Bikeside LA

I just received the Facebook invitation for the 4th ROB00303033TZ ride.  Why the organizer is using 3′s instead of 4′s escapes me – I must be dense.  Still – last month’s ride was epic, travelling through Playa Vista, storming LAX, visiting Hermosa Beach, and ending in a bonfire on Dockweiler Beach.  This month’s ride begins [...]

Here’s some random bike related photos for a lazy weekend: C.R.A.N.K. MOB:

C.R.A.N.K. MOB turns 1 on Saturday.  I can’t believe it!  So, here’s two video’s of last month’s CRNAK MOB to commemorate the occasion. I was feeling burnt out and tired and not very CRANKy, and then I saw these two videos, and I stayed up for 3 days straight . . . in the FUTURE! [...]

Jon “jonnyboy” Anderson, who produced these two amazing CRANK MOB videos (June video, and July video), has come through with a post Venice Critical Mass (VCM) ride.  After VCM, what is there to do?  The Westside’s answer is a Something Else ride – the after-ride ride which inevitably occurs when not everyone is ready to [...]

Two days before C.R.A.N.K. MOB, Jon Anderson, aka jonnyboy, released this intense recap of July’s CRNAK MOB: CRANK MOB GLOW from Jon Anderson on Vimeo. (if you’re having trouble viewing the video, view the video here, on Vimeo.) Wow!  Good job Jon. Let’s hear it for Jon in the comments! C.R.A.N.K. MOB meets at 9:30pm, [...]

On ROB0111011TZ ride #0 seventy two riders rode through industrial Culver City, Crenshaw, Inglewood.  Then we did a circuit of the top level of LAX, stopped at In & Out, and finally headed to the Howard Hughes center.  There the ride ended on top of a parking structure, where we partied with security guards.  The [...]

Venice Critical Mass was wild.  We had around 80 riders at the beginning.  We finished it a 7-11 parking lot at Sepulveda and Sawtelle, at which point we declared that we were on a new ride – a ride that was something else.  So from now on, the post VCM ride it the Something Else [...]

Thanks to CRANK MOB (photos) and life, I missed out on the Bicycle Film Festival this weekend.  What I was most disappointed by was missing the artistic cycling demonstrations by Ines Brunn.  Basically, artistic cycling (Wikipedia) is like fixed gear tricks on drugs.  Go watch this video to see what I mean – I guarantee [...]

The only ride organizing LOLcat, KNITTENS, sends along this flier for Venice Critical Mass: by KNITTENS