By abrayali
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December 30, 2008
A cucumber green ladies Flying Pigeon bicycle.
We ran across an ad in the San Francisco Craigslist for a green ladies Flying Pigeon and thought we’d alert any of you in the bay area that are interested in a bike to check this out. Save yourself the shipping costs and rescue one of our flock!
The link to the San Francisco Craigslist ad is here:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/bik/974741093.html
If you end up taking the bike home, give us a call, at 213-909-8986, and we’ll send you a free t-shirt with our logo on it!
By abrayali
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December 30, 2008
Join us on Sunday, January 18, 2009 as we head into Chinatown for some tasty goodness from Empress Pavilion followed by a late morning cocktail at nearby Hop Louie.
Meet us at 10 a.m. on Sunday, January 18, 2008 at 5711 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042. The ride will leave at 10:30 a.m.
We have demonstration Flying Pigeon bikes to lend for the Get Sum Dim Sum Ride! Please make sure to call us in advance to secure your Flying Pigeon for the ride. If you buy a bike after the ride, lunch is on us. Please call us to reserve your bike at 213-909-8986.
Bring about $20 to cover the meal and cocktail (a little more for a tip wouldn’t hurt).
Oh, a quick tip about dim sum: it is vegan and vegetarian UN-friendly. That is, almost everything has pork, chicken, or beef in it (sometime duck and other stuff too!). The veggies are good, but really limited to about three or four dishes: bok choy, chinese broccoli, sesame balls with sweet bean paste, and … um … something else?
See you on Sunday!
By josef
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December 20, 2008
Flying Pigeon LA co-owner Josef Bray-Ali sat down with April from Eagle Rock Talk in September of 2008. They put most of Josef’s comments into Episode 21 of the Eagle Rock Talk Podcast.
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By abrayali
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December 16, 2008
Join the Flying Pigeon LA crew as we take our last Get Sum Dim Sum Ride of 2008! This week we’re going to visit one of the best Dim Sum restaurants we’ve visited this year: King Hua of Alhambra.
We meet on Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 5711 North Figueroa, Los Angeles, 90042 at 10AM for a quick cup of warm green tea, an air pressure check, before riding at 10:30AM.
From the shop, we’ll hop on to the MTA Gold Line to South Pasadena where we will ride through some of the most beautiful tree lined streets in the county. Passing some fantastic architecture (ask about Irving Gill) and through some interesting spots we ride down to Alhambra’s Main Street to King Hua. Recently reviewed by Jonathan Gold of the LA Weekly, King Hua offers some of the freshest and most delicious dim sum in all of the San Gabriel Valley.
As always, we have demo bikes to lend! If you buy a bike after the ride, lunch is on us. Please call the shop to reserve your bike at 213-909-8986. Due to overwhelming demand we ask that you reserve no more than 2 demo bikes per caller and we appreciate knowing if you are not going to come.
Bring about $20 to cover the meal and one way train ticket.
See you on Sunday!
By josef
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December 11, 2008
A friend forwarded us an excellent essay on what it is like owning and riding one of our fabulous Flying Pigeon roadsters. The essay, by archie4oz, on his blog “halfaloafoftofu“, is entitled “The Flying Pigeon“.
This is one of our favorite parts:
“…[I]n spite of all that I still really love this bike. When all I see all around me are generic road bikes and mountain bikes, my Pigeon sticks out as glaringly stylish and retro (which is probably why they command a ridiculously high price in New York). I get people stopping me and asking me about it all the time and get some pretty amusing looks from lots of Chinese folks when I go riding around in Chinatown.”
-archie4oz, “The Flying Pigeon“, December 10, 2008
You can read the rest of The Flying Pigeon at archie4oz’s blog halfaloafoftofu.
By abrayali
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December 5, 2008
Flying Pigeons featured in the Wall Street Journal Magazine's 2008 Very Good Gift Guide
With a bit of excitement we opened a UPS overnight box today to find a few advance copies of the Wall Street Journal Magazine’s 2008 Very Good Gift Guide.
We’ve been chatting with the folks there for a few weeks and even sent them a black, ladies, Flying Pigeon for a charity event they are hosting next week in Manhattan.
Nothing, however, prepared us for the sight of an orange Flying Pigeon gracing their table of contents and almost a quarter page on page 65 of the Very Good Gift Guide.
If you are a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, look for us on Saturday December 6, 2008.
We ought to be a bit busy on Saturday (with bike orders we hope!), but stop by this Sunday to celebrate with us!
This Sunday, December 7, 2008 join us for a “Get Sum Dim Sum Ride” to the newly opened Cafe de Leche. We’ll end up back on Figueroa just in time to catch the 64th Annual Northeast LA Holiday Parade (which is being organized by our friend Rosamaria of Rock Rose Gallery).
By abrayali
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December 5, 2008
A customer buying a fine cup of coffee at the newly opened Cafe de Leche.
This week, we’re cruising to an incredibly good coffee house that just opened up in Highland Park: Cafe de Leche. Join us for the ride! Meet at Flying Pigeon LA’s shop, at 5711 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042 at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning, December 7, 2008. The ride leaves at 10:30 a.m.
On the way to our destination, we’ll pass some great spots in Highland Park: the Los Angeles Police Historical Museum; some amazing geological formations on Avenue 50; and, of course, a few pieces of public art by our many talented neighbors in Northeast Los Angeles.
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By abrayali
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December 5, 2008
Logo for Cafe de Leche, located at 5000 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
It all started on a warm August night, when we opened our doors in time for the Beijing Olympics. We were flooded with requests for, “More beer!”, and the always prescient, “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a bicycle today.” Our cliqa started, Pajaros Locos, and now we got a strong cliqa.
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By josef
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November 27, 2008
Carol Colin's "North Figueroa" appears on the cover of The Journal of Bloglandia, volume 1, issue 2.
The Journal of Bloglandia, volume 1, issue 2 popped to our attention during last weekend’s Arroyo Arts Re-discovery Tour.
We were drawn to the magazine because of the cover art by Carol Colin entitled “North Figueroa” and featuring the building that houses Flying Pigeon LA!
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By abrayali
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November 26, 2008
Guns N Roses album cover for their new album Chinese Democracy.
Guns N’ Roses has released a new album, “Chinese Democracy” and we’re happy to see that while they have written a song critical of the Chinese government - they haven’t stooped to debase the the Flying Pigeon (the world’s most popular bicycle, don’t you know).
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