Sara Bond

This Sunday, June 23rd at noon, coinciding with CicLAvia’s “Iconic Wilshire Boulevard”, Wolfpack Hustle will hold its 2nd installment of its Unified Title Race Series: the Civic Center Criterium.

This weekend, June 1st and 2nd, Los Angeles Bike Polo is hosting an International Tournament: Bench Minor IV. When I heard about this, I snagged a chance to meet fellow LA bike polo player and Organizer of the event, Alex Dash, aka JOKER as he is known in the Poloverse!

(Note: In place of our usual Week in Livable Streets Events, we're focusing on some of the best, non government sponsored, bike events in the region. Just because Metro and LADOT aren't sponsoring events, doesn't mean they aren't happening. If the column proves popular, we'll continue it in June - DN.)

The past few months has literally been a battle as the LADOT readies to begin implementing the 2010 Bike Plan by adding bike lanes to a Northeast neighborhood in LA.

In addition to the 150,000 cyclists that took to Venice Blvd. on Sunday, at CicLAvia VI: CicLAvia To the Sea, the "King of CicLAvia"  was crowned. The crown was not awarded by the event-creators, but by the buzz surrounding Richie Trimble's over a hundred pound, 14.5 foot - to the seat, 17 foot - to eye level, tall bike: "STOOPID TALL" aka "Big Boy" as it made its way from La Cienega to Venice beach. 

On June 12, 2011 Paul Livingston, an avid cyclist in the Los Angeles area, rode from Hollywood to the beach as he often did four or five times a week. On his way home, at approximately 6 pm he rode his bicycle through Beverly Hills. Just before City Hall on Santa Monica Boulevard., he was hit from behind by a car.

In late 2009, Louis Deliz became the victim of the ever growing hit and run epidemic in Los Angeles. Louis spent eleven days in the I.C.U. and was kept alive by machines as he was out in a chemically induced coma for approximately 8 days, living at the hospital for a total of 49 days.

Wolfpack "Dog Tags" are the most sought after street cred in the Los Angeles underground bicycle-racing scene. There is no second place. It's first Men's/Women's geared and fixed gear bikes across the finish line. Do you think you have what it takes?