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The Pedal Home
As we head off to Santa Barbara for the 10th Annual Bicycle Film Festival, I wanted to highlight what our neighbors to the north are doing in regards to bike advocacy. Bici Centro, a bike co-op in Santa …
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Critical Mass
Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists’ right to the road.
The idea started in San Francisco in September 1992 and quickly spread to cities all over the world.The Origin of Critical …
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Stolen Cycles for Crack
While bicycle theft is not as a big of an issue in Long Beach as it is in other cities around the world, it has been increasing over the years. As biking has become more popular around Long Beach, more …
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James Perse Cruiser
Los Angeles-based designer James Perse, known amongst fashion circles as a Hollywood institution, has put his unique brand of simple sophistication on the ubiquitous beach-cruiser. A staple in sun-drenched Southern California, the beach cruiser beautifully delivers form and function …
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Sharing is Caring
The Long Beach Press Telegram reported last month about the exciting plans to have a bike-share program operating in the city by this Spring. The initial plan calls for over 500 bikes to be dispensed from solar-powered kiosks throughout downtown …
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Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange
This great blog and nonprofit organization C.I.C.L.E (which stands for Cyclists Inciting Change thru Live Exchange) is based in Los Angeles working to promote the bicycle as a viable, healthy, and sustainable transportation choice.
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SideWALK Specifics
Long Beach doesn’t allow sidewalk riding in a business district (expansively defined by CVC 240). Long Beach also has some thorough, quite sensible, directives for those riding on the sidewalk. Sec. 10.48.070:
A. No person shall ride a bicycle upon …
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Bicycle Film Festival
The Bicycle Film Festival, which showcases bike related films, just came through LA, but don’t you worry. They will be in San Diego This Saturday, September 9th, as well as in Santa Barbara September 17th thru though 19th. Visit their … -
Bendable Bike Technology
Bike parking conundrums are a thing of the past thanks to 21-year-old Kevin Scott of Britain. The bendy-framed bike was created by Kevin Scott, a final-year Product Design student at DeMontfort University in Leicester.
Where an ordinary bicycle’s frame would …
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Fashion on the mind
If any of you are like me, the safety benefits of a bike helmet rarely justifies actually wearing one of those ‘ascetically-challenged’ chunks of foam & plastic on my head. Thankfully, a group of Danes have created a helmet that …
