“For those who love bikes and biking, the local cycle calendar is full of flavourful events. February brings Love on Wheels, the 1970s-style dating game and party hosted by the SFBC. Easter is the date set for the Bring Your Own Big Wheel Ride down Lombard, San Francisco’s “crookedest street.” In April, local cycling heroes are cheered at the SFBC’s Golden Wheel awards. May’s Bike to Work Day rewards tens of thousands of commuters with coffee, treats, and more at 25 energizer stations throughout the city. In June you can ride with the Bicycle Music Festival and help pedal their human-powered PA system. July entertains with cycling flicks at the Bicycle Film Festival, and with the Tour de Fat’s fire-jumping bike acts, cycling games, a bike parade… and beer! In September, new and inspiring public spaces emerge on PARK(ing) Day – a day where car parking spaces transform into temporary public parks; the Cyclecide crew hosts its Pedal Monster bike rodeo event; and Critical Mass celebrates its birthday.

At other times in the year you can check out the San Francisco Bicycle Ballet, a fascinating display of choreographed cycling, viewed from above and accompanied by marching band-style music. Every Sunday is Car-Free Sunday in Golden Gate Park, and – for half the year – a stretch of the park is closed to cars for Healthy Saturdays. The city’s new Sunday Streets feature biking, skating, yoga, and dancing along four miles of waterfront streets closed to cars. Bike Polo games (with mallets provided) happen every week in Speedway Meadow. You can fix your own bike at the Bike Kitchen.”

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Hey BMF fans, the postcards are finally here. Their big, bold “Bicycle Music Festival” leaves no room for doubt. BMF is coming June 21. People are coming from as far as Seattle and LA. If you’ve got two wheels and two legs in this city, you know you need to be there.

And if you have a hankering to ride around to bike community hotspots like Zeitgeist, Ritual, and Atlas, bike shops like the FreeWheel, not to mention churches, synagogues, festivals, sustainability smokeouts, and night clubs like the Elbo Room and Bruno’s, and help with grassroots publicity for the BMF, please pickup some postcards and help us do distro. email paul@ or gabe@ this esteemed web site if you’re interested.

The san francisco bicycle music festival combines two of the best parts of summer: open air concerts and riding around town with friends, creating a roving, interactive community celebration. On June 21, the longest day of the year, the festival starts at a Farmers’ Market and winds through the streets of San Francisco pumping music with a pedal-powered sound system. Stopping at parks throughout the afternoon, the ride becomes a sunset street party with stilt walkers and fire spinners, and ends at a converted auto body shop turned artists’ studio where the party continues until midnight.

Performers include: the Ginger Ninjas, who recently completed the “Pleasant Revolution,” a bike-based musical tour in the USA and Mexico; didgeridoo-er Hernan Battiato; Justin Anchetta; folksy crooner Sonya Cotton; wordsmith Reztef Ttocs; Shake Your Peace; The Blank Tapes; Honey.Moon.Tree; Thao Nguyen, and Fossil Fool aka Paul Freedman. The festival provides loaner bicycles to musicians who don’t have their own and recruits a team of volunteers with cargo bikes to participate as haulers.

Last year’s festival saw about 2,000 people over the course of its 15-mile ride, with several hundred at each stop. This year, festival organizers are excited to welcome even more participants with music, performances, bike advocacy groups, and food at every stop.

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