Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Did It: I Biked Every DAY In MAY
There were 31 days this month and as promised I got on my bike for work or play (or both) on every single one of them for a total of 849.115 miles — a new single-month distance record, breaking my previous mark of 717.860 miles set in October 2008. Tell ya what… I’m feeling mighty [...]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wride “Wright-Up”
When I arrived at our meeting place I found past morning riders David, Hap, Helen, Jared and Ian, along with two first-timers Steven and Hanna gathered there and soon the eight of us we were off on the Frank Lloyd Wride for the climb up to Ennis House, the architect’s most dramatic and stunning of [...]
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
I Sold An iPhone Yesterday
So I’m biking home yesterday, eastbound along Del Valle from Crescent Heights in the quaint Carthay District. Arriving at the red light at Fairfax Avenue, a young woman standing at the corner with another lady calls out “Excuse me,” and approaches.
“Do you happen to know where South Orange Grove is?” she asked.
If it was in [...]
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
Thems The Breaks
Well, when it rains it pours. First my handlebarcam finally goes kaput Wednesday. Frankly it’s something of a wonder that the Canon SD1000 lasted this long since it first started exhibiting troubles last December after four or five months of dealing with the hostile and unstable environment of being mounted to my bike — which [...]
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Just What Every Cyclist Needs!
I love Google ads. Lovelovelove ‘em! It’s almost endearing how they can be so hamfistedly incorrect in their arrival, like the one above, showing up uninvited and unwanted on the YouTube page hosting my timelapse video of the LA Bike Tour – not unlike (for want of a better metaphor) the way “Animal House’s” Bluto [...]
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
Do You Wanna Wride?
Whether you’re a reader who’s just thought about coming along or one who’s been on any of my weekend rides these last few Saturdays and Sundays, I wanted to post this up to let you know what I’m planning for this coming Saturday, May 30:
The Frank Lloyd Wride — Hollywood Session
Very brief backstory: A long [...]
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
2009 L.A. Bike Tour
The 21-mile route itself took me 65 minutes*, but of course the footage of that is bracketed with my 3:45 a.m. bike trip down to the start line and my slow meander back home.
And yes: no I did not go twofer and roll the course a second time. I was pretty much cooked cranking it [...]
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Raccoon Cam
Since the stair guy’s piled up his tools and stuff in such a way as to block the cam’s view of the patio table (and thus any late-night Bink sightings, yesterday I oriented it west for a shot down the south side of the house. Not because anything special goes on, but because at least [...]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
2 Legit, 2 Legit 2 Krash
So for months and months I’d planned on banditing this year’s L.A. Marathon Bike Tour because I was grrrrrrudging on the event’s relocation from it’s traditional first Monday in March to Memorial Day.
It was this weekend that I realized, having supported the marathon with my participation in one form or another since 1994, if there [...]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Black Dahlia/Historic West Adams Mosey Wrap-Up
I’m usually the last one to shed my humility and slap my own back, but if I do say so myself and obviously I do: this morning’s ride was an epic success — replete with spoke cards even:
Yeah, I caved and bought a bargain basement laminator this week and roughed out some graphics that I [...]
