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A selection of Bay Area transit service notes for Memorial Day on May 27, 2013. I’ve sampled the Google Transit schedules for Monday for a handful of these agencies and it appears Google correctly chooses the Memorial Day holiday schedule for VTA, AC Transit, BART, Capitol Corridor and Caltrain. If you test the other services I’m sure somebody would appreciate a note. VTA: Sunday / Holiday schedule. AC Transit – all local and transbay service: Sunday schedule. Caltran: Sunday schedule. BART: Sunday schedule. SF Muni: Mostly a Sunday schedule with some exceptions. Golden Gate ferries and buses operate on a weekend / holiday schedule. Blue & Gold Fleet ferries run on a weekend / holiday schedule. The San Francisco Bay Ferry (operated by the Water Emergency Transportation Authority) makes mention of Memorial Day operation on only a couple of their individual individual ferry route pages, so I don’t know if their ferries will run on a weekend or weekday schedule on Memorial Day. SamTrans: Sunday Schedule. Contra Costa County Connection : No service. Marin Transit: Holiday schedule for West Marin Stagecoach and local buses operated by Golden Gate Transit; no service for community shuttles. Altamont Commuter Express (ACE) train: No service. Amtrak Capitol Corridor: Weekend / holiday service. Memorial Day service for transit agencies in the Monterey Bay Area: Monterey Salinas Transit (MST): Sunday schedule with limited lines in operation. The 55 to San Jose will run on a Sunday schedule. Route 78 to Santa Cruz isn’t on the list of buses running on Memorial Day. Santa Cruz Metro: No service on Memorial Day, with the exception of the Highway 17 service to San Jose which operates on a weekend schedule. San Benito County Express: No service. Have a good weekend! Related posts: Bay Area transit and Martin Luther King Junior Day 2013 SF Bay Area free transit New Year’s Eve Bicycling tourists in San Francisco

Introducing the newest trigger shifters from SRAM: X0, X9, and X7. Not quite the X0 version of XX1...

1. André GREIPEL, Lotto-Belisol, in 4:11:29 2. Danny VAN POPPEL, Vacansoleil-DCM, at :00 3. Tom BOONEN, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, at :00 4. Alexander PORSEV, Katusha, at :00 5. Adrien PETIT, Cofidis, at :00 6. Simone PONZI, Astana, at :00 7. Alexey TSATEVITCH, Katusha, at :00 8. Ruslan TLEUBAYEV, Astana, at :00 9. Niki TERPSTRA, Omega Pharma-Quick Step, at :00 10. Ramon SINKELDAM, Argos-Shimano, at :00

If you got stuck in a lift in Leeds, London or Liverpool with three strangers what would you expect the 'Ice breaker' to be. The answer is something Bookmakers would not even take bets on - The Weather.We seem obsessed with talking about it.Comments about the weather appear seem to rank on par with passions about ones favorite football team.When people snarl on Monday morning muttering that it was a 'bloody diascrace', its difficult to work out whether or not they are talking about Hull Citys woeful performance or that of the local weather man.Daily courtesies have been hijacked with the traditional 'Good Morning' being replaced by 'Hasnt it been cold lately' I have to confess with five apps on my phone relating to the weather I too have been influencedAlmost hourly looking to see how wet, windy and warm it may or may not be.Whilst others might be gauging this phenomenon for the possibility of golf, gardening or alfresco gastronomy. For me its about Cycling.The early season sportives have supplied weather conditions so adverse that I would not normally consider recreational riding.High Winds, driving rain and plummeting temperatures were delivered in good measure, its been so grim.However having forced myself to take part, I have now become conditioned.Poor weather seems to have become part of my cycling arena.If I was being reviewed by a Psychiatrist and they showed me association cards it would be easy peasyDown hill Skiing = SnowBeach Volleyball = SunshineCross country Skiing = SnowSand castle competition = SunshineSnow ball Fights = SnowSailing = WindKite Surfing = WindWet T shit competition = RainMud Wrestling = RainCycling = Wind, rain , Freezing Cold100%Its not such a bad thing though - It takes away any deliberation.Before I used to talk myself out of rides.'Its far too windy''Its far too cold''Its too wet'I now just got out and pedal........... and let the weather take care of itself. If its poor,I expect it.....If its better than poor I smile because its always a bonus.On one such recent day we took off to Dalby Forrest in North Yorkshire. It was a chilly start, but soon we saw this Golden Globe in the sky which seemed to emanate a greater degree of light and some unaccustomed warmth. Coats, and arm warmers were discarded, dark lenses were clicked into eye frames and perspiration was encountered.After much debate we decided that the celestial object might be the sun, but none of us could quite remember what it looked like.As Bobby was wearing his Arizona Cycle jersey with the sun brazened across the chest we thought that it may have been seen as some sort of Celtic offering of appeasement to nature.That the Gods had seen his Cycle Jersey and blessed us.What we all agreed on was that it was welcome.A great day was had by all and other days soon followed.Summer may have arrived as far as the Calendar is concerned but the Winter Gloves, booties and Coat are still in the hallway.One of our American Mules Dani Hochleutner recently summoned up the weather far better than I ever could :- The COLD just makes me angry, so I have learned to be well equipped. The RAIN makes little difference to me, surprisingly. I simply adjust my speed and feel a bit like a little kid again.The WIND. I looked up the definition of wind and it said "air in its natural movement" which sounds harmless enough. But HEAD WINDS and CROSS WINDS batter at my confidence and have me question my resolve. Thoughts like "go home", "just quit", "turn around" hit me with each peddle stroke. And then that infamous TAIL WIND whispers false confidence that I am better than I actually am. So I learn something about myself every time I get on my bike. I learn how to be with the reality of who I am, in a world I can't control, and to adjust. Easily, calmly and thoughtfully I move into alignment with the elements of my resistance to becoming something better, faster, and stronger. And eventually I make it back home. Happy Cycling

marie desbons is a french illustrator i found via pinterest. i spent some time looking at her work and i found it very fun, sort of a lighter hearted jamie zollars, or at least zollar's style of a few years ago. desbons' light hearted color palette and whimsical scenes immediately draw you into her fantasy world, where you can lose yourself in her imagination for awhile.i also like how the bike rider seems to be a recurring character.you can see more for yourself on her blog (en français) or on facebook.we kept the theme with a female artist as a slight nod to the clitoral mass rides that are happening this weekend in oakland and LA. there'll be more information about them tomorrow.

Rocky Mountain wants to show off the versatility of their Altitude 790 MSL, and what better way to...

Argos-Shimano rider with some paralysis

Argos-Shimano’s Matthieu Sprick was admitted to a hospital with a cerebral thrombosis, the team announced on Thursday. According to the team, physicians have called Sprick’s condition as a “small cerebrovascular accident.” In a statement on Thursday, the team confirmed that Sprick was “conscious and speaking but has some symptoms of paralysis.” A type of stroke, a cerebral thrombosis is a blockage of a blood vessel in the brain caused by a clot. Sprick is undergoing tests, observation, and treatments and the team said it would provide additional details as available. Sprick recently returned to training following a fracture of his navicular bone, a bone on the medial side of the foot. He crashed hard in a pile-up during stage 1 of the Circuit de la Sarthe.

the Tour de Fat comes to DC in just 8 Short DaysWORKING HARD TO SPREAD THE WORDrolled around Crofton and then NW DCgot the word out to a few water holes and a few barsEvent Info http://waba.org/events/tourdefatwww.newbelgium.com/events/tour-de-fat

We’ve had the Specialized Venge Pro for more than a year now and logged well over a thousand...