Speed and Bikes

The latest wave of gentrification in San Francisco has also coined new names for old neighborhoods; SOMA, The Lower Haight, Duboce Triangle, just to name a few. I guess I mention this because of the "Bermuda Triangle - Duboce Triangle" similarity.

An on-going phenomena in the "Duboce Triange/Market St" area has for some time been the "tweaker bicyclist". If you've lived in this area for more than twenty minutes you most likely had an encounter or two with our modern day road warriors.

Of course, this condition is arguably not a decision but an addiction state and clique.

The stealthiness of a bicycle in San Francisco must have great appeal to a tweaker. The ability to swoop and swoosh in and out of functional society on the way to the "connection" or whatever other drama.

The other allure must be that they have INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS which is also a HUGE plus amongst those under the spell of the Gonzales. Endless hours of changing and re-changing, stealing and changing and re-changing. And then re-changing. What paradise! Who needs to bathe?

It sometimes seems a bit like a science fiction scenario where humanoids have been taken control of by the mysterious extra-terrestrial substance which causes them to rapidly misfire in rapid succession until eminent incarceration or institutionalization occurs.