On July 14, in response to a post on BikinginLA to contact the Auto Club about its opposition to Senate Bill 910, (which would make it law for motorists to allow at least three feet when passing bicyclists), I wrote to the heads of the Northern and Southern California chapters, the letters of which you …
(click it for the bigger picture) Susan joined me yesterday for her first bike trip down the east bank of the Los Angeles River, and so was on hand upon dry land to nicely document me and my reflection’s inability to abstain from rolling around in the wet stuff downstream from where the concrete riding …
The second time in my life that I biked up and over the Sepulveda Pass was last weekend during my Autocalypse Now Ride. The first time? Waaaay the hell back in 1991. I remember it well because it was a rather epic ride. The woman I was dating at the time had decided to go …
I had the excellent company of Ann, Harold, Robert and Thaddeus, a fabulous foursome of fellow cycling enthusiasts, who showed up at the starting point in Silver Lake to join me on the 47-mile trek that set out about 9:45 a.m. From the left that’s Harold (who did the whole ride on a singlespeed!), me, …
From the indispensable BikinginLA blog comes a call to point an angry finger at the leadership of the Northern and Southern California-based AAAs because of their insistence that Senate Bill 910, which would require drivers in the state to give bicyclists at least three feet of clearance when passing from behind, is a bad idea. …
So KPCC’s Sharon McNary sent out an email yesterday soliciting thoughts from the station’s listeners about the upcoming expectedly cataclysmic shutdown of the 405 Freeway this entire weekend, and one her requests was for respondents to write a headline, haiku, or limerick about the impending doom. So I tapped out this tribute to motorista angst: …
The trouble with having literally everything in my truck to go bike the east bank of the Los Angeles River is that when I go run errands there’s a risk I’ll stop and do just that… which is what I did after returning from my mom’s place yesterday morning. Though I set out planning to …
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