Police are asking for the public's help in locating a special bike used by a handicapped man who is riding for charity across the country.
At 10 a.m., officers were called to the 200 block of Linden Alley, where a man stated that his custom hand-cranked bicycle that's specially equipped for a handicapped person was stolen. The $13,000 bike was stolen sometime between 10 p.m. on Wednesday and 6 a.m. today, said Officer Albie Esparza.
The thieves used a cutting tool to access the entryway to the building. The bicycle was taken from the stairway area, Esparza said.
Just like drinking too much wine can give you a bad headache, so can being hit over the head with a bottle of wine.
Police are looking for a San Francisco teen who reportedly smacked a 65-year-old man over the head with a wine bottle as he rode his bike through the Tenderloin on Sunday evening.
According to police, the man was riding near Eddy and Buchanan streets just before 5:30 p.m. on Sunday when a 19-year-old man walked up to him and attacked him with the wine bottle.
Last week, we alerted readers to the SFPD's great find: a huge stash of stolen bikes. Of course, this news sent recent bike theft victims into a frenzy, hoping one of those recovered bikes was theirs.
Today, police released a full list of the bikes along with enlarged photos of each so that cyclists can get a good look and identify their missing bike. You can find the photos of the bikes here.
If you spot your bike, you must provide a police report number or some other proof of ownership, including purchase receipts and serial numbers, to get your bike back, said Officer Carlos Manfredi.
San Francisco was ranked one of the best cities for cycling. But with great biking pleasures comes another sad reality: The city is also a hot spot for bike theft.
Th good news is that the SFPD might have your bike. As SFist points out this morning, the hard-working officers over at the city's Ingleside station managed to recover more than 100 stolen bicycles found in Oakland, according to police. We called San Francisco police to get more information on this great find, and we will tell you more when we know more.
Until then, you can browse through the full list of photos of the recovered bikes and see if one of them is yours.
Just when you thought Muni couldn't get any more unreliable, the transit agency reminded us that a portion of the city's rail system won't just be delayed on Friday, it's going to be completely shut down to all passengers.
Muni is closing some rail lines for 10 days while crews do repairs that will purportedly make us all much happier in the end. Specifically, the N-Judah Line will be closed, the J-Church Line will be partially
shutdown, and the 22-Fillmore, 37-Corbett, 43-Masonic, and N-Owl routes
will be rerouted. This transit fiasco starts on Friday at 7 p.m. and lasts until 5 a.m. on June 4.
So what are you car-less folks to do in the absence of (un)reliable transit? Exercise your self, of course.
This isn't exactly the kind of news you want to read on Bike to Work Day. A 27-year-old cyclist remains in critical condition this morning after he collided with a PG&E truck in the city's Mission District yesterday afternoon.
According to Sgt. Daryl Fong, the truck was traveling south on South Van Ness and took a left turn on 13th Street where the driver and the cyclists, who has not yet been identified, crashed.
The victim was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with a major head injury, police said.
As if motorists aren't already annoyed by San Francisco cyclists enough, here's something that's sure to provoke local drivers even more.
A group of San Francisco cyclists who swear by the city's Wiggle -- the 1-mile zig-zag route from Market to Golden Gate Park that minimizes the hills -- created this obnoxiously upbeat jingle, "Do The Wiggle," for Bike to Work Day today. The 60-second song -- which is the perfect combination of informative and lame -- is supposed to get cyclists stoked about pedaling in San Francisco sans all those painfully steep hills.
It's not exactly a billboard hit, but it at least gets your attention. Watch and smile:
The driver who allegedly ran two cyclists off the road in Berkeley last week was was arrested at the Jack London Inn in Oakland on Friday afternoon.
According to press reports, Michael Patrick Medaglia, 43, was arrested after OPD found his black Acura Integra involved in the accident in Oakland's Glenview neighborhood. Medaglia, who had reported the car stolen the day of the accident, is now being charged with a felony hit-and-run, violating probation, and possession of heroin and ammunition.
The Acura was spotted four blocks away from where the Wednesday collision occurred. A Glenview resident fired off an e-mail to her neighbors about the car, claiming it had been blocking her driveway. She included the vehicle's license plate number, which matched the plates of the car involved in the widely viewed video of the hit-and-run.
With all the recent news of cars hitting cyclists, and cyclists hitting pedestrians, SFist brought us this shocking video, which maybe should be integrated into the driver's education course.
This Berkeley cyclist who goes by "Bruno" was riding with his buddy when a black car clipped the two, knocking them to the ground. As you you will see, the driver speeds off, but fortunately, Bruno had equipped his mountain bike with a video camera, which captured the entire incident -- and the driver's license plate.
Watch the harrowing crash (at 2:38)
"It really shows his recklessness," said Police Capt. Denis O'Leary.
