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Bay Area carnage

While cycling to work this morning I watched a group of fourth graders from Don Callejon School in Santa Clara walk to the River Oaks light rail station for a field trip. They crossed Lick Mill Boulevard as a tight little group, with motorists waiting patiently for the 40 or so kids to cross. I read more »

Today’s collection of creeps and weirdos on the bus

I volunteered this morning for a field trip at my daughter’s school so I took a much later bus than usual, where I met a whole new crew of creeps and weirdos for the trip to my office.

San Mateo, pedestrian friendly El Camino Real, and drive through coffee

The city of San Mateo, California is centrally located between Silicon Valley and San Francisco on the San Francisco Peninsula. Over half a million vehicles cross through the city daily on US Highway 101. Another 300,000 vehicles pass through San Mateo on Highway 92, while about 50,000 vehicles travel through on El Camino Real (ECR). read more »

Santa Cruz dirt jumping and reciprocal link love

This photo has nothing to do with link love. These young guys can frequently be seen near the sand quarries in the Santa Cruz Mountains with their dirt jump bikes practicing for the Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival coming up on April 14 & 15, 2013. Sometimes people use my photos they find Flickr. Sometimes read more »

Book giveaway: Chain Reaction

Happy Friday, everybody. Today, I’m giving away a slightly dog-eared copy of Ross Goldstein’s novel Chain Reaction.

Bike and culture events this week

Meli catches us up on a number of bike events in San Francisco, the Bay Area, Southern California and down into Tijuana Mexico.