We created Streets of San Francisco Bike Tours, or “SoSF” for short, to share our love and passion for our favorite city. We want to show you a different side of San Francisco via our favorite way to travel — by bicycle.
Who We Are
We are professional bicycle guides, world travelers, adventurous backpackers, bicycle tourists, and culinary connoisseurs. We’ve lived and traveled around the world, and we understand the value of experiencing local culture and getting off the beaten track.
Daniel Watson-Weller: Co-founder & Director
I was born and raised in San Francisco and now live 14 blocks away from my childhood home. It took 6 years of traveling in over 34 countries for me to realize that “home” is where I want to be. I love this city, and I love showing it off. The diversity and break up of neighborhoods in this city is so exciting and so unique. A sociology and photography graduate, I have taken my passion of meeting new people and constantly learning wherever I travel. I first discovered biking when studying abroad in Utrecht in the Netherlands and hope that one day San Francisco will cherish the bike as much as the Dutch. After working in one of the top restaurants in Sydney, Australia, I joined the industry’s largest outdoor active travel company creating and leading trips throughout Europe and the United States. Now I am an elementary school teacher, photographer, and co-founder and director of SoSF. I love San Francisco and can’t wait to have you come on our tour.
Things I love about San Francisco: Giants baseball, burritos in the mission, riding my bike across the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin, murals, drinks with my friends at my local bar, my parents, dim sum on Clement Street, roller derby in Fort Mason, people watching at Dolores Park, smiling as the fog rolls in, finding the new hole-in-the-wall ethnic food, photographing street art, going to the farmers markets and then cooking a massive meal, local wine, biking and walking everywhere!
Tim McLaughlin: Co-founder & Director
I’ve always been into bikes. As a child, I was obsessed with BMX bikes; I mountain biked in college; and now I use a bike as an everyday form of transportation. What a great way to get around and feel the city! I grew up in the midwest and moved to northern California about 10 years ago. Since then, I’ve lived in San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and Sapporo, Japan. I’ve led bicycle tours around northern California and beyond and have helped produce a variety of charity bicycle tours. When I’m not working at SoSF, I’m studying entrepreneurship and sustainable business at the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco.
Things I love about San Francisco: Its undefinable vibe, unruly history, the Fillmore Auditorium, independent movie theaters, its growing bike infrastructure (thank you SF Bike Coalition), all its parks, eclectic food, the bike mural, Blue Bottle Coffee, parklets, Anchor Steam, bike valet, the wiggle, noodles at Citrus Club on Haight, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, SPUR, tamales… lots of tamales.
