Bike Talk airs every Saturday at 10 am; listen to it live or download the podcast from KPFK.
Bike Long Beach hosts Bike Saturdays every weekend; ride your bike to participating local shops and business throughout the city to get special offers and discounts.
Photo courtesy of Richard Masoner of Cyclelicious
Caltrans is hosting Bike Local! Bicycles as Everyday Transportation (pdf), a month-long exhibition highlighting “a wide variety of affordable commuting and recreational bikes, classic bikes, materials on biking safely, illustrations of bike-friendly street-design, videos of bike commutes, a wall-size map of bike routes in Los Angeles County, and displays of biking accessories that make riding safer and easier.” The exhibit takes place in the Transportation Museum at District 7 Headquarters, 100 South Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Hours are Monday through Friday, from 8 am to 5 pm through June 1.
Saturday, May 4, The LACBC Civic Engagement Committee is invites you to Bike the Vote with an informal Meet and Greet with the candidates for L.A.’s 13th City Council District to replace outgoing councilmember and mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti; both candidates have promised to attend. The event takes place at Golden Road Brewing, 5410 West San Fernando Road, from 1 pm to 4 pm; Golden Road Brewing is promising participants $4 pint specials of their Point the Way IPA, GR Hefeweizen, and Get Up Offa that Brown beers. The event will be preceded by a short bike ride starting at Sunset Triangle Plaza at noon, departing for Golden Road Brewing at 12:15 pm.
Flying Pigeon LA hosts their monthly Brewery Ride on Saturday, May 4th; this month’s ride will visit some of the business in Northeast Los Angeles to show bikes mean business, and that proposed bike lanes on Colorado Blvd and North Figueroa are nothing to be afraid of. Meet at Flying Pigeon, 3404 North Figueroa, at 3 pm, departing at 3:30. Highly recommended for a very smart cause.
The next ride in the LACBC’s popular series of Sunday Funday Rides takes place on Sunday, May 5th with the L.A. State Historic Park Out ‘n’ Back ride. The ride meets at L.A. Historic Park, 1245 N. Spring Street in Chinatown at 10:30 am, rolling at 11 am for a fun, family-friendly 12-mile ride through the Arroyo Seco hosted by Board Member Trent Strong, followed by a BBQ with options for vegans and carnivores.
Warm up for Bike Week and River Ride with the Tour of Long Beach 2013 on Saturday, May 11th, featuring a bike fest and rides ranging from a 5-mile Family Fun Ride to 31 and 62 milers through the bike-friendly streets of Long Beach, along with a full century through Long Beach and down the SoCal coast to Laguna Beach. Proceeds go to support pediatric cancer research at Miller Children’s Hospital in Long Beach.
Ventura County and West Valley riders can take part in the 28th Annual Cruisin’ the Conejo Bike Ride on Saturday, May 11th. Rides range from a 12-mile children’s junior tour and 35-mile fun tour, to a 68-mile metric century and a 100-mile full century; all rides start and finish at 649 Lawrence Drive in Thousand Oaks.
The Amgen Tour of California rolls through the state starting in Escondido on Sunday, May 12th and ending in Santa Rosa on the 18th. This year’s race bypasses L.A.; the nearest stages are Stage 3 from Palmdale to Santa Clarita, and Stage 4 from Santa Clarita to Santa Barbara.
This year’s Bike Week will take place May 13th – 19th, starting with Fix Your Bike Day on Monday the 13th, Guided Ride Day on Wednesday, May 15th, Bike to Work Day on Thursday the 15th, and Bike Local Weekend from Friday, May 17th to Sunday the 19th, offering discounts to bicyclists who mention Bike Week. Pledge to ride your bike on Bike to Work Day and you could win a free bike from REI.
The 10th Annual Blessing of the Bicycles is scheduled for 8 am to 9:30 am on Tuesday, May 14th at Good Samaritan Hospital, 616 Witmer Street, between 6th and Wilshire. The multi-faith event is always one of the high points of Bike Week. And it never hurts to have a little divine protection when you ride.
