Archive for September, 2007
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Where All The Lights Are Bright
So I met up last night with my friend Elson, who I’ve become acquainted with through various RIDE-Arc and Midnight Ridazz rides. He was bummed because he wasn’t able to make last Friday’s “10 Bridges” ride and so we reconnoitered at Union Station and did an abbreviated version through downtown. Here’s a five-second shot I [...]
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Airborne Over The 10
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I snapped this from the saddle of my bike on Crenshaw over the Santa Monica Freeway this morning, about four miles into my 13 mile commute to work. Most of the people sitting in the seats of those vehicles stretching out to infinity (or the gridlocked 405, whichever comes first) with their [...]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
This I’ve Learned
No matter what incontrovertible proof you may have that someone is an idiot, people will look at said proof and how you reacted and find you to be the idiot.
This is just a fact of the world in which we live.
Earlier today we encountered a guy jogging in the bike lane on Sunset Boulevard (which [...]
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Don’t Be Afraid
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Well, maybe a little when one suddenly darts up the wall from behind your desk at some ungodly hour of the night, like this fine specimen just did only then to hang out tolerant enough to let me get the camera up close and personal before moving on, and of course I let [...]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Living The Dream
My friend Militant Angeleno posted a light-spirited comment to my last post that was actually not far off the mark. He in response to my current mileage totals on The Phoenix, he wrote:
“Admit it, you just took that westside job in order to rack up miles on your velo-odometer!”
He’s onto something there. While the initial [...]
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Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Ride On
In the afterglow of the pleasant and proud success of tonight’s IAAL•MAF spinvitational, which drew around 100 riders on a tour of the 10 downtown-adjacent bridges over the L.A. River, a couple milestones — or should I say mileage-stones? — took place.
The first that happened was my accumulated commute and recreational 49.3-mile distance biked today [...]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
13.24 In 57.48
In support of my commuting sanity I did as I said I would today and biked to and from work. Just for the hell of it I hit the stopwatch at the redlight at Centinela and Sepulveda and decided to ride all-out, full-tilt and gung-ho hard as I could for the 13.24 miles homeward.
And faster [...]
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Note To Self: You’ll Be Biking To Work Tomorrow
And all next week. And maybe the week after. And when you’re not biking you’ll be busing. But never the car. Or at least only rarely.
Sure I’m double dang happy to have this new 9-to-5 gig , but let me not kid around: getting there and back these first two days has prvien itself to [...]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
I Can See For Miles
Apologies for chiming in so late in the aftermath of my first day at the new job. Contrary to what Elle jokingly posted in the comments of my post from this morning, the drastic change in scenery and schedule has not made me forget about this blog nor the kind readers who come by [...]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
A New Chapter
Something about it being the beginning of September makes today’s first day at my new job feel like the start of a new school year.
So as I’m looking forward to it, here’s a trip back in time via mine and Susan’s Flickr photosets of our visit to the awesome Heritage Square Museum for the Great [...]
