July 24, 2008 6:56 pm
Stopping Traffic
Posted by Will under biking
[3] Comments
Yesterday I participated in the first of a series of summer bike rides hosted by Councilman Tom LaBonge (which I posted about over here at L.A. Metblogs). While cyclists turned north onto Larchmont from 3rd Street (heading to the Baskin-Robbins in the village there for some free ice cream), my friend and 4th Street Bike Boulevard matriarch Ingrid, snapped me corking the vehicular cross-traffic just as the ride’s accompanying LAPD cruiser that had been bringing up the rear of the pack pulled in behind me (click to marginally biggify):
Needless to say with me on my bike, owning the road and stopping traffic with the LAPD backing me up… I love this photo. Thank you Ingrid!
P.S. Her encompassing Flickr photoset of the ride is here.
July 24th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
You look awful cool there, with your backup and all. If I were to caption this, I’d make it “Book ‘em, Danno”.
Glad to have you back.
Sorry I missed the ride, I’ll definitely see you on the next one!
July 25th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Sorry to have missed this; many of my favorite comrades were there. Hopefully I can sneak out of work for the downtown ride.
I do find it a tiny bit ironic that LaBonge admonishes cyclists to follow the rules of the road in his public statements, then employs corking on his ride. Perhaps we don’t need to lobby for bike lanes and sharrows at all, we just need personal police escorts on our daily commutes!
4SBB-LAPD—Live the dream!
July 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
It is moments and photos like these when i think ——-
WORTH IT!!!! LOVE IT!!!
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Agreed. LAPD (and Will Campbell!) assisted corking should be mandatory on all rides that want to qualify for “AWESOME” status. Also, I offically claimed that ride in the name of the International Association of Armed Librarians! IAAL*MAF!!
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That said — your welcome!! I loved
your photo from last year so much that I simply had to make it into a spoke card and put it into the MR Spoke Card Archive!
VOILA!
Dream, Lived!