Pasadena celebrates Bike Week as well, including Ladies Night on Wednesday, May 15th from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at Paseo Pasadena, 280 East Colorado Blvd.
Culver City-based Walk ‘n’ Rollers invites you to a family-friendly Bike Week Group Ride on Wednesday, May 15th from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. Meet at the pedestrian bridge over Ballona Creek.
Also on the 15th, the Antelope Valley’s High Desert Cyclists will screen the award-winning documentary Bicycle Dreams at 7 pm, at 1031 West Ave M-14, Suite A in Palmdale.
The annual Ride of Silence falls in the middle of Bike Week, on Wednesday, May 15th, honoring fallen cyclists and calling attention to the need for safety. The biggest ride in the Los Angeles area will take place at the Rose Bowl starting at 6:30 pm and rolling at 7; I also hear there may be a ride in Downtown L.A., details to follow. Other Southern California rides take place in Gardena, San Clemente, Temecula, Rancho Cucamonga, Thousand Oaks and Ventura, as well as the 2nd Annual Anthony Martinez Jr. Ride of Silence in Oxnard. Highly recommended to send an important message, as well as a little emotional healing.
The Education Committee of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council will host a Bike Rodeo at 10 am on Saturday, May 18th at Micheltorena Elementary School, 1511 Micheltorena Street. Children from 5 to 12 are invited to participate; free bikes and helmets will be available for those who need them.
Also on the 18th, the Eastside Bike Club is collaborating with the El Sereno Healthy Star Collaborative on a family-friendly slow is cool community ride starting at 12:30 pm at El Sereno Middle School, 2839 N Eastern Ave, departing at 1 pm.
The Plain Wrap Ride rolls through the Inland Empire on Saturday, May 18th starting at 8 am at Coates Cyclery, 760 East Foothill Blvd in Pomona. Online registration for a very affordable $25 ends May 15th; day of event registration is $35. Thanks to CLR Effect for the link.
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition’s Civic Engagement Committee usually meets at 6:45 pm on the last Tuesday of each month. However, the May meeting has been cancelled to give members a chance to recover from the long, long campaign season; the next meeting will take place June 25th to discuss where we go from here, location TBD. You don’t have to be an LACBC member to participate; email bikinginla at hotmail dot com to be added to the discussion list.
Sunday, June 1st, women riders of all abilities are invited to take part in La Bella Preme. The event starts and finishes at the Triunfo Creek Vineyards, near the corner of Triunfo Canyon and Kanan Roads, with rides of 11, 31 and 63 miles along the Malibu coast. Click here to learn more.
Caltech Bike Lab teams with C.I.C.L.E. to offer a series of free defensive cycling classes; the next one take place on Saturday, June 8th at Caltech Y, 505 S. Wilson Ave in Pasadena. RSVP to bike@cicle.org with the date you want to attend.
Registration has opened for this year’s LA River Ride, to be held Sunday, June 9th, starting and ending in Griffith Park. If you haven’t done the River Ride, I highly recommend it; if you have, then why haven’t you registered already?
Now that you’ve had a taste of CicLAvia to the Sea, mark your calendar for the next edition when CicLAvia rolls down L.A.’s iconic Wilshire Blvd on Sunday, June 23rd. The ride rolls, walks, scoots and skates from Downtown to Fairfax — on both sides this time, I’m told — from 10 am to 3 pm with a focus on exploring the city’s art and architecture. CicLAvia returns to an extended Downtown route on Sunday, October 6th.
Here’s your chance to bike the famed Las Vegas strip and the surrounding Las Vegas Valley, with the 6th Annual RTC Viva Bike Vegas Gran Fondo Pinarello on Saturday, September 21st. The event will offer routes for riders of all levels, from a 17-mile ride to 60-mile Metric Century and a 103-mile Gran Fondo; the longer rides will visit the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area and Lake Mead.
