Bikeside LA

(This is a guest post by “BikingInLA“, a West LA cyclist.  He blogs regularly, as often as five times a week (wow!), at BikingInLA.wordpress.com – so go check it out.  If you would like to guest blog, email me at alexcthompson@gmail.com) This past Sunday, I was reading the paper, taking in a column by Steve [...]

Jon “jonnyboy” Anderson, who produced these two amazing CRANK MOB videos (June video, and July video), has come through with a post Venice Critical Mass (VCM) ride.  After VCM, what is there to do?  The Westside’s answer is a Something Else ride – the after-ride ride which inevitably occurs when not everyone is ready to [...]

Once upon a time I headed up this project to create a wiki of all things bike.  Do y’all remember that?  It was insanely ambitious, and when it became a tough project, I eventually folded up and stopped working. So what’s been going on with the ibikeu Wiki?  Well, not too much.  Not too many [...]

Shannon, aka the iconic “Wife Bike”, and Katie O’Shea, are “helping” their friend recover a stolen bike.  This flyer is perhaps the greatest such flier of it’s kind:

So, last week and this week Westside BikeSIDE broke 100 RSS subscribers.  Twice it hit 101, and once 102.  Since I’m subscribed to my own blog twice – that means at least 100 OTHER people read Westside BikeSIDE on a regular basis.  Thank you all for reading!   I would like to extend a general [...]

There have recently been a series of muggings on the Ballona Creek Bike Path.  LAist, LA MetBlogs, LA Streetsblog, C.I.C.L.E. and Bike Girl have all written about it.  Essentially, we all have the same information, which is this excerpt from an email: I was riding west on the BC path at a little after 1pm [...]

After I was grilled and upbraided by a Culver City cop who doesn’t like children, I hustled to catch C.R.A.N.K. MOB at it’s next stop.  As the fastest man on the Westside, this was easy, and I caught the group at in a Von’s parking lot only slightly short of breath.  And just then they [...]

It’s Saturday night, and I’m walking my bike out of Culver City.  I walk past a Culver City police cruiser and as the navy blue uniformed driver gets in, he stops to yell “CHILDREN” at me.  “That’s odd”, I think to myself.  I contemplate the pros and cons of childhood – less independence, no sex, [...]

Two days before C.R.A.N.K. MOB, Jon Anderson, aka jonnyboy, released this intense recap of July’s CRNAK MOB: CRANK MOB GLOW from Jon Anderson on Vimeo. (if you’re having trouble viewing the video, view the video here, on Vimeo.) Wow!  Good job Jon. Let’s hear it for Jon in the comments! C.R.A.N.K. MOB meets at 9:30pm, [...]