I’ve been mum about the death of 8Ball since writing about her abrupt demise early last month. But when she suffered that fatal frame fracture October 7, I slowly and gingerly rode her home from Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook that afternoon with a heavy heart and was pretty bummed after that. Sure, I hauled out …
What a pleasure it was to have my daughter Katie over for a visit and for her to join Susan and I during Sunday’s third CicLAvia. As such we decided to load the truck up with our bikes and drive down close to the route, parking near 3rd and Rampart and pedaling to the course …
What had originally been planned as a short ride Friday, quickly went long (as can happily happen given a bike and a beautiful day). Not only did I pedal to the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, but also shouldered my bike with me up the park’s killer hillside steps. Sadly, this is the last ride for …
Today’s rainy, but yesterday was just ominously cloudy, and on the fourth day he… cruised 12.25 miles casually from Silver Lake to Atwater Village down through Elysian Valley (but not on the river bikeway) to Chinatown and Echo Park back to Silver Lake.
Getting a ride in was a bit iffy again yesterday. I didn’t see my way out of the house and onto the saddle until around 4:30 p.m. for what initially was going to be an errand roll to the Echo Park library and back to return a book (“El Niño,” by Douglas Anne Munson aka …
I suppose I’ll take it more seriously when I get to ride No. 10 and up, but for now with ride No. 2 behind me I’m not fully vested in my late-breaking “Ride Every Day In October” challenge — an idea that my brain spat out yesterday at some point during yesterday’s ride the first …
Yesterday as an excuse to get out with the new Olympus camera I went wandering through Silver Lake, Los Feliz Village and down by the river side, with an extended chill session at the water’edge: