Mission Mission

The second and final Sunday Streets: The Mission is happening this Sunday from 10am-2pm, so enjoy your last chance to explore the yellow-line without worrying about getting hit by a car.

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Previously on Mission Mission:

• Sunday Streets Wrap-up
• Sunday Streets in the Mission
• Sunday Streets Coming to the Mission

Jessica Brooke says:

Maybe the hipsters will start roller skating again now that Urban’s selling fixies. Or ride Segways. Whichever’s least cool to “consumers”

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That’s right, Urban Outfitters has entered the bike market.

The Bicycle Film Festival is kicking off tomorrow.  Unfortunately, you’ll have to leave the hood to check out the weekday activities (Alamo Square and SOMA?  What gives?).  But fear not: Friday and Saturday nights bring bicycle cinema to the Victoria Theatre on 16th and Capp.  There is even a street party Saturday afternoon until 6pm featuring a BMX Competition, a track bike competition (mustaches required), and “fun times.”

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I spent some time in Berlin last month, a lot of it riding bikes, and it was tremendously enjoyable: Dedicated bike lanes, little fear of theft. But it is different. Everybody’s on old clunkers bogged down with a thousand pounds (er, a bajillion kilograms) of fender, chain guard, off-road tires, baskets, bells, whistles, etc. So we go slow.

In San Francisco, biking will get you to your destination faster than driving. In Berlin, biking will get you to your destination a little bit faster than walking. But it’s great.

Didn’t see a lot of fixies (or helmets for that matter). Just now Kevin from Everything is Everything sent me a link to this GOOD story:

Berlin Gives Fixies das Boot

You can’t ride your fixie, but you can drink beer on the subway, so it all evens out I guess. Thanks, Kevin!

Mission Loc@l twitters so I can post their stories before they do:

“Robbery @ Safeway, Mission Street near Cesar Chavez. 2 suspects detained. One fled on bike going northbound on Mission. Cops searching area”

Anyone else see what went down?

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For proof, check out Everything is Everything for a series of photos that includes fire and smiles and full-frontal nudity:

june critical mass 2009

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Mission Cycling, always on the forefront of fashion, brings us the district’s latest hair-style craze: helmet hair.

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Free admission if you wear a monkey suit.  ’nuff said.

Guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of vintage films on bicycle safety, history and more.  Highlights include: the early 60’s cult favorite “One Got Fat”; the kooky “Just Like A Car”; “Bicycles Are Beautiful” with Bill Cosby; “Riding On Air”, a 1959 short focused on the bike craze in Britain; “How To Protect Your Bike”, a hilarious 1970’s look at foiling bike thieves; “Bicycle Safely”, bike history and safety; plus early TV segments, “The Bicycle Clown”, vintage commercials and more!  Free admission for anyone in a full monkey suit.

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Mission Cycling just posted a series of photos celebrating being a kid on a bike in the summertime. Link.