Bikeside LA

Lately, in the afternoon, I set aside my keyboard, don my running shoes, and head out to the marina to work my legs.  When I went yesterday, I witnessed a man nearly killed for a dollar.

The draft LA Bike Master Plan was released today, 6 months late: The public can submit comments at the public workshops, via the project website [www.labikeplan.org] or by mail on or before November 6, 2009 The plan is 6 months late, and we only have six weeks to submit comments?  That may seem like a [...]

I was returning from my other girlfriend’s girlfriend’s in the hills and I stumbled on this sign: A press release given to me by the masked man – V himself – proclaim a collaboration between the City and the Department of Do-It-Yourself: In an unprecedented move, the City of Los Angeles contacted the Department of [...]

Word just came in from Thomas Baker (via Joe Linton) that the Northridge East Neighborhood Council endorsed the Cyclists’ Bill of Rights: I was able to propose a Motion on the Northridge East Neighborhood Councils last General Board Meeting Sept. 16, 2009 to Endorse the Bicycle Bill of Rights. The Motion was voted on and [...]

Riding up and over Centinela I’m the fastest thing on wheels Not Ivan Basso, or Michael Rasmussen or Ivan Therrien or Eric Colton can beat me.

I took the post I wrote yesterday about the idiocy of vigilante actions against bike thieves, and I posted it on Midnight Ridazz.  I knew I’d get very little love, but since that was the group I most wanted to reach, it made sense to do it.  Feetpower, an anonymous poster laid it down: im [...]

If you’ve got your ear to the ground in the bike community then you know that a lot of people have had their bikes stolen.  You also might have noticed some people talking about vigilante actions.  Cyclists have been talking about organizing police stings, hunting down bike thieves, tying them up, and beating them up.  [...]

(note that LAB is an abbreviation for League of American Bicyclists, not LA Brakeless, which is AWSUM!  Oh yeah, and BFC means Bike Friendly Community – you can read more about the BFC program here.) Directors of the League of American Bicyclists, The link below connects to a petition regarding the Bronze BFC Award conferred [...]

Below is a photos of LA County Sheriff Pitchess at Mira Loma Jail Facility.  Inmates restored unclaimed stolen or lost bikes, rebuilt them, and various Sheriff’s stations redistributed them to needy kids: As you might have guessed, that is then, not now.   These days, after a cursory attempt to locate the owner, recovered bikes are [...]

(photo by Gary Se7en) I once stood in the old Bikerowave on Thursday night, in a shop full to the brim with 17 cyclists working on bikes.  17 men. Bikerowave is a little heavy on the Y chromosomes, an unfortunate and apt representation of the LA bike scene.  That’s one reason Bikerowave is proud to [...]