Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Culture

Come Celebrate the Year of the Bike at SFBC’s Winterfest

By Matthew Roth | Dec 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

With the gradual thawing underway in the three-year freeze of bicycle infrastructure in San Francisco, this year’s SFBC Winterfest celebration, one of the best bicycle parties in any year, is sure to warm this Sunday night up right. "It’s a place where cyclists of all shapes, sizes and creeds come together to celebrate cycling and […]

Chrome Bags Announces Same-Day Delivery by Bike Messenger in SF

By Matthew Roth | Nov 12, 2009 | 8 Comments

Chrome Bags has undertaken a new initiative to further root themselves in the local bicycle community that affords them much of their customer base: using bicycle couriers to deliver bags in San Francisco. Starting November 20th, anyone buying a bag in San Francisco by 3 pm will get that bag same-day, delivered by a hot […]

David Byrne Turns His Book Reading Into Bicycle Advocacy Primer

By Matthew Roth | Sep 30, 2009 | 16 Comments

Former Talking Heads frontman and current bicycling icon David Byrne used his celebrity and the publication of his new book, Bicycle Diaries, to instruct a capacity audience of more than 900 people at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater on the many ways that the bicycle has become a more acceptable and mainstream form of locomotion. Rather […]

Marin County Bike Co-Op ‘A Community Hub for Culture and Technology’

By Pam MacLean | Sep 1, 2009 | 3 Comments

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" […]

San Francisco Designer Connects Bikes and Fashion With Utility Bags

By Matthew Roth | Aug 24, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo: Noah Berger for the New York Times San Francisco designer Lisa Marie Grillos has been on an unexpected journey since she lost her job as a production manager at Williams Sonoma this January, one which took her from frustration and dismay scouring Craigslist and other job sites to having her face splashed across the […]

Cyclists and Runners Trace Images on Maps by “GPS Drawing”

By Matthew Roth | Aug 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

A GPS drawing of a character from the Atari 2600 “Pitfall!” game. Image: NY Times When we profiled bicycle related mobile phone applications last month, we clearly thinking creatively enough. The New York Times had a very interesting article yesterday on "GPS Drawing," which entails using your GPS-enabled phone to trace your running or cycling […]

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