I’m usually the last one to shed my humility and slap my own back, but if I do say so myself and obviously I do: this morning’s ride was an epic success — replete with spoke cards even: Yeah, I caved and bought a bargain basement laminator this week and roughed out some graphics that …
Yep. Happened today on 4th Street westbound, approaching La Brea. Guy in an SUV gets on my tail about a block and a half from the light and hangs there for a bit as if he’s hoping I’ll either somehow vanish entirely, or maybe be able to go from 18 mph to 45 in the …
So the original intent of the West Adams mosey portion of Saturday’s ride was just to wander around the historic district looking at some of the phenomenal residences that exist there. Then I relocated a book I have on the famed district choke full with details on structures living and long gone and I couldn’t …
So far my “Bike Every Day In May” campaign has been a success. But the weekends have been a bit lopsided. The past three Saturdays have featured pretty good rides of 20 miles or more: May 2, “Around The Griffith Park Horn” ride; May 9, the “Not The L.A. Marathon Bike Tour” ride; and May …
At the beginning of the year when my resolution was to Bike Every Day, I doomed that goal because on weekends I would put off riding until I’d eventually bring the bike out and do a lap or two around the block — just to keep the streak going. After the third or fourth time …
I can’t lay claim to discovering the Dumpster of Fortunes, found where Commercial Street deadends into the Los Angeles River and photo’d and Flickr’d by some intrepid urban explorers a couple/three years ago, but I have paid it several visits since I learned about it — the latest being yesterday’s “Ten Bridges” ride, which thanks …
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Back in September 2007 the now-shadow-of-its-former-self IAAL•MAF staged a ride that’s still talked about for being full of awesome: The Ten Bridges Ride. And it was just that, a bike ride over ten of the L.A. River’s bridges: Washington Boulevard, Olympic Boulevard, 7th Street, 6th Street, 4th Street, 1st street, Cesar Chavez, Main Street, Spring …