Josef, co-owner of the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop, took some time off from work to volunteer for Stephen Box’s 4th District campaign recently – visiting a couple of farmer’s markets and doing free bike repair to spread the word about Box. Jussi Jormanainen, a USC student, filmed some of the proceedings and put together […]
Yes, yes, another exciting adventure in retail here, with a quick walk through in the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop. The feature this time? Our cool new mannequins (Manny and Maria) and a Velorbis Student Classic ($1,350), Velorbis Dannebrog ($1,795), and a Pashley Guv’nor single speed ($1,595) in the window. We are down to our […]
You know how companies are smart, and spend their time and money taking nice product shots with sexy models? Yeah. Those other companies are cool. Presenting our swarthy middle eastern-looking co-owner, Josef Bray-Ali in a series of poorly taken cell phone pictures modeling Yakkay helmets. If you’d like to see more of the Yakkay helmets […]
Sierra Magazine’s Rosie Spinks wrote up a short piece on the LA Bike Plan today, “Good News for Bicyclists in Los Angeles” , quoting yours truly: Josef Bray-Ali, a bike activist and co-owner of the Flying Pigeon bike shop in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood, thinks that the increasingly diverse biking community that has emerged in […]
What we hope to see more of! Tuesday brought big doings to bike life in Los Angeles, what with the passage of the the much-amended bike plan as reported by Josef this morning, and the second meeting of the Bike Plan Implementation Team (BPIT) that I’ve been nagging about in these and other pages. I […]
This is the 40-minute long portion of yesterday’s Los Angeles City Council meeting, on March 1, 2011, that led to the approval of LA’s Bike Plan. I have my one minute of fame at the 22:00 mark. Whoopee! Some really funny anti-bike passing law people in the San Fernando Valley get their time at the […]
The shop phone was ringing off the hook, I am sure, while I snagged one of our Batavus BuBs and flew downtown to be there when the 2010 LA Bike Plan got approved. As soon as I arrived near council chambers, I knew something was up. The place was flooded with people from Vernon and […]