>> Don’t miss the rest of the Bike to Work events this week! Latest addition: Glendale’s added some Energy Stations for Bike to Work Day on Thursday.
>> Blogging Angelenos are celebrating Bike to Work Week. blogdowntown has cute pics of kids on tricycles at the Blessing of the Bikes yesterday, L.A. City Council president Eric Garcetti’s profiling cyclists in his office, and uber-cyclist Will Campbell’s calling Bike to Work Week weaksauce, pointing out that the city of L.A. only seems to care about cyclists 1 week a year.
>> Moving on to bike paths: LAist got the Orange Line bike path cleaned up finally, while Steve Lopez at the LA Times notes that Santa Monica’s beach bike path could use some cleaning up too — as in getting the oblivious pedestrians off that path and on to the pedestrian path just a few feet away. “Southern California does a lousy job of accommodating bikes on city streets. You’d think we could at least get it right at the beach, but hazards abound.”
>> Browse the latest bike-friendly fashions. Cyclers everywhere from New York to Utah — yes, Utah — are dressing up to prove you can look good while bicycling.
>> Charge a USB drive by biking. Instructables has detailed instructions, which I’ve read but don’t quite get. I’d prefer to just buy a charger…. (via lifehacker)
>> If learning to fix your own bike at a local bike co-op‘s not enough, create your own bike from scratch via a Two-Day Bamboo Bike Building Course in Brooklyn. For $1000, you’ll build an eco-bike while supporting the Bamboo Bike Project.
>> Street art meets bicycles in Berlin. “‘Paperboys and papergirls’ go around the city on bicycles bestowing wrapped packages of art pieces – prints, posters, etc. – onto unsuspecting passerby.”
Image via Cycle Style Show and Bamboo Bike Studio
Awesome!! I used to bike on the Santa Monica bikepath all the time, and all the oblivious pedestrians were SOOO annoying–not to mention dangerous. You constantly have to say “on your left, on your left”, making yourself feel like a jerk, when really its they who are the jerks. It’s like, could you at least walk on the freakin’ sand? I can’t go on the sand–you can!
Carrick’s last blog post..My good deed for the year: saving sea turtles at the LA River
Comment by Carrick — May 13, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
There really must be something we can do about the pedestrian craziness — I just don’t know what! Having police stand alongside it seems too — policed…. but considering the fact that people are getting injured and stuff, maybe we should –
Comment by Siel — May 15, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
Cmon, let’s not pit cyclists against pedestrians. We need to hate car culture together!
Comment by Jody — May 18, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
We’re not pitting — We’re protecting! :) We need pedestrians and cyclists to not crash and leave each other maimed…. We need car culture-haters healthy for the fight –
Comment by Siel — May 19, 2009 @ 2:15 pm