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May CRANK MOB Recap

May CRANK MOB Recap

(the videos in the post will come through as links for RSS and email subscribers – just click em and check out the videos – trust me!  Or go to WestsideBikeSIDE.com) CRANK MOB was double awesome. All the CRANK faithful have speculated what warmer temperatures would bring, and we were right to do so. The [...]

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Alex on Emerald City – Volunteering for a Bike Org

Alex on Emerald City – Volunteering for a Bike Org

I wrote a piece for Emerald City yesterday about volunteering for a local bike advocacy organization. I boiled it down to five orgs and one event: CICLE, the Bike Oven, the Bicycle Kitchen, Bikerowave, LACBC, and the Bicycle Film Festival. BTW, if you want to get involved in bike activism there are a T O [...]

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ibikeu Wiki Update: Who are the Sodomites? Can they over power the Crimanimalz?

The second Freeway Traffic Jam Ride took place last Friday, and the Crimanimalz used the wiki as the reference for people interested in the history of the ride. The ride hit the front page of Digg, LAist, Boink Boink, Wired, local TV stations etc etc . . . and consequently the Freeway Traffic Jam article [...]

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When LA runs you over, what do you do? (Guest Post)

(This is a guest post by Tom Bosch, Bikerowave’s head mechanic on Monday nights.) When I was a kid, I would ride my big sister’s beat up bike through the neighboring apartment complexes in my hometown, rain or shine, riding as fast as possible, sometimes near the brink of disaster. When disaster struck, whether it [...]

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Being Crimanimalz: the Second Crimanimal Mass Freeway Traffic Jam Ride

Being Crimanimalz: the Second Crimanimal Mass Freeway Traffic Jam Ride

I’m standing on the outside edge of sweeping arc of pavement. An unintelligible whooping cyclist whizzs by. As the gust of her passing hits my face, I discern a clamor of hoots and yells behind me. Swinging round I see a loose herd of cyclists and skaters bearing down. Lumbering forward they appear svelte in [...]

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Alex on Emerald City – Riding Your Bike is the Best Activism

Alex on Emerald City – Riding Your Bike is the Best Activism

I wrote a piece on Emerald City last week that I’m actually pretty proud of. I’m sort of a perfectionist and rarely happy with what I write, but this turned out well. It also features a pretty cool picture of Kieron, the iconic organizer of CRANK MOB. Please go read it! Perceived as dangerous and [...]

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ibikeu Wiki Update: What is a pile bike?

This week was sort of a mixed bag for the ibikeu Wiki. Unique hits doubled, but editing decreased. On the other hand we added some editors from outside SoCal, and they added some interesting content about New Haven, and began the monumental task of documenting NYC’s bike culture. I’ll bet you a donut you don’t [...]

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Link to Bicycling Magazine Article

Sorry, I forgot the link to the article I ranted about a minute ago: Bicycling Magazine:  “A Future Best City: Los Angeles”

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Bicycling Magazine Gets It WRONG

Bicycling Magazine recently ran this fluffy blurb entitled “A Future Best City: Los Angeles”. The piece gets the facts all wrong and concludes that cycling in LA has a bright future thanks to LADOT. I won’t begrudge a journalist a fluff piece here or there in order to make the bank to buy milk on [...]

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