For over 30 years El Dorado Park has hosted twilight races on Tuesday nights.
This year we’re introducing  Coaching Nights on the alternating Tuesdays
April 16, April 30, May 14

BIKEable Communities is working with LA Metro on making Long Beach more bike friendly. Metro has funded most of the new bike infrastructure in Long Beach… and now they are putting up some great billboards. And most people thought Metro only funded Freeway expansion. The money for this type of messaging comes from appropriations out of the Federal Transportation budget (biking and walking get a whopping 1% of the billions allocated to transportation). Next time you see you state or national representative…say thanks for lobbing for bike money…it is doing amazing things in our community.

New shop (about 5 months) in Long Beach: 970 E Broadway.

The owner, Trey Russell, told me he has donated 17 bikes to Danny Gamboa’s Ghost Bike program since August 2012; that’s 17 deaths.

Danny Gamboa: http://www.dannygamboa.com/

Contributed by the MexicanSongBird @ CogJoint.com

It’s SECOND  annual Jingle Bell Ride.

On Friday, 12-21-2011, we’ll ride up the L.A. River trail from the mighty Tortuga’s Long Beach Cyclery in Bixby Knolls (Long Beach Blvd & Bixby) to 3rd and Traction in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles for lunch at the Wurstküche. Depart 9:30 am [sharp].

The LA River is beautiful in its solitude; it allows a respite from the heavy chaos of motorized street life but at the same time, simultaneously, it’s a romantic reminder of the singular and brutal beauty of the environs through which it meanders.  The LA River Trail is an under-utilized resource.

The first annual was a successful event. We had about 35 riders.  Come out and make this year’s even more remarkable.

The Wurstküche boasts a sexy list of tasty sausage dogs and french fries with a great selection of beers to keep the spirit lively.

Put it on your calendar for Christmas Season 2012.

Here’s some pictures from last year: (contributed by cogjoint.com)

Muy Jesus Animaux!

MOLEs [Men of Leisure] arrange their personal schedules by whim; like spontaneous combustion.  When a MOLE is out and about town it’s essential to carry a shoulder bag complemented with a front rack of minimum presence but yet one that enhances and adds accent to an otherwise cool city ride.

Guero {local early morning Freddie} recently acquired a Nitto Mini-Front Rack from Rivendale Bicycle Works to jack out his Focus Urban 8 he bought from Long Beach Cylery.

Esthetically rear racks ruin the lines of a bicycle; the horizontal lines of the rack conflict with those of the seat stays but a front rack seems to complement the form of a city bike extending the line of the fork crown enhancing the visual sense of forward direction and works perfectly for city errands to fetch goods that don’t require too much in the way of stowage.  Keep a tote bag along and you can secure its tote handles to the bars and rest the cargo on the rack; for errands of short distances this works well.

Contributed by the MexicanSongBird from CogJoint.com

All his life this kid has been exposed to cycling as a thread in the fabric of one’s existence and now his personal involvement is taking on an independent life and he’s jack’n out the culture on his own terms.  Henry (my son) designed and illustrated this poster for a new club he has started at his high school (Wilson) [freshman year] in Long Beach {CA}.

Contributed by the MexicanSongBird from CogJoint.com

cIcLAvIA no.5

According to the LA Times over 100,000 people went to the streets for CicLAvIA no. 5.

The reported estimate for the April event (no. 4) was similar but no. 5 felt more dense.

While the spirit of the crowd in April seemed all about the party, the spirit on Sunday was all about ownership; people sensed being on the street was entirely status-quo; they owned it.  Reign-On cIcLaVia !!

The Revolution Will Not be Motorized!

Contributed by MexicanSonBird at CogJoint.com

Sign the Petition.

Death and Injuries to Cyclists on Pacific Coast Highway between Seal Beach and Corona del Mar are on the rise and there’s no apparent pause by those cities to take action {as though it’s business as usual}, but we’re fed-up and we’re not going to take it any more so we’re driving this point into the political arena one city at a time where we will take the politicians to task and demand the concerns of cyclists and pedestrians are taken seriously so the carnage will stop, but until then we will continue shouting-out our invitation to every concerned soul to add their voice to the collective noise we will rain down upon our elected officials and bureaucrats to deafen them into submission and jack them out of their complacency for our safety and their hostility against two wheel transportation until they recognize “the times they are a changing.”

Come add your voice to the noise and sign the petition.
URL: http://www.bikeablecommunities.org/petition_SB_01.html

The Revolution Will Not be Motorized!
You will not be able to super glide on a hyper-carbon-burn, mybrother.
You will not be able to gas up, spin out or cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on exhaust fumes and skip,
Skip out for petrol fueled beer runs,
Because the revolution will not be Motorized.

Contributed by The MexicanSongBird @ CogJoint.com

1. Prohibit OCTA bus, tow trucks and large trailer parking on PCH from 1st St. to Seal Beach Blvd.
2. Install carve out bus stop niche locations for passenger pick up/drop off.
3. Move bus layover spot from PCH to Balboa Drive
4. Install bike lanes on all of PCH through Seal Beach

The city of Long Beach officially supports Bike Corrals [parking spaces previously reserved for cars, functionally shifted for bicycles: a parking space for one car = 10 bicycles].

Acapulco Inn (AI) [2nd Street, Long Beach] jack’d out its own pony parking. They’z not be waiting for no stinking official in(vite)stallation. The AI is creating their own Bike Friendly Business District.

Ride over dher and have sum beerz.

AnimAuX: The Revolution Will Not be Motorized.

Contributed by the MexicanSongBird from CogJoint.com