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.
Measure R raised the local sales tax rate to pay for transportation improvements. Cycling and pedestrain projects should get some share of this money, but the amount is still under debate. Please come out to Wednesday’s Transportation Committee meeting at 2pm to continue to support 10% for bikes and peds so that it becomes officially approved. A strong showing at the meeting will make a big difference in getting 10% for bikes and peds!
10% for bikes and peds will directly affect the funding available for bike projects.
When: Wednesday, November 18, 2pm
Where: City Hall, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, Ca 90012. Room 1010
Announcement via Aurisha Smolarski of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition.
SoapBoxLA also has some information on the weird math being used to calculate that 10% number.
Please take the following survey to assist collecting the “experience and knowledge of cyclists in the City of Los Angeles.”
The survey will also support a “white paper” that will be released in February on behalf of the Los Angeles Sustainability Collaborative (www.lasustainability.org).
Click Here to take survey
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This aint no twilight lucky for you. It is an armwrestle away as to the choice of the movie. Americathon or Idiocracy(i spelled that totally wrong
) which proves the point If Steve doesnt show up then we show Americathon. If he does show up we armwrestle steve for it. Americathon deals with a future with no oil everyone rides bikes and the goverment goes bankrupt and tries to raise money pulling a telethon, this movie was made in the 70’s yes, the precious 70’s where movies were nieve and predicted the future. why didnt our parents listen. Oh and meatloaf eats a whole car. George carlin narrates and Elvis costello is the prime minister. Come take a look at what they thought the future was going to be like in the 70’s.Pretty close. 6pm thankgiving for us and 7pm movie starts. popcorn and bring thanksgiving left overs and you get a burger king crown.
Big thanks to Makai Bikes of Redondo Beach, CA and Pasadena InCycle for the donated small parts to the Bike Oven this past few months!
They’re going onto build-a-bikes every day we’re open, and everyone appreciates your donation.
A big thanks also to all those who have recently dropped off their old bikes, old parts, and junk (the recycling guy gets the junque - so nothin’ goes to waste!).
p.s. And thanks to Ted too!
GET READY Monster Kat and Paul Nagel from the bicycle tree in orange county have brought together 20 awesome artist. Not too miss. Reception starts 8pm at the Bike Oven and the Flying Pigeon. It’s soo good we had to share it. Vegan tacos that r so good, $1 tacos and $1 homebrew, this time we’ve got a King Kong Porter and Cool Running Stout. Tell us what you think because we want to develope the perfect brew for the oven’s taste. Pinatas and this time really kiddie bike races we’ve got four. So start your training now and you will win awesome prizes possibly free beer. Let’s get this organized and lay it down the way it is…….meet at york and figueroa at 7pm for the art ride that goes to four or five galleries then back to the oven for more fun and monsters with bikes extravaganza.
You could come to the oven at 8 pm and on the receptions and artists will be waiting. We have plenty of beer this time.
pinata, kiddie bike races,veggie tacos, hoebrew and cheap good art that will make xmas a little easier.
The Oven is co-sponsoring the Northeast LA Bike Plan Meeting on Wednesday November 4th at Ramona Hall, 4850 Figueroa. Meet at the Oven at 5pm. Do your homework, look over the parts of the plan that you ride the most, read all the articles about the plan at Streetsblog and come represent for a strong future for bicycles in LA. Flier here
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