One characteristic of life in Los Angeles is that the days after a winter rainstorm are often as beautiful as a day can be and still be something the human soul can experience without exploding from an excess of joy.
Yesterday it rained, mostly gentle rain but sometimes a good hard rain, and I was out in my yellow ...
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The Bridge at Playa del Rey
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Los Angeles, winter, snow, Playa del Rey, the Bridge
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While my friends in Portland are wondering whether to invest in studded bike tires or not--will the snow and ice last, or will it melt away as soon as you've mounted your hundred-dollar hoops?--we in LA have been having our own bout of doubt about the climate. It's not the rain that has us pondering--in fact, we need more of it ...
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Los Angeles
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rain, snow, cold, weather, bikes, studded tires, gloves, global warming
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Last week's storm passed through, giving LA a much-needed wetting, and giving me a chance to pull my rain cape out of its stuff sack and enjoy riding around in the gentle, musical showers that followed the first few squalls.
Our first real rain of the season. We've had some "rains," which were enough to leave the streets wet but which totalled a mighty 0.02 inches so far (six weeks into the rainy season), so this morning's clatter in the downspouts was sweet indeed. After a walk to the post office, I suited up for a rain ride to the market ...
As I discovered today when I rode down to the Bridge at Playa del Rey to visit with my old friend Bill. As we were about to leave, we noticed he'd gotten a flat tire. So off it came, out came the old tube, in went the new tube, and here came my pump.
Only today, I wasn't carrying my trusty Topeak Road Morph (that' ...
