Tuesday, April 23, 2013

CicLAvia - The Other Ride Through Paradise


It's happening three times a year now.

 (We started here, in Culver City on this street lined with gorgeous Chinese Elms)

And it's one of the best ideas ever.


Borrowed from Ciclovia, which originated in Bogota, Colombia,


It's a day when streets are closed to auto traffic and everyone else


comes out to ride - large and small, the regular folks, and the strange and wonderful.


The bikini clad, the Hawaiian shirted, the sports jacketed, the ladies dressed like Minnie Mouse.


Those bare chested and braving sunburn....if I hadn't been so busy gripping my handlebars and keeping up  with everyone else, I could have shown you all of them.  (I was apparently not so very creative, some people had I-pads taped to their handlebars and were photographing EVERYTHING!)


There were many opportunities for breaks along the route.  Especially here at Abbott Kinney, GQ's "coolest street in America".......in 2012......


The Paradis crowd did not take on the entire route which extended 15 miles from Downtown


but we definitely chose the very best part of it


the one that ended


at


the beach!  I think you might have done the same.  No?  

(The organizer's figure about 150,000 people turned up for this event.  Cool, huh?)








7 comments:

  1. C'est un rêve de pouvoir faire du vélo dans ces conditions :) Une belle journée pour toi.

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  2. I love these roads Bicycle invaded!

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  3. Wow, super ! Tes photos me font vraiment envie !!!!

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  4. What a fantastic idea!!! I love that you did this. :-) The weather looks perfect for such a fun tradition. :-)

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  5. Génial, je veux la meme chose à Paris... bon il n'y aura pas la mer en bout de voyage, mais quelle belle journée... un reve...!

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  6. ha ha ha... aiming for the beach on a bike, that is the real stuff...!
    look at that weather... i'm sweating already...
    n♥

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  7. wow! (mince, Mlle Menthe l'a déjà dit…) très bon week-end!

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