by Amanda Witherell
Record bike attendance at Outside Lands Friday night
I volunteered for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on Friday evening, valet parking bikes during the Outside Lands concert in Golden Gate Park. It was busy: Radiohead fans ride bikes. Even though it was a hustle to move all the bikes and keep the waiting line flowing, it was a remarkably smooth and stress-free experience, which I'll chalk up to the healthful effects of cycling and a general good feeling from being around bikes. People walking by the pen of parked bikes kept commenting on how it was a sight to see so many bikes in one place.
According to a "thank you" email I got from the SFBC today all previous bike parking records were broken. We parked over 1,000 bikes on Friday night, and over 2,400 for the entire weekend. As I was riding my own bike out of the foggy park on Friday night I saw thousands more bikes locked all over the containment fencing of the festival, meaning a significant number of people cycled to the festival.
And just today the Chron noticed that more people are riding bikes.
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Comments (4)
Thanks for parking our bikes! :-D
http://sf.bikeblogs.org/2008/08/23/outside-lands-bicycle-report/
Posted by Peter | August 26, 2008 01:30 AM
[Don't think my comment went thru before.]
Thanks for parking us! :-D
Find our 'Outside Lands Bicycle Report' at the link.
Posted by Peter | August 26, 2008 02:03 AM
Hiya! I volunteered, too, though on a much slower day (Sunday).
Let's just say...it gets me AMPED on bicycles.
Posted by Yell | August 27, 2008 04:28 PM
i royal treatment for under 30bucks a year, this service (which is a service open to everyone) and so many more. xoxo to them!!
wish all events in the city had this pimped out service. Ihave also volunteered throughout the years and its lovely to meet tons of people sharing the same passion ;)
Posted by meli | September 29, 2008 05:14 PM