Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Culture

Making the Best of Having Your Bicycle Stolen

By Matthew Roth | Apr 14, 2009 | 6 Comments

Screenshot from the Stolen Bikes Database website With spring here and nice weather, a lot of us will be riding our bikes more often, which means thieves will be on the prowl for poorly locked bikes. For anyone who has had a bicycle stolen, there are few feelings as dreadful. The SFBC has a great […]

You Don’t Have To Be A Genius To Know Bike Registration Is Dumb

By Matthew Roth | Apr 3, 2009 | 13 Comments

Hey Freakonomics, how could you get so much so wrong in five short sentences? A blog post this week highlights Oregon Representative Wayne Krieger’s proposal to charge cyclists a biannual registration fee and parrots his assertion that cyclists don’t contribute to the roads they ride and do similar damage to roads as vehicles. In an […]

The Rise of an Evil Anti-Car Multinational Conglomerate

By Matthew Roth | Mar 27, 2009 | 8 Comments

As soothsayers of the Sacred RAC priesthood like Rob Anderson will let you know time and again on his own blog, and sometimes on ours, all this talk of bike plans, Level-of-Service reform, parking restrictions in new development, and greening boulevards is nothing more than a thinly-veiled assault on our national right to drive freely […]

That’s Sooo Vanilla!: Friday Bike Porn in Forbes Magazine

By Matthew Roth | Mar 27, 2009 | 4 Comments

Yum. One of several ways I drove down my productivity when I worked at Transportation Alternatives in NYC (think SFBC with a livable streets angle) was to click through the websites of the hand-made bicycle manufacturers who participate in the annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show competition, ogling the master craftmanship displayed there. No bicycle […]