Originally Posted by
dodger
My route is prolly somthing like this:
Up Valencia St, cross Market, (flat)
Up Octavia St to Fulton St to Steiner St, (ascend Alamo Heights)
Steiner St to Greenwich (up over the Lafayette Hts-Pacific Heights saddle),
Up Greenwich St to Lyon (up Pac Heights),
then dowwwwnnnn hill thru the western part of the Marina to the Exploratorium, Palace of Fine arts.
I'd be tempted to just go all the way around the embarcadero to the marina. You could then use basically any gearing you wanted and it would be a safer ride with a nicer view, too. According to google it'd be about 6 miles instead of 4 miles for the route above, but maybe about the same in time?