Homeless encampment, major Japanese city, city center, down by the river:
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Note the bicycle parking area.
Cf. San Francisco homeless encampment, under Interstate I-80, Mile Zero:
Note identical blue tarps as in Japan, sourced from, for all I know, the same factory in China.
One group uses bikes to get around, like to work ‘n stuff.
The other will strip your bike of any parts not superglued on in a New York Minute, as soon as your back is turned.
Which group do you prefer?
They keep their inventory in the four giant tents you can see on this particular block of Division
And their vans, always with the vans.
In fact, these guys are just like the A-Team. You’ve got Mad Dog Murdock on the left there, building away, and there’s B. A. Baracus there on the right with his reverse Mohawk. And Hannibal and Faceman are out cruising in the van looking for more bikes:
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Anyway, your bike has been disassembled and its parts have been put on other bikes for sale on Craigslist or at Laney College in OakTown.
Sorry.
Or “the I-80,” as some prefer.*
Division Street, San Francisco, the “Innovation Capitol** of the World***”
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*Including moi.
**Heh.
***HA HA HA HA HA!
I know these new signs upset some people, but not me.
Anyway, here they are:
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And they just changed the design not too long ago – here’s something from 2008.
But Matt Fuller seems to like the new lower-case lettering.
Hurray for the new street signs, I guess.
This fellow is waiting at a traffic signal between the lanes on an Interstate 101 offramp somewhere in San Mateo County.
The six foot high pennants are a nice touch. Don’t leave home without them, especially when lane-splitting on a recumbent trike.
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Vaya con Dios, jinete del triciclo.
Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll soon be able to see over at WhatImSeeing.com - it’s a tanker truck explosion for the taping of the possible NBC series “Trauma.”
What a great photo! Click to expand:
Here’s another view and here’s the reverse angle from ExxonValdez.
And with all the choppers flying around above hospital curve, you think, wouldn’t it be nice to have two or three real medical chopper flights a day coming into and out of our Level One Trauma Center at San Francisco General Hospital? Yes, yes it would.
