The Wiggle

great route! Fun to ride with a group in the mornings.

I can’t believe no one’s posted this awesome PSA on the wiggle yet:
You’re welcome.
I live on The Wiggle, I ride most of The Wiggle to work, and I often see signs for The Wiggle alongside stop signs and then I get Lil’ John stuck in my head*, which is obviously an added bonus.
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*This a reference to the lyrics: «Now stop, then wiggle with it» from «Get Low» by Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz (Ft. Ying Yang Twins)

The owner was so NICE to me. !!! I will give The Wiggle 5 star for sure.

I love the wiggle! It makes getting to the Park a breeze! Plus there’s a silent sense of camaraderie between you and all the other wigglers.
However, I’d like to point out my newest use for the Wiggle: a great jogging route!
I live in Hayes Valley, so while plotting a route, I thought of the different directions. The mission is relatively flat, but full of drunk yuppies grabbing dinner, and hipsters blowing smoke in your face. Towards the Haight is nothing but steep-​ass hills. Civic center is rather un-​scenic. And going north is okay for a little until you start tangling with Pac-​Heights: no thank you.
Then one day it hit me: the wiggle! I walk up the Lower Haight hill which is actually a decent warmup, then it’s all relatively flat. And once I get into the Panhandle, it’s just like the perfect environment for a jog. Probably why there’s so many other joggers there!

I always take The Wiggle when on my hybrid. so much easier than going up Page. It’s a fast, fun little shoot through a beautiful neighborhood. Just be mindful of pedestrians:)

For my 100^th Unilocal review I wanted to review somewhere special, somewhere that I held near and dear to my heart. I thought for a few minutes and then I knew: the wiggle. Anyone who knows me well knows one thing (or has been told by yours truly): I LOVE the wiggle.
I worked an internship in San Francisco this past summer, and purchased a bicycle after the first week. Living in the Lower Haight I would gleefully speed to work each day, enjoying divided bike lanes and the company of friendly fellow bicycle commuters. Only one thing filled my heart with dread. At the end of each day I would bike back up Market St. to Octavia, before dismounting and walking my single speed, once described «hybrid kid/​power ranger» bicycle up six blocks of Page St.
Needless to say, I have scars on my legs to demonstrate how successful this was.
This carried on for about two weeks before, while questioning the cause of my recklessly abused shins, my coworker Joel enlightened me as to the greatest problem solving path ever, the wiggle. So here I will leave my due thanks.
My dear Wiggle,
You are everything I ever wanted in a bicycle path. Not only did you completely change my life, you made me feel as though I was part of a special San Francisco club (though apparently everyone else already was in it). As I write this to you from London I long for and look forward to the day when I will return to you, to enjoy coasting behind Safeway, along Duboce, and so on.
Yours always,
Eliza

Don’t be fooled, none of those green arrows on the pavement give you any kind of extra boost when you ride over them, Mario Kart style. Still, they’ve never lied to me as to where to go as I zip through the Wiggle on my bike, so that’s something.

I dig that the city has retard-​proofed this route with painted neon green arrows that point you in the right direction (hint: go the way that’s not up a steep hill, dummy).

First time biking from downtown to Golden Gate park and man the wiggle was so convenient and easy! Thanks San Francisco, I really felt like you love your bicyclists! The signs are very clear on which route to take. There are green arrows on the road that direct you where to go. I would recommend reading up on the route beforehand though so you at least have a knowledge of it. Not many hills at all so that was great. Biking through the panhandle of Golden Gate park, then on to the park. and went all the way to Ocean beach. Bike back to our apartment downtown and that was quite a workout. Made a brief stop at Alamo Square on the way back. which I highly recommend because it is gorgeous, offers beautiful views of the city. (Just don’t bike up the hill leading to the park. it’s steep and doesn’t look bike-​able at all!) Other than that, I’ll be wiggling again very soon!

I’m really glad The Wiggle exists, but heading towards the Presidio — oof! The slight incline is killer. But this isn’t a review of my faulty exercise routine, so I must give credit where credit is due. Thanks for not being a steeper hill, The Wiggle.
Minus one star because a bug flew in my mouth one time. (Just kidding.)

I’ve been going on Page Street and I REALLY like it. I think it gives me more exercise because of that 1 hill at Divisadero and it seems safer especially since it’s getting darker now.

Always be careful entering from Market St as the combination of railroad tracks and cars are a bit tricky. You cannot go wrong with making the first right, first left, first right, first left, (or something like that) and drop into Scott to Fell.
But be careful, as of December 1^st, they are doing construction right at the corner of an intersection. If you’re not careful, you’ll bike into a construction vehicle (like I almost did).

