Posts Tagged ‘helmet’
Friday, April 6th, 2012
I don’t know, did Chris Bucchere’s speed going down Castro Street last week have anything to do with STRAVA?
You know, the way it had something to do with a death in Berkeley back in 2009?
You Make The Call:
Do you see the “Castro Street Descent” there? Up until March 29, 2012, that said Castro Street Bomb. Like when you go “bombing” down the street.
Check it:
I don’t know, Strava.
Care to say anything about this?
Michael Horvath
Co-Founder & CEO
Jordan Kobert
VP Business Development
Mark Shaw
VP Engineering
Rachael Parsons
VP Marketing
Greg Gretsch
Board Member
Jamie McJunkin
Board Member
Mark Gainey
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Ariel Poler
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Tags: 17th, 901, 901 Mission Street, accident, Ariel Poler, bicyckes, bikes, board member, bomb, bombing, Business Development, castro, Castro Street Bomb, Castro Street Descent, CEO, change, Chris Bucchere, co-founder, cops, crash, cyclists, da', Descent, District Attorney, engineering, founder, George Gascón, gpd, Greg Gretsch, helmet, Jamie McJunkin, Jordan Kobert, king of mountain king of the mountain, kom, Mark Gainey, Mark Shaw, market, marketing, Michael Horvath, mission, pedestrian, pedestrianist, police, posting, Rachael Parsons, SFPD, speed, strava, strava.com, street, strret, Sutchi Hui, VP
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
See how that works? You want to warn your fellow riders that there are cops handing out speeding tickets on Highway 37 (aka Sears Point Road) up there in the Great White North, so all you have to do is to tap your head in an exaggerated fashion when you see others going the opposite way.
Thusly:
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Anyway, that’s one of the codes you can transmit when you’re a cowboy, on a steel horse you ride.
Tags: 2011, arm, bay area, Behind, california, code, cops, county, hand, head, helmet, highway, motorcycle, motorcycles, Napa, Palm, police, road, San Francisco, sears point, Sonoma., speed trap, tap, tapping, Waiting
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
What’s this? People rappell down the Grand Hyatt Union Square? People do.
Those people who raise enough cash for the Special Olympics Northern California do, anyway.
See?
Via 7×7, comes news of Over The Edge 2011.
This could be you:
If you’re into this, it’s not too late to get in on the fun.
Get cracking!
Tags: 2011, 22-23, 345, bay area, building, california, down, grand hyatt, helmet, hotel, hyatt, july, july 22, july 23, Northern California, Olympics, over the edge, rappell, rappelling, San Francisco, special olympics, stockton, street, tall, union square
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Here you go. He was heading from City Hall to District 3 yesterday AM.
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He certainly doesn’t need that Trek electric bike as he typically moves along at a good clip without assistance.
Supervisor David Chiu, your working class dog betwixt an old-time streetcar and the Ferry Building:
Tags: bicycle, bike, Blue, board of supervisors, chiu, City Hall, cyclist, david, district 3, helmet, market, Mayor, pinstripe, pinstriped, president board of supervisors, street, suit
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
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…
Tags: 2011, bay area, bike, blonde, california, deaths, euro, european, europeans, euros, helmet, helmets, market, rent, rental, safety, San Francisco, street
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Thursday, January 20th, 2011
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)?
Tags: 2010, bay area, california, ginger, helmet, king, light, market, ponytail, post, San Francisco, segway, street, suit, transporter, trench coat
Posted in transit | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
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.
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, cyclists, helmet, rental, San Francisco, Velib
Posted in bikes | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
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.
Tags: 2010, 5, bay area, bicycle, bike, bike and roll, california, cyclists, downtown, Embarcadero, five, green, helmet, rent, rental, San Francisco, smellmet
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Friday, December 24th, 2010
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!
Tags: 2010, bay area, california, helmet, japantown, Kabuto, mouse, Nezumi, rabbit, San Francisco, usagi, wreath
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
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…
Tags: 2010, 5 fulton, bay area, bus, california, code, commute, fillmore, helmet, illegal, inline, legal, mcallister, mta, Muni, roller, San Francisco, SFMTA, skate, skating, street, transportation, vehicle, webster, western addition
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