Bikeside LA

(this post introduces Peter Moore, a Bikerowave volunteer with a encyclopedic knowledge of bike lore who has previously written for the esteemed Rivendell Reader. – AT) In the past ten or so years, there’s been a real boom in practical cycling. Partly thanks to Grant Petersen’s healthy manias and editorializing–for long reach brakes, fatter tires, [...]

(photo by Justin Jakobson) Last Tuesday was the one year anniversary of Taco Tuesdays.  EVERY week for one year Taco Tuesdays has met and left from CRANK MOB PARK at 8pm, and every week XL, the ride leader, has put together an awesome ride and spokecard. That’s an extraordinary effort, and that effort has earned [...]

It’s been a month since I broke the news that LAPD is still citing and cuffing of cyclists for not having a bike license.  By pressing from several angles we have achieved partial victory.  Three days after the incident Captain Eric Davis, commander of Wilshire Division (where the incident occured), sent this email to Glenn [...]

A few of my friends seem to be in a state of eternal vacation.  They work a little, they go to school a little.  In the remaining hours they enjoy West LA for what it is, a paradise by the Pacific.  At this instant a bunch of them are at the beach, getting tipsy and [...]

When I lived nearer the concrete canal, I ran there late at night.  Training for a marathon meant running 80 miles each week along the uniform banks of Ballona Creek, and sometimes this became monotonous. Some chill nights a magical event occurred.  Flying and gliding silently on the flicking knotted wood legs of the long [...]