So I was pointed to this page of the Yield To Life website by a member of the Bike Writers Collective. Apparently in an attempt to minimize what has the potential to be a 10-year sentence for Dr. Christopher Thompson his defense team is gathering letters and testimonials of support for what a good guy …
The element that most consistently changes on this blog is that little box in the sidebar near the top of this front page titled “Bike Mileage Tally.” I’m pretty religious in its updating. Whenever I put my peds to the pedals be it for a short trip in my neighborhood, a mountain bike ride in …
After a dental appointment yesterday morning in the Miracle Mile I was struck by the meteorological majesty of the day and couldn’t help but bike to Westchester via Santa Monica and Venice and Marina Del Rey to marvel at such magnificence. Before leaving the Venice Pier for the office, I enviously spied a gentleman reveling …
There were tickets in those days… It’s late-breaking but I’m suddenly very very excited by Sunday’s long-awaited opening of the Gold Line rail extension from Union Station down through Little Tokyo and then across the Eastside. So much excited am I that my double-darned damnedest will be required so that Susan and I may include …
You’ll pardon me if I’m not going all “golly gee!” over your new Stadium-To-The-Sea course route you’ve been crowing about this week. I’m still too bitter about the bike tour being dead to get all knee-deep in the rah-rah. What’s that, you say? The Bike Tour: still not dead? Ohhh, riiiiiiiiight. Sure, sure… I remember …
It’s been 16 months since the infamous Mandeville Canyon incident involving an emergency room doctor slamming the brakes of his vehicle in front of two cyclists, resulting in injuries to them both. The victims maintained it was an intentional act. The evidence seemed to bear this out as well. The doctor maintained it was an …
Since I haven’t had the opportunity to do much worth noting, such as saving any wildlife in distress this week (not counting three ants in my office that — yes, don’t laugh — I actually caught up and transported down to a planter in the building’s courtyard), here’s a post in which I go with …