And just like that, with tonight’s ride home from work I’m 100 (point-eight) miles from my revised annual bike mileage goal of 3,000. Wasn’t it just September 20 when I arrived at 2,007? Yes, it was. Did I kick ass this fall? Indeed, I did. Am I already thinking about how far I want to …
While killing some time waiting for Tuesday night’s downtown bike ride, I rolled around taking snaps of some of the local dramatic landmarkery (click to biggify): The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles The rear of the Bullocks Wilshire Building with beacon lit. What I find most interesting about the two buildings is that the …
There’s a part of me that’s really pissed and a part of me that’s really glad I didn’t understand what the guy yelled at us. As Eric, Michael, Mack, Stephen, Ingrid and I in all our laidback IAAL•MAFness rolled west on 11th Street across Broadway sometime around 9 p.m. last night, a muddled bellow from …
Lawd knows I don’t spare the rod when it comes to ranting about the level of craptasticity I encounter among drivers from the saddle of my bike. I have the same reaction when I’m impeded by lane-hogging joggers and walkers I’ve met both on the L.A. River Bikeway and much closer to home on the …
It was simple: Wherever I had to stop my bike during my ride home from work last night I pulled out the cam and snapped a pic, occasionally two. Sometimes I tried to find something even moderately compelling, sometimes I just pointed and shot and moved on. Viewable here.
The Monday before Thanksgiving I rigged up my DV cam to my bike’s handlebars and from that POV recorded the one-hour ride in to work. As I was heading out of town the next evening and it was pretty much a run-of-the-mill expedition I did nothing with the tape until I remembered today that there …
Having not biked an inch while traveling this past week and also having amply stockpiled moooore than enough calories before, during and after this Thanksgiving, I’m opting to make this back-t0-work week a full bike-to-work one in part so that I can burn some of this excess fuel as well as enter the final month …