We’ve made the difficult decision to pause most of our Valet Bike Parking program, which has been a popular way for San Franciscans to arrive at large-scale venues and events via bicycle and feel confident that their bike is secure and monitored while they’re having fun. 

While this was a difficult decision, we recognize that as an organization, our focus has been too broad — in this crucial year for our advocacy and programmatic work, as the City is rolling out a generationally important Biking and Rolling Plan, we’re taking a step back to re-evaluate how we can better serve those goals. And to really affect transformative change here in San Francisco, we must continue to focus our organizational efforts and resources on activities that have a greater impact towards our mission.

We know our most popular valet presence for years has been at Giants home games — so many of our members appreciate being able to ride to Oracle Park for those events, and the good news is that the Giants will continue to offer that service in the 2025 season by running the program in-house. We’re grateful for their years of good partnership and their commitment to making it easier to bike and roll to their iconic San Francisco home, and we’re always rooting for the home team to win. 

While it’s bittersweet to pause a program that’s brought so much joy and security during its tenure, we’re confident that valet bike parking has proven its value over and over again across the city and we’re proud of that! Many venues now have their own program to routinely park bikes for attendees, which makes it easier to choose to bike to events. We also continue to remind our partners and event promoters that the SF Administrative Code requires monitored bicycle parking for events requiring a street closure and with an anticipated number of participants greater than 2,000, as part of the City’s commitment to their Transit First policy. 

You’ll still see us and our cheerful orange tent from time to time! We’ll continue offering valet bike parking at our own SFBike events and some of the city’s annual events where it’s been most popular — we’re just scaling back for now in order to reevaluate the program’s impact and financial viability. No final decisions have been made, and we hope that valet bike parking will come back in the future, even better than ever.