Monthly Archives: May 2011

Industrial-Strength Bike Love

Another treat from Flying Pigeon last Saturday, as Gina and I rolled along on the monthly Brewery Ride, one of several that the Pigeon puts on for the sake of velocipedal conviviality. The last one (that we went on) was a short jaunt to the Eagle Rock Brewery–which, of course, is not quite in Eagle […]

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Learning to Ride a Bike Can Be Hard

I remember when my Dad took the training wheels off my bike. Thank god YouTube didn’t exist then. Hopefully this little trooper gives it another try!

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Flying Pigeon LA supports livable streets, adds BikeSideLA

Our shop is co-owned by Josef Bray-Ali, founder of the Bike Oven, so we’ve never shied away from city hall meetings and advocating for more livable streets in our community and the City of Los Angeles as a whole. However, owning and running a bike shop is more than a full time job, so instead […]

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Brewery Ride on Saturday, May 7, 2011

Join us this Saturday, May 7, 2011 on another slow paced cruise to a local brewery to sample the wares and talk about stuff. Meet at the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop (located at 3404 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065) at 3pm. The ride leaves at 3:30pm. It is a good idea to […]

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LA backpedaling on Bike Plan

When the Bike Plan sailed through the Los Angeles City Council a couple of months ago, it seemed like we’d all be coasting down brand new bike lanes in no time. After all, bike facilities have a nice chunk of money behind them (money set aside for bike and pedestrian projects that is not tied […]

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Two Wheeled Love Letter to NELA – stone skipping lessons

The day after the April 10, 2011 CicLAvia I took my daughter down to the LA river in my bakfiets. She got a chance to practice her bike riding on a totally protected, high quality, bike path. I got a chance to ride (and walk) without having to worry about either of us being run […]

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BPIT Bashup

Well, yesterday’s Bike Plan Implementation Team meeting devolved into “interesting times,” to say the least. Well before we could get to the second agenda item, two of the Angry Young Man contingent began double-teaming Claire Bowin of Planning and the DOT engineers over their bundling of road treatments that were required under CEQA to undergo […]

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Flying Pigeon LA inventory on May 4, 2011

It is a scorcher today – hot weather, and hot bikes at the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop. In this 2 minute cruise around the shop I show off our new Linus Gaston 5 and Linus Mixte 8 bikes. I also turn the camera towards our new Bromtpon selection.

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