Coming home from an afternoon visit to my mom’s in Burbank I found this “growing” up out of the L.A. River Bikeway near its north entrance off Victory Boulevard in Griffith Park (click to enlarge): Â Funny, it wasn’t there Tuesday!
With some 2,600 miles logged on The Phoenix since I first started riding her at the beginning of last year, it was inevitable that the rattle-can paintjob with which I renewed her would eventually show signs of decay — accelerated by the unavoidable drops, scrapes and other such points of impact she was bound to …
I’ve begun the process of orchestrating and augmentating the promotional materials and logistications for the semi-notorious and entirely fictional IAAL•MAF bike conglomeration’s fifth spinviational duly dubbed the “Serenity Now” ride: T’will be a casual roll July 22, beginning at noon from Travel Town in Griffith Park. From there the ride will traverse to the L.A. …
So there’s a Blogging.la get together at the buzz-inducing new Seven Grand bar downtown and on Thursday I’m scheduled to be one of the readers at the L.A. Bloggers Live gathering in Los Feliz Village… the latter being something I oh-what-the-hell’d and signed on to go from spectator to participant in the throes of a …
I’ve certainly noticed an increase not only in bicyclists on the road, but in the more open commaraderie we demonstrate toward one another. I’m not talking so much about the organized group rides like RIDE-Arc and Midnight Ridazz of which I’m a regular participant and enthusiastic proponent, as I am referring to the random passing …
If it’s Wednesday night that means I can usually be found biking up the L.A. River and through Griffith Park, the latter of which afforded me the opportunity to snap on the fly this skinny fellow, no doubt suffering a strict diet of practically nothing since the park’s devastating fires of last month (click to …
Freshly outfitted I took The Phoenix out for its first ride tonight. Met Manny at Berkeley and Silver Lake Boulevard and we did what’s becoming our regular out-and-back up the river to Griffith Park. Exiting the L.A. River Bikeway at Victory we turned left and crossed the 134 Freeway to Zoo Drive, where we made …