Masked Border Patrol agents gunned down Alex Pretti on Saturday, January 24th, after he tried to assist a woman who’d just been pepper-sprayed. Alex was a bikepacker and cyclist, as well as a ICU nurse serving veterans at the VA hospital. In a movement spearheaded by the Angry Catfish bike shop in Minneapolis, groups across the United States and world are hosting memorial rides this weekend in honor of Alex and to protest the violence inflicted by ICE and Border Patrol.

This was an absolutely fantastic classic ride across the city and back. Thank you to everyone who came, each ride seems to be bigger than the last as we approach the 30th anniversary next month. We rode out at 6:45 pm up Market St and through The Wiggle. With more than enough bikes we took over the Fell Expressway and continued on to the Golden Gate Park Bandshell Accessible Parking lot for our first break.

The tunnel ride! We set out at around 6:45pm and headed via Market up through both the Stockton and Broadway tunnels with Chinatown in between. Both tunnels were uphill, so we turned around and cruised back down through them. A total of four tunnel traversals in the first half hour! We then continued along a relatively standard route, along Market to Valencia and up to Mission Dolores Park for a rest stop.