biking – Page 11

First In An Occasional Series: Bikeway Peds Behaving Badly

by Willbiking, outdoors, people, reality 01/03/201201/04/2012Comments are Disabled

With the completion of the stretch of the Los Angeles River Bikeway through Elysian Valley have come conflicts between pedestrians and cyclists. Certainly a percentage of inconsiderate individuals from each side are responsible for these negative interactions, but inevitably blog posts about the topic will be published in which proprietary pedestrians seems to relish making …

Timelapse: Sunriding

by Willbiking, timelapse 01/02/201201/02/2012Comments are Disabled

For my first ride of 2012, I saddled up before dawn in search of the sunrise, which you’ll see I find peeking out over the hills around Mt Washington/Highland Park east of my location in Griffith Park, about 9.5-miles in to the nearly 20-mile route up and down the Los Angeles River between Griffith Park …

Timelapse: The Pros & Cons Of Bicycle Maintenance

by Willbiking, DIY 12/29/2011Comments are Disabled

Well here’s a blast from the past that I found in the dusty archives of a back-up hard drive. This is a forgotten-about video I made in the summer of 2009 of me putting my then-singlespeed bike “Le Noir” up on the stand and doing a pretty thorough frontyard strip to update some of its …

Timelapse: Such A Winter’s Day

by Willbiking 12/24/201112/24/2011Comments are Disabled

For me, in order to get it into more heads that a bike can be a practical inter-urban alternative, the rides that need to be recognized aren’t the epic ones so much as the trivial ones — and this is certainly a trivial one: 8.5 miles to Hollywood and back with stops at Amoeba Records, …

Timelapse: All-City Toy Ride

by Willbiking, seasonal 12/10/201112/10/2011Comments are Disabled

I had my Electric Santa suit brighter and more elaborate than ever and last night was a great night for what should have been another (the 6th-annual) great Midnight Ridazz All-City Toy Ride from Highland Park to Olvera Street. But after all the rides from around the city had converged on the historic Plaza gazebo …

Summer In November

by Willadventure, biking 11/27/201111/28/2011Comments are Disabled

Today was just an absolutely spectacular day. Highs in the 80s, blazing bright sunlight, visibility that seemed to be broadcast in high-definition. So since there’s no better conditions in which to go rolling in the river than in the days immediately after it gets a good storm scrubbing, I got the hell out of the …

Annnnnnnd Action!

by Willbiking, landmarks, movies 11/27/201111/27/2011Comments are Disabled

Those deathless herkyjerky timelapse videos I compile from my bike rides are often filled with a whole lotta nothing happening beyond a 12 frames-per-second commemoration of whatever route I’ve taken.Â But usually I can count on encountering somethingÂ eye-catching and worth a second glance. Maybe it’s a unique pedestrian or a scenario or an architectural …