• Convergence
• Not Your Mother’s Dirt Ride
• Irresolute
• Deflowered
• Mortification
• Into Socks. Are you?
• Fun With Road Tubeless: The Aftermath
• Fun With Road Tubeless: When Dreams Come True
• Karoo 2 Setup and First Experience
• Core Values
• What’s Old Is New
• Road Recap: Mt. Veeder Road
• Increasing Ride Diversity
• Dirt Ride Recap: Over The Hills
• Buttes Plug
• Ride Recap: New Speedway Boogie
• Adios, January. I’ll Miss You!
• Eating Dessert First
• 2022 Centuries: August-October [Updated 5/14/22]
• 2022 Centuries, May-July [Updated 5/14/22]
• Impressions of Fulgaz
• Getting On The Good Foot: Resolution Ride
• In The Rearview Mirror
• What To Do On A Rainy Day
• 2022 Century Rides, Jan-Apr [Updated 4/21/22]
• Custom-Fitted Cycling Helmets
• It Was 43 Years Ago Today
• Effulgence
• Ride Recap: Mt. Hamilton in the Fall
• Plus Ça Change
• Hamilton
• Bear With Us
• Ride Recap: Danville for Lunch, Oct. 17 [Updated]
• Gutter Bunny Part 2, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Roadway
• Hot Hot Hot
• Ride Recap: No Pool Party Ride
• Ride Recap: August Jersey Ride
• Gutter Bunny (Part 1)
• Ride Recap: A Quick One
• Get Over It
• A Different Tiburon Loop
• Pique-nique
• Ride Recap: Monterey Bay Trail
• Same As It Ever Was
• Mines Eye
• 23 Skidoo
• Ride Recap: On a Winters Day
• Like ‘Post Gay’, Are We Post COVID?
• Mind Over Matter
• Up the Hill
• Cinderfellas
• Kicking Off
• Asphalt Perversion: Mines Road
• A Leopard Changing Its Spots?
• Ten Years Ago Today: Darth Veeder
• “Sesame, Ouvre-toi!”
• Summer 2021 Centuries [updated 9/1/21]
• Serving or Self-Serving?
• Bike Lane, Bike Route, Bike Path, Bikeway?
• Bakery Loopers
• Happy 2021!
• Ride Recap: December Jersey Ride
• 2021 Centuries: Looking Grim [updated 5/5/21]
• We’re Riding! Gazos Creek and Stage Road loop.
• Ride Recap San Bruno Mountain: Wish You Were Here
• Ride Report: City Loop 10/17/2020
• The Next Guerneville?
• The Missing Pool Party & Ride
• Dude, What Have You Been Smoking?
• The Russian River Weekend [9/10 update]
• Pedaling the Pandemic
• Still Closed But Never Closeted
• When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Conduct A Poll
• When Tubeless Road Tires Are Awesome
• Fall Centuries [updated 9/3]
• Generations of Hope
• A Pink Saturday Fashion Statement Every Day!
• Unmasked: Random Thoughts on Wearing a Face Covering While Cycling [updated 6/24]
• Enquiring Minds Would Like To Know: When Will There Be Club Rides Again?
• Build It And They Will Come?
• Fashion Crime or Accessory?
• Different Spokes Chiang Mai Report, part 2
• Different Spokes Chiang Mai Report!
• How do you say that in French?
• Musings on riding in a time of quarantine, or Why does the club not allow group rides with social distancing?
• 2019: That Was the Year That Was
• Summer Century Update [updated 6/23/20]
• Shelter In Place
• 2020 Centuries Update: M-M-M-My Corona! [updated 4/20]
• Coronavirus and DSSF: ‘Playing Safe’ Has A New Meaning
• The First Rain Cancellation of 2020
• The Future of Saddle Challenge
• Ride Recap: Pedaling Paths in the Valley
• Ride Recap: Pt. Molate, or Sitting On A Dock At The Bay
• No Almond Joy
• Ride Recap: DSSF Velo Love Ride, or Blown & Unloved
• A Bridge To Somewhere
• In A Second
• Vote
• Ride Recap: January Jersey Ride
• Ride Recap: New Year’s Day Up Diablo
• 2019—Don’t Look Back…
• Ride Recap: Last Call for the Jimtown Store
• 2020 Century Rides, Part 1
• The Future is Here, Now
• Calling All Sugardaddies!
• Ride Rumor: Treasure Trail to Speisekammer
• NTKOMM Membership Meeting*
• Jock Supporters
• The High Cost of Fashion
• The Best Way to Keep One’s Word is Not to Give It
• Calling All Spokers-Jock Sunday at the Lookout on Sunday Nov. 3!
