I rode the Supermarket Street Sweep (again) – a fundraiser / race to supermarkets around the city, with about 200 riders who collected a total of 8000 lbs of food for the SF Food Bank. I brought in 108 lbs in my recently-reinforced panniers, which held up well, though the bike was a bit unstable with that much weight. A few photos: ...
Just finished a custom bike-mounted growler-carrying sling.
Bike Tunnel! (specifically, the newish Cal Park Hill Tunnel near Larkspur, which I finally checked out last weekend when I was in the area)
**Saturday:**You should come to the Supermarket Street Sweep, a ride around the city to collect groceries for the SF food bank. It’s nominally an alleycat-style race (a few hundred people show up, they give you a list of grocery stores to visit and things to buy, and you have to figure out a route), but I’m not going to try to “compete” this time– I just want to get some friends together to do it at whatever pace is comfortable. ...
I recently went on a solo ride to San Rafael, and checked out the Re-Cyclery Bike Thrift Shop (and fundraiser for Trips For Kids) while I was there. Quite a place. Outside, a classic Schwinn (for sale for $125): The back patio had many more used bikes, in both adult sizes and kids’: There were many other sub-$150 used bikes: ...
1979 Honolulu bicycle license sticker, seen on an old Schwinn
A ride to the ocean for espresso, toast, and coconut with friends, taking some off-road trails through parks for variety: ...
Bamboo bike, bamboo
There may be a window without rain, so: a short ride to Trouble Coffee / the ocean and back tomorrow morning? Meet at Four Barrel at 9AM? Perhaps a detour back via Lands End (something like http://ridewithgps.com/trips/201533)?
A casual-pace, 40ish mile Paradise Loop ride with a friend, on a cool day constantly on the edge of rain: Cloudy, but fog-free, with the low-contrast lighting that’s good for cell phone photos… Marsh along the Mill Valley bike path: Tiburon bike path: A few drops of rain threatened (and we were lazy), so we bailed after about 35 miles and took a ferry back from Sausalito (we caught it with about 15 seconds to spare, and would have missed it if we didn’t both have Clipper cards to let us skip the ticket machines): ...