Today was the first leg of the Tortuga 500: San Jose to Monterey. The boys (28 dressed head to toe in LaHabra Chronic Taco kits)  headed over the coastal range into Santa Cruz via Hwy 17. Someone was apparently offended and took note of the kits, navigated to the website,  saw the post on LaHabra [...]

The tribe is embarking on a 4 day ride from San Jose to Long Beach;  28 bikes locked and loaded. The event was originally scheduled to depart three weeks ago and postponed due to a storm .  At that time 40 people were committed to the ride but the delay and the disappointment of the [...]

The powerful , long standing, incumbent Los Angeles city councilman, Tom LaBonge, wins again.  If you read (red) the LA Weekly article (see post below) you’d have discovered that Mr. LaBonge embraced cycling advocacy too.  He’s a savy politico and’s got quite a following.  Lots o’People love Mr. LaBonge. When’s he running for major? Visit [...]

FredDiEgo Custom Bicycle sHow! First stop Solana Beach, drink beer and take the freaking train south to the city;  fooget mr. bLue vEst pYgmy scRot; we just side-sTep’em;  while he’s pissing north, we’re heading south.  Easy sailing since no one’s on the train going south at that time.  After enough beers, who cares anyway.  If [...]

Today is the Los Angeles city elections.  Let’s see if the bike advocate, Stephen Box, upsets the powerful incumbent, Tom LaBonge. Story has it, Box become an advocate for bicycling in Los Angeles after nearly being hit by a bus while riding his bike in the city.  It’s a popular story these days that Major [...]

Toronto cycling enthusiast and blogger Tom Polarbear was pedaling around town this week when an “older woman” approached him and handed him an envelope reading simply, “Thank you.” Polarbear says he didn’t think much of it—”I thought it might be a flyer or something”—until he passed another cyclist, who held up his envelope from the [...]

If you’re a Danny MacAskill fan, you can still be impressed by Chris Akrigg. Visit Chris Akrigg on Twitter window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }());

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The plan lays out a long term goal of 1,680 miles of interconnected bikeways and calls for more than 200 miles of new bicycle routes every 5 years. It suggests that such major arteries as Figueroa Street, Wilshire Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard get bike lanes in the near future. It’s important to note that [...]

Doug Krikorian, a Sports Columnist for the Long Beach Press Telegram, revealed his irritation and impatience with cyclists on Second Street, in Belmont Shore,  and his disdain of  Sharrows  (those green stripes that alert motorists to the necessity to share the lane).  In a single comment he has empowered his audience to sharrow their own [...]