Korner Talk

The road is a dangerous place, especially for those crazy people who ride bikes amongst cars. The new LAPD police chief, Charlie Beck, said yesterday that he’s going to implement additional training for officers on how to handle incidents involving bicyclists. I’m not sure that’s going to make riding on the streets any safer, but [...]

I saw this article from the LA Times on another blog today about how two bike messengers chased down a would be bike thief. The best part of the article:
As the thefts have increased, some people have taken matters into their own hands. Last month, bike messengers downtown caught two suspected thieves, teenage boys who [...]

If I haven’t talked to you about it yet, then let it be known now that one my new “thing”s is biking.
Biking isn’t exactly a new thing in my life. I remember my first bike was a black bmx that my grams bought me in first grade. It had a nice heavy steel frame with [...]

The new year doesn’t officially start for me until I return to work after the holiday break. Right now I feel like I’m waiting for the first day of school which was always filled with excitement of seeing my friends again, balanced by the dread of having to do homework again. There was also a [...]

After pedaling around the streets of MDR and the boardwalk on Venice Beach for the past year, I needed to bike somewhere with a little more danger factor. Being so close to the Santa Monica Mountains, I looked up the easiest trail that I could find and came up with Westridge Fire Road up in [...]