Top-level bikes, fancy kit and all sorts of accessories mean cycling can become very expensive. But it doesn’t need to be! Manon and Conor have 9 top tips and tricks for you to make cycling more budget friendly without losing any of the enjoyment. So, here’s how to stop wasting your money and have a great time riding your bike!
LA Bike Fest is BikeLA’s 2nd annual fundraiser and celebration of bike-minded people from daily commuters to weekend warriors and everyone in between.
As a Pedal-Powered Party, we encourage our attendees to ride to and from LA Bike Fest via the healthiest, happiest, most sustainable, and equitable transportation available – THE BICYCLE. Of course, we will provide a free bike valet, and the event is a hop, skip, and a roll away from the Chinatown Station for those who plan to ride first and last miles via Metro.
The event is open to all ages, but you must be 21+ to be served beer. Speaking of beer, the first one is on us! Highland Park Brewery will have a bar in our designated area where additional beer can be purchased. For food, our friends at Highland Park Brewery will have a special menu (including a vegan option) also available for purchase. We’ll have music, a 360° photo booth, and our biggest online auction ever stacked with unique experiences, premium subscriptions, fabulous bike accessories, and much more donated by bike-friendly Angelenos and businesses. You could even win one of several brand-new e-bikes! Mark your calendars for when our online auction goes live the week of September 25th!
Check out LA Bike Fest 2022, where we successfully raised vital funds to CREATE a more Bikeable Los Angeles for everyone.
A community engagement meeting on the extension of the Ballona Creek Bike Path will be held at the Culver City Senior Center on Sept. 26 from 7 to 9 pm.
The Ballona Creek Bike Path (Bike Path) currently runs from National Blvd at Syd Kronenthal Park in Culver City to the Santa Monica Bay. The “Streets for All” organization has proposed the Ballona Creek Bike Path Extension Project (Project) to extend the path. The Project would lengthen the Bike Path north-east of Syd Kronenthal Park to where Ballona Creek begins at Cochran Ave and Venice Blvd in the City of Los Angeles.
Approximately 30%, 0.8 miles, of the proposed extension would run through the City of Culver City across public land and private property owned by Red Car Properties and impact the public right of way in multiple locations. The extension would then continue into the City of Los Angeles for an addition 1.5 miles, crossing beneath the 1-10 Freeway along the way.
In addition to the pathway extension along Ballona Creek, the Project concept plans include a bridge over Ballona Creek at Smiley Dr, a freeway underpass, and street crossings at Washington Blvd, La Cienega Blvd, and Fairfax Blvd. The Project would also involve landscaping and beautification efforts along the route and could include creation of public green spaces and opportunities for art installations.
Sepp Kuss explains his journey from Durango, Colorado, to the top of the 2023 Vuelta a España podium in Madrid, sharing the podium Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic.
From MarinIJ.com
San Rafael is making progress toward enabling safe multi-modal access around the city.
The latest improvement is a bicycle and pedestrian link on the east side of Grand Avenue between Second and Fourth streets.
This is a busy part of downtown, not to mention a vital connection between the Canal neighborhood and downtown, including the transit hub.
It is a continuation of the 2019 addition of a bicycle and pedestrian bridge across San Rafael Creek, providing users with a safer route into downtown.
The needed improvements will include new traffic signals, ramps for street-corner curbs, landscaping and resurfacing the street.
Funding will mostly come from a collection of state and regional grants – the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Transportation Authority of Marin and the California Transportation Commission – being put to good use in San Rafael for improvements toward multi-modal transportation goals.
Photo by Cedric Letsch on Unsplash
From LA.Streetsblog.org
A couple of blocks of new plastic bollards might not look like much, but it just might mean that Metro and LADOT are planning to make good on missing bike/walk connections to Metro’s new subway stations
By Joe Linton
It looks like Metro is beginning to make good on improving first/last mile bike facilities that were supposed to link Metro riders with new Regional Connector stations. In the last few weeks, Metro added new plastic bollard protection to the eastbound bike lane on First Street between Alameda Street and Vignes Street, just east of Metro’s new Little Tokyo Station.
Streetsblog and LADOT (L.A. City Department of Transportation) noted the installation of the unprotected bike lane after Metro installed it in late 2022. After the Regional Connector subway opened in May, Streetsblog reported that Metro omitted and downgraded several planned station bike/walk connections, while Metro Connector project construction widened roads and added new car lanesand new parking for drivers. Advocates urged Metro and the city to fix the missing first/last mile facilities, including several places where bikeway protection had been omitted.
Could the new bollard protection on First Street be an early step in Metro and LADOT making good on planned Regional Connector first/last mile safety improvements? Time will tell.
Photo by Jasper Garratt on Unsplash
The Vuelta a España is one of cycling’s three grand tours: a three-week, 21-day slog through Spain on the hardest roads in the country. Conor rode the race back in 2017, and to this day considers it his hardest ever challenge. The scorching heat, combined with devilishly steep and relentless climbs makes La Vuelta one truly brutal bike race!
From BikeRadar.com
Tyres manufactured between 10th and 24th week of 2023 included in recall
By Jack Luke, Stan Portus
Pirelli has extended its recall of the P Zero Race TLR tyres to the USA and Canada.
A recall was first issued in July to tyres in Europe and the UK only, but now Pirelli says 15,000 tyres in the USA and Canada are also affected.
Pirelli published news of the recall on 7 September, stating: “Consumers should stop using the product immediately and contact Pirelli with any questions. Consumers are eligible to receive either a full refund or a replacement tyre.”
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission says Pirelli received a report of rapid air loss, resulting in a minor injury.
Keep reading our original story for which models are affected and how to identify them.
From SacBee.com
Local artists designed the murals that flank a cyclist’s ride down Franklin Boulevard. Community members painted the monarch butterflies, vintage cars and portraits of Hispanic men and women who reflect the area’s deep-rooted Latino heritage. Hungry riders have options: a taqueria or a bakery with cases full of sweet conchas. But on a summer day, the sun beats down, unobstructed by a tree canopy. In fact, there are no green spaces at all. There’s no bike lane, and cracks in the narrow sidewalk make the ride bumpy. Crossing the street is challenging, as few and far between designated crosswalks push cyclists to find a break between speeding cars.
At first glance, Franklin Boulevard seems like the perfect place to commute via bike, as does the rest of Sacramento. The city has warm weather, no snow and a flat terrain. What more do you need? As it turns out, a lot. People in the region are heavily car dependent. More than half of Sacramento’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to 2016 data included in a report by the Sacramento Mayor’s Commission on Climate Change, come from the transportation sector.
Photo by Dário Gomes on Unsplash
ightweight vs aero is one of cycling’s biggest debates, and after all the love we’ve seen for the new lightweight Orbea Orca, it’s time to open it up again! Science says aero bikes are faster, even up climbs, but is that actually true? We’ve called on our resident hill climber, Andrew “The Twig” Feather, to find out which really is the fastest bike for climbing.
