December 2010
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Headlands Loop Recap
Four of us (RR, CC, D, MD) rode a Marin Headlands loop this slightly chilly but sunny and clear (an easy view of the Farralones) day. About 26 miles round trip from East SF, at a casual pace.
Approaching the bridge via Embarcadero / Marina:
Climbing Conzelman:
A clear day, quite a view:
Some of us:
Some of us are in the Witness Protection Program:
Heading down a twisty 18% grade...
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Headlands Loop Tomorrow Morning
I’m working today but have tomorrow off, and it looks like it might be clear, sunny, and chilly. So, I’m planning on a morning* ride up to the Marin Headlands loop (20-30 miles round trip depending where you start). And perhaps extending that a bit by taking an initial detour through golden gate park to Trouble Coffee for pre-ride coffee & toast, and then cutting through the...
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SFBC Holiday Lights Ride
On Sunday I went on the Holiday Lights Ride. A quick map (which, as usual, clicks through to a detailed route), followed by some blurry night cell phone photos…
About 40 people gathered on the panhandle. I’d somehow missed the note about festooning my bike with Christmas or other LED lights.
Our first few stops, after some hill climbing:
Looking at more lights as the rain,...
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Butter Lap
Another fine Butterlap (Butter Lap?). Cold, clear, crisp, like butter on the tongue. Eric and rif joined for the first time, and I took the rack-mounted bike stereo on its first extended ride and managed not to crash while changing music.
It takes me a few rides to remember names, but I chatted with Greg, Matt, and Meli for a while: bikes! supermarket street sweep! the mills and general bay area...
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New bike tunnel underground in Marin →
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Two planned (shorter, evening) rides
(assuming it’s not raining):
Wednesday 12/15: Butterlap with a group of 20-40 friendly strangers. I may bring the bike stereo.
Sunday 12/19: SFBC-organized evening ride around San Francisco to tour the elaborate Christmas light displays. See http://www.sfbike.org/?chain and scroll down.
Roads are slick these days— ride safe.
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Supermarket Street Sweep
Today I did the Supermarket Street Sweep, a combination bike race with prizes (in the general Alleycat style) and mission to collect food for the SF Food Bank. 170 cyclists participated and collected about 7000 lbs of food. [you can skip past this text to the map and photos, if you want]
Here’s how the race aspect works (I’d never done one before):
A group of cyclists gather without...
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Biking the Southwest
I’ve talked to three people in the past few months who were gripped by this NYtimes article: http://nyti.ms/c3tzGJ
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bike race for food banks, SFBC winterfest
I plan to do the Supermarket Street Sweep, Saturday at noon. A race around town to pick up a collection of food (to be donated to the SF Food Bank). You get the checklist of stores to visit and things to buy at each one when the race starts, so you have to decide right then what set of routes to take to optimize your path…
The SF Bike Coalition throws a party (beer, auctions, DIY...