LA Bike Messengers better than the cops at finding stolen bikes

The LATimes today has yet another great post/article about LA Bike messengers (LATimes calls them couriers, but we know better )chasing down a bike thief, knocking him off the stolen bike, and returning the bike to its owner. Anyone here know who they were?

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Food Truck Court to Open: Perhaps Carne Asada ISN’T a crime

As the LATimes just reported, a sea change may be in the works for mobile food culture in LA. Within several weeks, a parking lot at South Alameda Street and Traction Avenue downtown will open to host food trucks several days a week. This follows several years of crackdowns on taco trucks and other mobile [...]

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another cautionary tale

so the series on bike theft continues.  here is a recent story from friend/neighbor/co-conspirator Jimmy: So, from what I hear, this is what happens Now when you steal bikes or bike stuff from messengers or any cyclist in downtown.Word on the street is a couple of high school bike thieves were caught by a messenger [...]

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A Cautionary Tale of My Stolen Bicycle

“The best education is always expensive” – William Gerhardt (my grandfather) I emerged late last night – actually early this morning – from an internet cafe on Wilshire Boulevard near Normandie Avenue to see this cut bicycle lock lying in the street: I had hoped to see this: There were some signs that I’d ignored. [...]

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go wheels

so last night i went to watch a movie with Joe and Yuki at the vista and when we came out, slightly disappointed by the movie i must say, we had three wheels stolen.  it was like a gradient of good to bad locking practices.  Joe had a U-lock locking the frame and one wheel [...]

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