The arts of CicLAvia and some bikes, too
by The latest installment of the no-cars-on-streets bicycling event dubbed CicLAvia was held on L.A. streets stretching from Boyle Heights to Echo Park to Chinatown last …
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CicLAvia in Glendale under cloudy skies
The latest version of CicLAvia, the open road bicycling event for everyone, seemed less crowded than previous ones. Maybe some people went to the Resist …
CicLAvia in downtown L.A. was a parade of cycling fun
I have been working on my new travel book this week so I am late in posting about the latest version of CicLAvia. The course …
How to skip that long line at The Original Pantry in downtown L.A.
On my way to Sunday’s CicLAvia cycling festival I stopped for breakfast. I had not been to the Original Pantry in years and years, but …
Cycling to the beach, painting a bus, playing an ecello at CicLAvia Culver City
I didn’t ride in this CicLAvia, but took the Expo Metro Line out to Culver City, one of the hubs for the event. The next …
See 40,000 bicylists at CicLAvia in Pasadena – Wow! Was it ever crowded!
In the first CicLAvia outside of the city limits of Los Angeles, the crowds really turned out. The Pasadena Police estimate that 40,000 cyclists were …
Cycling in CicLAvia? See what you will find at the Mariachi Plaza hub on Oct. 5!
The Mariachi Plaza in the Boyle Heights neighborhood is true to its name: it is the place in Los Angeles to go to hire a …
Cycling in CicLAvia? See the amazing East L.A. Civic Center.
Until about three years ago I had always thought of East L.A. as an area of small, drab houses and a fair amount of crime. …
It’s CicLAvia — bicycling along Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. No cars! Just people and #bikes!
Wilshire Blvd., a main cross-city street in L.A., was closed to cars today and bicylists were free to go anywhere along the way from One …