Bikeside LA

Photo by Tom Reel/Express-News.
Her parents were killed while riding a tandem a week ago.
Via Tuscon Bike Lawyer.

The last photo of Rod and Christian Armas together:

Follows is a letter from the LA Wheelmen about how Rod was killed on the final leg of the Wheelmen’s 200 mile Grand Tour on Sunday:
“The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience
We’re spiritual beings [...]

Stephen Box has written the best piece to date about the tragedy that occurred this weekend:  while riding the LA Wheelmen Grand Tour, a father and his son were struck by a car.  The father was killed, and his son is in critical condition:
As Saturday turned into Sunday, Rod and Christian had approximately 190 miles [...]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 – Today, I watched a low level LAPD officer throw two bars and one star under a bus.  Specifically, Officer Cho’s prejudiced police work at the scene of the Hummer Hit N Run left Captain Allen (two bars) and freshly minted Commander Mike Williams (one star) flapping in the breeze in [...]

Sparked by the now infamous Hummer incident, cyclists from all over the city will be swarming City Council on Friday, to make their dissatisfaction with LAPD known.  Friday, May 1st, at 10am at Van Nuys City Hall we will submit public comments regarding the anti-cyclist bias of LAPD.  Van Nuys City Hall is located at [...]

Friday I wrote about an incident downtown where a Hummer driver hit a cyclist, and the police let him drive away after pulling him over with a bicycle lodged beneath his car.  Since then additional details have come forward in a witness statement by one of the cyclists:
I urged the police officer that this man [...]

(update: more details on the incident)
Friday morning at approximately 2am in downtown LA:  A black Hummer, bearing no license plates, hits a cyclist, knocking him to the ground.  The Hummer then flees the scene dragging a bike it ran over underneath it, only to be pulled over one block over by LAPD.  After taking [...]

I was talking with Mike Feinstein (former mayor of Santa Monica) on Tuesday about a bike related project.  We finished our plans and then we got off the phone and went about our business.  Shortly afterward I miss a call from Mike, and when I listen to the voicemail I find out that he came [...]