I passed a young lady while traveling inland along the Ballona Creek Bikeway who caught me up at the Duquesne exit to ask me about my bike pants. “Do you mind if I ask who makes the pants you’re wearing?” “Ironically the company’s called ‘Hummer,’” I told her. “The brand name is Endura. I got …
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A workload increase kept me late Wednesday and I wasn’t able to do this that evening, but I cleared out enough of my stuff to be able to take a long way home Thursday afternoon, an extra 12 miles that took me from Westchester down Ballona Creek to Marina Del Rey and then Washington Boulevard …
Cut loose from the office early this afternoon, I celebrated the beginning of my four-day Labor Day weekend with a sunshiny ride home that included a stop at Scoops in the Bicycle Zone for some green tea caramel ice cream (that I enjoy on-camera) before heading home. The surprise last frame to me is the …
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So far, so good. Since my first roll Friday morning across the stretch of Ballona Creek Bikeway that includes the spot where a cyclist was attacked and robbed last week, I’ve encountered nothing that would even be considered remotely menacing. Here’s the timelapse from this morning’s creekside ride from Dusquene in Culver City to Inglewood …
In light of the recent attack on a cyclist riding on the Ballona Creek Bikeway and to counter the growing perception of the route as too dangerous to traverse, I’m extending my morning and evening workweek commutes to include the section where the attack occurred. There’s a definite criminal element accessing the route and I’m …
I did something amazing yesterday at the tail end of last night’s IAAL•MAF “Scoot & Shoot” Ride downtown. I was on 4th Street on the left side of the No. 2 lane when a brand new black Ford Mustang in the No. 1 lane gunned it passing close by me, leaving perhaps a foot / …
Following up my post below that showcases my first video timelapse of a bike commute, I did one both going and coming the next day. All in it’s eight minutes of herky-jerky seizure inducement, but thanks to the features of YouTube so you can haz greataaar enturtaynmint valyoo they’ve got semi-incongruous music tracks to give …