I knew I was going to get a ticket when the cop hit his siren’s squawky chirpy thing not once but twice from behind me, in addition to the fact that he’d lit up the rooftop lights of his prowler — and despite the fact that before the second blarp! I’d already pulled over to …
I did a bit o’ the Bike Kitchen thing this morning, in the comfort of my frontyard. It’s going to be interesting to see how different the bike rides all reconfigured. Not just with the new seat and tires and bottom bracket, but some dimensional stuff as well. Nothing major, but I’ve gone up to …
Coincidentally at Saturday’s Hot Dog Death March, fellow LA Metblogger Jodi made mention to her husband Eric of the emergency bag o’ kibble I’m rarely without while biking to/from work or play. I say “coincidentally” because it had been awhile since my last interaction with a stray on the streets, but sure enough this morning …
Urban Velo and Wired’s Gadget Lab blog are reporting that Specialized is not only hopping on the readymade fixed-gear blandwagon, but the bikemaker has apparently opted to deliver the “cheap” Globe Roll 2 ($800) and Roll 1 ($600) already color-schemed as a “Ghost Bike” either because Specialized has no clue what they’ve done — or …
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This morning’s commute to work from Silver Lake to Westchester took me south through downtown and across Jefferson Boulevard through Culver City to the Howard Hughes Center. 6.10.2009 AM Bike Commute Widget powered by EveryTrail: Travel Community POST RIDE REVIEW: Yeah well so REI’s Bike Your Drive ain’t perfect. Looking at the track and the …
Thanks to Ted mentioning it over at his BikinginLA blog, I quickly ventured to the App Store on my iPhone and downloaded the free Bike Your Drive app from REI. Aside from it totally crashing my phone at the outset of my evening commute when I attempted to use its photo function, so far so …
Yesterday I finished up all my bike riding in May with what I call my “10K Loop” route, a 6.2-mile circle that goes up Sunset Boulevard to Griffith Park Drive to Hyperion up and over the Viaduct to the L.A. River to Fletcher Avenue to Glendale Boulevard to Silver Lake Boulevard to Parkman Avenue to …