Since the new singlespeed freewheel and caliper brakes aren’t going to be here until tomorrow, I’ll probably bring her home tonight all packaged up and wait until Tuesday evening to de-box her and commence assembly. A stop at Orange 20 Bikes might be in order for some cabling and cable clamps. I’ll be aiming …
Wasn’t expecting the cats ‘n dogs that fell out of the sky beginning about 3 p.m. this afternoon. At all. But boy did they come. So when quittin’ time rolled around at 5:30 p.m. I weighed my options: bike the 13.8 miles home in about 6:30 – 6:45 p.m., or get on the No. 439 …
Indeed barely a day after the demise of The Phoenix and its corpse still warm where its been hung up in the garage, on my lunch break today I somewhat $keptically went online with no clear purpose other than t0 see what I could see in terms of potential new singlespeeders out there… and hopefully …
The No. 439 bus is like the Katamari Damacy of MTA lines, rolling all over the place and picking up anything and everything in its path. The northbound version starts at the Greenline Station at Aviation Boulevard and Imperial Highway and works its way up through Westchester on to Sepulveda where it passes through the …
You might call this catastrophic frame failure, I call it total heartbreak. I noticed an odd cadence-like ticking on yesterday’s downtown ride with Susan and thought it might be time for a new bottom bracket, but after rolling through the rain to work this morning (in a record 50 minutes, by the way) little did …
 (click to quadrify) Sunday downtown: The parakeets were an awesome surprise. The movie was decent. The Julius Shulman photo exhibit was extraordinary. The too-crowded Murakami show was for another day. Olvera Street fed us. Then we biked home. Here’s Susan in the lead coming through the 2nd Street Tunnel.
Color this Sunday afternoon football-free and art awesome: Susan and I are gonna get on our bikes at noon and head downtown to catch the 1 p.m. matinee of Cloverfield at the Laemmle’s Grande on Fig. After that we’re gonna scoot on over to the Central Library to catch the last day of the Julius …