Bikeside LA

ROBOTZ is back, as ROB0131313TZ (Facebook event.)  If you’re a hoomanz, you’re unlucky, because only robotz can bike with robotz.  This time it’s 25 miles-ish, finishing at 2am somewhere in West LA.  We meet at CRANK MOB PARK, 9201 Venice Blvd, at 7pm, and leave promptly at 8pm, this Saturday.  It’s a mild hustle, so [...]

For many, the onslaught of memes in the bike scene is unBEARable.  Just for them, some cat named KNITTENS created a new ride (Facebook) for those cooler Saturday’s when watergun rides are not appropriate: Some of you are probably already aware of Bear Cavalry, an internet meme of awesome.   But, if when you saw [...]

It’s back!  After a 2 month hiatus due to lame organizing by moi et al, VCM is back (Facebook.)  Meet us this Friday at 7:30 pm at the Windward Circle in Venice. View Larger Map

It’s that time again.  KNITTENS emailed me this flyer for ROB050505555TZ, the All Shitty Edition (Facebook event listing.)  I think she meant “all-city”, but such is the accent of LOLCATs.  This Saturday, 8pm, at CRANK MOB PARK (Venice & Canfield.)  KNITTENS writes that you should “be prepared for all night no-fun no-party no-time!!!”, whatever that [...]

KNITTENS, the ride organizer who is shrouded in mystery, sent me this flyer for ROB044044044TZ (Facebook listing), which will start from CRANK MOB PARK at Venice & Canfield in Culver City at 8pm.  No beach cruisers allowed.  Expect 25 brisk miles ending in whereabouts that would make your mother cringe, and another 10 miles to [...]

(Hal receives a ticket from the Santa Monica Police Department at Santa Monica Critical Mass) Whether Santa Monica wants it or not, whether it’s true or not, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) is perpetuating the message “cyclists aren’t welcome in Santa Monica.”  Probably the only people ignoring them are the participants in Santa Monica [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Need I say more?  Yes, I do.  Critical Mass on the Westside has been amazing this summer.  Check out these pics and these pics from the SMCM and Firewerckx rides on July 4th, or these pics from Venice Critical Mass.  You should go. SMCM on Facebook

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 [...]