• The WalMart of Bicycling Comes to the Bay Area [updated 10/30]
• A Bridge Not Too Far
• Ragging on BART, Part Deux, or Quelle Surprise! BART’s Pushing Back Opening Dates!
• The Club Picnic
• DSSF, Now With RideWithGPS!
• The Fourth Dimension [update]
• Fun With Road Tubeless, The Finale
• Flat, Flat, Flat, Flat, Flat
• The Fourth Dimension
• The Dinner
• Ragging on BART
• What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits: the Orinda Pool Party 2019
• Tubeless Road Tires, Pt. 6
• Taking The Ferry To Your Ride
• Happy Trails
• “Making Communities Stronger Through Bicycles”
• Depending On The Kindness of Strangers
• Ride Rumor: July Jersey
• Ride Rumor: Social Ride through Foster City to Crepevine
• Happy Pride!
• Jersey Boys & Girls
• Fun With Road Tubeless Tires, Part 5
• Fashion Makeover: The New DSSF Website!
• Where to Ride, Pt. 2
• Different Spokes Chiang Mai!
• Where To Ride, Pt. 1
• Saddle Challenge and Project Inform
• Different Spokes and Charity Fundraising
• Ride Recap: Tour of Lamorinda to the Creekside Grill
• Showers Pass Body-Mapped Baselayer
• Different Spokes Kit for 2019
• Ride Leader Appreciation Dinner on January 27
• Ride Recap: New Year’s Diablo
• Ride Recap: Talk Dirty To Me, or I Am Curious (Dirty)
• Looking for a Great Cycling Vacation? Sierra To the Sea or Cycle Oregon
• Ottolock: A Fool and His/Her Money Are Soon Parted
• It Was 40 Years Ago Today
• 2019 Century Rides
• Different Smokes
• Sign Of The Times: Respro Mask
• Continuing Lessons on Road Tubeless Tires
• Hedging Your Bets [Updated 11/14]
• What Lying Liars Like To Do
• BART: Promises, Promises
• Disc Brake Hype
• World’s Longest Road Closure: Crystal Springs Dam Road
• Jersey Ride Notes
• Waistlines not Pacelines
• San Francisco Water Torture
• The Bleeding Edge of Old Fartdom
• Pool Party Proves Perfect
• Not Dead Yet
• Road Tubeless Update
• The First Gay Pride
• Pride Goeth Before A Fall
• Reflections on Tiburon Loop
• Summer Time Means…Centuries??
• Different Spokes Seattle Folds
• The Jersey Ride
• Riding With The Den Daddy
• Saddle Challenge 2018
• Evil Stepsisters
• Yet Another Road Update [updated 3/30]
• Saddle Challenge Spoken Here!
• Tubeless Update
• Ride Recap: Social A Ride—Brunch at Hideout Kitchen
• Ride Recap: Four Bears & A Happy Pig
• Ride Recap: Social Ride Treasure Island to Assemble
• 2018 Fast ‘N Fabulous Kit!
• 2018: Welcome to the Pleasuredome
• The Return of the Lake Tahoe Spectacular Weekend?
• 2018 is Just Around the Corner! Start Planning Your Centuries
• Open & Closed Cases
• Ride Recap: Morgan Territory on 11/19
• Ride Recap: Social A Ride—Iron Horse Trail to Khyber Pass Kabob
• We Recruit!
• Quick East Bay Road Update
• Assume The Position
• Insurance
• Humbled [Updated 10/10, 10/16]
• East Bay Road Closure Update: Palomares Now Open!
• Fall Social: Ride, Dish & Dine on Sunday, October 1!
• Ride Recap: Contra Costa Ramble to Clayton
• Pfeiffer Bridge Opening Delayed: Still Time to Bike Big Sur!
• Redwood Road Update and Niles Canyon Stroll ‘N Roll 9/30
• Orinda Pool Party Recap
• East Bay Road Update – August [Updated 9/5]
• Fun With Tubeless Road Tires [updated 9/10]
• SMART Start, Finally!
• August East Bay Road Update
• Ride Recap: Year Of The Cock—Finger Licking Good!
• A Big Sur Adventure
• Hell Froze Over: Mt. Umunhum to Open-Finally!