‘Thought some of you might be interested… didn’t know where exactly to post this… so…
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES BICYCLE MASTER PLAN
PROJECT NO. R2011-00874-(All Districts)
PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 2011-00005-(All Districts)
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT NO. 2011-00124-(All Districts)
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing on the above matter on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 381B of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Interested persons will be given an opportunity to testify.
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If you have any questions regarding this hearing, please contact the Executive Office of the Board of Supervisors, Zoning Section, at (213) 974-1426.
SACHI A. HAMAI
EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Thanks Jim, you put it in the right place. I was planning to include that when I update the Events later tonight, but you beat me to it.
Much appreciated.
I’ve checked out your endorsement of the british links and discovered a side shot of a bunch of naked people but in a more recent post the Australian illustrates that in contrast to late september’s clothed bit for the rest of us bikers hour- and we should bring it to Los Angeles even more then twice a year.
“just ride” Bike Hour, Saturday 22 Sept., 6-7pm.
http://cycle-space.com/?p=11190
I now have a very important data point for the latest lethal weapon t o mow us down out here- hundreds of them according to Forbes- and they -before any road taxes- consume about $5 every time you plug them in, not counting any where and tear on the $50,000 or so it’ll set you back, giving you only 100 miles in range. Frankly at top speed or in stop and go traffic it’s unlikely to last 20 miles if at all uphill so we should have flash mob protest of when these hit dealer lots. This is the real face of electrification we lend when we don’t adopt better performance ourselves sooner. Super rapid charging batteries have been promoted for over half a decade on bikes- and are now in cars being sold used even. A five figure welfare payment is contemplated to anyone buying one meaning the rich willl hand there’s down every year as they can buy them cheaper new then what they’ll possibly sell them for.
A nickel a mile might not seem like much to some. It is though an immense amount of power with horrific impact upon the planet if widely adopted. Coal does not have that much energy in it per pound. I’m not sure how many pounds this battery consumes- and it takes days to charge unless you spend an amount that can buy an entire decent electric motor and battery for your bike for the ‘oven’ like appliance to charge it.
Again this is contributed under events because as a real biking environmentalist I can’t think of a more important place and time to be then when these show up. There will be hotdogs or caviar perhaps- and too many people smiling. We can be the concience of our town by pointing the finger at those who buy, sell, and all of us who subsise such evil.
But we must show up.
As it’s much worse then Pearl Harbor it’s hard to say it’s the event of this millenium- it’s far far more of a big deal then that.
We are talking about letting people consume FIVER PERCENT of a megawat hour in under an hour ‘driving’ not just charging- people who will pay not even a penny in road tax to do so.
So if you can afford one to carry electricity say to a house that would otherwise cost say $45,000 to run a powerline to PLEASE BUY THIS ONE and maybe less often then once a month run into town to replenish your HDTV full wall screen projectors and fridges tank, because I’ll be happy you claim my tax dollars to do so, instead of running us over and wasting the energy trucking your body in circles needlessly.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonfogelson/2012/08/09/2013-toyota-rav4-ev-test-drive-and-review-electric-and-effective/
In fact your welcome to throw a bike in the back for the annual silent bike ride if your town doesn’t need one and have your spouse drive it while leading our parade on the bike instead even if that’s the only time/way we’ll see you pedaling at all.
Frankly we should sponsor a contest for whoever can show up year after year with the smallest odometer reading on this behometh. If only ever bike literate person in our valley donated one dollar to the prize we could have a billion dollar air quality and global temperature protecting impact.
wh for wh the Specialised bike would lease for $7 a month instead of if imported privately $7k– but for the whopping fact that with either $7500 or $10,000 back it’s free, and with either number, meaning if only $300 of fuel included, with a lifetime of fuel included all free all so for the price of the class action to get it bikes like it qualified to be used for the same ‘commute’ these abominations will be used for.
