I am NEW to the bike paths and am a casual cyclist. I noticed that on a website about the various bike paths in LA/OC thy mentioned some "gang" issues. I am...
... a ... "gang" ... thought ... I ride the LA River/ Rio Hondo almost daily, sometimes north from Downey, sometimes south and first of all -- the Upper Rio...
I'm familiar with the Ballon Creek Bike path and the Marvin Braude bike path (http://beaches.co.la.ca.us/BandH/Beaches/bikepath.htm)from Marina del Rey to...
I have to say that if you are talking about young children who are not yet competent riders, a bike path is really not the place to train them -- your kids ...
You can get a general overview of crimes in Los Angeles using the interactive map maintained by LAPD: http://www.lapdonline.org/crime_maps_and_compstat It's a...
We need several volunteers to be attendants at street barricades to secure our DeLacey Street closure for the Urban Bicycle Commuter Expo in Old Pasadena. This...
The big week has arrived! Bike Week Pasadena, the L.A. region's biggest and best new-age consciousness raising celebration in honor of National Bike Month. ...
from http://metro.net/projects_studies/bikeway_planning/biketowork/free_rides.htm LA County transit operators are offering free rides on Bike to Work Day,...
I'm thinking about biking part of the way to work and then catching a bus to take me the rest of the way. My question: What happens if the bike racks on the...
depends on the driver, number of passengers, etc. On the Culver City number 6 from Aviation Station, I've seen it happen twice, and I've yet to see anyone...
in rare occasion the driver *might* let you on the bus when the bike rack is full (like if this bus you are trying to board is very last bus of the evening...
i haven't found it to come up very often. i think once in the year+ that i've been doing it 2-3 times a week. the bike racks are rarely full, at least in...
Hi gang, I know there's at least one group of cyclists who go through Highland Park on a semi-regular basis and pass by the 7-11 on Figueroa and Avenue 52....
Thanks to the person who stopped to help me after I was badly injured on May 17th around 3pm on the San Gabriel Mid to Lower Trail. It was my second time...
Hi Alex I am glad all you had was a dislocated elbow, which though painful is not very serious. My rules for riding anywhere are 1) Wear the correct gear,...
Yikes! Well done! ... -- "We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky, and lost among the subway crowds, I try to catch your eye." "When I see...
2 CO2s. and frame pump (topeak road morph, i recommend) works well too because there'll be times when you're forty miles from home and you blew a second flat,...
is there a real advantage to a co2, rather than a minipump? the co2s aren't reusable, are they? ... -- "We are so small between the stars, so large against...
I like using them because they are so much faster than pumping, the least amount of time spent off the bike the better. One 12gram cartridge will fill my road...
No, of course not. You're paying for convenience in size, speed, and effort. One smack, and you're inflated and back on the road/trail, rather than pump pump...
The CO2 are not reusable however they are recyclable, give 6 empty ones back to the bike shop and get one free. They take very little space on the bike, ...
I went out and bought puncture proof tubes. They've lasted me almost 2 years and are still going strong. I've ridden over glass, cactus and 1 time i even...
Specialized makes "Armadillo" tires which I have found incredibly durable -- always have to carry spares anyway but we are talking YEARS of riding (at least on...
Having lived and ridden with a professional cyclist, I can tell you that if you ride a road bike, you have a number of options to reduce or prevent flat tires....
This comes out in print on Monday but it's online now. http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-recumbent16-2008jun16,0,1116614,full.story A post on this...
Hey, I've used bikemetro.com to setup bike routes before... but for the last four or five days I've received errors when trying to use their routing service....