I ended up bailing from last night’s Midnight Ridazz at the first extended stop at MacArthur Park because I’m a grumpy ‘n geezery sunzabeech who can only take so much standing around in the dark, and there was just too much standing and not enough riding to suit me. Still, when things were more mobile …
(click to quadruplify) Instead of Jefferson up past the Target, I now roll home up Sepulveda to the Ballona Creek Bikeway and come across it to either Overland or Duquesne. Last night in the near-pitch black I was struck by the curving course of the waterway under the arching ped/bike bridge spanning it and stopped …
After work last night I blazed over to downtown for two reasons: 1) To stop throwing away $70 every month and cancel my seldom-used membership to the downtown YMCA, and 2) to attend the City of Los Angeles Bike Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting as a member of the newly formed Bike Writers Collective (BWC) whose …
Only four-tenths of a mile but maybe it can change the world.
With the news today that the brakes I ordered won’t even ship until Wednesday at the earliest but very likely Friday, I decided I couldn’t wait no more and so went to work moving the Tektro calipers off my Giant roadie and onto the new ride, then made a late night trip to Orange 20 …
As is occasionally the case, something I bought thinking it would work… didn’t. In this case it was the brakes. I ordered up a pair of old school Diacompe 750 center-pulls but the reach of the brake pad arms is too long and beyond the rim walls. As is also the case things work …
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa took time out from his busy schedule endorsing Hilary Clinton for president to focus on a dire civic issue: traffic. Yesterday he arrived via a behind-schedule MTA bus to a press conference staged on a downtown bridge over the 110 Freeway and outlined a multi-faceted program designed to get traffic flowing more …