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Dissent History Bike Tour
By Abigail Shull |
"Covering everything from literary dissenters to urban riots and protests, this tour examines sites of conflict and unrest, the social movements and upheavals, that have shaped San Francisco since its origins. It’s a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city’s contrarian past and present."
Transit History Bike Tour
By Abigail Shull |
"Discover lost freeways, ghosts of train routes, and a vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time. Hear about the violent strikes that shaped public transit, the graft and corruption that conquered the Outside Lands. It’s a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city’s transportation past and present."
Ecological History (south) Bike Tour
By Abigail Shull |
"This trip through San Francisco’s lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city south of downtown and SOMA, traversing the Mission, Mission Bay, Potrero Hill, Bayview, and the southeast coastline, including several new public parks. It’s a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city’s ecological past and present."
Ecological History (north) Bike Tour
By Abigail Shull |
"This trip through San Francisco’s lost sand dunes, ponds, creeks and coastline will focus on the city from downtown north, covering the heart of the city, the waterfront and Yerba Buena cove, Telegraph Hill, Black Point, and Crissy Field in the Presidio… It’s a social, historical and critical 4-hour tour through the city’s ecological past […]
Transportation History Tour of GG Park (bike ride)
By Aaron Donovan |
Golden Gate Park is hewn from dunes and strange historical quirks. The first driver’s licensing program, the first reinforced concrete bridge, the socialite see-&-be-seen scene to show off thoroughbred horse & well-appointed buggy…Transportation history in the Park tells how our world has changed so rapidly.
Do the Wiggle tour (bike ride)
By Aaron Donovan |
Celebrate the route bicyclists use to avoid hills–the Wiggle! A natural history of the Wiggle with plenty of social history thrown in. Ride up toward the Panhandle stopping here and there to view the distant past, then come back down the Wiggle through the most recent century of bike culture.