The Power of The Wiggle
The NY Times (teaming up with illustrator extraordinaire Wendy MacNaughton) took a look at the Wiggle yesterday, teaching East Coasters how we manage our elevation problem:
The first time I set out along the Wiggle, I carried a wrinkled receipt with the street names scrawled in blue ink on the back: Fell, Scott, Haight, Pierce, Waller, Steiner, Duboce. Through the first few turns, I checked and rechecked my cheat-sheet, but by mid-Wiggle, I realized that no cheat-sheet was necessary. The flattest route was obvious — in fact, it was marked on the pavement with faded arrows — and more important, the flow of bikers was thickening.
This, even more than its flatness, is the power of the Wiggle. It’s a funnel. I rode my bike to work most mornings after that, and I always looked forward to the effect. I’d start out alone, pushing up that shallow grade. Next I’d curl through the corner of Golden Gate Park and into the long green strip of the Panhandle, where I’d pick up a few fellow travelers. And then, the thickening: I would zigzag through the Wiggle, gaining new companions block by block, and emerge onto Market Street in possession of a posse, an impromptu bicycle gang, a protective cohort.
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That's not how I learned "Stop". The arm should be pointing down. This looks too much like "Right", or in this case, "Right On!"
Yep.
Also, arms don't bend like that.
yeah,could u please take down these misguided hand signs? it's pretty bad out here as it is with very few people using hand signals in the first place.
Aren't you supposed to be drinking in the park wih Round?
not til after 1ish
I thought the signal for stop meant "hey trucker honk your horn".
"The Thickening?" That's what she said.
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