First of an occasional series of 60-second snips snapped from the saddle as I bike around Los Angeles for work or play. This one was made January 18 on my way to work along the Ballona Creek Bikeway between Overland Avenue and Sepulveda Boulevard.
There was that time last winter when I called a reckless motorist a “12th-level jackass” without knowing what the hell that might have meant. Then there was the SUV driver this morning who turned left directly in front of me to enter an alley as I barreled down the slope of Redondo Boulevard approaching Pico …
So on the bike in to work yesterday morning on Sepulveda through Culver City, I couldn’t resist stopping and setting up a shot with the temporary signage below showing that my bike is my own special brand of alternative to the jamways of L.A. (quadrifiable if clicked):
So the magnet that triggers the sensor of my tried and true bike odometer broke when I tried to move it from one rim to another, but I’m not fretting because my baby hooked me up with a Garmin eTrex Vista for Christmas and I finally got around to mounting it to The Phoenix’s handlebars …
Several weeks ago coming home through 4th and Rimpau in Hancock Park I barely cleared a slow-moving black Chrylser with consular plates and thus avoided getting essentially PIT-maneuvered by whoever the driver was oddly unwilling to stop through the intersection. And now this morning going the other way the driver of a new Mustang with …
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With the exception of getting caught in showers that arrived ahead of schedule a few Mondays ago, I’m usually the model of trepidation and will substitute to a more conventional means of transport if the word on the weathermap is water’s to fall. Of course with such avoidance tactics, most of those times I’m left …
No day like the first of the new year to replace some worn out parts on The Phoenix. Before rolling out this afternoon for the inauagual ride of 2008 with friends Andrew, Manny and Stephen, I replaced my long suffering (and suffered) campus pedals (platform on one side and clip on the other) with a …