Los Angeles River Bed Ride

So I did two tours of the LA River’s east bank yesterday. The first with the inimitable Bonner-Brown gang along with Harold, another Silver Laker who was not only making his inaugural ride on the rugged east side of the waterway, but anywhere on the river. Glad I could help introduce it to him. Here …

The East Bank

For whatever reason, I was having more trouble processing my fatherlessness than I’ve ever had in pretty much all my 46 previous Father’s Days, brought to you by the deadbeat coward sonofabitch I’ve never met named William Lloyd Campbell who’d be 84 this year if he is still among the living. All I know of …

I’ve Voiced My Support For The Safe-Passing Law & You Can Too

Whether you ride every chance you get, haven’t in years, or are somewhere in between, we are all bicyclists. As such, please consider answering the California Bicycle Coalition’s call to submit your support for Senate Bill 910 — the 3-Foot Safe Passing Distance Bill — to the following elected representatives in the State Assembly and …

Bikes! Yikes!

Watch this amazingly revelatory video all the way through and you’ll see guilty people all over this New York City intersection whether the violations are perpetrated by pedestrian, cyclist or motorist. But being a conscientious and considerate urban cyclist, nothing makes me hang my head in shame lower than what some of the Big Apple …

Timelapse: Los Angeles River Ride Route Marking

For the fifth consecutive year, I’ve gotten up early the day before the annual Los Angeles River Ride and with my friend Stephen Roullier pedaled out to the Los Angeles River Center from Echo Park where we joined some like-minded volunteer route markers to help organizer Colin Bogart mark the overall route from Griffith Park …

2011 Memorial Day Ride

You say you’ve got a hankerin’ for a nine-minute timelapse Memorial Day vidclip of 30-miles worth of urban cycling from Silver Lake to Westwood’s National Cemetery and back — augmented rockingly from start to finish by “If I Leave This World Tomorrow,” an absolutely jamtastic blues number from Glenn Kaiser (sorry if the tune’s not …