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SF Bicycle Transportation Examiner
Ben Marks is a senior editor at Sunset Books. 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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    Extreme visibility

    December 19, 10:12 AM

    Bike appears white in headlights but completely black under normal conditions
    (instructables.com)
    A fellow examiner in Denver has posted about a new kind of tape that appears black in the daylight but white when reflecting headlights. A DIYer at instructables.com decided to wrap his bike frame with the stuff. Read all about it here.

    Amount of carbon dioxide not produced since July 10, 2008 thanks to commuting by bicycle: 519.96 pounds

    Topics: cycling , bicycle accessories , commuting , gear
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    Name that crime

    December 16, 10:14 PM
    Take a good look at the grainy photo to the right. Can you name that crime? It is taken from an infamous YouTube video that made the rounds last July. In it, NYPD officer Patrick Pogan appears to go out of his way to body check cyclist Christopher Long... Read More
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    Newsom peddles Bike Plan

    December 2, 10:43 PM
    I just watched Gavin Newsom's State of the City Transportation Webisode on YouTube so that you don't have to. Writing in Tuesday's San Francisco Chronicle, Marshall Kilduff described the video's production values: "It's dimly lit, the PowerPoint... Read More
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    Gifts for commuter cyclists

    November 26, 8:50 PM
    One of the difficulties of shopping for cyclists is that their bikes are such personal objects. For example, you'd never buy a cyclist a new seat no matter how cool or perfect you thought it might be, no more than you would presume to buy your cyclist... Read More
    Topics: cycling , bicycle accessories , commuting , gifts , gear , xmas

    The road to Ridge

    November 24, 2:27 PM
    Last Saturday, my wife and I were invited to a birthday party for our friend Norm. We like Norm a lot, but he already has a flat-panel TV and a complete set of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings DVDs, so the challenge was to come up with a simple but... Read More
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    Cyclists want the blues

    November 18, 11:11 PM
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    October 16, 7:47 PM
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    Hello from Fort Collins

    October 14, 9:17 PM
    Hi folks:I'm in Fort Collins, Colorado this week, doing some work, riding around a bit, and blogging for Sunset magazine. Check it out!... Read More
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    Would you bike to work for 20 bucks?

    October 11, 12:23 AM
    Buried deep within H.R.1424, past the section devoted to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which promises to deliver 700 billion of our hard-earned dollars into the sweaty palms of Wall Street Banksters, is something called the Energy... Read More

    Spend it, fast!

    October 7, 9:31 PM
    To all 15 of my readers, apologies for the length of time between this post and the last. Things have been ka-ra-zy. Mostly it's too much stuff going on at work, exacerbated by an imminent bike-riding vacation next week in Colorado, which is rapidly... Read More
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