Tag: East Bay

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Sunday was a good day: How often do you get to ride all day, along the Bay, and through fragrant fennel fields? Or bike on smooth, paved, separated paths across two major bridges (the Benicia-Martinez Bridge and the Carquinez Bridge)? ...

This photo sums up the day: Sunday was the 4th annual Grand-Cru-organized Tour de Biere, visiting four East Bay breweries over the course of an all-day 29-mile scenic bike ride. Great weather (sunny but not too warm, an epic red-and-pink sunset that photos can’t convey), a friendly group of about 40, four friends along for the ride, and a lot of good beer. A collection of photos, in no particular order: ...

Yesterday, bike-based exploration organized by a friend: A ferry ride to Vallejo, an exploration of the fascinating mostly abandoned naval base and nature preserve on Mare Island, a ride through Benicia and across a bridge to Martinez, and then back to BART. Briefly, in photos: A massive boat-building drydock, abandoned. This photo doesn’t do it justice: Old buildings and railroad tracks: ...

Great weather for the first annual Session Beer Festival, and an excuse for a ride with friends from Oakland to San Leandro. White Elephant building: Jingletown: Free wood (so consistently, it’s labeled in the mosaic): Large tires (foreshadowing…): Miles of car-free paved paths along the water: ...

I’m finally posting a map and photos from a ride organized by Robin a month back– about 50 miles from Walnut Creek BART to Martinez, along Carquinez Scenic drive to Port Costa (a common spring destination, for me), then past refineries out to Pinole Point Park and down to Richmond: ...

Four of us took BART out to the end of the line and then biked to Black Diamond Mines Regional Park in Antioch for a tour of the Hazel-Atlas sand mines (and some history on coal mining in the region). It was a casual 20 mile round trip, mostly on the Delta De Anza paved off-road bike path, though with a bit of busy road riding and then a mile of uphill to get into the park. ...

Biking in the nearly-deserted Black Diamond Mines Regional Park (in Antioch).

A casual day of bike riding, picnicking, and wine tasting around the Livermore area. The initial interest in this many-times-rescheduled ride and the good weather made me think 15 people might show up… but it was a group of 31, word of mouth through three degrees of separation. Thanks for being great, everyone. Riding a few miles through Sycamore Grove Park– interesting trees on either side, bridges to ride over, and almost no cross-streets or signs of other people: ...

Another fine ride, with a friendly group of twelve (including several new friends-of-friends), on a sunny, gorgeous, 29-mile route through the Oakland hills. We wrapped it up with a cruise along Lake Merritt and some beer and vegan soul food at Beer Revolution– and then a few of us managed to catch a ferry back across the Bay. ...