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This morning, as I pedaled to Pavilion's to buy my mother her groceries, I stopped at Melrose at a red light and, noticing a car coming up behind me with the right turn signal on, I moved a bit to the left so the driver could turn. Standard bike politeness move, right?
Alongside comes a green convertible bearing a ...
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arrogant, driver, you are not a car, share, road, polite, CVC |
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arrogant, driver, you are not a car, share, road, polite, CVC |
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This morning's ride was pleasing on many levels--a beautiful clear dawn, the air still cool before the desert heaat descends on us again, the morning light golden, the traffic gentle even though I left to do Mom's grocery shopping a little later into rush hour than usual.
Oh, yeah, and attractive young women on bike ...
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Los Angeles |
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cute, commute, morning, rain, heat, office, SUV |
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cute, commute, morning, rain, heat, office, SUV |
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Because I design bicycle clothing that's mostly made of wool, some folks might think I am prejudiced towards it, but the inclination towards sheep hair came after the facts, quite empirically. I myself used to think wool was scratchy stuff for winter wanderers, much as the general public seems to see it.
When my wif ...
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Shakytown, where it's too damn hot! |
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wool, shirt, jersey, gabardine, Rivendell, REI, heat, ride |
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wool, shirt, jersey, gabardine, Rivendell, REI, heat, ride |
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I'm a longtime member of the iBOB list, an email forum that started almost with the Internet itself, born from Grant Peterson's Bridgestone Owner's Bunch in the mid-nineties--originally a peper newsletter!
It's a good bunch, some of them personal friends, all of them passionate about bicycles, but there's a certain ...
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Los Angeles |
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fixie punks, Grant Peterson, Bridgestone, share the road, iBOB |
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fixie punks, Grant Peterson, Bridgestone, share the road, iBOB |
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Barely escaped serious injury in a bike accident day, right on my streetcorner--and I wasn't even on a bike!
I was, in fact, walking to the post office. While I was waiting at the light, I remembered something I was supposed to bring with me to give my friend John Vu at Massimo's Mudspot (our new local cyclis ...
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Los Angeles Miracle Mile |
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sidewalk, commute, Pahsley, Electra, Amsterdam, Dutch, fenders, generator, Busch & Muller, roadster |
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sidewalk, commute, Pahsley, Electra, Amsterdam, Dutch, fenders, generator, Busch & Muller, roadster |
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San Francisco, CA
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9°C
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9°C
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86%
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5 km/h
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130°
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1026.8 mb
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SE
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