»Multi-modal, with mousse

Aram points out the word on the street: that fixed-gear stylee has jumped the shark. Well, duh. Some guy on the CalTrain this morning was chatting up a girl with his track bike as bait. She said, disdainfully, "It looks so plain". I was riding a bike with gears this morning.

A woman who spent a year student-teaching my 6th- or 8th-grade English class works here: http://citiesthatwork.com/ as an urban planner. I wonder why the city of San Francisco, despite its much-vaunted, voter-approved 1999 mass-transit plan, insists on have bicycle lanes overlap with MUNI bus stops? This only further delays bus service on busy streets.