The long-unofficial extension to the LA River Bikeway south of Fletcher Avenue hasn’t been opened officially for even a day and already that old pedestrian call for cyclists to respect pedestrians has been brought up by the Corralitas Red Car Property blog: Cyclists complain about cars whizzing past them too closely at high speeds on …
What was planned as a solo outing ended up being a magnificent 20-mile ride (route map) with friends Don and Stephen and Alice that took us up the LA River Bikeway behind Griffith Park, up the “rollercoaster” then up Mt Hollywood Drive to its highest point before descending via Vista del Valle Drive back into …
click image for the bigger picture On an awesome Thanksgiving Day ride up and over Griffith Park, I encountered this healthy looking specimen of coyote padding along Mt Hollywood Drive in the opposite direction, and I dutifully turned around and pedaled after it given what appeared to be an apparent habituation to humans. I chase …
Unlike the previous video from a chest-level perspective, I left Philippe’s for home across a wind-scrubbed downtown with the cam bolted back onto my handlebars. The middle section of this clip features a nice prolonged interlude inside Orange 20 Bikeshop, where I decided to head to from my day at Philippe’s to get some advice …
A Monday morning power outage left me in the need of electricity. So I packed up the laptop and biked it to the nearest outlet at Philippe’s near Chinatown, recording the trip via a unique chest mount for my GoPro camera. It certainly provides a different perspective than a handlebar mount, making my arms look …
With my morning wide open yesterday I found a bike rental place near the hotel and took a self-powered 3-hour cruise of discovery around lovely San Antonio. I visited the San Fernando Cathedral, the amazing King William Historic Residential District, the remarkable Mission Concepcion, a nice stretch of the city’s famed River Walk, and more …
So for my Go Pro Hero cam’s inaugural run I got off the beaten path this Halloween morning… quite literally. Venturing from Silver Lake to Chinatown I got onto the largely unkown ped/bike way that parallels the 110 freeway and then ventured down to the LA River “bed,” where my proximity to its confluence with …