Posts Tagged ‘Wheels’
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
This guy is all over town- see him with his surfboard trailer coming back from a day at dolphin-rich Ocean Beach? On this part of Scott Street in the greater NoPA / EaPA / Alamo Square / Western Addition area, he needs to take both lanes and snake his way up, as if he were ascending the twisty bit of Lombard.
Which is fine – dude’s a stud, of course. But it seems that $20 worth of Chinese derailer and cassette would be the perfect finishing touch for this expensive custom-looking rig*. Unless “too many gears spoil the ride” or something.
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Keep on keeping on.
*Upon further review, this thing is so custom that it might not actally be considered an MTB – the rear tire appears to be a good deal narrower than the front, for example. Wonder if the tiny surfboard wheels are in matching carbon fibre. Wouldn’t be surprised…
Tags: alamo square, area, bicycle, bike, board, carbon, cyclist, EaPA, east of panhandle, fell, fibre, Futility, hayes, hilly, mountain bike, mtb, NOPA, north of panhandle, ocean beach, San Francisco, scott, single speed, street, streets of san francisco, surf, surfboard, surfing, trailer, western addition, Wheels
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
When parking in San Francisco, you should always curb your wheels. If you can’t tell whether you’re pointing uphill or down, just pour out a little water from your bottle into the gutter.
The way the water goes tells you which way the hill goes. Or just look at what all the other drivers on the block did. Easy peasy, right?
The driver of this VW Cabrio made the wrong choice, so a ticket from SFMTA was the result. Parking Control Officers will spot this infraction from a block away and then make a special trip just for you.
Oh well.
Tags: accident, angle, away, curb, degrees, down, downhill, DPT, hill, illegal, law, legal, meter maids, mta, parking, pco, roll, rule, San Francisco, sfdpt, SFMTA, slope, ticket, tires, up, uphill, Wheels
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
By the looks of things.
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The boys generally looked like stoics compared to the girls.
NB: Uggs are in these days:
All you tourists should consider riding fake cable cars when in Union Square for Christmas shopping.
Have your driver circle the square endlessly, why not?
Tags: bnoys, boots, cable cars, christmas, fake, Family, geary, girls, Powell, rubber, San Francisco, shopping, shristmas, stockton, street, ugg, uggs, union square, Wheels, winter
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Check out just one of the handful of Italian-made three-wheel Piaggio MP3 scooters I’ve seen recently on the Streets of San Francisco. Is it one of them new gas-electric hybrid models? Non so, can’t tell them apart. But let’s imagine it’s a 125cc hybrid with electric boost. Kewl.
You’ll note that Piaggio did it the hard way, by having two wheels up front. These little putt putts stand up by themselves until you get the revs over 1400 RPM – at that point the front wheels unlock from each other so you can turn.
This fellow heading up Kearny had no complaints, anyway:
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And fashionable Italian women just seem to love these newfangled contraptions. See?
Don’t forget your helmet. Safety first:
Esaminilo, madre! Nessun mani!
The tragedy of helmet hair:
Let’s hear from the folks at Modern Vespa from just east of the bay area in Walnut Creek, way out in CoCo County:
“WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!“
And people start cross-country journey on these things in our little burg owing to the fact that the Lincoln Highway used to end here.
They start at just $7200 – order yours today!
Tags: 125cc, 250, 250cc, 400, 400cc, 500, babes, car, cc, hybrid, italian, kearney, lean, market, models, modern, mp3, Piaggio, San Francisco, scooters, SF, show, street, three, tricycle, vespa, Wheels
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Now, if you look in the book, it’ll tell you that the biggest wheels that can possibly fit on your aging first-generation Lexus SC300 (or SC400) measure 20 inches in diameter.
But you, you don’t let that hold you back. So how big are these dubs? Twenty-something inches, anyway. They’re the primary reason this 4-seat (sort of) coupe, straight outta of the Higashifuji Technical Center, is San Francisco’s Best Imported Vehicle of 2009.
As seen on Market Street. Click to expand.
Tags: $25, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, big, california, chrome, clearance, dubs, first generation, import, imported vehicle, inch, inches, lexus, market, of the year, orange, rimes, sc300, sc400, street, toyota, Wheels
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Whether or not you get a ticket for parking the rear of your Mercedesin traffic on Gough Street, you probably shouldn’t do it anyway.
Did the driver even try here?
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Doesn’t look that way.
Tags: 18, benz, california, code, curb, cvc, Examiner, free, gough, inches, Mercedes, newspaper, park, parking, San Francisco, san fransico, street, tires, vehicle, Vehicle Code, Wheels, xam, xams
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
We’re living in a society here, people. So even though the Man gives allows you a foot and a half spacing from your tires to the curb, you can do better than that. Check out this Mercedes SUV – see how far it is from the curb? Why not use one of the many San Francisco Examiner newspapers that some billionaire from Colorado has seen fit to have strewn about the place?
If a ‘Xam can fit betwixt the curb and your wheel, then you gots to try again. Two Xams away is way too much. PARKING FAIL. Bikes belong in traffic, as they say - you want to make things easier for everybody else, right? With practice, you should be able to get it down to a quarter Xam or less.
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Lots of room for improvement here on Fell Street. (In mitigation, the Mercedes ML driver did manage to retract the outside rear view mirrors. Ten points for Gryffindor.)
If you can’t handle this simple task, maybe you shouldn’t be driving.
Just saying.
Tags: 18, anschutz, california, code, curb, cvc, Examiner, free, inches, newspaper, park, parking, Philip, phillip, San Francisco, san fransico, tires, vehicle, Vehicle Code, Wheels, xam, xams
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
That’s right, Conan the Destroyer has a posse and they’re all rolling on dubs. Check out these 22-inch monsters being used in an official gubernatorial motorcade:
And check out those balancing weights – do you see how much it takes to keep these massive rims rolling true? These wheels are about twice as large as what Vanilla Ice’s Five point-oh Ford Mustang had way back in the 1990’s.
There’s no good reason to have wheels this large on your vehicle. Some think them dangerous. Others don’t like the way they ride. Of course, sometimes you might be like Senator Don Perata and end up with a set of duece dueces because they come with the car, but not usually.
If you want to show off your wheels, why not keep them a little smaller and then load up on some bling bling? Diamond and ruby studded wheels from Asanti only cost $2,000,000 per set – will this be the next trend in fashionable wheels?
Arnold Schwarzenegger might be your role model, but don’t try to copy him with his huge wheels.
Asta la vista, baby.
Tags: 110H, 20, 22, 22-Inch, 24, 26, 285, Arnold, asanti, Asta la vista, baby, cadillac, california, chrome, Conan, Dub, dubs, escalade, inch wheels, inches, Motorcade, p285, p285/45r22, rims, Safe, san franciso, Schwarzenegger, suv, Wheels
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