Outdoor Recreation

With All Due Respect: The Risk of Marketing Yachting as "NASCAR on Water" is That You're Creating NASCAR on Water

Bike to Work Day Is Really Annoying for Those Who Always Bike to Work

If you typically bike to work, then Bike to Work Day is probably when you avoid your usual cycle-friendly commuting route because it is now clogged with clumsy inexperienced cyclists. Or, you're one of those clumsy inexperienced cyclists who has just mustered up the courage to drag that neglected ... More >>

Head Count: How Little We Know About the Mysterious Bikers in Our Midst!

"No Place on Earth": A Literal Underground Movement

The Changing Landscape

Here's Why You Should Love Having Bikes on BART

Heads up, BART riders: the cyclists are coming. Once again, BART has decided to temporarily drop its rush-hour bike blackouts and open its (often dysfunctional) doors to pedalers for the morning and evening crush. As seasoned BART riders already know, bikes of the ungainly, unfoldable variety are u ... More >>

Driver: "Is It Okay If I Kill That Cyclist?"

The nice thing about being one of the few people at my office who regularly shows up to work on a bike is that whenever one of my colleagues is puzzling over which bike route to take to the Mission or needs some advice about basic bike maintenance, or wants to tell someone about an especially fun we ... More >>

Here's Why You Should Pedal Through the Last Critical Mass of 2012

Tonight will be the last Critical Mass of 2012 -- and my first ever. Maybe it's not so surprising that I've never joined the amorphous, self-propelled fray. Because though I am a biker -- in that biking is my preferred method of getting around -- I do lack a certain militancy when it comes to my ve ... More >>

What Makes a City Cycle Friendly?

I have a friend who is a very serious cyclist. His name is Alejandro. Next week, Alejandro will take part in the Festive 500, a biking challenge put on every year by the high-end cycling outfitter Rapha in which spandex-clad masochists world-wide compete to see who can clock the most kilometers on ... More >>

Liholiho Yacht Club Popping Up at Naked Kitchen This Weekend

Good news for fans of pop-up chef Ravi Kapur: He is bringing his super-popular Liholiho Yacht Club to the Mission's Naked Kitchen this Friday and Saturday night (December 21-22, 7 p.m.), offering the usual menu of Hawaiian favorites with a twist, along with a few seasonal treats thrown in. The forma ... More >>

"Premium Rush": Sharp Action, Silly Concept

Q&A with Greens Chef Annie Somerville, part 2: Keeping a 33-Year-Old Restaurant Fresh

Annie Somerville, executive chef of Greens Restaurant, came to the world of cooking through unexpected means. Somerville moved to San Francisco in 1973 to study at the San Francisco Zen Center, and became chef of Greens -- which the center then owned -- in 1985. Somerville recently talked with SFood ... More >>

Bike Messengers Are Victims of Civil Court Closures

The final showdown for bike messengers?​As of October 3, 25 civil courtrooms will be closed indefinitely, and all the clerks will have their office hours cut by an hour a day. Two hundred court employees will be getting pink slips.But the compassionate hipster inside of us wants to know: What does ... More >>

James Hetfield to Marin Hikers: "Don't Tread on Me (Or My Property)!"

Metallica singer James Hetfield​Exit light, enter night, if you will -- but don't go entering into James Hetfield's sprawling Marin County property. The Metallica singer and rhythm guitarist erected a metal fence on his ranch that blocked off a popular trail connecting two nature preserves. S ... More >>

Possible Norovirus Outbreak at Camp Mather

Norovirus in the house ​San Francisco officials are scrambling to disinfect a local camp where they suspect kids have been in contact with the nasty Norovirus. According to the Examiner, three campers and some employees reported having symptoms of the gastrointestinal virus, which include vomiting ... More >>

San Francycle: Riding to Work Doesn't Make You an Athlete

​If you're like us, you spend an hour or so on your bike every day, from home to work and then back, then maybe to the supermarket, and occasionally over to a friend's house or up to Corona Heights to watch the sunset. Wouldn't it be neat to keep track of your rides so you know how far you've gone ... More >>