I was a bit wary about «the wiggle» — I first heard about it from my hard-​core bike-​riding hipster friends, and quite honestly, I was fearful.
Let’s talk about my equipment, shall we? I have a Schwinn Jaguar «7-​speed» cruiser (heard of it? didn’t think so). «7-​speed» is in quotes because it’s actually 1 speed. The other 6 are just for show. In short, I’m not riding a $ 3,000 bike that weighs 10oz. I’m on a clunky beast with a wire basket on the front and a rusty bell that used to have a sticker that read, «I love bikes.»
Needless to say, I was fearful. Bike-​riding hipsters can be tricky. Easy for them (these are people that do crazy things like play bike polo) probably means hard for me.
The fact that I’m writing this means that I survived. The wiggle must have been God-​sent for the normal bike-​riding masses like myself. It was, dare I say, EASY. Child’s play, if you will. I was scared for nothing!
From the Mission to Duboce, on the other hand, is another story…

After rescuing my mom’s super 70’s Centurion from the depths of the garage and getting it all tuned up, my sweet baby and I have been going on all kinds of romantic bike rides!
Now granted, I am an ice cream eatin’ fiend, so I’ve been getting used to my gears and slowly building up my endurance. On Saturday, after multiple days of laying around in a post-​new years coma, we decided it was time to venture out and get some air! Angel Tits suggested ‘The Wiggle”. I have to say, I was a bit intimidated, since I had really only been riding up and down the relatively flat Valencia area. She assured me that the reason why this path was so fantastic was that its a mostly flat way of getting up to the Panhandle/​GGP/​Haight area from the good olé Mission. I decided to go for it!
Despite a few huffs and puffs from my out-​of-​shape self, I thought it was pretty easy! We cruised on through the Panhandle, through part of GGP, and over into the 9^th and Irving area. Back down, its all down hill and super fun!
I will definitely be using the Wiggle as a means of getting to many parts of the city!

Did you know the Wiggle has it’s own wikipedia page?
This is my favorite route to get across town, and really I don’t use any other, only slight variations off of this one depending on my destination.
I used to take this route for granted, it was well marked, spacious lanes, relatively flat. It was everything you could ever want in a bike route. And then I moved to Santa Cruz with my bike, expecting the same primping and pampering I had in San Francisco, but oh no. Bike and I were sorely disappointed to find nothing even close to the wiggle. (let alone a halfway decent bike path)

After the guy at American Cyclery told me about the wiggle, I couldn’t wait to try it. He mentioned it was by my apartment, but I had never heard or seen such a thing. Immediately after purchasing my bike, I went on a mission to find this elusive wiggle…
I was surprised to discover that The Wiggle picks up not even a block from my apartment. The are even cute little signs that say The Wigggle and a wide, clearly defined bike path!
I hopped on, excited and a bit nervous– where will this lead me? I was immediately surrounded by other bikers, and now more confident with safety in numbers (and riding in SF, this is a *good* thing), I RODE.
I live in The Duboce Triangle. In 25 minutes, after a breeze of a ride though the Haight, up the Panhandle, and through Golden Gate Park, I was at Ocean Beach.
Duboce Triangle to Ocean Beach. In 25 minutes… Take that N-​JUDAH!!!

I actually thought I’d discovered this great bicycle route on my own about 4 years ago, after the first few times I’d tried riding between my place in the Sunset and my favorite biking destinations across town. It was like my own little preciously guarded secret bike path.
Imagine my surprise to find out just the other day that not only does this route have a name, but there’s actually signs posted along the route in green and white designating it thusly.
Now I find out there is a Unilocal page devoted to it, and a wikipedia article as well.
Somehow, this leaves me feeling diminished and betrayed.

Wiggle… you…complete…me.
Yes, you had me at 16^th street. I love you Wiggle, if only I had met you earlier instead of wasting my time with all those loser bike routes like the Mission Bay-​Mission-​Haight St.-Inner Sunset route which just wore me down and left me emotionally drained. And then there was Mission Bay-​Mission-​Castro-​17^th St.-Inner Sunset. Sure you were tall, beautiful and challenging but trying to tame you was just an uphill battle. It wasn’t you, 17^th St. Hill… it was me.
And then I found you Wiggle A mutual friend set us up on a blind date and it was love at first sight. You made biking home to the Inner Sunset from across town an enjoyable experience! I believe that we have a bike… I mean bright future ahead of us. See you tonight honey bunny!

1 star because I LIVE on this damn wiggle. When you’re a pedestrian, its like being on a silent indy-​car track. Even in a car, those bastards jump out at you left and right. Can’t get through an intersection to save my life, well, without ending someone else’s and risking felony charges.
I am a cyclist, but when everyone and their hipster theology major cousin ride here, its too much.
Still, I support critical mass, just no left turns on the wiggle!

Yeah i mean whatever it’s Kinda flat. Still hills.
Minus 1 star for it not being downhill in both directions.