(20kwh leassed from mHonda costs abour ten bucks a day, so a minute of the hour of that (1/60th) should be under seven bucks a month therefore
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/17/honda-fit-ev-goes-lease-only-for-2012-should-hit-us-next-summer/
“Californians Matt and Becky Walton” need deprogramming.
Upcoming Malibu PCH safety study events. http://www.malibucity.org/news/index.cfm/fuseaction/story/ID/1377/
Regarding the podcasts I’m very pleased to see that some of them have been made “permanent” in the audio archive but I’m not listening to yesterdays right now instead I’m telling everyone it says zero more days left for the womens biking episode meaning tomorrow it won’t be there apparently first. So grab it while you can! Alexis and Dorothy don’t have time to talk to all of us quite so much on the phone- so listen or at least download them today… really asap… it’s not clear what the zero hour is, just that todays the last day and don’t assume it’ll be dark before it’s gone, it might not even be noon. Like I said some are now set to not expire.. but the actual file has to be hosted somewhere and we should be doing that in the cloud now of us- virtually, so that even mid november of four years ago could still be heard. (it can’t I just tried) I always try to do what it’s my last chance to do rather then what’s just out- perhaps to a fault, but irrepairability is my mantra- when it’s gone, it’s a pain to get it back if at all. ON a related note however a local, to radio even, a biker if only himself, (he’s still be around), David VIscott, can now be seen not just heard on youtube, including in his audible books, so in sharing this it’ll probably get taken down tomorrow, meaning check it today as tomorrow if your lucky you’ll merely have to pay (his estate might even be worthy as he was a mentor before he died and I realised the the extent to which he still lied). SOmeone else can say where it’s safe to listen to these mp3′s in at least one ear if not loud as be off your steering wheel. ON THAT FINAL NOTE: I met Spike lee during the premier of his movie, it was a very very very young audience yeah, his movie about doing it to music at the price of disposable D’s not just in school- so although the sustainable boom boxes are now only custom made with trolling motors that are worth shit, or in fact in the occupations bike ride’s literally as in back in the day worse then carboned zinc pushing the coil- spend a $450 and you got a battery unfit for BMW, too good for them, but perfect for public address and next time I show up at city hall it’s gonna let me be heard with a four figure wattage from dawn to dusk and beyond without any light helping out the sound or more importantly vice versa- every day even, for the rest of my life, for $450, intead of what half million bucks in alkaline if not tens of millions. It’ll push the address system in my rear rack as well, as it’s weight savings isn’t really the poiont it’s what it can enable in additional weidht beyodn what int’s nanophosphate xt 15,000 watts continous in use not just chargin provides for. It’s a battery so good it can haul enough ice with it to keep it new forever even at 1200 amps- that’s vertical charging free fall all in not a joule wasted global warming reversing technology. It’s boxed and shipping and do we really have to breaking bad like rob a train to get it? Or bring a chapter 11 against a123- perhaps that will be the first voyage for the megaphone I’m getting for what the shop loaned on it in cash as is lol! But I’d rather not be on the mike so anyone willing to go offscript please show up but only if you’ve emailed your work first: I’m GotKb@facebook.com. Let’s get this town car free before the next olympics- as if we do we’ll be first in line and our days of winter heated outdoor pools needn’t be over forever as I enjoyed the steam coming off despite it’s obscenity even if i only got dog park close. That dog park is an event every day by the way- a place to bring bikes not afraid of a little sand, not just your fancy greyhound liable to run homewhen you didnt’ believe it knew how to get that until your life restored to find it got back before you like that tv cliche… Our events need to be with hope- not just cope- reasonable goals like excusing ourselves to tolerate cars in this climate- a venal sin if there ever was one, for whole additional year- is barely ambitious but rather enabling. It might be hard, but accepting some cars will be driving within ten miles of the beach even in 2014 is something I’m approaching- patience we say, but by 16, anyone who dares suggest they won’t be offferd with a fee to haul ‘em away or at least