Author Archives: Richard Risemberg

Psst! Wanna Buy a Pigeon?

A Flying Pigeon bike shop, that is. Central location between a Gold Line stop and what could be one of LA’s most significant bikeways and all-around shopping street, if Joe Bray-Ali wins his race to replace “Roadkill Gil” Cedillo in CD1. Joe’s put the renowned Flying Pigeon LA shop that sponsors this blog up for […]

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More than the “Bike Guy”

The Joe4cd1 campaign has been pretty happy over getting a mention in the LA Times this week. However, this is not unalloyed good new: the article’s editor felt compelled to pigeonhole our Joe as “an outspoken bicycle advocate.,” and his candidacy as a response to incumbent Cedillo’s having “angered bicycling proponents by canceling plans for […]

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Actual Usefulness–OMG What Next?

I saw something last Sunday in our little neighbor to the west that impressed me mightily…. I was in Santa Monica hunting down a couple of bags of Caffe Luxxe coffee beans as a gift for my wife when I passed by a Breeze bikeshare doc. This is not an uncommon occurrence in SaMo—the docks […]

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Will North Fig Return from the Dead?

North Fig may be back from the dead, it seems. For a long time, the long-planned (and approved, and funded, and…) road diet for NELA’s main drag has languished, treated with malign neglect by DC1’s malignant Gil Cedillo, and considered, if at all, with resignation by our city’s battered bike advocacy world. Only Joe Bray-Ali […]

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Building the Future, One Slice at a Time

Of course you want Flying Pigeon’s heart and soul, Joe Bray-Ali, to win the District 1 City Council seat this spring. After all. not only is he the “Bike Guy,” but he’s so much more: the “Safe Streets for All” guy, the “Thriving Small Businesses” guy, the “Development without Displacement” guy, the “Parks for People” […]

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Ending the Runaround

Here’s a little something for Josef Bray-Ali to take with him to the city council when (wth your help) he takes over the District 1 seat currently occupied by Dr. Donothing, ie Gil Cedillo. It doesn’t address bicycling directly, but it would benefit active transport since it would minimize traffic on local streets in many […]

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Taking Back the Future

I hope you noticed, amid the sound and fury of the national campaigns, that Measure M passed in Los Angeles County. That means an extra half percent of sales tax for the next forty years or so, all to be dedicated to transportation. Yes, your latte may cost you two pennies more, but we’ll get […]

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Regroup, Re-Form, and Renew

I worked sixteen hours at a polling place yesterday, and I didn’t even get a stupid t-shirt. Instead, I got watch the electoral college system throw another election to the loser of the popular vote. Still, Clinton’s majority was paper-thin; there are plenty of folks in the US who need to feel that they are […]

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Stripped Down for Racing

You can’t help but notice that the Flying Pigeon LA website looks a bit more spare these days: and it is. The shop is closed for at least the duration of the campaign—not the national campaign that winds down in a week (we hope, though these days you never know), but the local campaign to […]

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Post-election Purge and Cleanse: Saturday Special!

Let’s face it: no matter whom you plan to vote for on November 8th (or 28th), you wont’ be pleased with the result, even if they win. But another election’s coming up in March of 2017, when you’ll have the chance to vote for real change at the neighborhood level. After all, you can’t have […]

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