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Ride Will Celebrate Reopening of Upper Conzelman Road in Marin Headlands
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The mother of all views of the Golden Gate Bridge has to be the ride up and over Conzelman Road on the Marin headlands west of the bridge. On Saturday morning, cyclists get the first shot at a group ride – without cars – up Conzelman kicking off at 9 a.m. The ride celebrates the […]
Sausalito Council to Add Bike Parking, But Doesn’t Discuss Rental Fee
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Sausalito remains a free city today, at least when it comes to parking for tourist rental bikes. Instead of adding fees for tourist bike parking, the city will add racks to accommodate 300 more bikes for the expected crush of two-wheeled summer tourists. Bicycle tourists visiting Sausalito on rental bikes. Photo: Bike and Roll. The […]
Council Debate Over Sausalito Bicycle Tax Postponed to April
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Photo: Bike and Roll San Francisco Growing tension over how, or even whether, Sausalito can accommodate the flood of summer tourists riding rented bicycles into the village spawned a plan by one city councilman to convert four auto parking spots to bike parking. Subsequently, there has been talk of a one-dollar tax on rental bikes […]
Engineers Lay Out Costs of Reopening Alto Tunnel to Bicyclists
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Deb Hubsmith of MCBC addressing Public Works Asst. Chief Craig Tackaberry (far left). Photo by Tom Murphy. Addressing a crowd of more than 100 people Wednesday, engineers said it could cost $40 million to $52 million to reopen the crumbling 125-year-old railroad tunnel between Mill Valley and Corte Madera for cyclists. The nearly half-mile-long Alto […]
U.S. Racer Dave Zabriskie Discusses Bike Crashes, Road Safety
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Turns out even the fastest cyclists in the world still have to contend with oblivious and dangerous drivers, at least when they’re not racing on a closed course. David Zabriskie, current U.S. time trial champion and winner of three cycling grand tour stages, recently told a capacity crowd in Larkspur, California, that he has been […]
Marin County Bike Co-Op ‘A Community Hub for Culture and Technology’
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The Bicycle Works grand opening celebration August 9. Flickr photo: cproppe Pairing environmentalism with a do-it-yourself ethic, a couple of guys who live the bike culture opened Marin County’s first co-op bike repair shop, Bicycle Works, and already have people clamoring to sign up. Less than a month after the grand opening Aug. 9, "Spokey" […]
Marin County to Install Bicycle Sensors at 31 Intersections
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Flickr photo: crook inc Cyclists know all too well the frustration of traffic lights that only change when cars activate a ground sensor, but are not tripped when bicycles arrive. Now Marin County is about to give bike riders a green light. The county will install sensors at 31 intersections (PDF) in 10 cities so […]
The Real Numbers on Golden Gate Bridge Bicycle Crashes
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Flickr photo: -kÇ- The Golden Gate Bridge draws thousands of tourists who walk and cycle on the span for its vistas of the city and the sunsets. Its sidewalks are also a major commute route for hundreds by daily bicycle commuters. And that means sometimes bicycles and pedestrians collide. Local news hounds have jumped to […]
Sausalito Bike Tourists a Boon, Not a “Plague of Locusts”
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Bicyclists disembark from the Sausalito ferry. Photo by Tom Murphy Amalia Pittier of Caracas, Venezuela spent a sunny day riding a rented bike across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito with her two traveling companions, stopping to buy lunch and spend money shopping for gifts they will take home to family and friends. Little does […]