Along the lines of the 2012 bikeit recap, some of the most memorable rides from 2013 were: Organizing a dumplings-by-bike tour for friends and strangers that pulled in about 45(!) people and was a great day. A Dogpatch/Bayview history ride I posted publicly through the SF Bike Coalition (and met new people on, including one person I’ve continued riding with), along scenic dirt bike paths and past graffiti, goats, and other strange sights: ...
10 of us rode from San Francisco to Montara this weekend, stayed the night in the Montara Lighthouse youth hostel, then rode back. I’ll post a full map and photos later (edit: Ok, the SF->Montara ride has been posted) – to start, I’m just posting photos of Old San Pedro Mountain Road, our detour inland from Highway 1. From Short Bike Rides San Francisco (where I read about this route) “San Pedro Mountain Road is the old alignment of Highway 1 before Devil’s Slide was built.” It’s now closed to cars and overgrown, a mix of pavement, broken pavement, dirt, and light mud (still doable without a mountain bike, though). Some people in the biking community call it “Planet of the Apes Road”– not that it’s *that* decrepit, but once you know it used to be a road for cars, you can imagine you’ve come across a collapsed civilization. ...