far enough to turn ‘em on is the bitterest person on the planet and I don’t care how engaging you might be I’ve got work to do so step away or join the fray your help is needed to unpave enough to curtail it’s depravity. LA CAR FREE BY A NEW YEAR for that beyond a decade and a half into this millenium is the least we can do as a token amend to those we have literally driven over nearly every day for months in a place without ice and litte snow! NOT ICE, but explosions, thousands, per minute, every time we turn the key to gas this valley shit, could we be uglier? Are we trying to win some pug contest? Is this not a place of vanity? Should we not be offering a bonfire for anyoen and there are dozens- ready to burn there SUV’s not wanting to be welfare recipients again like that glass to engine block boondongle that might cost Obama a second term now? WE are hollywood- we can afford to donate hummers to the fire- we own them, and we can afford to suck up the smoke and put it in a tank- to see a video of what such effigy art would be like to watch visit me at
facebook.com/GOTkb
it should take you to
https://www.facebook.com/gotkb
I’m out now bikinginla land- this might be my last post- but if and only if you leave it be- enjoyed the ride- hope it’s not our last but next time it’ll be smoother and even a better fast.
Tonight is the last friday of September 2012- and I have decided to push very hard for a 2013-2014 memorial year starting in aug 2013 and ending with the midnight riders from 2013 giving there bikes to the designated winners in 2014. Sketchy plans are for it to promote a car free LA by 2018, with it being a million dollar bike giveaway- the catch is that the minimum value of the assisted bikes to be ridding next august is a thousand dollars- present value- and at least one thousand riders and bikes must register, and they must all be ladies. I use the term ladies to not age discriminate only. The ride will be free but all must meet the standards- no shirts welcome- and that’s not just no on duty BID persons- but all bikes must have regenerative braking, and be pledged to be given away in 2014 to ANYONE THE RIDER WISHES as long as they are under 21, and decided by christmass of 2013.
Further the 2013 riders must commit to commuting on there bikes for more then 10,000 miles between the two rides. At the end of the second ride which will end on private beach front property, the bikes will be given away for oas long as that takes with all recipients having ot check in prior to the first bike being given away and remain until the last bike is received if they wish to keep the bike.
The people who join in the next eleven months to help out can figure out how to control the microphone to not have people get sunburn etc. should anyone be too longwinded.
Other details will be on a special all ages page to accompany afacebook informational page in the coming months as I’ve forgotten many I’m sure.
I hope the ride tonight is going well and that I can be forgiven for not contributing more to the midnight protest ride if any occurs. I’ve been swamped with work but welcome the chance to make the deceased’s sacrifice not be wasted as the lessons of it are many and can literally save this biosphere.
P.S.
By this christmass i hope to have a more then persuasive legal opinion that the federal wattage limits on hub motors do not apply if controlled only for braking not accelerating. Obviously it was nobodies intent to require an expensive bike have it’s owner use his skull to decelerate as the present rule risks occuring again. I have also solved the problem of rolling resistance in everything from child trailers to combination garbage pickup water/ice charged battery etc. trucks and of course they don’t stop and go nor damage ashphault in fact they work just as well on bare dirt. Energy storage changes everything. WE can now live in low density urbanised nontheless winterless coastal communities with our only employment online and salary requirements not exceeding minimum wage. The promise of a truly free enterprise system that allows intent and technolgy to meet to serve it’s citizen masters is finally within reach. We have to survive until it’s here though and that means those too young to buy a decent electric bike- not biased by the slains gender being there’s, and otherwise without the cash or whatever criteria the donors develop- need more then talk from us- they need a million bucks of bikes and we can given them that for sure. NOt just because they’ll save many lives-but because by our example we will end cars roaming our roads like they b elong somehow despite densities exceeding one person per bedroom/300 square feet!