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A Folder-friendly event this Saturday at GG Park   Message List  
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Re: [folderfest] Re: A Folder-friendly event this Saturday at GG Park

> I plotted the route on Bikely.com:
http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/169847

=v= I'd like to make some friendly amendments to that route.
Folks may want to take a look at or print a portion of the
big SF Bike Map available here (in PDF format, 2.0MB):

http://www.sfbike.org/?maps

(1) I wouldn't take Fell from Market to GGP. City planners
were thwarted from putting a freeway through GGP in the 1960s
so instead they made Fell a multilane one-way road with lights
timed to encourage speeding, and it's a very unpleasant ride
up and over the hill with cars going 50+mph.

The much more popular route is to take Market uphill a
bit and turn right at Duboce, then take the city's one and
only bikeway for one block behind the Safeway (alongside the
Bike Mural), then follow a path called The Wiggle (it's the
sort of wiggly line on the SF Bike Map). This is the route
of an underground creek, and is the flat path connecting the
east and west sides of the city.

This will get you to Fell, though you've got three blocks
of bike lane (formerly three blocks of guerrilla bike lane)
to the GGP Panhandle. Beware of the cars speeding down the
hill, and also the overflow from two lower-price gas stations,
which often blocks the lane.

(2) Speedway Meadow is in the northern part of the Park, so
once you get to the Panhandle you'd just cross the street
and go essentially straight ahead onto J.F.K. Drive, which
has a bike lane for a stretch. Don't continue on Kezar as
it turns left (as is indicated at the Bikely link).

=v= Alas, I'll be out of town this weekend, but I really
enjoyed Tour de Fat last year. Valet bike parking was
overflowing, so we locked our Bike Fridays nearby:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dogpics/870465516/

On the way out I saw a guy with a Tandem Two'sday:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jym/960551520/

<_Jym_>

P.S.: I'd update Bikely myself but I appear to have too
much privacy turned on in my browser right now. :^)




Wed Jul 16, 2008 4:21 pm

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Hey gang: This looks like a really fun event, and very folder-friendly. Big bike party at GG Park on Saturday. I'm planning to go. Anyone want to join me?...
alanhu99
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Jul 14, 2008
3:29 pm

... Looks interesting. ... Where meet? I'm not that familiar with the area. I get off Caltrain at end-of-line 8.36am....
Nigel Healy
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Jul 14, 2008
7:45 pm

Just a reminder since Magnus and I are working the ID table. If you intend to have beer or hang out in the beer/entertainment area you need to have valid ID...
Jean Kao
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Jul 15, 2008
4:40 am

CalTrain ends up waaaay on the other side of town. We probably wouldn't be able to get to the 9am ride on time. Let's see who else is going and we'll work out...
alanhu99
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Jul 15, 2008
2:00 pm

Thanks Jean for the route. ... You are correct. I mapped it, 5.4miles, given uphills and stopping at lights, I'd guess 45mins bike, so if Caltrain arrives...
Nigel Healy
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Jul 15, 2008
3:50 pm

Fast cross town transport that will get you to GG Park in 15 minutes? Ha! You could take the N Line on MUNI (ride up 10 minutes to Market St, ride 20 minutes...
Jean Kao
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Jul 16, 2008
3:18 am

Wow! If the parade starts between 9:30 and 10:00, we're OK. It'll be fun to zip through the City on a Saturday morning. I'll probably take the same train as...
Alan Hu
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Jul 16, 2008
3:33 am

... The Merc, it was stopped due to being literally a Brompton clone. I have a 2-speed Brompton, with double chainring manual-move, its what I use Mon-Fri for...
Nigel Healy
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Jul 16, 2008
5:37 am

I plotted the route on Bikely.com :http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike- path/169847 Looks like just 300 ft or so of climbing, so I suspect the two speed will be...
Alan Hu
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Jul 16, 2008
2:08 pm

... Ok, will bring 2-speed, its more in the character of the Brompton, fast light folder. ... Ditto. ... OK, so queue near front then on platform. See you...
Nigel Healy
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Jul 16, 2008
4:24 pm

... http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/169847 =v= I'd like to make some friendly amendments to that route. Folks may want to take a look at or print a...
Jym Dyer
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Jul 16, 2008
4:21 pm

Thanks for the suggested route changes, Jym. We'll take Duboce and avoid the heavy part of Fell. Alan...
Alan Hu
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Jul 16, 2008
4:57 pm

... Thanks also for the route there, but the map shows one-ways, the route back is...? We can discuss on the day, but I need to catch (no later than) the 4pm...
Nigel Healy
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Jul 16, 2008
5:21 pm

=v= I've made a Bikely map for my route from S.F. Caltrain to Tour de Fat at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park: ...
Jym Dyer
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Jul 16, 2008
11:59 pm

Great maps Jym! I always find it difficult to explain the wiggle but it's so much easier with a map. The maps Jym has provided are certainly the most bike...
Jean Kao
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Jul 17, 2008
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