In the World According To Me there are few things more fortuitous than that of a ladybug lighting upon you. Long has it been since I was last landed on by one of these little lovelies. Yesterday morning, I found this one on my forearm as I biked south on Mesmer between Jefferson and Centinela. …
It’s a curse these mobile phones. They enable normally (or at least one can hope) mild-mannered considerate people to become knuckle-dragging mega dopes at the push of a button. A subset of these slathering droolsacks has been proliferating for years, namely those that find themselves with their phones at televised sporting events, wherein they’re in …
Video timelapsification of last night’s “Orange Team” route of Midnight Ridazz Dischordian Ride, at least the first two legs of it: It was a good ride, cut short because unbeknownst to Sean Bonner and I, our Orange Team took off for it’s third leg and we were left behind. We could’ve hustled and caught up, …
Ah the joys of online commerce. I know mistakes happen, but maaaan! Like last night I got home to find my order from nashbar.com had arrived — the one I wrote about a couple days ago that was a compromise to me spending a load of green on a new bike I don’t need. So …
The other day I saw a bumper sticker that read “08 Obama” and it got me to mulling a variational combining the two elements that stayed in my mind until I finally got it out of my gray matter this morning and spent some time goofing a bit in Photoshop instead of doing my mornin’ …
The four flats I encountered across this morning’s commute come nowhere near matching my record of eight flats achieved in the miles on Riverside Drive between North Hollywood and Sherman Oaks one afternoon ride home in 2003. That outrageous number of punctures was the result of some cheap and deteriorated rim tape that allowed the …
Short-sighted efforts by crime-weary residents, impatient politicians and over-burdened law enforcement are disconnecting the Ballona Creek Bikeway from the communities it serves. Attacks on cyclists (the most recent reported one occurring last August around 1 p.m.) continue that disenfranchisement and negative opinion continues to fester that the creek route is not safe — a liability …