Blessing Of The Bicycles
I aaaaaaalmost didn’t go. It was yet another dreary morning augmented by a drizzle just light enough to bring the lurking oils and sludge to the roadway surfaces, making them slippery and slidey. But I went. I pedaled through the spritz and shvitz across Silver Lake and Echo Park through Historic Filipinotown and up and …
Our Daily Bread
By far the most satisfying moment of yesterday’s Frank Lloyd Wride happened at our stop at the Monastery of the Angels between visits to Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House and his dad Frank’s Freeman House. It didn’t begin well. Arriving at 12:20 to discover that the gift shop was closed between 12-1 p.m. for lunch, I …
Watts Happening Ride: The Notes
Without ringing my bike bell too loudly, the fourth edition of my Watts Happening Ride that took place May 8, 2010, was the best ever and the largest endeavored. It involved my most extensive level of internet-combing research for eight of the nine places we visited (I left Watts Towers to the expert tour guides …
Watts Up!
The next in my May series of Saturday rides is upon us, and will convene in a couple hours for a 10 a.m. departure from the SilverSun strip mall at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Parkman Avenue. Suffice it to say that by the time the entire epic 32-plus mile ride is completed, those …
Reprint Of The Notes I Forgot To Bring With Me Yesterday On The 10 Bridges Ride
My 10-Bridgers river-side under the 6th Street Viaduct. Since I’d left the house in a bit of an as-usual rush yesterday morning of course I forgot my notes for the 10 Bridges Ride (drawn from a variety of sources — the most reliable of which is the Creek Freak himself, Joe Linton whose book “Down …
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Reminder: Bike Every (Satur)Day In May Begins… (Satur)Day
In case you missed my preview post over on LA Metblogs, I’ve gone and done rustled us up some group ride goodness for next month, beginning May 1, with a replay of my 10 Bridges Ride, only this time done in reverse. It will depart at 10 a.m. from SilverSun Plaza at the corner of …
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