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

Post Street in Japantown could use a Starbucks, or something along the lines of a Third Place environment. It might liven things up. Maybe they could put it here in this empty windblown storefront at 1600 Webster? Oh, that’s right, Starbucks got run out, out, out of the area not too long ago.

But these days, coffee shops owners are welcoming Starbucks into their nabes. How did this merchant fare when the Big S moved in next to his store?

“I didn’t suffer whatsoever. Ultimately I prospered, in no small part because of it.”

Well, O.K. then.

J-Town needs to get more foot traffic on Post Street to help ameliorate the effects of terrible choices (concrete mini-mall, etc…) made four decades ago.  A Starbucks, or something like it, could be a good thing.

Just saying…