of San Francisco. In France, when a casual rider on a rental bike like a Velib gets killed for want of a helmet, people go ces’t la vie.
In America, people go to a lawyer and sue, sue, sue the city. And the county.
Oh well.
Is Bike and Roll‘s newish outlet around Embarcadero 5* the source of all those green-helmet** riders seen on Market Street these days?
Could be…
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All right, bounce, rock, skate, roll…
*Where the “revolving” restaurants no longer revolve.
**Or smellmet, that works too.
This is what you can see these days in Japantown, which is all decked out for Christmas 2010.
Buchanan Street, or what’s left of it after San Francisco’s horrible redevelopment experiment. Oh well.
Anyway, Merry Christmas!
This fellow on inline skates acquitted himself favorably while getting to work the other day.
Now, is it legal to commute to work by skating these days on the Streets of San Francisco?
Don’t know. Or maybe it’s illegal but it’s one of those Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell things.
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Certainly this would be faster than MUNI, that’s for sure…
As opposed to his current setup, which is No Brakes and Yes Helmet.
What I’m saying is that he’d be safer, and we’d be safer as well.
[UPDATE: Most likely that helmet will never do him any good. But brakes would definitely be useful at some point in his career. I know he has methods for slowing down and stopping but he doesn't have "brakes" as required in California. Most cyclists are with me on this one, but not a substantial portion of the hard core, it seems. That's O.K. If you want to change the law, then change the law, be my guest...]
Who knows, maybe he borrowed the bike for this ad, recently filmed on the Streets of San Francisco:
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Or, maybe, just maybe, someday he could afford, you know, in addition to the helmet, like brakes ‘n stuff. Perhaps a braking system on the front wheel for stopping power and another one on the rear wheel for compliance with the CA Vehicle Code?
Not saying you’d have to use them or anything, just for an emergency, let’s say.
Now, did those Research in Motion people force poor Fergus into wearing a helmet (which he’s not required by law to use in CA) and then let him get by without brakes (which he IS required by law to use in CA)? Seems bassackwards to me.
(And does he really call it “The Future Phone?” Like, “I’ll call you on my Future Phone as soon as I get back in range,” or something like that?
Anyway, enjoy your residuals and your ’Berry, Fergie.
Just saying, not to sound like a square or nothing…
(I guess you got to click on it to make it go, depends on the browser…)
[UPDATE: Oh wait, here's my bike, it has even fewer parts than your brakeless fixie. See? I mean, it's so unnecessary and impractical having spokes and hubs and chains and whatnot, so I figured I'd just get rid of them all. Like, less is more, man. And there are fewer things for people to steal now. And, naturally, I'm just a bit more pure than you, man. You just don't know what it's like until you've Gone Hubless, man.
(You can't get much cleaner than this...)]
Who needs a bus when you have a 1970 (or so) Honda 175?
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Stick It To The Man!
Here’s what’s for sale at Kinokuniya Bookstore on Post Street: Version 2 of the Sonny Angel Mini Figures series. They’re a modern take on the original kewpie doll. Collect them all.
But there’s a catch – each figure comes in a “blind box,” meaning you can’t tell which hat your adorable little angel will be wearing. Oh well.
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Take your chances, why not?
San Francisco’s Kinokuniya Bookstore at 1581 Webster Street in Japantown now has a space-faring doggie, complete with candy cane dog dish and rocket ship house.
Hopefully this pooch will last longer than Laika the Muttnik did.
