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Stuff happens 25 Jul 2013 | 01:44 am
A banal right hook, barely avoided, haunts me today, the scenario running through my head, questions of what happened and what lessons I can take from it. In less time than it’ll take you to read this...
A certain specious folly 18 Jul 2013 | 03:56 am
I’m not exactly sure where we are on the “Ghandi-meter” of change, but Syd Mead’s column on the “specious folly” of bicycle-as-transporation seems to be somewhere between the time when “they laugh at ...
Ships in the night 23 May 2013 | 03:37 am
I don’t venture out much at night on my bicycle, not when I can help it. It just seems too dangerous to mix it up with tired or chemically impaired drivers. They have enough problems seeing me in the ...
CicLAvia Traffic Jams 23 Apr 2013 | 12:27 am
Celebrated by an estimated 150,000 participants (or maybe 500,000?), yesterday’s CicLAvia featured a new route, from Union Station to Venice Beach, mostly along Venice Boulevard. While these rides hav...
Letter to Mark Lacter 20 Feb 2013 | 04:30 am
My letter to Mark Lacter in response to his opinion piece on the Westwood Boulevard bike lanes: ————————- Your most recent article has to be among the most poorly researched I’ve seen in some time. Pl...
I pass cyclists at three feet 17 Sep 2012 | 12:58 am
This September has seen me cycling in France, in the Alps and Provence, climbing some of the storied Tour de France ascents. I tackled a series of passes and a couple of mountains, among others, and t...
Beverly Hills Spins Slowly Forward … or Backward, Your Choice 26 Aug 2012 | 12:56 pm
The Beverly Hills city council took up its “bike plan” twice last Thursday for the zillionth time since, oh, about 1975. If you want to listen to a dispiriting discourse on the status of current Ameri...
A lane of one’s own 17 Jul 2012 | 02:46 pm
When I wheeled the Bullit last Saturday into Charles Picture Framing to pick up some packages, Charles was understandably confused, and maybe a little startled. “Can I help you?” he asked. I was (admi...
Whither safety, whither progress 6 Jun 2012 | 03:58 am
My parents gave me a grocery bag full of photographic negatives last April. They had them jumbled in their closet, stored away in the odd chance that someone, someday might want to make a print. No on...
Absurdist Shrubbery 16 May 2012 | 11:36 am
From what I can see, the engineers and planners at LADOT’s Bicycle Program are hard at work installing bicycle-specific infrastructure around the city. Sharrows keep popping up on the routes I ride, a...
