Monthly Archives: February 2011

Flying Pigeon LA Bike Polo

Flying Pigeon LA Bike Shop is one of the coolest bike shops on the planet for a couple a reasons. It’s next to the Bike Oven. They have cargo bike stuff that you can’t get anywhere else in LA. They have a single speed mountain bike team. And they support the NELA Bike Polo Scene! […]

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Spoke(n) Art Ride on Saturday, February 12, 2011

Flying Pigeon LA bike shop and the Bike Oven bike repair collective are teaming up, Transformer style, to co-present another Spoke(n) Art Ride on Saturday, February 12, 2011. Meet at the Flying Pigeon/Bike Oven bicycle complex (3404 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065) at 6pm. The ride leaves at 6:30pm on a tour of […]

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LA’s First Official Bike Corral coming to Cafe de Leche

According to the Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch: The Los Angeles Department of Transportation will cut the ribbon on the city’s first bike corral on Friday, February 18 at 9 a.m. in front of Cafe de Leche at the intersection of York Blvd. and Ave. 50. The inspiration for the bike corral at Avenue 50 and […]

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Shiny skull valve caps? Check.

Nothing says “Classy” like decorative valve caps on your bike. Classy comes in many flavors at the Flying Pigeon bike shop. If it is not the bullets then it is the chrome skulls with red eyes, german crosses, dice, or shiny 45 degree dice with a chunk missing (for extra style points). $3 a pair. […]

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Monday Bike Photos

People love them, and I’ve got them! I was adding pictures of bicycles to my BICYCLES set on Flickr yesterday and I saw that I’m almost to 1,000 (966 as of Super Bowl Sunday). I’m hoping I push it over using photos from the upcoming Second Saturday Spoke(n) Art Ride. Here are a few of […]

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Brewery Ride on Saturday, February 5, 2011

Join us on the first Brewery Ride of the Chinese New Year this Saturday, February 5, 2011! Meet at the Flying Pigeon bike shop (located at 3404 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065) at 3pm on Saturday, February 5, 2011. The ride leaves at 3:20pm and heads 3 1/3 miles away to the Eagle […]

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Sturmey-Archer alloy shifters and Steel 28″ Rims at Flying Pigeon LA

Like many bike fanatics, I have been to many different bike shops. It is a rare shop that stocks some of the stuff that Flying Pigeon LA does. I thought I’d show off some of what we’ve got in our parts archive: This is the stuff our Deluxe Flying Pigeon bicycles are made of: steel […]

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Flying Pigeon LA shop Inventory on February 3, 2011

A bunch of boxes arrived at the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop this week, and I thought that busting out the ol’ smart phone and showing everyone what we got would be a fun idea (a la Peter Coco’s Inventory Series) The bike above is something we’ve been waiting for since seeing it at Interbike […]

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The Other Figueroa

The local news lately has been full of stories about famous Danish planner Jan Gehl’s visions for Figueroa Street downtown…wide sidewalks, bike lanes, tree-shaded medians, and even rationalized motor traffic. Steetsblog LA has a tasty rundown of the treats that could be in store for downtown and the area around USC. And it seems as […]

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