Bikeside LA

The West Hollywood Sheriff’s Department has thrice now harassed and intimidated cyclists. In the most outrageous of the three incidents, a deputy first instructed one hundred cyclists to clear the left most lane on threat of taking their bicycles. They then responded with twelve cars and twenty officers, shoved one witness, and shined [...]

For April’s CRANK MOB, we clowned around at the starting point, then we rode bikes through WestLA, went to Culver City, had a dance + costume contest in Media Park, witnessed bike jousting in a Vons parking lot, jumproped at some random 7-eleven as usual, rode through Beverly Center parking lot, went to WeHo, [...]

The second week of ibikeu Wiki’s launch was great. Views continued to rise, and editing continued to increase. ibikeu is getting indexed higher by Google on a daily basis so, even though we have yet to seriously promote the wiki, ibikeu received significant international traffic from desirable vacation locales such as Argentina, Ireland, [...]

Last week we unveiled the ibikeu Wiki, a wiki for all things bike, and then I spent the next three days refreshing the stats counter. The first week was a great success. During the two months when the wiki was private there were only 2176 pageviews, 616 edits, and 46 pages of content. [...]

Friday I wrote about what I think is a gap in the cycling communities knowledge sharing. Here’s a partial solution – the ibikeu Wiki!
The ibikeu Wiki is intended to document everything bike, from social rides like Santa Monica Critical Mass, to broad topics like the history of bicycles or bicycle infrastructure terminology.
For the time [...]

How many times have you been on a Critical Mass or Midnight Ridazz and been asked “What is this? Where can I find out about this?” by a motorist or pedestrian. For me it’s like a million. Every time I feel stumped. What’s a good answer. I’d point them to [...]

Last week I polled y’all to find out if you wanted me to post the articles I’m writing for the LA Times blog Emerald City here as well. Ten people voted yes, four voted no, and four voted for posting only the stuff I thought you’d like. That’s not exactly a mandate for [...]

CRank Mob participants produce an amazing quantity of media. Lately after each ride there are an insane number of photos, a couple video recaps, and poetic testimonials surface. So here it is in CRANK Mob recap part 2.

Part 2 of the Recap

March CRANK Mob was attacked by four wheeled beasts! We subdued them and made them our pets. The largest beast, The Box, is Richie’s experiment in RVing. The Box accompanied CRANK Mob to each stop and provided another sound system as well as base for many riders. Richie, [...]

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 [...]