San Francisco police and California Highway Patrol officers thwarted a group of bicyclists who tried to take over the Bay Bridge on Saturday afternoon, confiscating 85 bicycles and issuing as many citations, authorities said.
The CHP alerted the San Francisco Police Department that the bicyclists were riding recklessly on city streets. The CHP said officers suspected the group was headed toward the bridge and planned to take it over.
The SFPD then started to track the bicyclists, who rode directly at moving cars, swerved in and out of traffic and came dangerously close to pedestrians on city streets, the CHP said…