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"To the eye that has any artistic sense at all, the skillful lady bicyclist, adds a new grace to the loveliest landscape, and throws in an extra gleam of glory to the most brilliant of sunsets. The Boston girl of the wheel, her cheeks pink with health, urging her steed of steel over the broad and well-kept rods of our great park, presents to us, as she sweeps around its grass-fringed curves, a picture that is at once entirely modest, wholesome and fascinating.

Discovered less than 20 years ago, it has added a new pleasure to life, opened a new avenue to health for countless thousands of all ages and both sexes, and -- which is very well worth noting -- created a new and important business interest of vast and still growing dimension.

Considered simply as the basis of a new and great industry, employing millions of capital and thousands of wage-earners, the bicycle is indeed one of the most interesting facts of the period.

Not less interesting is the cycling boom in its social and sociable features. A new and extensive club life has sprung up around the wheel, and as a perusal of the reports from these cycling fraternities which we present today will show, they are strong in membership and full of fraternal enthusiasm. The brotherhood and sisterhood of the wheel is one of the marked features in the social life of the summer of 1891, and it will without doubt continue to be so in all the summers to come."

(Editorial: The boom in bicycling. July 27, 1891, 4. The Boston Globe.)

From SFO (San Francisco Airport) to Palo Alto / towards San Jose / onto El Camino Real

I recently flew into SFO and biked down to visit Stanford. Even though I live around Boston, not the Bay Area, I found the trip out of SFO much easier to navigate than any bicycle trip involving the Logan International Airport at Boston.

My route was simple. Starting from the arrivals area:

  1. Follow signs for McDonnell? Road.
  2. Turn left onto South McDonnell? Road.
  3. Take the first right, onto East Millbrae Ave.
  4. Go past the entrance to Interstate 101, then take a left onto El Camino Real heading south.

Generic advice for dealing with traffic:

  1. When honked at, wave.
  2. When in doubt, take the lane. Drink its blood.
  3. Watch out for potholes and wrong-way cyclists.

A nice Chinese restaurant near the beginning of this route is the Five A's Cafe: 1851 El Camino Real, Burlingame CA 94010, voice (650) 697-4588, fax (650) 697-4558.

Have fun! -KenShan

General resources

Boston area

San Francisco bay area

Not around Boston and San Francisco

General information

Longer distances

Online retailers

Winter bicycling

Moving large things by bicycle

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