There are more than 200 mile of bicycle paths, lanes and bike routes in the city, and the Embarcadero and Marina Green are favored sites for skateboarding.
Justin checks our progress, offering advice as we agonise, path or lane?
There are also hundreds of miles of walking paths, bike lanes, and trails.
Hats (and helmets) off to the bicycle activists and policy makers who work to promote bicycle paths and lanes.
The state law treats the Segway much like a bicycle, allowing riders on public bike paths, bike lanes, and roadways with speed limits below 30 miles per hour.
Hotels often offer bicycle rentals, and many American cities have created bike paths and lanes, improved markings on streets and installed bicycle traffic lights.
I'm as frustrated with my fellow cyclists, who somehow see it as their right to ride anywhere they want and as fast as they want, as I am with pedestrians who insist on encroaching on bike paths and lanes.
In the past 18 months, close to 40 miles of bike paths and lanes have been created across the city and the City Council passed a measure to prevent bicyclists from being harassed by motorists.
The network is made up of more than 12,000 miles of traffic-free walking and cycling paths, quiet lanes and on-road cycling routes, and carries more than a million walking and cycling journeys every day.
Mayor Coleman said his target was to attract 10,000 people to live downtown, and in March he committed to spend $20 million to develop 86 miles of bike paths and lanes, with both to be completed by 2012.
