As some of you might know I’ve participated in the Los Angeles Marathon every year since 1994 either as a marathon joggawalka, bike tour rider or on three insane occasions: both. Since the marathon’s inception in 1985, it has taken place on the first Sunday in March. This year as we all know that all …
So I’m westbound on Venice Boulevard this morning. I’ve made the light at Fairfax and once across it I’m cruising up to the next one, which is red. Not the light at Cadillac, but the one before it at the entrance to Kaiser Permanente’s parking complex. I get up behind another cyclist stopped there and …
(Click to enlarge) I found this beauty coming down the Beaudry South trail from my latest ride in my beloved Verdugos this afternoon. It was the second garter that had shot across the trail before me into the protection of the brush. The first one made its escape over a berm, but this one got …
I was joined by my friend Manny (and his bad ass new Trek Madone roadbike) this morning for an early 20-mile route that started in Silver Lake, venturing up the Los Angeles River Bikeway and around Griffith Park to Forest Lawn Drive out to Olive in Burbank, then back along Riverside Drive to Victory and …
For those not keeping track of my ongoing bike riding mileage this year — which would be pretty much everyone but me — let me cut to the chase. April was disappointing. I had a trade show at the beginning of the month that kept me out of the saddle all the way until the …
Since I typically ride home from work after the main part of the so-called “rush hour,” whenever I deviate from that time frame I’m forced to remember that the streets of Los Angeles at 6:30 p.m. bear the burden of a far more selfish, impatient and less-accepting motorist than they do even as little as …
On the heels of last week’s “Pit Stop” in South Los Angeles while on the way to work, I had another last night coming home through the Crestview neighborhood near Venice and La Cienega boulevards — specifically under the 10 Freeway overpass. She was a big bold beauty. Had a collar but no tags. She …