This Film’s Trailer Made Me Cry Tears Of Joyfulness

From GreenLAGirl’s blog I found it, and also found it will be the headlining film of the upcoming Long Beach Bike Festival. GreenLAGirl writes: Riding Bikes with the Dutch — the brainchild of Long Beach resident and filmmaker Michael Bauch — highlights not high-speed bike racing or flashy bike maneuvers, but everyday cycling as a …

Reminder: Bike Every (Satur)Day In May Begins… (Satur)Day

In case you missed my preview post over on LA Metblogs, I’ve gone and done rustled us up some group ride goodness for next month, beginning May 1, with a replay of my 10 Bridges Ride, only this time done in reverse. It will depart at 10 a.m. from SilverSun Plaza at the corner of …

Headwinds & Flats

Just a not very satisfactory morning. Wolfed down some leftover chicken as I was getting ready to leave for work and it triggered that allergic reaction I’ve written about finally self-diagnosing in the past in which my esophagus basically plays the Black Knight and closes up in full “None. Shall. Pass.” mode. So I spent …

Morning Snap: Ballona Creekside

The biggest joy I get from wearing my videocam sunglasses isn’t the capture of footage demonstrating bad road behavior. Rather it’s the mundane scenes they record in passing, moments otherwise forgotten that instead I get to faux up and celebrate. Oooooooooo! Art Project! Taking a page from my friend Stephen’s book when he posted lakeside …

A Dooring

Coming back Saturday night from our inaugural visit to The Thirsty Crow Bar — our new favorite neighborhood watering hole — we decided to get some food to-go from Cowboys & Turbans up the street, one of our new favorite local eateries. In going there we passed a gathering of cyclists in the parking lot …

Sometimes There Is Just No Winning The Battle

Coming home last night from work in the still-light late afternoon I opted to go the “long way” east across Jefferson to pay my annual spring visit to the Exposition Park Rose Garden, then up Figueroa to 2nd to Glendale around Echo Park Lake and home via Sunset. Everything was awesome, up until I was …

I Couldn’t Resist…

LAist posted this photo on its website and in light of the MTA’s plans to raise fares this summer I just had to put my — shall we say: spin — on the the transit monopoly’s current ad campaign: Before: After: Photo by RobeRt Vega via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr