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Bike Index

March 5, 2018

Bike Index

Bryan Hance, Bike Index founder, talks about his nonprofit, which registers and helps finds stolen bikes using social media. With BikinginLA blogger Ted Rogers, and Carlos Morales of Stan’s Bike Shop and the East Side Bike Club.

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bikeindex, bikeregistry, bikinginla, stansbikeshop
Blackstone Bicycle Works

March 3, 2018

Blackstone Bicycle Works

Youth Services Coordinator DJ Fish talks about Blackstone Bicycle Works’ innovative program for youth on Chicago’s South Side; kids can earn currency for farmer’s market goods and bike parts. Also, a martial arts-inspired colored apron system which signifies levels of proficiency, college counseling, racing, and disproportionate ticketing of cyclists on North and South sides of Chicago.

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Support bike lanes in Hollywood!

February 19, 2018

Support bike lanes in Hollywood!

Alexander Totz, LACBC’s Bicycle Ambassador to Hollywood, brings a warning. The president of the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council, Anastasia Mann, has said that the Los Angeles Department of City Planning’s new community plan for Hollywood will bring the city “to a complete stop.” The plan calls for studying whether to put dedicated lanes for bikes and buses on most main streets in the neighborhood. She wants the neighborhood council to send a letter challenging the plan. Totz calls for advocates and activists to show up to the next Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council (HHWNC)’s meeting, 6-9 pm and vote on its draft response to the updated Hollywood Community Plan (HCP2) on February 21st.

The LACurbed article.

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Carlos Morales, MAMIL

February 17, 2018

Carlos Morales, MAMIL

In our first live streaming show at kpfk, Carlos Morales of Stan’s Bike Shop and East Side Bike Club talks about the Club’s 10 year anniversary, the new cycling documentary MAMIL (Middle Aged Men in Lycra), the unprecedented amount of bike theft at Metro stations, and doing business next to the Metro Gold Line station

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https://us.demand.film/mamil/

https://www.facebook.com/EastsideBikeClub/

https://www.yelp.com/biz/stans-bike-shop-azusa

carlosmorales, eastsidebikeclub, mamildocumentary, metrogoldline, monrovia, stansbikeshop
LA Talks Bicycles With Mexico City

January 27, 2018

LA Talks Bicycles With Mexico City

Aaron Salinger and Jimmy Lizama, bicycle activists from Los Angeles, talk in spanish to Jenny Zapata and Alejandra Leal, bicycle activists from Mexico City.

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Bicycles in the LAUSD

January 27, 2018

Bicycles in the LAUSD

Tana Ball discusses the LAUSD P.E. bike program she designed and helped fund with a $1.38 million grant. With USC bike planning professor Allison Kendall, and Zachary Canning of Sustainable Streets and the USC Bike Coalition.

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bikesinschool, lausd, losangeles, physicaleducation, saferoutestoschool, sustainablestreets, yesports
Road Diet Opponents Explain

January 14, 2018

Road Diet Opponents Explain

John Russo and Karla Mendelson of Keep LA Moving, a group of Westside activists who successfully agitated to get LA’s Playa Del Rey road diet removed, explain their rationale.

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Fredrik’s World Tour

January 6, 2018

Fredrik’s World Tour

Juliana and Nick met Fredrick from Austria at the end of his year long tour around the world in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, and invited him for a coffee and danish at the Phoenix Bakery.

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Peter Flax’s Bike Journalism

December 31, 2017

Peter Flax’s Bike Journalism

Bike journalist Peter Flax exposed “LA Westside Walkers” in this article on cyclingtips.com. LA Westside Walkers is a Twitter account which purported to be an advocacy group for cyclists and pedestrians run by anonymous LADOT staff. The account was really a “sock puppet” for commercial director Justin Purser, who used it to attack the Playa Del Rey road diet for causing congestion in his upscale beach community.

Flax analyzes driver backlash to both the Venice Blvd “Great Streets” bike lane and the Playa Del Rey road diet, which he calls “the most divisive urban road project of this century in the United States,” here.

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Jimmy Lizama, Christmas Dynamo

December 30, 2017

Jimmy Lizama, Christmas Dynamo

Jimmy Lizama started LA’s Bike Kitchen in the Ecovillage’s old kitchen around the turn of the century. Later came Venice’s Bikerowave, Highland Park’s Bike Oven, and the Valley Bikery (the Kitchen still cooks at its new location at Fountain and Virgil in Silverlake). Mr. Lizama has moved on to start his own business recycling bikes and building dynamo hubs for lighting and electric systems on recycled bikes at Relampago Wheelery, across the street from where the Kitchen started. Jimmy provided this interview after installing a dynamo hub for Nick Richert on 12/24/17.

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Bike Index

Bike Index

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Blackstone Bicycle Works

Blackstone Bicycle Works

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Support bike lanes in Hollywood!

Support bike lanes in Hollywood!

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Carlos Morales, MAMIL

Carlos Morales, MAMIL

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LA Talks Bicycles With Mexico City

LA Talks Bicycles With Mexico City

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Bicycles in the LAUSD

Bicycles in the LAUSD

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Road Diet Opponents Explain

Road Diet Opponents Explain

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Fredrik’s World Tour

Fredrik’s World Tour

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Peter Flax’s Bike Journalism

Peter Flax’s Bike Journalism

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Jimmy Lizama, Christmas Dynamo

Jimmy Lizama, Christmas Dynamo

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