Bikeness is a new bicycle website with discussion forums for casual and avid cyclists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check it out: Bikeness.com .

A group headed by the business-backed Market Street Association, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the civic think tank San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association is hatching a new idea to improve Market. The thought is to create dedicated bike lanes, physically separated from vehicles...

As gas prices officially reached the $4 mark in San Francisco, Caltrain reported record weekday ridership of 36,993 for February 2008, a 9.3% increase over 2007. I'm not as scientific as Caltrain, but I'm seeing substantially more cyclists on the Caltrain bike cars, many of them with shiny new...

San Francisco Bay Area: Nominate a cyclist for bike commuter of the year. Do you know someone in your community who is committed to making every day a Bike to Work Day? Does this person epitomize and actualize the health, environmental, social and economic benefits of bicycling? Please share his or her...

I'm not there, but some friends of mine went up to the city to watch the fireworks. "Free Tibet" protesters and pro-China counterprotesters have lined up to shout each other down and whack each other with flags and sticks as the Olympic Torch Bus runs over people (shown in the video below...

Here's an interesting article [PDF] on " The Great San Francisco bicycle protest of 1896. " Since the 1880’s, riders across the country had lobbied for access to the streets. Increasingly organized, their mission was political and social as cycling became a way of life. Bicyclists demonstrated...

KQED is the local public broadcasting station in San Francisco. The topic for the 9 A.M. "Forum" show is bicycle safety. Host Michael Krasny is talking with San Francisco Bicycle Coalition executive director Leah Shahum right now if you want to listen in.

The number of San Francisco bike riders rose by 15 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to a report by The City’s bicycle program. In the study, which will be presented today at the Bicycle Advisory Committee, observers from the Municipal Transportation Agency’s Bicycle Program counted 6,454 cyclists...