Mojo Voodoo Vibe is good crack. There’s a relatively new bike shop in Long Beach full of that energy on Broadway just west of Cherry in the Broadway Corridor.  They specialize in vintage and city style bikes and offer restoration services.  It’s a quirky little shop with an offbeat attitude that fits the locale perfectly.  [...]

Shane Perkins, Australia’s fastest track cyclist. As the Olympics get closer the tension’s gonna get higher. B’ANimauX! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }());

The Golden Saddle Cyclery is jacking out some great self-promotion. This video was produced to showcase their new kits. Gonna have to do a GSC ride-by soon. The shop is in the the hood of my adolescence. Muy OrO Animaux! window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { [...]

Designer NaRCisSIsm nAmE eMbLaZeMEnt ovErLoAd!! Many designers execute a great vision and then totally crash when they cross their design wheel with a narcissistic need to emblazon their name all over their creation. As the labyrinth of the L.A. bike scene is coming into focus I’m discovering the incestuousness of the relationships. Brandt Sorensen is [...]

Ad men are the Goddesses and Sirens of the Culture Avalanche.  Levi’s cracked it out in the clothing game for cycling commuters and Amgen is amp’n out the Tour of California on Metro Transit.  iSpied this velo-vertisement plastered o’side of a Metro-Unit on Venice Blvd just west of the 405. [CogJoint.com] window.fbAsyncInit = function() { [...]

Organizing the garage. The Inspiration: [don't know what, where, jack about this cafe (?)] window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “364015433630063″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; e.src = document.location.protocol + “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js”; document.getElementById(“fb-root”).appendChild(e); }());

Another Cog-Joint Event®™©§ opportunity. Don’t miss out on the good times! It just don’t get any jacked-open better than this. Really: be there or be Square. ¡Órale Ese! Frog Town was my Home Turf. See you there! [visit the BicyleKitchen.com] A group excursion is not planned but we hope to see you dancing! Yeehaa Animaux! [...]

Junking out new bike shop discoveries is a grand part of the urban cycling addiction. When you’re powering the internal combustion you often can’t crack-out the hidden treasures and it’s just too much damn work to stop and find a parking space in the urban confine to see how anyone else is thriving; when you’re [...]

eArTH.wHAT? Earth-Day didn’t even wince as much as a narcissistic sigh from a city overwhelmed with its daily existential reflections as it burns along in a frenzied preoccupation with progress, chaos and survival. I jacked myself directly into Earth-Day with a 71 mile grand loop, single speed ride from Long Beach to LACMA* to witness [...]

Remember Sunday is Earth Day {it’s a Cog-Joint Event®©™}. I’ll be riding from Long Beach up the L.A. River trail to downtown Los Angeles then head west to the L.A. County Museum of Art (LACMA) on Wilshire just west of La Brea to join LACMA’s Earth Day festivities.  Mr. Michael Bauch {of Long Beach} will [...]