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 [...]

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 [...]

I wrote a piece for Emerald City Wednesday, which is much less fluffy than the other pieces.  It’s a downright rant, so if you like that sort of thing then go read it.  Here’s a quote:  The only reasonable way to interpret the city’s inaction is as a  collective “Go **** Yourself” to cyclists.  Punk [...]

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 the “yes”s, [...]

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 in what I’m writing over [...]