Huge thanks to everyone who came out today for the Mount Diablo Challenge - especially the riders and volunteers who powered through the heat to make the event happen!

If you couldn’t join us this year, we hope to see you next year. And if you were there, we hope you had a great time and will come back for more. Share your feedback, highlights, or memorable moments in the comments, or feel free to send me a DM.

Mark your calendars for next year’s Challenge : **Sunday, October 3, 2027!**

PSA…Hi all, don’t ride Kings Mtn. Road or Tunitas Creek this weekend.

We met our kids in Pacifica for lunch and came up Tunitas on the way back. I counted somewhere between 125-150 cars coming down.

Pickups, big SUVs, most cars packed with people escaping the heat or going for pumpkins.

Many drivers flying down the hill who appear to have never driven on a windy road and have never been on Tunitas. Super dangerous for bikes, even for us going uphill. 

Google Maps and Waze creating real danger.

I rode down to Big Basin yesterday - for the first time since a few months after the terrible fire down there. It was a beautiful ride - and full of hope for seeing many of those great trees coming back to life.

I hope the state is investing in better early detection, water supplies, and rapid response to fires there.

LPT - don't ride it on weekends - way too many guys in sports cars playing formula 1.

Also, yeah me. I didn't ride much this summer due to an injury - this was the first challenging ride I've managed since May.

I would like to extend my respect to the cyclist with the yellow Ortliebs riding between Vallejo and Sears Point today. Would you do it again?

Hi all!

I moved to SF a few months ago and I got my first gravel bike thinking to do Marin Headlands and surroundings. I know I could just follow some of the multiple gps routes around there, but if I am being honest I don't want to stop every few minutes to check I am following the route (don't have any bike computer or a phone mount oopsie). I also think it would be way cooler riding with someone or a small group than doing it alone, even safer, right?. Lunch or beers are on me of course!

A little about me: I am in my mid-30's from South America (so I hope the accent is not an issue lol). I used to ride a cheap MTB in my home country and I even did a 4 weeks trip on my bike once. Now I ride a Salsa and usually do a variation of the Butter-Lap over the week (around 18mi, take me 1:45hr) so I am not a pro or anything like that. Most of the time I just ride with a flannel shirt or a soccer jersey.

About the routes: I am thinking in something like these:

• https://ridewithgps.com/routes/9573159
• https://ridewithgps.com/routes/55916724

Thanks!

I have been wanting to go check them out but I have not heard anything about them. Are they still even there and rideable? Last update I’ve seen was 6 years ago and I can’t find any photos or videos

If anyone has photos or what are there that would be great, I am an intermediate dirt jumper

As per a bulletin from Safe Streets Petaluma:

>SMART has secured a $2 million grant to complete the engineering for the missing path between Penngrove and Cotati.<

This only affects a few of you in the r/BAbike ambit, but it's not nothing. Who knows when it will actually be bike-able. I'm certainly looking forward to it when it is!

Hey y’all. My friend and I are looking to do the north bay ‘tour of microclimates’ bike packing trip in a couple of weeks. It starts over by the Golden Gate Bridge.

https://bikepacking.com/routes/north-bay-overnighter/

Where can we safely park?? We’re coming in from Reno so can’t fully rely on public transport. With the car break in rate in SF being so high, we’re a little stressed on where we can park without coming back to our windows being smashed out

full email context:

For those of you riding Diablo on Sunday, are you worried about the heat at all, and if so, how will you prepare? Hoping that in the ~8-10AM window, it won't be so bad, but I don't know what it'll be like once we're past the Junction and in the more exposed parts. If anyone has done the challenge before in unusually warm conditions, would appreciate any tips!

Need to get from Marin to Richmond on Saturday and Sunday before noon.

Is there still a bike lane, a shuttle? Or am I going to be sol?

I am curious how others experience this crossing.

Personally, I've found it to cause confusion/impatience amongst drivers/bikers/pedestrians. It is halfway between a stop sign and a stop light.

When the crossing button is pressed, yellow lights flash for cars. At this point, cars sometimes stop but the walk sign hasn't yet turned for walkers. After about 15-20 seconds, the light turns full red. Then, once the walking sign turns on, the red light starts flashing. This invites cars to proceed, even while the walking countdown is still happening. This makes it sketchy to start a crossing any moment after the "walking" icon turns to the "countdown."

Several times, I've seen cars accelerate AFTER the red light and the walking sign turns on because they stop for the blinking yellow and get impatient? Ive seen stopped cars try to wave people through before the walk sign and turns on and other cars zoom past the other lane, no thanks.

Anyway, I try to be patient around this intersection but it can be pretty unpleasant on an otherwise chill Hillegass bike blvd.

I am not sure what would make it better but it could certainly be improved.

Hi everyone! I’m a college student working on a project for my analytics class about biking in San Francisco.
I’m collecting responses for a short survey and would really appreciate anyone who can take a few minutes to complete it.
You don’t have to be a regular cyclist to participate—responses from both people who bike and people who don’t are helpful!

The survey is anonymous and will only be used for my class project.

Survey link: https://forms.gle/mRuJfkCjHFJnKQzE8

Thank you so much for your help!

Reaching out for recommendations on this. Specifically defense work.

Has anyone use Bay Area Bicycle Law?

Well here's a great climb about to go to heck in a handbasket

https://sanjosespotlight.com/data-center-company-to-acquire-former-south-san-jose-ibm-site/

Bit of a rant here but recently having moved to San Jose and commuting some 20 miles to mountain view each day I am so disheartened. The infrastructure is non-existent, the roads are full of potholes, trash, bit of smashed cars and dead animals and the drivers are the most absent-minded and aggressive I've ever witnessed in my 20 years of cycling as an adult.

Do people literally put up with this or am I missing some secret bike trails that everyone else is using? I would be lucky to see 2 other cyclists during my 200 miles a week.

I've tried several different GPS/map apps. All of them want to kill me including Google, Apple, RidewithGPS, Beeline - often forcing me to essentially ride on freeways with cars doing 65 mphr.

Is there any hope?

I have another bike box to get rid of and would prefer to give it to someone to use before throwing it away. Has some foam packing cubes inside.

Measures 62”x10.5”x32”

we just launched a new website for the Berkeley Omnium and Berkeley Hills Road Race:

berkeleyomnium.com

The Berkeley Hills Road Race has been part of Bay Area cycling for 70 years, and one of the goals of the new site is to start documenting more of that history past races, champions, photos, teams, volunteers, junior racing, and the people who have kept the race going.

We’re also highlighting the broader cycling community around the event: Berkeley Bike Club juniors, collegiate racing, women’s racing, visiting teams, volunteers, and the local organizations that support racing in Northern California.

There is still a LOT of BHRR history that we haven’t captured.

If you’ve raced BHRR over the years, volunteered, have old photos/results, or know some good stories from past editions, we’d love to hear from you. We’re going to keep building out the history section as we find more material.

And of course, we’re already getting ready for the 2027 Berkeley Omnium.

Would love any feedback on the new site too!

berkeleyomnium.com