Bicycling
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Memo to MTV: “Pimp My Bike” = Ratings Gold
Via TreeHugger, this YouTube clip features Oakland's Trunk Boiz boasting about their scraper bikes, which sport custom-painted frames and rims to match (more photos here). The video has become an online sensation, drawing more than two million views. Tyrone Stevenson, one of the creators of the scraper bike style, is ready to capitalize, reports NPR:
September 30, 2008
Update: Police Report on Lancaster Bike Fatality
An alert and obviously well-informed reader got a copy of the police report from Tuesday's fatal bike crash in Lancaster. Some readers felt that I assumed the car driver to be at fault without knowing the facts. The point of that article, and this one, isn't to place blame on anyone but show how the media, in it's efforts to not place any sort of blame, often makes it sound like cyclists are at fault in these sorts of collisions.
September 26, 2008
Victory at the Rose Bowl: Car Free Event a Hit with Community
If You Were Traveling with Motororized Power, You Were Pushed to the Outer Loop
September 26, 2008
CBS2: Cyclist Killed after “Running Into” Car
(editor's note: This story has been updated with the text of the police report here.)
September 24, 2008
LAPD Will Enfoce Bike License Law
Flyer from LAPD Central District Station Streetsblog can now confirm the report by Streetsblog commenter “furbat” will issue a citation to unlicensed bicycles under Los Angeles Municipal Code 26.01. While I was downtown registering both my wife’s and my own road bikes I grabbed a picture of the above flyer. I was also able to … Continued
September 23, 2008
Panel Discussion on Open Urban Space
If all the parking spaces in downtown Los Angeles were spread across one lot, more than 80 percent of downtown would be reserved for cars. And yet, two-thirds of the county's children don't have a park within walking distance of their home.
September 16, 2008
Video: Over Three Dozen Cyclists Held Over One Shoplifted Beer
14 squad cars and 37 people searched for $5 of allegedly shoplifted beer from LAPD illegallysearches on Vimeo.
September 11, 2008