THE MOPED GANG

On a warm Indian summer night's walk to North Beach, we came upon a scene outside a Chinatown bar - a crowd of kids in hipster-nerd-sexy-schoolmarm attire milling around. We decided to buy a mai tai and hang out. We answered a nerd trivia question - Who is the Captain of the Starship Enterprise? - to get into a dark basement with a small but packed dance floor. Everyone seemed to know each other and we couldn't figure out how. We speculated - the same college? Some type of art-school fraternity? Nope. It's a San Francisco Moped Gang - the band were also members of the gang - and yes, then we remembered what we saw on the way in - lots of mopeds.