Culver City has announced that a section of the Ballona Creek Bike Path will be closing down for maintenance work next month.
Upcoming Ballona Creek Bike Path Closures
On August 7 to August 11, the Culver City Public Works Department will be performing maintenance on the Ballona Creek Bike Path between Duquesne and National. Work will include pavement repairs, graffiti abatement, and vegetation trimming.
During this work, the bike path will be closed upstream of Duquesne from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM each day. Consider using Lucerne or Jefferson as alternatives during the closure.
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ESPN’s Sports Center takes a look at the SoCal Fixed Series fixie racing competition.
Unfortunately, I can’t remember who sent me this link, but thank you, anyway.
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The only reason I’m linking to this story about an abandoned Scottish hotel is the amazingly cool photo of an ancient bike leaning next to a window.
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Of course, the only thing better than that would be a nun in full habit descending a hill on her bike.
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The war on bikes goes on.
A Canadian driver faces charges after being recorded beating the crap out of a 74-year old man with a club, as the victim’s bike lay in the roadway in front of his truck.
The attack only stopped when a woman intervened, telling the driver she was recording it.
The driver’s only response was “I tried to walk away.”
Which was meaningless since he had to get out of his truck to confront the other man. Then walk back to his truck to get the club before returning to attack him.
Not exactly walking away. Or driving, for that matter.
Let’s hope he gets the time he deserves.
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If you don’t know who won this year’s Tour de France, you haven’t been paying attention. Although the real winner may have been French rider Cyril Gautier, who proposed to his girlfriend during the final stage.
Taylor Phinney survived his long-delayed debut Tour. Alberto Contador points next month’s Vuelta after a disappointing Tour.
Cycling Tips provides a photographic wrap-up of the just finished race.
Irish sportswriter and former cyclist Paul Kimmage, who helped bring down Lance Armstrong, says cycling’s omerta still rules the peloton, 50 years after Tom Simpson died near the summit of Mont Ventoux during the ’67 Tour de France.
The Guardian looks at how Irishman Stephen Roche ruled cycling for one year in 1987.
A sports website examines why Americans have disappeared from the podium at the Tour; Bicycling says there’s a new crop of Yanks waiting to step up.
The head of cycling’s governing organization pinkie swears the organization is working towards equal payouts for women and men.
The UK’s version of GQ asks if British cycling is sexist. Seriously, if you have to ask the question, you already know the answer. And not just British cycling.
Great article from Quartz on Eritrea’s love of cycling, and the rising success of the country’s young cyclists.
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Local
LA’s neighborhood councils were born during a bike ride.
Streetsblog says, despite Metro’s comments, Vision Zero traffic calming is not the cause of their declining bus speeds.
The LA Weekly ranks bike lanes #4 on the list of things that drive NIMBYs crazy in the City of Angels.
The Pomona Fairplex is trying out on employee bikeshare workers can use to ride to distant areas on the site. Although that description sounds more like the bikes are employee vehicles than an actual bikeshare.
A quadriplegic man completed a 1,200-mile ride from Oregon to the Santa Monica pier with his family to raise money for people who need wheelchairs.
State
A new California/Dutch study says don’t waste time trying to talk people into bicycling; make it safe and convenient, and they’ll figure it out for themselves.
Maybe the DMV should read their own statutes before tweeting. Their advice to ride as near to the right edge of the roadway as possible directly contradicts CVC 21202, while riding on the sidewalk is legal in many cities, if not advisable. Thanks to Brent for the heads-up.
A 33-year old woman was injured in a hit-and-run while riding her bike in Camarillo.
The host of the Bay Area’s People Behaving Badly segment says bike lanes are not for parking, even for a little while.
Pleasanton police are looking for a thief who took an $8,400 bicycle out for a test ride from a local shop and never came back.
A local paper approves of the new LimeBike dockless bikeshare at Lake Tahoe. Let’s hope they have a better experience than some other places.
Sad news from Chico, where a bike rider was killed in a collision Friday evening.
National
Merriam-Webster lists ten words every true cyclist should know.
Bike Snob discusses his love of genuine, brick and mortar bike shops.
Your next ebike could look like the skeletal version of a 1920’s racing motorcycle.
A Seattle website questions whether the city’s DOT is trying to kill bikeshare again by limiting the two new dockless bikeshare suppliers to just 500 bicycles in the entire city.
Park City UT has launched the nation’s first e-bikeshare system. Unfortunately, the bikes don’t look like 1920’s racing motorcycles, though.
No bias here. After a pair of bike riders were hit by cars, Fargo ND authorities offer several safety tips for bicyclists, including to wear a helmet. But their only advice to drivers is to give bicyclists a three feet passing distance.
No victim blaming here. A San Antonio driver won’t face charges for a head-on collision with a teenage bike rider because victim wasn’t wearing a helmet.
The Department of DIY comes to Dallas, where a protected bike lane made from two-by-fours and PVC pipes lasted three days before the authorities took it down.
Minneapolis authorities have found the bike rider who apparently witnessed, and may have filmed, the police shooting of an unarmed Australian woman.
A Detroit bike rider was the innocent victim of a car-to-car shootout.
Former All-Star catcher and Cleveland 1st base coach Sandy Alomar Jr. is one of us, riding in a charity ride before heading to the ballpark on Sunday.
International
Road.cc offers a one-word analysis of whether homeopathic remedies will make you a fitter, faster, healthier cyclist.
Canadian pickup drivers come to the rescue of a touring cyclist about to be a bear’s lunch.
A Canadian woman says she’s ashamed to be a “cycling enthusiast” after watching a bike rider run a stop sign. She must really be ashamed to be a driver, then.
Riding salmon in a bike lane is illegal in Canada, too. But some people do it anyway.
Not surprisingly, the Calgary man who claimed he’d been clotheslined by barbed wire while mountain biking has been arrested on fraud charges.
I want to be like him when I grow up. A British man is celebrating his 70th birthday by riding 70 kilometers a day for 70 days — the equivalent of 43 miles a day, or 3,045 miles total.
Heartbreaking news from the UK, where a 91-year old cyclist was killed in a collision while trying to set a new age-group speed record; he was just two miles from the finish when he was hit by a van.
The Irish Times visits Groningen in the Netherlands, where bikeways are heated and no cars are allowed in the city center.
A former child bride in Malawi credits a bicycle she received from charity group with helping her graduate from high school after leaving her husband.
Australian cycling great Phil Anderson was hospitalized following a solo crash while riding, saying it could have been caused by a pothole. Or a wallaby.
Finally…
Why just be a fan of Pee Wee Herman, when you can build his bike from scratch? Evidently, cycling really is the new golf — literally.
And I’m a little weak on my theology, but I’m pretty sure when a bike gets stolen while the owner is at mass, it’s soul goes straight to heaven.
Or does the thief’s go the other way?
