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Almost deFacto.
The revolution seems to be so entrenched in today’s culture it’s {almost} becoming part of everyday conversation. De’Facto. If you missed the front page of the SUNDAY LA Times click the photo below to read the article. Below is a comment contributed by MexicanSongBird (CogJoint.com): Blinded by my deep and long involvement in the cycling [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2012 under Features.
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Tomorrow We Celebrate All Things Bicycling
As spelled out in a terrific article with Long Beach’s Bicycle Ambassador Tony Cruz in the Gazettes by Jonathan Van Dyke, tomorrow Long Beach and people from all over Southern California will celebrate all things bicycling at the Tour of Long Beach and BikeFest. We are especially honored and excited to have our first booth [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2012 under Features.
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Bicycle Kitchen Square Dance Fundraiser
Another Cog-Joint Event®™©§ opportunity. Don’t miss out on the good times! It just don’t get any jacked-open better than this. Really: be there or be Square. ¡Órale Ese! Frog Town was my Home Turf. See you there! [visit the BicyleKitchen.com] A group excursion is not planned but we hope to see you dancing! Article contributed [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2012 under Features.
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An Urban Tour for E@rTH Day aPRiL.{22}.2012
Junking out new bike shop discoveries is a grand part of the urban cycling addiction. When you’re powering the internal combustion you often can’t crack-out the hidden treasures and it’s just too much damn work to stop and find a parking space in the urban confine to see how anyone else is thriving; when you’re [...]
Posted: April 26th, 2012 under Features.
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Earth-Day.2012.April{22}: uRbAn.tOuR
eArTH.wHAT? Earth-Day didn’t even wince as much as a narcissistic sigh from a city overwhelmed with its daily existential reflections as it burns along in a frenzied preoccupation with progress, chaos and survival. I jacked myself directly into Earth-Day with a 71 mile grand loop, single speed ride from Long Beach to LACMA* to witness [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2012 under Features.
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CicLAvia: Los Angeles. April 15th 2012. 100,000+
CicLAvia April 2012: The streets in downtown Los Angeles were overflowingly crowded shoulder to shoulder, in both directions, curb to curb, with what seemed like a wondering horde of party seekers looking for fun and creating the celebration themselves, all at the same time, simultaneously, to jack-blast a gigantic festivity furnace into one of the [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2012 under Features.
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Celebrate Earth Day with Bike Friendliness!
Sunday April 22nd – Earth Day – please join us for a very special “bike-friendly” celebration at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art! Our friend and local Long Beach filmmaker Michael Bauch will be showing his award winning documentary “Riding Bikes with the Dutch” at 2:oo pm in the Leo S. Bing Theater followed [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2012 under Features.
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Angelina Elise: Art and the Bicycle
The lattice of coincidence is a powerful jacqi’maux cosmic force. Today I happened to photograph some head badges at the Bicycle Stand (1824 East Broadway, just west of Cherry) and later, as serendipity demands, I discovered the artist, Angelina Elise, is having an art opening at Jet Studios in Long Beach. If you’re unfamilier with [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2012 under Features.
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Levi’s Commuter Clothing Launch Party Success
Los Angeles: The Cog-Joint multi-modal travel express to Levi’s Commuter Clothing Launch event at Orange20, without a doubt and not to exaggerate, was a night to remember. We departed from the LB Transit Mall (LBTM) at 6:15 and returned home on the LAST train of the night to arrive back at the LBTM at 1:55am. [...]
Posted: April 2nd, 2012 under Features.
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Long Beach Bike Shop: Bike Connection
You’ll find a very cool bike shop at 1157 Long Beach Blvd [near Anaheim]: The Long Beach Bike Connection. They’re over-stocked with lot’s of great used bikes in good condition. They must have 100 used bikes on the floor and a lot of them worth their weight in gold for city riding. Their entire inventory [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2012 under Features.
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