Bike Party coming from Panhandle

On September 7, I wrote that the day before I rode out to Fillmore to catch San Francisco Bike Party coming from Panhandle but I missed them so I followed a couple to Hyde Street where I found everyone. A close acquaintance was leading and one person I knew from the East Bay had a music bike. I said hi to the regulars and we rode through the SOMA with a bunch of other people I knew.

I caught up with an acquaintance who had greatly recovered from personal tragedy and caught a glimpse of a few people I hadn’t seen in a while before we arrived at Yerba Buena where I chatted with bike mechanics and regulars I knew really well. I also tried to chat with new people but that turned out to be difficult. I went on the Yerba Buena Park stage and met a really new personality and and his friend from the east coast and that was a treat. I spoke to a ton of other people, especially an old school cycling advocate with whom I spent a lot of time chatting.

The ride left and we rode SOMA through the Giants Ballpark and Mission Bay and eventually we made it to a park above the Caltrain tracks near Islas Creek. By then I was with a friend from Sunnyside and some ride leaders.

From here the ride headed up Chavez then and wove through alleys parallel to Mission Street. These two cool girls were in front of me a lot but they seemed really interested in following that one guy from Critical Mass who likes to “surf.” At Mission playground we stood around for a while but then relocated to Dolores Park where I said bye to the remaining crowd before going to bed at home.

This is an occasional series chronicling my life. This Notebook Analysis series is meant to be contemporaneous piece developed as an agglomeration of my notebook pages. In each of these posts I used my notes to develop my recent thoughts.