Heading to the first-floor vending machines helpless to resist the need for a Cheetos fix during lunch I took a turn for the curious into a room nearby and was surprised to find a bank of MTA bus and train timetable porn in a wall-mounted display case. Looking them over in all their numerically ordered glory, sure …
Agh. So yesterday I was half-assedly plotting my two-wheeled to-and-from commute for this morning — and I got up early enough to do so — but I’ll probably hold off until next week and try to get my shit together enough to mass transit myself there and back instead. Today would’ve been the best day …
So with a five-mile errand run Thursday and a 31.5-mile night ride yesterday, in the first two days of February I’ve accumulated more than half the paltry 64 miles I pedaled in all of January. Certainly 64 miles is more than some people bike in a year — even perhaps a lifetime — but that …
Yep, it was a helluva long time ago when I had that blowout coming down the Silver Lake Boulevard hill on The Phoenix. And then after that it took a helluva long time to get the deformed rear rim rebuilt. Well, today wasn’t the first time I’d saddled up and rode her — that reinaugural …
Seeing as I have to average 167.5 miles a month to make this year’s target, I’m off to a bit of a slow start. But getting back in the saddle with Friday’s night c-c-c-cold 33.5-mile ride up through northeast L.A. to Pasadena’s Rose Bowl and back, I finally kicked off my resolution to bike 2,007 …
The forecast is calling for near-record lows as a high-pressure arctic-fueled cold front settles atop greater L.A. this evening and drills city temperatures down to the realm of 33 degrees — basically one notch above freezing. If so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’ll be some frosty stuff visible from our kitchen window on the …
On one hand after suffering through years of what I considered a decidedly anti-bike stance in the L.A. Times I gotta admit things have changed a bit of late. They had a great article featuring the Bicycle Kitchen’s and L.A. County Bike Coalition’s Monica Howe last week, one of a few pieces that have actually …