• Ride Recap: West Sonoma County
• Big Sur Beckons Cyclists [updated 2x]
• Odds And Ends
• Go Around Canyon Bridge By Trail, Get Ticket
• Road Recovery
• Fire Roads Also Hit Hard By Record Rainfall
• Work Arounds For East Bay Road Closures
• Bay Bridge Bike Path To Open Weekdays On May 5
• An Island In The Sun: Apple Blossom Recap
• Will It Never End? Skyline Blvd. Closed [addendum]
• Palomares Update
• What Is A Social “A” Ride?
• And Another One Bites The Dust!
• Road Closure Tidbits
• Ron Wilmot and the Saddle Challenge
• Finally!
• You Don’t Need A Weatherman [sic] To Know Which Way The Wind Blows
• Velo Love Ride 2017
• Be Careful What You Wish For
• Free Is Not Free
• Road Closures: Inquiring Minds Would Like to Know
• Update on 2017 Centuries
• New Year, New Kit…for Different Spokes Southern California
• Just A Moment
• SMART Bike Route Status
• Get SMART This Spring
• On New Year’s Different Spokes Did Not Climb Mt. Diablo!
• What Is A Different Spokes Ride?
• Ride Recap: Social Ride to Danville Chow
• 2017 Centuries and Gran Fondos
• Let’s Make Christmas Great Again!
• The Roads Less Traveled: Sibley to Fish Ranch
• Three Peaks In A Day
• 2017: 35 Years of Different Spokes!
• Ride Recap: Orinda Pool Party & Ride(s)
• History of the Orinda Pool Party
• Ride Recap: Tilden Park Heaven Becomes Hell
• Ride Recap: Sawyer Camp Trail & Mediterranean Kebab
• Ride Recap: Social Ride Silverado Trail & Lunch at Sogni di Dolci
• Ride Recap: Bay Vistas and Lunch at Tabla
• Ride Recap: Wine Country Century
• Ride Recap: San Juan Bautista-Elkhorn Slough
• Electric Bike Expo at Stanford
• New Different Spokes Southern California Kit!
• Ride Recap: Morgan Territory
• The Mystery of Volunteerism
• Ride Recap: Social Ride-Lunch at the Prolific Oven
• 2016 SADDLE CHALLENGE ENDS
• Ride Recap: Lunch at Creek Monkey Tap House
• More on Rainwear
• Review: Earth’s Best Organic Orange Banana Baby Food Puree
• Update on 2016 Century Rides
• Ride Recap: Social Ride—Brunch at Assemble
• The 2016 Different Spokes Saddle Challenge is on!!!
• A NEW YEAR BEGINS AT DSSF
• The Future of E-bikes: A Prediction
• The Case for Electric Bikes
• New Year’s Day 2016
• Unresolved
• Frosty
• The End of the Triple Crank
• 2016 Centuries and Gran Fondos–Start Planning!
• Ride Recap: Brunch at Hideout Kitchen
• Ride Recap: Turkey Burn, Option 2
• El Nino Cycling
• Social Ride: Lunch at The Baltic, er Little Louie’s
• Mt. Hamilton Eruption
• July 2015 DSSF Board Meeting Minutes
• Ride Rumor: Lunch at Speisekammer
• Different Spokes: Where We Live
• Redwood Regional Park Loop
• Diversity
• Shiny New Things: Garmin Edge 25
• Social Ride: Lunch at 54 Mint Il Forno
• Now Wasn’t That A Fabulous Party?
• Ride Report Social A Rides: Three Bears, and Lunch at B Street
• 2015 Cycle Greater Yellowstone – trip report
• What is a Different Spokes Ride?
• Revisiting Fred-dom: Cycling Mirrors
• The First Bike-A-Thon Riders: Bruce Matasci
• The First Bike-A-Thon Riders: Dr. Bob Bolan
• Social Ride: Brunch at Assemble!
• All Good Things Must Come to an End
• Den Daddy’s Secret Old Farts Confab
• The First AIDS Bike-A-Thon
• Saddle Challenge 2015 – Half Time Report
• MARCH 2015 SADDLE CHALLENGE – Week 1
• October 2014 DSSF Board Meeting Minutes
• Antisocial Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest?
• Fading
• Tantalizing…
• 2014 Fall Social Recap
• Dirt Riding
• Gear Review: Camelbak Podium Ice Bottle
• Riding With Lower Tire Pressure: HED Ardennes+ SL Wheels
• Orinda Pool Party Recap
• June 2014 DSSF Board Meeting Minutes
• Road Update Contra Costa County
• June Updates at DSSF
• Saddle Challenge 2014
• Ladies Lunch in Afghanistan
• Weekday Rides Go Coastal
• Cinderella 2013 Report!
