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LAPD still hates bikes
What does someone have to do to get handcuffed and detained by the LAPD? Regardless of how you might have answered those questions, the real answers seem to be that the LAPD feels spending a half an hour detaining and handcuffing a cyclist for riding... »
Face Palm: Mayor Pedals Straight From Joy To Pain
Hot on the back tire of my post Friday gushing with unbridled joy at finding a photo-op of our up-to-now notoriously bike-blind mayor actually riding an actual bicycle, comes news that Villaraigosa apparently liked it so much (and perhaps the positive reaction it engendered) that... »
Dear LA, can we have these bike lanes too??
I’m visiting New York City this week and stumbled across these new bike lanes that they are beginning to install all over the city. These are amazing and akin to the lanes you see all over much of bike friendly European cities. It’s a subtle... »
Ride, Said The Mayor
Earlier today Mayor Villaraigosa(‘s aide) tweeted about how much he enjoyed last night’s Summer Night Lights event at the Jim Gilliam Recreation Center in Baldwin Hills. In the tweet the mayor(‘s aide) wrote about eating, doing arts and crafts and bicycling with the community. Wait... »
It Caught My Eye: And On This Date, Something Happened
Coming back home from Boyle Heights earlier this week on one of what’s become my now-rare bike rides, I was rolling under the Beverly Boulevard bridge over 2nd Street/Glendale Boulevard and upon seeing this ominous and intriguing image pasted up on one of the overpass... »
Bike thief caught in action, security refuses to help
I don’t know anything about this video other than what you can see by watching it, but judging by the LBCC shirt the guy is wearing and the LBMC sign on the wall behind him I’m guessing it’s in Long Beach. Watch it and see... »
LAPD attacks cyclists in Hollywood
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. This information is all just starting to roll in but it seems on Friday night the LAPD swarmed and attacked a group of cyclists on Hollywood Blvd.... »
Bike Every (Satur)Day In May: Black Dahlia/West Adams Ride
Well the first four are behind us: 10 Bridges, then Watts Happening, then the Frank Lloyd Wride, followed by last week’s 70-mile Two Rivers trek to Seal Beach and back. But there’s one more Saturday left in May and I’ve saved what I hope is the best for last. Full of history and mystery,... »
Bike Every (Satur)Day In May: The Two Rivers Ride
Sorry for the last minute posting. Didn’t want any intrepid souls to think it wasn’t happening, so to anyone considering/planning on joining me for tomorrow’s fourth of my five Bike Every (Satur)Day In May rides: tomorrow’s Two Rivers Ride is indeed on. I’m expecting attendance to be unlike past weeks not only because of... »
Bike Every (Satur)Day In May: The Frank Lloyd Wride
If you were with me on last Saturday’s “Watts Happening” ride you were a treasured part of something pretty damn awesome if I do say so myself. And I do. Trust me when I say that I went a little crazy putting in a fair amount of effort researching Google skimming to pull together... »
Bike Every (Satur)Day In May: Watts Happening Ride
Last Saturday’s “10 Bridges Ride” was chockfulla awesome and graduated another exceptional batch of riders into that realm of rare angelenos who’ve purposefully pedaled across all the spans over the LA River between Chinatown and Vernon for the fun and history of it (my woefully lacking Flickr set is here, my friend Kay’s much... »
Bike Every (Satur)Day In May
It started last year. I’d come off a pretty lackluster April bike-wise and I vowed to “Bike Every Day In May,” which I did… but that’s not the point. The point is that besides all the regular workday commuting I did throughout that month-long endeavor, the weekends were for fun, involving a series of group... »
103 Snaps Of People I Passed While Biking One Saturday Afternoon Across The Valley
A few weeks ago I posted the first in what may become an occasional series of a large group of snaps of people passed while biking, that one featuring 89 images captured along the strand between Hermosa Beach and the Ballona Creek Bridge. Today I bring you the second such crop, this one comprised of... »
HFS! Bikes On The Front Page Of The LA Times!!1!!
This past Saturday the annual Fargo Street Hill Climb took place, organized by the Los Angeles Wheelmen. On a personal note, I’ve tried multiple years to make it up the 33% grade of what’s one of the steepest streets in the city/state/country/hemisphere/world/galaxy/universe, only to get psyched out staring up from the bottom of the... »
Mapping Car vs Bike collisions
Have you wished you knew how safe each street is for cycling? Thanks to Deputy Chief David Doan, Mihai Peteu, Sergeant David Krumer, Paul Bringetto, Tait McCarthy, and Lyke Thompson … we have displayed all the collision data from 2008 recorded by LAPD (involving cyclists.) A single red dot represents a collision,... »