It started with a coincidental bump into Sean Bonner at last weekend’s Silver Lake Farmers Market. Realizing he was back in Silver Lake (after living in Venice for a bit and galavanting around the globe for another bit), we discussed rebooting the Ride of Origin of the IAAL•MAF — of which he is the illustrious …
Read more “Timelapse: Twice Around The Silver Lake Reservoir”
Here’s the timelapse of yesterday’s 31-mile roundtrip bike commute to Westchester from Silver Lake and back:
First she charges out of a parking lot onto Venice Boulevard without looking to her left and seeing me approaching a couple car lengths back. Had she kept going and merged into the space available for her in the traffic lane, I’d have nothing to write about. But instead she finally sees me and comes …
I love it when a plan goes according to plan. Simple though it was, my day was scheduled to consist of watching TV and going for a bike ride. First was the Rose Parade, followed by the Capital One Bowl (in which my 2009 National Champion Crimson Tide put an Alabamazing exclamation point to a …
Well, with 2010’s bike mileage tally, my back-to-back streak of 6,000-plus mile years did not three-peat. While 2008 saw me log 6,608 miles and 2009, 6,741, I certainly started off 2010 on track to top 6,000 again, collecting more than 2,000 miles by the end of April. But then came May and with it my …
Read more “And For My First Bike Ride (Of Many) For 2011 I’m Wasting No Time Going Off-Road”
It may be rather humbuggy or me on this day after Christmas to discuss such things, and if so, I’ll wear that hat. Because case in point: On Christmas Eve after stopping at a Sunset Boulevard spice shop that turned out disappointingly to be closed, I rolled back onto the boulevard and headed westbound, past …
Read more “The Way Some Cyclists Run Redlights Is A Demonstration Of Pathological Tendencies”
Pedaling up from Silver Lake with my friend Steve, to be part of the contingent of All-City Toy Ridazz coming from Highland Park, we were joined there by a group from Pasadena before proceeding first to the new public space at Confluence Park near the LA River to await the arrival of cyclists coming from …