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Ben Marks is a freelance writer and editor. His cycling accomplishments include solo rides from Santa Cruz to San Simeon and Fort Bragg to San Francisco. His regular weekend loop usually takes him up Old La Honda Road to Skyline and then back down via the Woodside Bakery and Café.

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Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco

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The Bicycle Film Festival rides into San Francisco this week, presenting music, art, and lots of films, most of them shorts, that celebrate cycling....
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Brittle bones? Not for Lance

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The other day, someone asked me if I was worried about my bone density since I ride a bike so much. Huh? Turns out that cyclists who compete at the...
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Bike plan yes, jail for cop no

This was a bittersweet week for bay area cyclists. On Friday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency voted to approve 45 of the 46 bike...
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SFMTA Bike Program due for decision

Friday June 26 is decision day for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's much delayed bike plan. Fifty-six projects adding some 34 miles...
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Duchamp hits the streets

Apropos of even less than my last post, here's a wonderful art-about-art-about-cycling thing created by a guy named Ji Lee, who works at Google in New...
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To cycle, or not to cycle

Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, my son reminds me that when Hamlet premiered on a Japanese stage in about 1900, the lead actor, Kawakami...
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Fox News hates cyclists

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There's a great story brewing in New York right now about a Fox News writer named Don Broderick, who got into an "altercation" the other day...
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Do pedestrians always have the right of way?

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The other morning, on my normal cycling commute to the train station, a pedestrian yelled at me. I had been waiting at a red light. When it turned...
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Cool site for vintage bikes

Ever since some jerk stole my bicycle at the Palo Alto Caltrain station, I have been looking around for a replacement. One idea is to just get the...
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Chinese inventor reinvents the wheel

Check out this bicycle with a pentagonal wheel up front and a triangular wheel in the back. Both are known as Reuleaux polygons. Unlike a bike with...
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