6:00 am departure from the Crow’s Nest Saturday April 23rd: Carlsbad and back. If you’re not invited you better show up anyway.  Cuz iF you don’t show up;  you’re weak.

FYI: How do you get an invitation? JUST RSVP – it’s that easy.

No Más Ross is getting ready for the LA Wheelmen Grand Tour Double Century.  Are you in?

Post a comment if you’re you’re going . . .

Whoz already RSVP’d (Carlsbad):

• Tortuga
• Tri.Chica
• No Más
• CrowBo
• Pumba
• DrDave
• Wyatt
• Cubanita

Post a comment if you’re in.

6:00 am departure from the Crow’s Nest Saturday April 23rd: Carlsbad and back.  If you’re not invited don’t bother showing up. If you don’t show up; you’re weak.

FYI: How do you get an invitation? Ask.

No Más Ross is getting ready for the LA Wheelmen Grand Tour Double Century.  Are you in?

IN:

• No Más
• Crow
• Pumba

Post a comment if you’re in.

Don’t let the bedlam crept up on yo ass mo-FO0-mOoKiE!

Get ya own fuc#*ng Pizseria – and Fu@# Yo INzAnITY!!!

I jUz kILled yo Fuc#iNg ride Mr. Bicycle fRedHeEm!

Who da’fUc# is bicycle fRedHeEm anyway?

Fight the pOwER, sHaRE the LoVE.

We wuz juz do’n  da right thing.

Do the Right Thing: As the hottest day of the year gets underway at Sal’s, local activist Buggin Out (Giancarlo Esposito) stops in for a slice of pizza, then hassles Aiello because there aren’t black faces on Aiello’s “Wall of Fame” (which has photos of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Frank Sinatra, etc.). To his complaints Aiello replies that only Italian Americans get their faces on his wall, and that if Esposito wants to look at pictures of “brothers” he tells him  “get your own pizzeria.”  Noting that he doesn’t see any Italians patronizing Sal’s, Esposito spends the rest of the day trying to organize a local boycott of the pizzeria. This apparently trivial incident is the spark that eventually ignites the explosion with which the film ends, but not until the film presents various local figures and their interrelationships in an episodic fashion.

Rogerebert.com:

But the movie in any event is not just about how the cops kill a black man and a mob burns down a pizzeria. That would be too simple, and this is not a simplistic film. It covers a day in the life of a Brooklyn street, so that we get to know the neighbors, and see by what small steps the tragedy is approached.

This is my pizzeria:

The Los Angeles Wheelman present their 53rd Annual Double, Triple & Quadruple Centuries (OMG!)

Saturday, June 25 2011  -  Who’s In ??

Visit the website for details.

UberFred says: Who’s needs a double century? Let’s just ride to FredDiego and back!

According to the LA.Wheelman’s Website:

The Lowland double century (200 miles) spends the most time along the comfortably cool coast. It travels up Pacific Coast Highway to Port Hueneme in Ventura County, inland to Moorpark, back out to the coast at Ventura, inland to Ojai for lunch, back to the coast at Rincon point at the very southwestern point in Santa Barbara County, south along PCH back to Port Hueneme rest stop, then back to the Start/Finish at Malibu. Total elevation gain is about 5,000 feet. See map and elevation profile below:

From the website:  Good.is

Mark Malkoff, “amateur daredevil” and “comedian,” decided to race a New York City bus on a Big Wheel bike for a mile down 42nd street to make a point about public transportation being slow. It looks dangerous.

7th & Alvarado: looking east.

LA Metro to cIcLAviA? This ain’t Paris.Roubaix Toto.

It was huge! The turnout for the second L.A. CicLAvia was big.   Everyone said it was much bigger than last year.

The journey to the event, to use Charlie Gandy (Long Beach Mobility Coordinator) vernacular “was a multi-modal trek” : Bike from home to the LA Metro station in  Long Beach; Metro to 7th  & Hope in Downtown LA, smack dab on the route; ride west to Heliotrope & Melrose where the Bike Kitchen is located right next to LACC;  ride east back to the City Hall;  across the 4th St Bridge to Boyle Hts;  ride back to 7th and then home on the Metro. 7 1/2 miles of Los Angeles city streets were closed from 10:00 to 3:00.  There’s no start, no finish.  It’s just a ride up and back along the route to see what you can find.   It was a free-for-all that was well coordinated with well mannered bicyclists.  The city felt like a well oiled community. The only time you see that many people on the streets is for a riot. What gives?  What’s happened to the anarchy?  All the intersections that were open to cross traffic were well served by traffic coordinators.  Give the people an officially sanctioned critical mass ride and it get’s all nice.  It was a civilized event.  I was told that the city deployed fewer police and traffic control officers this year since last year’s event was such a success in terms of safety and cooperation.  The next one is scheduled for July (2011).  Maybe the people will start getting bored.

For more information visit the CicLAvia Wedsite.

1899 CicLAvia Los Angeles: (USC Digital Library)

CicLAvia 1899: Bicyclists on Spring Street looking north near Eighth Street, ca.1899

Los Angeles’ second CicLAvia will be Sunday April 10th 2011 from 10am-3pm.

Los Angeles closes a number of streets so crowds of riders can pedal their bikes around the city free of car traffic.

For more information visit the CicLAvia Wedsite.

photo: http://angiesmith.photoshelter.com/

All aboard.  Amtrak to Freddiego Sunday for the custom Bicycle Show: 11:00am to 4:00

Where: Golden Hall at the Freddiego Concourse at 3rd Avenue and B Street.

One Day Ticket: $15.00

The show was featured in the L.A. Times Thursday (Calendar section).  The show is open to the public all four days.  Brian Baylis (Baylis Bicycle frame builder) originated this event (3rd Annual).

Look at a map – it’s 1/2 mile from the train station.

Howard? Are you listening? OK? Whoz In?

Website: http://www.sandiegocustombicycleshow.com/

A little insanity downhill.  Valpo, Chili