Open Bike

Larry Ellison Too Good for His Own Golden Gate Yacht Club

Not Larry Ellison's style​While the rich like to brag that they lunch at the yacht club, the really, really rich apparently boast that they never go near the place.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, for one, avoids his own Golden Gate Yacht Club, despite the fact he and his employees spend hundreds of doll ... More >>

From the Piers to the Pacific

San Francycle: The Bike Coalition's Big Plans for 2011

​Happy New Year! And quite a year it's been for bicycles. Between all the new stripes and racks and parklets, we've suddenly catapulted into the future of cycling. Well, maybe not the future, since Europe is several decades ahead of us. Maybe just less of the past. But there's still plenty of ... More >>

Santa Claus Robs Yacht Club

Be good for goodness sake...​With the yachtsmen of Rhode Island poised to steal the America's Cup from San Francisco, someone else is stealing from Rhode Island's yachtsmen -- Santa Claus. A gunman knocked over the bar at the East Providence Yacht Club yesterday. That gunman, incidentally, was des ... More >>

San Francycle: Can Treat Street Become Mission Bay's Bike Superhighway?

​ First, it was a stinky marsh. Then it was a railroad. Now, Treat Street faces a new lease on life with a vision to transform it from a dilapidated, weirdly diagonal alleyway into a sparkling green bike corridor. It would be a pretty amazing accomplishment: a smooth path that curves up from ... More >>

Dominant Legs: Show Preview

New Bill Seeks to Curb Use of Environmental Review to Delay Worthy Projects

Matt SmithThe bike lane injunction is in the rearview mirror, thankfully​Proposed Legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier aims to diminish the role of state environmental law in delaying local projects posing little threat to Mother Nature.And -- don't you know it -- Mary Miles, the attorney ... More >>

San Francycle: Tour de Fat and a Sewer Ride

​Welcome to San Francycle, a new SF Weekly series that celebrates the craziest and bestest way to get around town. Ride a bike in San Francisco? Are you crazy? The breaking point came sometime early this year. Remember when Muni was talking about cutting service? Again? I was shelling out fi ... More >>

Italian DJ Benny Benassi Plans to Tour California on a Fixie Bike

​Awesome alert: In a feat of either badassery or hubris, Italian DJ, Grammy-winner, and all-around-suave-dude Benny Benassi plans to ride a fixie -- yes, a single-speed, fixed-gear bicycle -- down the coast of California on his upcoming tour.The bike tour kicks off after Benassi's set at Ruby Skye ... More >>

Mayor Newsom Paints a Bike Lane

​We don't exactly frequent the mayor's self-congratulatory press conferences. But when we heard he'd actually be painting part of a bike lane around the corner from our offices today at 1 p.m., we put down the amyl nitrate and headed out.The requisite media circus had congregated on the corner of ... More >>

Mind the Ripping Current

Local Mountain Bike Pioneer Gary Fisher Endows 'Chair In Kid Fun'

Bradley Woehl and his progeny on the goGary Fisher, the local mountain bike luminary whose name is plastered on hundreds of thousands of bicycles worldwide, has endowed a San Francisco chair in kid fun, reports local bike shop owner Bradley Woehl.Well, it's not exactly a chair, as the accompanying p ... More >>

Play On

Mad Cow: S.F. Judge Rules City Not Liable For Belligerent Bovine

'The City asserts that there is no constitutional right to be free from a cow attack...'

Paddling 101

Saturday: World Naked Bike Ride

Land Ho!

Lexington Club Violence Stories Show Anti-Hipster Bias

Hang in There, Fella

Ask a Track Bike!

Butt Boards Up!

Riding the rapids and the placids of Cache Creek

Best City Campground

Best Sports Equipment

Sports Basement

Bent Outta Shape

San Francisco bike messengers hit some nasty economic potholes as they struggle to unionize

At Play on the Bay (If You Go...)

Sports & Recreation Readers' Poll

Best Florist

Fioridella

Postscript

A Cracker Moron Explains How Drivers Feel About Bikes

Pedaling the Vegan Message

Cycling chef hopes to win over a few stomachs, and hearts

Side Dish

Strike While the Iron Is Hot

Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

Letters

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