• 30th Anniversary kit pics
• The Ladies Tour the Pig Farm Looking for Ham
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever…
• Ride With Different Spokes During the Week!
• Riddle Me This: When Is a Bag Like a Bike?
• Solvang Century 2013 report: the beef about food
• Cinderella Century on Saturday, April 6!
• And the winner(s) are…
• You Are All Cordially Invited to the 30th Anniversary Banquet!
• American Conservatory Theater presents “4000 Miles”
• 2012 Best of Poll: Your Favorite Organized Ride
• Different Spokes 30th Anniversary Primal Club store is now open!
• 2013: Diehards With Modest Goals
• Medicine of Cycling Six Week Class
• Fabulous Fall Social!
• How Much Do We Ride?
• Double Bay Double incentive!
• The Future of Different Spokes
• Women and Different Spokes
• 80 Years and Still Going Strong
• Double Bay Double is half-full!
• A Tale of Two Centuries
• Different Spokes at the Chico Wildflower: Veni, Vidi, Bici
• Props for Chris Thomas!
• The first century of the year
• Cinderella 2012: Flahuttes
• Saddle Challenge 2012
• California Dreaming: Cycling and it’s 81º in February!
• 30th Anniversary Ride II: Sunol Valley
• Announcing the 2012 30th Anniversary Ride Series
• A New Hope: The First Ride of the New Year
• How about a little early Saddle Challenge?
• Data freaks: careful with that GPS cyclometer!
• Sports Basement Holiday Fun-Raiser
• Ralston Bike Bridge
• Adventures in the near Arctic—Climbing Mt. Hamilton
• FYI – Sunday Nov. 6 Golden Gate Bridge West Sidewalk Closure
• Foxy’s Fall Century
• Old La Honda-Tunitas Redux
• Amador County Gold Country Weekend
• Saddle Challenge 2011 final results…
• Saddle Challenge 2011 – Update #2
• Saddle Challenge – 1st Update/Two Weeks down
• Planet of the Apes
• San Bruno Mountain Climb cancelled
• Chasing Legends
• Morgan Territories and Palomares, or not…
• Peninsula Bike Sunday cancelled
• Three Bears Loop before the Fall Social
• Mt. Hamilton on the Fall, or not
• Fresno in the Fall
• Hills from HELL or the Not-so-mellow Metric
• Riding on the surface of the sun
• Palomares and Wind Farms
• Palo Alto to Pescadero
• Rulli Gran Caffe
• 40 & Fabulous! Pride Ride
• AIDS/LifeCycle 9 is here!
• Wildflowers & Sunshine & Raptors, Oh Mines!
• Monticello Solano Century
• May Meet-N-Greet Ride
• Wine Country Century
• Double Espresso Ride to Rulli’s
• Half Moon Bay-Gazos Creek-Canyons loop
• Hollister – Aromas – Castroville – Fremont Peak – Hollister
• Evil Step Sisters-April Jersey Ride
• Saddle Challenge final results…
• My first google map ride
• Marshall Wall!
• Gilroy Hot Springs and South Bay Reservoirs Loop
• Saddle Challenge – Update #2
• King’s Mountain
• More Running Water Than I’ve Ever Seen in Northern California
• Saddle Challenge – Update #1
• Bovine & Cowgrll
• The Saddle Challenge is on!
• Caffe
• L’Alpe du Fromage
• Stage Road From Pescadero
• Haiti Quake
• Just a sweet little ride around the city
• Holiday Party
• World AIDS Day Ride
• Woodside to Pescadero
• Three Bears
• Tour de Heat (aka South Bay Reservoirs loop)
• Half Moon Bay – Pescadero Loop
• Inaugural Monthly East Bay Ride
• Final Saddle Challenge results…
• Third week Saddle Challenge update!
• First week Saddle Challenge results in!
• March Saddle Challenge is on!
• February Jersey Ride.. despite the forecast!
• Fremont Peak
• Mt. Hamilton in the Winter
• Santa Monica Mountains
• January Jersey Ride.. great weather and 21 riders!
• Thank you, California
• Hills and Wines
• A Dream Century
• Pearl Izumi ad
• Tunnel, Three Bears, Pinehurst
• Urban Costume Karaoke Bicycle Brigade – Sat 8/9 4pm
• Bicycle benefits
• Running Up That Hill
• Old La Honda, Tunitas Creek
• Pride Parade riders
• My Springtime Triple Double
• China Camp picnic
• June Jersey Ride
• Spoker in the New York Times!
