Thought this unusual ride seen on the Hastings Cutoff route was a bicycle sidecar.
At first anyway.
See?
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Jitsu wa, Gentle Reader, it just the arm of an autumn sweater dragging along.
A mystery solved!
Posts Tagged ‘rack’
If Bicycles Had Sidecars, This is What They Would Look Like
Monday, February 18th, 2013So, Bike Racks Should Have the Name of the Neighborhood Where They’re Installed Stamped on Them?
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013Is this a thing now?
Doesn’t this kind of deal cost a lot of money?
Oh, it doesn’t matter because you tax the bidnesses in the area to pay for your salary and you like playing around with aesthetics using Other People’s Money?
Thusly:
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Speaking of which, that horrible SPUR organization loves this stupid idea?
Well, that seals it.
Shouldn’t we have more bike racks sooner rather than fewer expensive bike racks later?
Apparently, the San Francisco Chronicle Can No Longer Afford to Pay the Rent for Willie Brown’s PedMount News Racks
Thursday, October 25th, 2012So like the San Francisco Chronicle is cutting back on street distribution in the Financh?
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Sure looks that way.
Or maybe just on Monty Street?
Now, is there any penalty on former Mayor Willie Brown for foisting all this short-sighted pedmount concept on the MSM and the Commonweal?
Apparently not.
Oh well.
The “before” picture here looks better to me than the “after” photo…
Showdown at Masonic on the #5 Fulton Bus: Did a MUNI Driver Discriminate Against a Disabled Rider?
Monday, September 26th, 2011It’s hard to say.
Famous San Francisco photographer Justin Beck was on the scene:
“Photo: #Muni rider who refused to leave the bike rack of the 5 Fulton bus, and the driver whom he called a motherfucker. http://pic.twitter.com/jIphZ9Cw“
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Here’s the prior scene.
And here’s the aftermath.
I don’t know what to make of this one…
The Headless Celtic Parking Meters of San Francisco’s Civic Center: Use Them For Religious Purposes or For Bicycle Parking
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011I like these repurposed parking meters – they ought to be religious icons (if they aren’t already, somewhere in the world.)
Anyway, these crossarmless Celtic Crosses are bike racks now taking the place of parking meters.
See?
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Hurray!
Out With the Old and In With the New: A Mess of New Bike Racks Installed in Front of Out Flagship Nordstrom Mall
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011See?
Angle Grinder Man had just taken out the old, poorly-designed snake-like rack. [Cue Finest Worksong.] The bunch of new light-silvery racks you can see should be in place by now.
I dare you to park your bike here betwixt Union Square and San Francisco Centre overnight. Without proper theft hardening, and very possibly even with, the little monsters will have taken the bulk of it by sun-up. Truth.
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If you think this sitch of not having enough bike racks around town is all Crazy Rob Anderson’s fault, well, we’ll have to disagree.
The time to rise has been engaged
You’re better best to rearrange
I’m talking here to me alone
I listen to the finest worksong
Your finest hour
Your finest hour
OMG, FTJ FTJ, I’m Totally Blogging This! The New MINI Countrymans Arrive on Market Street, USA
Friday, March 4th, 2011Or Countrymen. Or Countrypeople, Countrypersons, Countrymen and Countrywomen, or Countrywomyn, you get the idea. Whatever you call them, they’re finally here, and yesterday, anyway, there were being paraded up and down Market Street. This frisson will certainly FTJ, indeed.*
They sure look like regular MINI’s but they’re much bigger. These new Countrymans are the SUVs of the MINI world.
Can you see the taxi the white one is next to? There’s not a whole lot of difference in size:
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But in a moment, they were gone, stretching up Market and into infinity:
Oh, and here’s last month’s stunt:
Will MINI of San Francisco mark up the prices on these new models even more than usual? Signs point to YES. (Frankly, you’re a fool if you buy a vehicle from that outfit. Just saying. Bro. Oh, wait a second, That Other MINI Dealership is how far away from the 415? Oh, man, that’s far.)
Anyways, enjoy your new little-giant MINIs…
*(Masturbation reference noted.) That clip shows movie director Michael Bay’s view of blogging. Of course, Hollywood, more than most places, has issues. It can’t never tolerate criticism, seemingly.
New MINI Cooper Countryman Gives a Lift to an Old MINI Cooper on Market Street
Monday, January 24th, 2011Last I saw, the MINI dealer in San Francisco was asking $3500 over MSRP and tacking a bunch of crap onto the Monroney such that a one-year-old S-model convertible model was going for close to $40K. Oh well. The lesson is that you should never ever buy a MINI at poorly-rated MINI of San Francisco.
Anyway, enjoy this specter:
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Surprised the little white MINI doesn’t have a contrasting roof color like all the others:
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Homemade Bike Rack in the Western Addition Blocks the Sidewalk, Subjects Bicycles to Theft and Vandalism
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010I don’t know, seems like something that seemed a good idea at the time.
Oh well.
As seen on McAllister Street, home of the increasingly popular Snickerdoodle bike route, the one that’s faster, shorter, safer, better than the vaunted Wiggle* for getting to and from Market Street and the Panhandle area, for multiple reasons:
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Anyway, for lots of reasons, this set up is a poor substitute for hauling your bike up and down stairs each and every day.
*Whenever the cops need to hand out a bunch of tickets to cyclists, they’ll hang out at Scott and Fell or Duboce and Steiner or Haight and Pierce – that’s all on the Wiggle of course. As for the Snick, sometimes you’ll get a moto cop hanging out near McAllister and Pierce, but that’s to give tickets to car drivers coming down Fulton.
A “Bicycle Massacre” at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2010 in Golden Gate Park – The Horror, The Horror
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010Gaia only knows what happened to these bikes in Golden Gate Park over the weekend.
No matter, the Golden Gate Park Bike Coalition (hey, nice FB profile photo you’ve got there, GGPBC) is none too pleased:
“Perhaps if there were adequate bike parking in Golden Gate Park, even for large events like Hardly Strictly, bike massacres like this wouldn’t occur. (BIKE NOPA, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, Inner Sunset Neighborhood Group, The Wiggle)”
Oh, the inhumanity:
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Oh, and speaking of inadequate bicycle parking, when’s Rec and Park going to put more racks in front of the de Young Museum? Just sayin.
