This sunday brew sessions are back we want to brew an indian ale like the dogfish ale at about 6pm bring yourself we can make expressos to wake you up after waking up so early for the coaster brake challenge. People are talking so come and learn how to brew your own beer because this may not continoue due to all the talk, they say next thing we’ll have strippers dancing on our stands but they’d have to be midgets.
Archive for December, 2009
bike in MOvie Meet the Feebles/bike the talk bike the walk(bike advocacy in small steps) Campaign to thank metro for those new sharrows and a pho(faux reception for the art show Sleep is for the Weak!
12.20.09
Bike in Movie 7pm Meet the Feebles It’s like the muppetts meets pulp fiction. so it’s raw and crazy and i wouldnt show it on my own but Simon has asked for it and the artist picks the picture sometimes. Peter Jackson did it before King Kong and After Bad tatste. We’ll have the heater on and free banana splits. oh and we’ll show the intro to americanthon not to be missed, the dinosaurs speak.Plus a few bike shorts.
….. and for the the art show reception we’ll have pho(faux) (if your allegic to fish dont even thimk about having some) since the art show got rained out come check out the art show and some soup. after five pm along with that, please lets show some noise for the great sharrows metro put in and encourage them to put them at all gold line and red line stops. Please send in a letter to Ed Reyes office and LA DOT about how great and safe the streets are because of these new sharrows. We’ll have a letter writting campaign at 5pm until the movie with some pho. Talk about how to get the bike infrastructure one section of town at a time through community councils because bike the talk bike the walk is back because bikeside salons are inspirational, Im not going to give up what we’ve been doing and neither should you, come down and lets make it happen with some grub and joseph. so if you cant make it and want us to send your letters email them to me at blackwomansidekick@hotmail.com and we’ll do the job.
Bike Oven
3706 No Figueroa
LA Ca 90065 
Okay there is a lot going on but it will all happen in one night.
First if your driving you should leave your car at the Bike Oven, which is the end of the ride, and ride up in a caravan with us at 6:30pm to the flagpole.
2nd The ride begins at the flagpole, York and Figueroa, at 7pm. Bring lights and blinkies and friends and get ready to explore the NELA art galleries as they are all open just for us.
3rd we come back to the Oven and Pigeon at approximately 10pm for the opening of Simon’s show “Sleep is for the weak” at the Oven and Bikable LA at the Pigeon. Bikable LA is wide open, bring stuff you are working on related to making this city bikable because we have a long way to go and we need to get really creative at this point, but lets do it–we have nothing better to wish for for the holidays.
Kiddie bike races, burning pinatas, homebrew and some sort of nomnom truck of some sort. The Flying Pigeon is hosting a few sprint races, we’re going to close off the parking on the street for this to happen and he’s got prizes.
It’s cold but the Oven is warm. See ya there
Los Angeles City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl will chair a meeting of the council’s Transportation Committee that will focus exclusively on bicycling issues on Wednesday, December 9, 2 pm – 5 pm.
Subjects on the agenda are:
- An update from the Planning Department and DOT on outreach efforts for the Draft Bicycle Master Plan
- Report from LAPD on bicycle incidents and conflicts between bicyclists and motorists
- The Sharrows pilot program
- A bicycle sharing program for the City of Los Angeles
- Bicyclist anti-harassment ordinance
- Revising the Zoning Code that would improve bicycle parking requirements for new development
LAPD issues promise to be especially heated given the recent incident at Critical Mass. It is unlikely that anything related to that incident will be resolved at this meeting, but it is important for the cycling community to continue pressure on the LAPD to rethink the way they interact with the cycling community and live up to the promises they have made to improve.
Even if you don’t have anything to say, attending these meetings lets the City Council, LAPD, and city departments know that these issues are important to a broad group of LA citizens.
The meeting is here:
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Los Angeles City Hall
200 N. Spring Street, Room 1010
Los Angeles , CA 90012
The offical agenda is here.
And there’s some commentary here.
This message came to us from Rick Marquez, 90042 bike enthusiast:
Hello 90042 bike enthusiast,
On Thursday, Dec. 3rd, the Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council will be deciding, whether or not, to support green transportation. The HHPNC Land Use Committee has proposed, to CD1 and CD14, bicycle street racks on both York Blvd. and Figueroa (see attached).
*Motion: If needed, $2000 for bike street racks at Ave. 50 and York Blvd. (CD 14 is still working on approval from L.A. Department of Transportation.) (David Baird)
Please pass this message on and join other bike enthusiast at this meeting. Lets show support for alternative green transportation in Highland Park.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009
FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA
820 N. AVENUE 54
Los Angeles, CA 90042
7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.