Moms On Bikes

...bike. I’m guessing this must be sometime around 1968. My mom liked to ride bikes, an unusual activity for adults in Southern California in the 1960s. She took me all over Culver City this way until one day when we took a tumble, probably caused by a pothole. I vaguely recall a long haired and bearded young man helping us off the pavement (that I can remember “hippies” shows how old I am). None of us were injured but it shook up my mom enough that...

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Los Angeles: Swag Town USA

...ty or so contest winners who bothered to attend shuffled off to load their bikes into their SUVs and drove home where, we suspect, many of the bikes will just sit in the garage. The handful of speakers who kicked off the event included representatives from the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, the MTA, the Department of Transportation, Bicycling Magazine, and a former Bike Town USA contest winner from Irvine. Unless I missed something, none of...

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Saturday Tweets: Food, Simple Living and Bikes

...tus/530835488534306817 The Best Thing About a Bike-Friendly City Isn’t the Bikes — It’s the City http://t.co/WGVeHxDQmR via @StreetsblogUSA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 7, 2014 The Health Benefits of Simple Living (Erik chimes in at the end) http://t.co/m7juWtdPJJ via @usnews — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 5, 2014 Let him that would move the world first move himself. -Socrates — Ancient Wisdoms (@AncientWisdomss) November 4, 2014 Coo...

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Saturday Tweets: Oatmeal, Bikes and a Pickle Maker

...5Xs7x — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 28, 2015 The Skip Garden a moveable urban veggie patch built with 90% reclaimed materials http://t.co/LnpEmIPMIB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 1, 2015 ‘Sandorkraut: A Pickle Maker’ http://t.co/l04xhAZ3AF — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 30, 2015 Watch bicyclist lift and move car blocking bike path via @BoingBoing http://t.co/0ut26E2kui — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 28, 2015 On a ‘Tour De Tacos’ with L...

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