Recent Streetsblog SF posts about bicycle fashion

Eyes on the Street: Telegraph Avenue Gets Green Paint

By Melanie Curry | Apr 20, 2016 | 48 Comments

Telegraph Avenue in Oakland is finally getting its long-awaited separated bike lanes. Crews were out adding the first touches of green paint. In the next week or so, they will continue painting the section of Telegraph between 21st and 27th, Oakland’s first experiment with parking-separated bike lanes. Bike East Bay will have ambassadors on the […]

19th Century Bicycling: Rubber was the Dark Secret

By Chris Carlsson | Sep 22, 2010 | 9 Comments

“If the increase continues, the time is not very distant when not to own and ride a bicycle will be a confession that one is not able-bodied, is exceptionally awkward, or is hopelessly belated.” —“The Bicycle Festival,” July 13, 1895 New York Times The bicycle came to San Francisco during the last quarter of the […]

Hopenhagen or Carbonhagen, We’ll Still be Cycling Regardless

By Chris Carlsson | Dec 17, 2009 | 9 Comments

Cycling chic in Copenhagen, and this is a cold day in December! I caught Mikael Colville-Andersen’s inspiring talk on urban cycling from the Copenhagen context at San Francisco’s SPUR on the last Friday of October. I suggested we could do an interview when I came to Copenhagen in December and he graciously agreed, stepping outside […]

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 […]

Everyday “City Bikes” Need a Stimulus

By Dave Snyder | Sep 14, 2009 | 21 Comments

This Oma-fiets (or, Grandma-bicycle, in Dutch) sits for sale at the Market Street storefront of "My Dutch Bike" while a typical "American" bike is pedaled by outside. Photo by Frank Chan. Like so many people, when Soraya Nasirian saw Dutch people on bicycles, she had an epiphany. "Why aren’t more Americans riding bicycles like this?" […]

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