San Francisco Cyclists - Death Wish?

[Trek420]

Dogmama "Just returned from San Fran and am amazed that....." that you didn't see any of us?

Uh, excuse me? Did we know about this? Ahem

You're not allowed to visit San Fran without advance notification. At least we could have told you where to get good rental bikes (you're supposed to ask Velogirl) and met for the recovery meal.

You didn't do the trip right. Now come back and do it over 8-)

[Dogmama]

I'm on my way!!!

It was a quick trip, unfortunately. My job is a killer & I just needed to get away for a few days. DH and I talked about spending a lot more time next summer (July) so as your governer says, "I'll be back!!"

A long time ago, I inquired about rental bikes in SF & didn't get a lot of responses. I should have asked again.

Mea culpa!

[Trek420]

See the OT thread now THIS is the way to use of guilt;

you mean to say that the gal I was supposed to go for a ride with yesterday canceled, so here I sat on the Cycleops watching the Raiders play and doing a hard spin every time they turned over the ball and/or got sacked (a hard workout, I highly reccomend it ) and I could have been doing a ride with you?

Cycling the Golden Gate Bridge advice:
do it, it's beautiful, I'm jealous. go on a weekday if possible
alternatives would be take the Ferry to Sausalito and do the bike path there.
Summit Bikes has good rental bikes (I mean good ones). They'll swap pedals, fit you....
What size are you?
OK, so you'll be back in July, we'll let you off the hook.

[Dogmama]

I always go on a weekday. Last week, though, it was really crowded. What gives?

I'm 5'5" and have no idea what size bike. I'll get my size before I come next time!!

I LOVE Sausalito. Thought about renting a bike, taking it across on the Ferry & doing Sausalito - Tiberon. Or maybe Angel Island.

[Trek420]

Mikes Bikes IN Sausalito is right on the bike path.

Angel Island with 360 degree views of the bay would be wonderful to hike or bike around.

I'm 5'1" so my bikes would be too small for ya'.

[Bike Goddess]

Actually, I'd suggest that you do the GG bridge on the weekend as the western side is open for bicycles only. Weekdays you have to ride with the other folks as you found out.

At least on weekends, you only have to deal with other squirrely bikes!

Good place to start is by the Sports Basement. This is also a bike shop although I don't know if they rent bikes.
Great place to park- it's in the Presidio so you don't have to go far to the bridge.

As Ms Trek says, please post notification when you grace your presence in SF. Of course, we'll want to see you- just ask Fish Dr!!!!

[tomgrrrl]

I'd second that....weekends are the time to ride the GG Bridge since you have the best view...looking toward the ocean and no tourists (on foot) to worry about....However, with that being said you can run into two types of worrisome cyclists.....very slow, clueless bike riding tourists or, very fast dudes who think they are the only ones on the bridge.....at least they installed guard rails so that if you do wipe out, you won't likely get run over by a car......