Monthly Archives: October 2011

Brewery Ride on Saturday, November 5, 2011

Join us on another lovely, slow-paced, bike tour to sample fine beer on Saturday, November 5, 2011 on our Brewery Ride. Meet at the Flying Pigeon LA bike shop (located at 3404 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90065) at 3 p.m. The ride leaves at 3:30 p.m. This month we’re heading to the Arts […]

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Is America ready for the Zombie-bike-pocalypse?

Image from Oakland Local on Flickr. We live in precarious times. Climate change is turning parts of Miami into the ocean. Sovereign debt levels around the globe are equal to or greater than many nations entire economic output. Nervous feelings have people “prepping” for a choose-your-own-calamity future of hyperinflation, civil war, nuclear disasters, peak oil, […]

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Yakkay helmets, we have them!

Image from Luc Saint-Elie on Flickr. It took a heck of a long time, but we FINALLY have Yakkay helmets in stock again. Woo hoo! Last year, we couldn’t get half the Yakkay product line here – now we have absolutely every helmet size and cover they sell in the U.S., as well as their […]

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California Bicycle Summit 2011 coming to LA November 5 to 7

Good news! Following on the heels of the “ThinkBike LA” Dutch bike-expert invasion that took place in September, LA is, once again, going to be up to it’s eyeballs in the best and the brightest bike planners with the California Bicycle Summit next weekend – from November 7 to 9, 2011 We’re renting bikes to […]

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Flying Pigeon LA bag, basket, and helmet sale

We’re putting some stuff on sale at the shop this week (really until it is gone): last season’s Po Campo bags, Basil bags with prints, most of our baskets, and a few bikes have had their prices reduced from Velorbis. The bags & baskets are 50% off, the helmets are $10, the bikes on sale […]

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I rode CicLAvia and all I got were these happy memories

A larger-than expected group of riders showed up at Flying Pigeon LA for our CicLAvia feeder ride on October 9, 2011. We departed en masse and took a leisurely ride down North Figueroa Street, Avenue 20, Pasadena Avenue, and Broadway into Chinatown before going our own ways. After a mole tasting at Placita Olvera, we […]

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Enter the schwag-on: Flying Pigeon LA fortune cookies

We have had a lot of cool stuff made to promote our shop: postcards, spoke cards, t-shirts and skirts, and now … fortune cookies! Our monthly Brewery Rides have taken us up Cypress Avenue, past the sweet smelling Peking Noodle Co., too many times to count. In a car, the smell of baking cookies never […]

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Flying Pigeon inventory on October 26, 2011

Yay! Another Flying Pigeon LA inventory video. In this video I walk around the shop as chaos reigns – a massive shipment of Yepp baby seats just arrived, ditto for Yakkay helmets, Bern helmets, Nutcase helmets, Copenhagen Parts handlebar baskets, Linus bikes and some other stuff. We got our hands on all the sizes and […]

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Water from the Sky!

Yesterday I rode off to South Pasadena through the second rain of the season, and the first to fall on a weekday. It wasn’t much of a rain–no doubt in Portland folks would be lying out in it trying to get a tan–but it was actual water falling from the sky, a rarity here, and […]

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Flying Pigeon LA inventory on October 20, 2011

This video has some really cool stuff in it! We’ve just received a pair of Pilen Lyx step-through bicycles – one in blue with beautiful silver fenders and another in black. Both Pilen bicycles are 7-speeds with a coaster brake in the rear and hand brakes up front. A dynamo hub powers the headlight and […]

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