On Saturday, Bike East Bay's annual Pedalfest at Jack London Square in Oakland brought out bicyclists of all shapes, sizes, ages, and colors to celebrate what makes bikes wonderful. Below are some the day's highlights. All photos by Melanie Curry.
Rock the Bike offered live music, powered by audience members pedaling stationary bikes.false
The PingPong Bike brought games to anyone who wanted to play.false
Testing out the handmade cycle contraptions.false
The Karaoke Bike offered mobile entertainment of varying quality, enthusiastically delivered.false
Bike East Bay's Robert Prinz grades bike locking skills in a contest to see if participants could safely secure a bike against theft.false
A different--not recommended--way to lock a bike.false
One of the day's thrills was the amphibious bike race, which required participants to ride into the estuary, make their way out around a buoy and back, and then ride onto land again. The short videos below show how a few hardy souls rose to the challenge.
Here the winner emerges from the water and rides away while his competition is still adapting their bike for land.
Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.
Chief Scott and Metro leadership emphasized that keeping Metro transit safe would require a multi-faceted approach that included the deployment of officers as well as collaboration with the community, ambassadors, and service providers. "Sometimes enforcement is the answer," Scott said. "Sometimes it's not."
