Despite a restless night of little sleep I got up this morning, shook off the fatigue and got on my bike from my location in San Diego’s Mission Valley for a bit of a destination-unknown ride. Roughly 24 miles later (granted, just a drop in the gridscape bucket), I do hereby declare this city to …
In all of the 15,000-plus miles my bikes and I have logged this last 33-ish months, most of it has been inside Los Angeles. In fact, the furthest urban environment I’ve pedaled from home is Newport Beach last December (for a work-related event). Other than that Long Beach, during a recreational roundtripper done for the …
Last week the news that appropriately outraged the bike-i-verse was the law on Santa Monica’s books discovered by cyclist extraordinario Gary Kavanaugh in which the penalty for riding an unlicensed bicycle in that seaside city is a fine of up to $1,000 fine and potentially 6 months in jail. Harsh, much? Yep, considering the state …
One of the truly endearing things about the biking I do is that the locations of many of the milestones I reach are so unsung. In 2007 I began my 3,000th mile traveling next to Lindberg Park tucked into a quiet little residential enclave of Culver City. Last year, and perhaps most appropriately, my 6,000th …
In lieu of something substantive — which is a rare thing anyway — I offer up these disparate videos, the first captured on the bike ride home yesterday evening and the second this morning on my desktop: Ballona Creek Rush Hour Jiggy Says Good Morning
Because of twits like this who instead of respecting cherished landmarks like Echo Park’s “Lady of the Lake,” they have to climb up and spread their ass cheeks on it. UPDATE: The Eastsider L.A. blog is reporting on vandalism to the eyes of the statue from “sometime last week.” Coincidentally this photo’s Flickr page lists …
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Yesterday in the midst of my recollections of right-hooking drivers, I made mention of a couple instances where I was pedaling and from out of nowhere a pretty violent slippage and thunk of the bike’s drivetrain would occur. What I failed to mention was that the drivetrain was in its second day of use. Over …