{"id":573,"date":"2013-03-15T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalbicyclegreenway.wordpress.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:07:20","slug":"former-mayor-biking-to-sf-carla-lasers-tour-de-sf-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2013\/03\/15\/former-mayor-biking-to-sf-carla-lasers-tour-de-sf-follows\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mayor Biking to SF | Carla Laser’s Tour de SF Follows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Palo Alto Mayor and present\u00a0Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District<\/a>\u00a0Director,\u00a0Yoriko Kishimoto<\/strong>, will be helping lead several dozen cyclists up the SF Peninsula on Sat, May 4, to San Francisco. A ride her and her husband enjoyed with us once on their way to the symphony there, she tells me how much enjoyment she gets from experiencing the charm of all the little towns and cities that car and train commuters hardly notice are even there.<\/p>\n

A casual ride, on flat roads that generally parallel the CalTrain right of way, there is little need for gears until we reach San Francisco. And since we’ll be staying close to the Bay on our way to the storied Ferry Building, the amount of hill work is marginal. In The City, \u00a0our ride will pass under the awe-invoking Bay Bridge as we move along the magical\u00a0San Francisco\u00a0waterfront, with an unblocked view of Alcatraz and Treasure Island. Once we stop for treats at \u00a0the water transit building \u00a0that kept\u00a0San Francisco\u00a0connected to the rest of the world after the 1906 Earthquake, our comfortable, relaxed return to Palo Alto is from the nearby Caltrain Station at 4th and King<\/p>\n

From the train’s huge picture windows, you will be able to savor your accomplishment with also the inner satisfaction of knowing you traveled to the Golden Gate city with the \u00a0message of two Mayor’s in their call \u00a0for a National \u00a0Bicycle Greenway that connects them with all the cities and towns that reach to the nations capital.<\/p>\n

To sign up, Click\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0To see the except that describes this connection in my new book,\u00a0“How America Can Bike and Grow Rich”<\/a>,\u00a0scroll to the end of this post….<\/p>\n

If that’s not enough, Carla Laser<\/strong> of the\u00a0San Francisco Bicycle Ballet<\/a>\u00a0is creating a Tour of her City that will show the cyclist’s view \u00a0of \u00a0San Francisco\u00a0\u00a0off to the world. For this, she will be deploying Neighborhood Ambassadors, even a few of the much storied San Francisco Bike Messengers, to help us see San Francisco the only way one can really know it, from a bicycle seat.<\/p>\n

With a population of 812,000 people crammed into an a area 7 miles wide by 7 miles long, there are so many streets, alley ways and hidden paths that only the cyclist could ever hope to discover and enjoy a worthy number of them. With Carla’s help NBG cyclists will get a rare opportunity to see a\u00a0San Francisco that few will ever know<\/p>\n

PingVite soon!!<\/p>\n

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From NBG Route Across America<\/b><\/p>\n

Their path through Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, San Mateo, Burlingame, Milbrae, San Bruno and South San Francisco\u00a0will roughly parallel the same rail line that dates back to Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. As cars and trucks thunder away on the two freeways that feed the Golden Gate city, they will enjoy the charm of downtowns and neighborhoods that speeding motorists never get to enjoy. All this as they make their way to\u00a0San Francisco’s<\/b>\u00a0southern edge and the SoMa. A neighborhood patchwork of warehouses, swanky nightspots, residential hotels, art spaces, and loft apartments, it is here that, housed in a renovated freight storage building, they will find the second of our regional NBG Hubs.<\/p>\n

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From Palo to San Francisco Chapter<\/b><\/p>\n

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We awakened early after our first night on the bus. It wasn\u2019t long before Don\u2019s parking lot was filled with bikes. By the time we left for this year\u2019s annual ride to San Francisco, there was easily 30 or more of us. There even was a fleet of antique bikes ready to join us. They were led by Barry Burr on the same 1946 Schwinn Phantom his grandfather had bought brand new for his dad for $25.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Barry\u2019s crew of one speeds always looked forward to doing this journey, because, until we reached San Francisco, there were no hills. This was due to the fact that we pretty much paralleled rail tracks where any climbing can never exceed three per cent. In addition, our HiWheels moved at an easy casual pace.<\/p>\n

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Our ride\u00a0was also a great way to see the quaint downtowns and peaceful neighborhoods one does not know to exist when on the freeway or looking out a train window. From Palo Alto, the route we had devised took us through Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, San Mateo, Burlingame, Millbrae, San Bruno and South San Francisco. Each of these cities has its own unique\u00a0appeal, a charm that cannot\u00a0be found when roaring through them at 50 to 80 miles an hour.\u00a0 Once we reached the unavoidable hills of San Francisco, each of us felt a sense of achievement in knowing we had used our own two legs to make it this far. Having taken a long slow look at where some of the people of the peninsula live, had shown us the special character of each urban area as it also made us feel richer for the experience.<\/p>\n

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See more of what is happening in Dublin, Ireland, Golden, CO, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento and along the American ~River Parkway\u00a0HERE<\/a>!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Palo Alto Mayor and present\u00a0Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District\u00a0Director,\u00a0Yoriko Kishimoto, will be helping lead several dozen cyclists up the… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,40,39],"tags":[45,43],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mayors-ride","category-oakland","category-san-francisco","tag-carla-laser","tag-yoriko-kishimoto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-9f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9286,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/03\/26\/palo-alto-bicycles-and-whole-foods-join-sf-to-palo-alto-ride\/","url_meta":{"origin":573,"position":0},"title":"Palo Alto Bicycles and Whole Foods Join SF to Palo Alto Ride!","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"March 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"With Palo Alto as the cornerstone of our San Francisco to Washington DC route per this post, legendary Palo Alto Bicycles just signed on to be the start\/finish location for the three rides San Jose to\u00a0Palo Alto\u00a0 San Francisco to\u00a0Palo Alto \u00a0 Palo Alto to Oakland that are \u00a0epicentered around\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mayors' Ride"","block_context":{"text":"Mayors' Ride","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/mayors-ride\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SANY1211.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SANY1211.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SANY1211.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SANY1211.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SANY1211.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SANY1211.jpg?resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9244,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2015\/03\/08\/direction-of-ride-change-san-francisco-to-palo-alto-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":573,"position":1},"title":"Direction of Ride Change: San Francisco TO Palo Alto Now!","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"March 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"On Sunday May 10, the direction of our 8th Palo Alto to\u00a0 San Francisco ride will change. 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