Friday, June 16

Kitchen Bikes

so i'm creating a gallery of bicycles built at the bicycle kitchen. it's a long due project. i guess we have been too busy building bikes to document them. but now it's the time. it would be great if you want to send me pictures of your bikes or the bikes of your friends that have been built at the kitchen. names, descriptions, dates and stories are all welcomed and encouraged. i will post them in a web page, so if you want to give credit for the pics please let me know.

send them to biciblog@gmail.com
or if you prefer flicker or something like that send me the URL.

our Bici Cocina and this blog are alive and well thanks to you all.
Ride On!

Saturday, June 10

Saturday, June 3

RIDE-Arc Hits The Escape Key

Last night's RIDE-Arc ride was a departure from the norm in a couple different ways. Not only did it deviate from its usual stop-and-talk informational format, but man did we got the hell away from it all.

First off we took a wholly unique route outta Chinatown that involved spiraling access ramps to pedestrian walkways paralleling the 110 Freeway. Down a stinky staircase and over to Riverside Drive we next entered the L.A. River Bikeway from it's humble unlighted, dip-filled Frogtown endings north of Figueroa to its proud, well-paved and much more illuminated beginnings next to the 134 Freeway. After that it was up, up and away into the heart and height of Griffith Park (the route through the park is the same that I posted here back in February). After all that climbing up to the top we found the temps oddly warmer than down at street level and we were serenaded and scoped out by a pair of great horned owls before winding our way back down and through the tunnel under Mt. Hollywood...



...and past the Greek Theater on our way back to civilization. I didn't get a chance to nab a lot of snapshots, but I do want to give an appreciative photographic shout out to the kind riders who marvelously personified the No Rider Left Behind ethic in coming to the aid of my friend Alice in speedily patching her tube after she flatted on the river path just north of Fletcher:



UPDATE: Stephen Roullier's pix of us nightriders are available here.