San Francisco's Bicycle Coalition recently held an event called Tour DeFat at speedway meadow in Golden Gate Park. Supporters of everyday use of bicycles as a main form of transportation all showed up to support each other and listen to music, eat food, drink beer (sponsored by the New Belgian Brewing Company), and look at some pretty interesting bikes...
..bizarro bikes.. 
a bike with a drum set attached to it..?
a bike which powered a nice cooling fan...
and of course the ever necessary...bike with wheels fully encircling it.
San Francisco has a large bicycling community which really pushes biking as a viable alternative to driving for day to day needs. They have also set up a city run "car share" program to encourage people to own only a bike, and borrow cars from this program for the times where a motor vehicle is necessary.
San Francisco's climate is probably the factor that makes this so viable. Because they don't get snow, and therefore don't salt and sand the streets, potholes are less of a problem here. And in general the weather is always perfect for riding a bike. It is warm during the day (low humidty and always a breeze) and cool at night, and the winters here are extremely mild, negating the need for fristbitten cycling commutes that make biking nearly impossible other cities on a more consistant basis.
It's good to see people taking advantage of their environemental situation to help the environment. Most roads here have bike lanes and there are days of "critical mass" bike ridings to clog the streets with bike traffic to raise awareness of biking as an alternative.
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