Bikeside LA

There are two great events on Saturday that I want to make sure you don’t miss.  First, there’s the TDF.  No, not the Tour De France.  It’s the Tour De Fat . . . the bikes & beer festival sponsored by New Belgium Breweries!  New Belgium Breweries are the famous brewers of every cyclist’s favorite [...]

CicLAvia is Sunday.  The organizers of the event capitalized on a setback (“if you push a negative hard enough it becomes a positive” paraphrase of Saul Alinsky) and rescheduled the event for the numerically alliterative date of 10/10/10.  Apart from the obvious conclusion that they will be forced to organize events for 11/11/11, 12/12/12, 20/20/2020 [...]

In less than a week the public hearings for the 2010 Los Angeles bike plan will be finished.  The bad news?  One of them is already over.  The good news?  There are four left!  This is your opportunity to ask the people responsible for choosing the streets in the bike plan why your desired streets [...]

Save the date! Saturday, May 22nd, Bikerowave (12255 Venice Blvd) will host Bikeside for Bikeside’s new bike talk series: Bikeside Speaks! All comers are welcome, and we’ll have food and drink till I eat all the pizza. Afterward we’ll have a film screening, the second of it’s kind at Bikerowave. Bikeside Speaks is a lightning [...]

On Tuesday, April 20, eight cyclists gathered at the Venice Neighborhood Council prepared to face the walls of questions and disagreements we had previously encountered only two weeks prior at the Venice Neighborhood Committee. However, in a surprise turn of events, all Council Members unanimously approved The Cyclists’ Bill of Rights! As each cyclists arrived, [...]

On Tuesday, April 20, the Cyclists’ Bill of Rights goes to the Venice Neighborhood Council for approval. I expect resistance and know there will be a fight.

Best Saturday ever – ArtCycle at Madison & Santa Monica Bl, from 2pm till 10pm.

[UPDATE:  Change of venue.  The new location and time is Saturday, 2pm, at the Hollywood Adventist Church, 1711 N. Van Ness Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028.  We'll be in the Fellowship Hall on the NW side of the parking lot.] This Saturday the Bike Writers Collective invites you to change the course of cycling in LA.  [...]

July 4th is 1000% bikes this year with an awesome Santa Monica Critical Mass/Firewerckx Ride mash up, and a race to the beach put on by Los Angeles Brakeless earlier in the day. Other events this month – the increasingly amazing CRANK MOB, Storm the Bastille on Bastille Day, Venice Critical Mass, some important Santa [...]