Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Culture

San Francisco’s Godspeed Courier Gets a Close Up

By Matthew Roth | Aug 11, 2010 | 13 Comments

The wonderful filmmakers at California is a Place have done another short about bicycles in the Bay Area, this one focused on Godspeed Courier in San Francisco. As they did in Scrapertown, filmmakers Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari have captured a small vignette of a distinctive addition to bicycling in California with a beautiful eye. […]

Some Performance Highlights from This Year’s Bicycle Music Festival

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 2, 2010 | No Comments

Justin Ancheta Performs at the 2010 Bicycle Music Festival Parade from John Hamilton on Vimeo. Hundreds of people turned out over the weekend for the largest 100 percent bicycle-powered music festival in the world. This year’s Bicycle Music Festival began with a day venue in Golden Gate Park, and ended with an evening of performances […]

Detroit: The Return of the Repressed (Bicycling Culture)

By Chris Carlsson | Jun 29, 2010 | 21 Comments

Detroit’s once bustling streets are a bicyclist’s paradise now, wide open and empty. Visiting the ghostly motor city these days is an eye-opening and surprisingly inspiring experience. The city has fallen from more than 2 million residents a generation ago to around 800,000 today. A great deal of the land area where homes and factories […]

Lessons from Copenhagen for Bicycling in the Bay Area

By Leah Shahum | Jun 23, 2010 | 22 Comments

Bicyclists — and blue bike lanes and physically separated bikeways — abound in Copenhagen, where biking makes up 37 percent of the trips to work and school. Photos by Leah Shahum Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of dispatches from Copenhagen and Amsterdam from Leah Shahum, the executive director of the San […]

“Entrepedalers” Deliver the Goods

By Regina Hope Sinsky | May 20, 2010 | 7 Comments

Mai Le leaves on a banh mi delivery. Photo: Mai Le (Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on the SFBC’s blog) Natalie Galatzer has been up working since 11:30 pm yesterday. By the time you read this, the petite, curly-haired, 26 year-old will have ridden her bike from her home in the Mission to her […]

San Jose Celebrates First ViaVelo, Opens Downtown Streets to People

By Matthew Roth | May 17, 2010 | 7 Comments

A family enjoying the warm day and car-free streets. Photos: Matthew Roth. San Jose kicked off its first ViaVelo Saturday with the opening of seven blocks of San Fernando Street downtown to bicycle riders, skaters, and pedestrians who enjoyed five hours of car-free space. Several hundred people showed up, many of them families and the […]

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