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I biked with my 86-year-old dad to Golden Gate Park. Please close JFK Drive to cars forever
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Philip Hartlaub, 86, eats lunch in front of the California Academy of Sciences after a bike ride from Alameda to Golden Gate Park.Peter Hartlaub / The Chronicle
Biking through the middle of San Francisco with an octogenarian is not something anyone would have tried five years ago, unless they were looking to collect an inheritance.
Most bicyclists making this trip used to be daredevils or people who
really knew what they were doing. The dream of a city where 8- and 80-year-old cyclists could bisect the center with confidence seemed a hundred years away.