Bikeside LA

On Monday, Feb 22nd, KPCC ran it’s second round of bike discussions on the Pat Morrison show (the entire show is up now if you want to listen in). Due to more technical troubles, I was not able to get my thoughts in, and I feel like I need to put them out there. [...]

(by Mihai Peteu)
As a Santa Monica resident that relies on his bike for everything from work commuting, to running errands, to recreation, our city’s bike friendly image is starting to wear thin. The utter disrespect shown towards the few “safe” bikeways provided to us around town is simply despicable.  As previously reported, Santa Monica is [...]

(by Mihai Peteu)
The MTA rapid on Wilshire is one of the most heavily used bus routes in the city of Los Angeles. After staring at the 720 Timetable + Route(PDF) dozens of times, it became pretty clear that there’s no reason why the bikeways in the city can’t be modeled after where I, a [...]

Broadway should be sacred pavement for cyclists.  Bike lanes, ideally, should serve as safe cross-town pathways for cyclists, taking you from one borough to another.  Not just to the grocery store and back.  They should have buttery smooth pavement since bikes don’t do nearly as much damage to the road surface.
Unfortunately, in Bronze-Award Bike Friendly [...]

Or Bicycling and Hiphop.
Either way, I figured I’d put some of my thoughts in writing on the topic of mixing two of the things I love most in life. They both give me unlimited amounts of freedom and have over time become intertwined with everything I do in life. These two hobbies (for lack [...]

Fellow westside riders, we have exciting news.  This email was passed around this morning, LAPD Pacific Division scooped up a bike thief in the Venice area, there’s a good chance that many bikes stolen from Santa Monica ended up in this guy’s garage.
If you think yours may be one of them, use the contact info [...]

The steel beast that brought the F.U.N. to so many rides is no more.  The pedal-powered 4-seater that brought smiles to so many faces. Gone it is, as of 10pm today, Monday April 27th, from its parking spot in Santa Monica…

“Americans spend 4.2 billion hours stuck in traffic a year at a cost of $78.2 billion, or $710 for each motorist” according to the The American Society of Civil Engineers.  Nothing that I quote or say from here on out has anything to do with convincing anyone to cycle – on the contrary, I want [...]

Is it okay for a law enforcement officer to drive an SUV aggressively towards a group of cyclists who have broken absolutely no laws, at night, with his headlights lights off? Well, this specific Beverly Hills Police Department officer seems to think it was a good idea, heck, maybe it even taught us [...]

Why do I have to travel around this great city of ours in fear? Why do I not deserve equal treatment and protection under the same laws that govern non-cyclists? Why is public transportation such a joke in Los Angeles?
Why does a Beverly Hills police officer think it’s a good idea to turn [...]