Monday, July 04, 2005

Bike Summer, LA Part 2

Another Bikesummer day in Los Angeles and more bike fun ensues. This week bikescape presents impressions of LA's nascient bike culture as manifested in in one of the big group rides, Critical Mass.

Listen to the podcast

Midnight Ridazz doesn't seem to have a web site but you can read about it here. It was covered in the LA Times and blogged at Cicle.org.

Critical Mass ended at Hollywood and Vine were we attended the Bicycle Film Festival where Still we Ride, a film about New York Critical Mass was featured.

Joe Linton,
the guy that was hawking his bike tour of LA's historic bridges wrote a book on the subject.

For those of you reading this in the "info" page on Itunes, here's the link to the shownotes with the links intact.

http://www.bikescape.blogspot.com

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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