Bikeside LA

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

story in full . . . soon

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

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 [...]

Saturday, from 7pm to Midnight the Bike Oven will host an exhibition of photographs of LA’s bike culture. The event is a fundraiser for the Aids Life Cycle, for Team Midnight Ridazz. Several Westside Ridazz will have work displayed including Gary Kavanagh, Steven Rood, Ben Hardy, and professional photographer Franz Ellers. These guys take amazing [...]

We’ve opened the wiki to public editing. Traffic slowed last week, and the wiki has matured faster than expected, so now is the right time. Anyone who creates a user name (and anyone can) may edit. If you never click another link on this blog, at least visit the new article on Big Wheels.