Dan's tips

Never lock your bike with a cable lock

• Bike theft is unfortunately common in the Bay Area but can easily be avoided by using a u-lock, never a cable lock.
• If your wheels are quick release, make sure to lock those up too!

Use Google Maps to find bike directions

• Google Maps is awesome! Give it a destination and it will route you using as many bike friendly routes as possible

Patch your innertubes

• Millions of perfectly good innertubes are sent to the landfill that could be easily patched and re-used. You save five bucks too!
• A patched tube is just as good as new; it will hold air just as well

Ride with traffic and never on the sidewalk

• This may seem scary to those not used to it, but it is the safest way to ride.
• Statistically, most bike-car collissions are a result of riding on the sidewalk or riding against traffic

Keep your tires inflated

• Keeping tires inflated will prevent "pinch" flats and make you go faster!
• Each tire will have printed on its sidewall its max or recommended pressure.
• Skinny low volume tires need air more often, around twice a month