• Climbing & Descending clinic
• May Jersey Ride
• And the windmills stood quiet…
• Tierra Bella
• Team DSSF ALC7 Fundraiser – Mardi Gras in April
• The final results are in for the March Saddle Challenge…
• Magnet Sports & Recreational Groups open house
• Evil Step Sisters
• Kick-Off General Membership meeting
• Aaannnndddd they’re off!
• Register now for the annual DSSF March Saddle Challenge!
• Board Meeting Minutes
• By the Light of the Silvery Moon
• February Jersey Ride
• Many Thanks to the Ride Leaders!
• January Jersey Ride
• Post Thanksgiving Turkey Burn
• Morgan Territories & Palomares Canyon loop
• Gold Country Weekend
• October Jersey Ride
• Konocti Challenge DSSF event
• Altamont Pass & Lake del Valle loop
• Big Sur Ride
• Careful of the Tracks!
• Hollister Mini Death ride
• East Bay Parks & Reservoirs loop
• Ride from Seattle to Vancouver (BC) and Party!
• San Francisco to San Jose and back via CalTrain
• DSSF Rocks!
• Can you find the Spoker in the ALC video?
• Team DSSF
• Giro di Peninsula Revisited
• China Camp loop and San Pablo Bay
• test of semi-strength
• Morgan Territory Circumnavigation
• My Nemesis Mt. Tam
• Team DSSF Fundraiser
• Happy Easter
• Meeting Minutes 3/10/07 – Annual DSSF Board Meeting
• More Miles to Love in Livermore
• tam/stinson romp hump
• Sharon in the news
• Sign up for the Saddle Challenge 2007!
• Fall/Winter AIDS/LifeCycle training rides
• Some sneaky spokers
• Prologue of the Tour of California
• Nov 2006 DSSF Board Meeting
• Fall Social and the Three Bears
• Diablo Challenge – 10/1
• Konocti Challenge – 10/7 solo ride
• I.C.E. … A “cool” link
• Surf City Century – 10/1
• Big Sur Ride – 9/23 & 24
• Golden Days in the Gold Country
• AIDS/Lifecycle Thank You Rides & BBQ – Sat 9/16
• Jersey Sightings
• Notes from the Board
• Tuesday After Work Ride-Fall/Winter Route
• Hollister Mini Death Ride – Sat 9/2
• Get Paid to Bicycle to Work
• Stinson Beach Ride Report
• [Flat] Tour of Napa Valley
• Tour of Napa Century Report
• Jersey Ride and Alpine Dam loop – Sat 8/12
• De l’Argent pour l’equipe Different Spokes
• Bike Contest Answers
• Ride Report: Pescadero Loop
• Marin 100’s
• Bike Graffiti
• Freedom/Corralitos loop
• Grizzly Peak and more
• DSSF Safe Bicycling Quiz!
• Surprise Medals
• C-Loop Thursdays
• Time Trial Results
• Today’s Gay Games Results — Criterium
• Winner of the 2006 Gay Games Tom Waddell Award
• Death Riding
• Death Ride from Hail
• AIDS/LifeCycle 5
• Pescadero Hills
• Greetings DSSF from Paso Robles
• Lafayette to Sunol loop – Sun 5/28
• Murphy’s Law
• Strawberry Fields Forever – Sun 5/21
• Mt Tam Pancage Breakfast
• Mt Hamilton Challenge
• Bikes, Bees, and Bran Muffins
• Alpine Dam Loop
• A rainbow over the Valley
• Ride Flash: Thursday Conzelman Loop
• Cinderella Classic – Sat 3/25
• Evil Step Sisters-Sun 3/26
• Half Moon Bay-Gazos Creek-Canyon loop – Sun 3/20
• Thanks Different Spokes!!
• Saddle Challenge mid-month update
• Saddle Challenge is On!
• Cinderella Training Ride 1 – Sat 2/18
• February Jersey Ride Photo
• Team Different Spokes AIDS/LifeCycle Fundraising Party – Sat 3/18
• China Camp Loop
• February 25, Board Meeting Minutes
• 2006 DSSF Saddle Challenge
• Some pics from Tour de Palm Springs
• Tour de Palm Springs – Sat 2/11
• Renew, renew, renew you DSSF membership
• DSSF Board Elections
• Janurary Board Meeting Minutes
• Thanks David and Aaron
• December Chainletter now online
• East Bay PBP Ride – Sat 11/19
• Morgan Territories to Palomares – Sun 11/13
• Mt. Hamilton in the Fall – Sat 11/5
• Morgan Territory and Palomares
• BikeJournal.com
• Holiday Party
• Morgan Territory and Palomares