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@@@ Bike valet service at Giants ballgames has been around for years. Here bicyclists wait before the game to check in their bikes. (Photo John Storey/The Chronicle)

So when Maureen Keefe set out to attend Salesforce鈥檚 gargantuan Dreamforce conference at Moscone Center on Monday, she decided to bike there from her Mill Valley home.

鈥淚t seemed like the right thing to do, to take one more car off the road,鈥?said Keefe, director of marketing for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, which just signed up for a new customer-relations management system from Salesforce. 鈥淚 looked at The Chronicle this morning and saw the projected attendance, plus I know about all the construction, so I didn鈥檛 want to add to the traffic.鈥? To be sure she鈥檇 have a place for the bike, she Googled Dreamforce and bike valet parking, and got some hits.

But when she arrived at Moscone Center, she spent almost an hour and spoke to about 15 staff members, including several at the 鈥淭ransportation Information Booth,鈥?only to find out that bike parking was no-go. Dreamforce offered it a couple of years ago, hence the website hits. Nearby street racks were jam-packed already.

鈥淔or a big event like this, that seems like a big omission,鈥?Keefe said.

That鈥檚 especially true in bike-friendly San Francisco. In fact, events with more than .

In a Salesforce posting called 鈥?鈥?a company representative answered a question about bike parking by writing 鈥淭here鈥檚 no actual bike valet this year, but we will have bike racks on Howard Street in front of Moscone South. 鈥? In an e-mail, Salesforce spokesman Daylan Burlison wrote: 鈥淭his year, we are asking guests to park their bikes at the surrounding garages where they鈥檒l have greater flexibility to come and go as they like.鈥?

However, not one of the 15 people Keefe spoke with informed her of this policy, she said.

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