California Academy Nightlife: Rock the Bike
"NightLife and Rock the Bike team up to create a NightLife dedicated to bicycling, with bike powered blenders, a bike powered DJ stage and a performance by Fossil Fool with DJ Jeff Stallings."
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A Rose By Another Name: San Jose’s Bike Party
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A crowd assembles at the beginning of San Jose Bike Party, April 16, 2010. Let’s just say right away that Critical Mass is a bike party, and the San Jose Bike Party has a lot more similarities to Critical Mass than differences. A half-dozen San Francisco and Berkeley Critical Mass veterans took a field trip […]
Sunday Streets 2011 Begins This Weekend on Embarcadero, “Rain or Shine”
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This weekend, San Franciscans will walk, run, play, bike, and relax on the city’s main waterfront during the first Sunday Streets of the year. It’ll take place along the Embarcadero from Fisherman’s Wharf to China Basin, right where Sunday Streets began in 2008. “We’ll be out there rain or shine,” said Sunday Streets organizer Susan King. “Everybody’s planning […]
Why SF Should Strive to Replicate the Polk Contra-Flow Protected Bike Lane
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On the two southernmost blocks of Polk Street, between Market Street and City Hall, the new contra-flow protected bike lane creates a unique street layout for San Francisco. For the first time on a downtown street, people on bikes are accommodated in a way that people in cars are not. Bike traffic goes both ways, while […]
Bicycle Music Festival: Pedal Powered Tunes and Some Exercise, Too
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With everyone under the sun boasting their carbon reduction initiatives, including laughable entries by oil giants like Chevron and ExxonMobile, it’s nice to see an event that walks the walk, or pedals the pedals, as it were. The Bicycle Music Festival is an all-day musical event tomorrow that runs entirely on human power. The sound […]
Bike the Early Vote with John Avalos
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From SFBC: Show the power of the Bike Vote by joining the SF Bicycle Coalition’s #1 choice for mayor, John Avalos, when you vote early on Thursday. Rock the Bike will provide the pedal-powered sound system and entertainment, and Team Avalos will watch your bike while you vote. Come down on your lunch break in […]
Where Are California’s E-bike Incentives?
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Imagine if policymakers took the potential for ebikes seriously. Imagine if legislative analysts noted that ongoing funding for new electric car subsidies could displace funding for more effective mode-shifting and VMT reduction via e-bikes, instead of the other way around.