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Nine of us gathered Sunday to bike hilly back roads (avoiding Mission St, Bayshore Blvd, San Jose Ave, and some other common roads) to and through San Bruno Mountain park, along dirt paths, and up Radio Road to the summit covered with radio towers, with views of Sutro Tower, the Bay Bridge, Colma graveyards, SFO airport runways, and Mt Diablo. This was followed by shedding 1500’ of elevation in minutes on twisty downhills, cutting through industrial corners of Brisbane, biking past the dump, Candlestick Park, and out to Candlestick point itself, before zig-zagging through Bayview to meet up with Sunday Streets. ...

Saturday a friend organized a ride through Woodside / Old La Honda down to Pescadero (with a stop for the famous artichoke bread and to look at adorable baby llamas), up Highway 1 with great views along the ocean, and then up the always-intense miles of climbing that is Tunitas Creek Road and then down to Alice’s Restaurant. ...

New spoke cards for old rides

Two posters ten years apart

I’ve wanted to bike to (and up) San Bruno Mountain on the edge of SF for a while, so here’s a possible casual-pace, 22 mile (but hilly) ride in a few weeks (Sunday July 22nd). The exact details and meet-up times might change so let me know if you’re interested, and I’ll send out a reminder the week before. A tentative route: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1381448 Mission Pie, San Bruno Mountain Park (via back roads and shared biker/hiker trails), up car-free Radio Road to near the windy, eerie, tower-covered summit. Take a break to eat and walk around. Head back and intercept Sunday Streets Bayview/Dogpatch that will have a chunk of 3rd St shut down to car traffic and may have food carts or other events going on.

This weekend a group of adventurous dumpling-lovers went on a casual 14-mile bike ride around the city (the Richmond, Sunset, West Portal), trying seven kinds of dumplings from three restaurants, on a foggy but surprisingly warm day. For variety from the usual coffeehouse start, we met up at SoW, a pop-up fresh juice bar in the Pause Wine Bar space. The “stonefruit flight” of yellow peach, saturn peach, and santa rosa (tart) plum juices was excellent: ...

This is one of the more ridiculous impulsive rides I’ve done. I’ve always loved the BBQ-your-own-oysters-fresh-from-a-few-hundred-feet-away at Tomales Bay Oyster Farm, and last year a group of us did a 30-mile day trip from Point Reyes to there. But I’ve wondered– how reasonable would it be to ride up from SF, have a leisurely lunch of BBQ oysters (because what’s the point if you’re in a hurry?), then ride back, all in the same day? It’s about 100-110 miles and a moderate amount of climbing (4000’-8000’, depending on the route). I managed to convince someone to join me, and off we went: ...

The Big Picture (boston.com) – Bicycles around the world

Hat tip to Elliot, this sounds interesting: http://www.cyclelicio.us/2012/alviso-salt-pond-bike-tours Perhaps in later July, combined with a ride from Fremont or Mt View to Alviso on a segment of Bay Trail.