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Three days of pro cycling in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend

May 15, 2013 – 4:49 pm

The Amgen Tour of California bicycle road race will pass through the several cities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area beginning Friday, with a final stage out of San Francisco on Sunday.

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

February 19, 2013 – 3:57 pm

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 »

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Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival 2013

February 5, 2013 – 5:04 pm

The 4th Annual Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival will celebrate Santa Cruz County’s mountain bike culture the weekend of April 13-14, 2013 in Aptos, California.

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Close Santa Cruz Highway 9 for cyclists only?

December 6, 2012 – 5:52 pm

California State Route 9 is the main route for the small mountain communities that dot the San Lorenzo River valley in Santa Cruz County. This narrow, twisty two lane route also is a favorite for local road cyclists. The Street Smarts Santa Cruz column in the Sentinel printed this proposal for Highway 9.

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Thanking the 87%

October 25, 2012 – 1:02 pm

From today’s “Roadshow” column in the San Jose Mercury News: My husband commutes from our home in the area of Yerba Buena/San Felipe Road to Valley Medical Center about three times a week. Although I love his commitment, it’s nerve-racking for me. I worry all the time someone is going to mow him over. But, read more »

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C.W. Nevius rides a bicycle?

October 9, 2012 – 7:00 am

San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius writes from the windshield perspective and is often accused of an anti-bike bias. Bay Area cycling advocates have learned to season Nevius’s reporting with several grains of salty skepticism, but occasionally his articles see distribution in the wider world of bike activism outside of the San Francisco area. So read more »

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