Bikeside LA

On Friday Ted Rogers of Biking In LA attacked John Fisher, Assistant General Manager of Operations of LADOT, claiming that Fisher is ultimately responsible for Bikeways failures.  In “Who’s the man behind the curtain of L.A. bicycling?” Rogers, a board member for the LACBC, exonerates Michelle Mowery by arguing that she is not powerful enough [...]

Welcome to Bikeside! Bikeside is a new organization for bike activism. Our mission, simply, is to make LA safe for cyclists. We’re going to do that with the same brand of hard hitting, assertive and insightful activism you’re used to getting from the Bike Writers Collective.

Someone in the bike scene has a creepy crush on my mom.  Or, anyway, that’s what I surmised when the Twitter account cicLAvia asked to follow my mom.  That’s right – I got this email from my mom tonight:
From: mom@mom.com
Subject: Twitter Requests
do either of you know who the following people are (The first one might [...]

Dan Gutierrez & Brian DeSousa rode Mandeville Canyon on Saturday and recorded it to demonstrate proper lane positioning. The video confirms what many suspected – the two cyclists assaulted and injured were correct in taking the lane during their descent: