Bikeside LA

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, [...]

  Why are you looking at a toilet?  Well, that’s the toilet that will take L.A.’s version of the Velorucion to other cities.  In July I wrote about the effort to convert a gutted city bus into a touring bus to take large groups of LA cyclists to other cities.  That is a shot of [...]

Yesterday approximately 6o cyclists protested police harassment (photos on Flickr & Ridazz) of Santa Monica Critical Mass.  In response to the 14 citations of Santa Monica Critical Mass (SMCM) riders last Friday we, the Crimanimalz, blocked 4 crosswalks for a cumulative period of 40 minutes.  By walking back and forth across crosswalks continuously the Crimanimalz [...]

On ROB0111011TZ ride #0 seventy two riders rode through industrial Culver City, Crenshaw, Inglewood.  Then we did a circuit of the top level of LAX, stopped at In & Out, and finally headed to the Howard Hughes center.  There the ride ended on top of a parking structure, where we partied with security guards.  The [...]

Need I say more?  Yes, I do.  Critical Mass on the Westside has been amazing this summer.  Check out these pics and these pics from the SMCM and Firewerckx rides on July 4th, or these pics from Venice Critical Mass.  You should go. SMCM on Facebook

I was talking with Mike Feinstein (former mayor of Santa Monica) on Tuesday about a bike related project.  We finished our plans and then we got off the phone and went about our business.  Shortly afterward I miss a call from Mike, and when I listen to the voicemail I find out that he came [...]

Venice Critical Mass was wild.  We had around 80 riders at the beginning.  We finished it a 7-11 parking lot at Sepulveda and Sawtelle, at which point we declared that we were on a new ride – a ride that was something else.  So from now on, the post VCM ride it the Something Else [...]