Bikeside LA

Ridazz, I’ve been invited to write once a week for an LA Times Blog on green living: Emerald City. Thanks Siel! I’ll be writing articles about bike culture, biking in LA, and bike activism for the uninitiated. You, my readers, are already initiated, so I wonder if you’d be interested in what I’m writing over [...]

Friends, tell me now, who is Chet? SRSLY. Friends of the Friendless 2 was an epic revelation of a ride, so I split it into two posts. EPIC. Read the other one! Oh, and guess what? Friends of the Friendless #3, this Thursday, Bikerowave, 9pm! Let’s synopsisize. Friends of the Friendless is a Cub Camp [...]

Midnight Ridazz: Mother of All Rides was last week and it was fun. A lot of hundreds of humans rode their bikes in unison through Hollywood while chasing cyclists dressed as eggs in the most unorthodox East Egg hunt ever. These wild Ridazz went through the Grove (once around 10pm, then again at midnight), cruised [...]

While everybody was out drinking themselves into a green oblivion Monday night, seven members of the Bike Writers Collective (BWC) were having “wholesome sober” fun attending the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council. The Council adopted the Cyclists’ Bill of Rights in full, leaving the bloggers of the Bike Writers Collective giddy.

C.R.A.N.K. Mob is Saturday!!!!! The greatest F.U.N. force known to CRANK Mob are the Cubs of Cub Camp, but from the Eastside comes the #2 FUN clique in town: T.W.B.G. – the TrenWay Bike Gang. TrenWay will be giving up their status as #2, as the arrival of my brother Austin knocks the Cubs down [...]

March’s Santa Monica Critical Mass was the 38th SMCM, and followed a successful 3rd Anniversary ride in February. In pre-ride announcements a SaMoHi student, Alec, shared his story of getting his ticket repealed. Then we had 60 seconds of silence in honor of a cyclist killed in the Valley on last Wednesday, followed by whoops [...]

Ummm, who is Chet? Friends of the Friendless might be the greatest ride concept ever. “Impossible!” you say. Maybe, but srsly you guys, hear me out. (read this? read part 2!) Friends of the Friendless 2 left from Bikerowave last Thursday at 9pm, and twenty odd riders rode aimlessly around West LA. Here’s the concept: [...]

I recently wrote a piece for CICLE entitled “bicycle advocacy, FAIL. Bike Activism, WANT.” I ticked off a bunch of people and started a roaring debate about strategies in bike activism. I’m glad, because we need to have that debate. Blogger Vance Longwell was displeased with me for different reasons than most posters. To solve [...]

UPDATE (3/14/2008):  I visited the site yesterday and discovered CalTrans has done nothing!  I talked to construction workers there and they said that CalTrans does not plan to reorganize the zone to make it safe for cyclists.  Additionally, CalTrans set up is so bad that workers say rocks are coming dangerously close to the excavator, [...]

Guest poster Tad Daley (tad@daleyplanet.org), known to fellow cyclists as Tito, is Writing Fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (winners of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize), and a regular weekend cyclist with the Los Angeles Wheelmen, Santa Monica Critical Mass, and the South Bay Cruisers. He shares his passion for competitive [...]