{"id":1281,"date":"2011-06-27T19:50:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/06\/live-and-ride-in-l-a\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:50:52","slug":"live-and-ride-in-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2011\/06\/live-and-ride-in-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Live and Ride in L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just got back from a small ride around the Silver Lake reservoir after buying some groceries from Trader Joe\u2019s. I guess I fit in with the population out there.<\/p>\n

L.A. is great to ride. I don\u2019t know why people think it\u2019s not a city for bikes, IT IS THE BEST ONE. It\u2019s pretty flat (I mean it\u2019s not SF), it\u2019s large (not like NYC) and it rains like 3 days a year. It\u2019s a bike rider\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n

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One can start a day riding from the beach and end up in snow covered mountains during the same ride. I’m not sure if there are many cities in the world that can make that claim.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s great. My best memory of E3 last year was my bike ride. 30 minutes to go DTLA, 1 minute to park, 1 minute to change shirt.<\/p>\n

Now I think the brakeless trend is the stupidest shit ever. You can\u2019t complain about cars and how people behave toward bikes if you ride fast and don\u2019t give a damn about being unable to slow down like smart people do, by pressing more and more a lever. You can\u2019t say streets are dangerous for riders if you completely forget about the rules of the road. I mean, seriously.<\/p>\n

My problem with that is that it makes cars angry against ALL riders. <\/p>\n

I rode Paris so many times. If you are brakeless there and that you go fast, you will die in a week period. Thinking that L.A. is rude because cars don\u2019t pay attention is not true if I compare with France, there are a lot more brakeless riders in SoCal. Here in L.A. for what I rode for now, people are much more attentive of what\u2019s going on around them. How many times I\u2019ve been facing a car door in France, pretty much never here in Silver Lake (last year I was riding every day). People don\u2019t want to get sued here. Even if they can\u2019t see shit in their big ass SUVs, they don\u2019t want any trouble. So if you\u2019re alert \u2013there is no place on this planet where you can afford to not focus on what\u2019s going on on the road while biking- it\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n

So to me the main message would be to push people to use their bikes, not to see riders as stupid ass kamikazes. They will stay in their cars if the main \u201cbike culture\u201d is about being suicidal you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got back from a small ride around the Silver Lake reservoir after buying some groceries from Trader Joe\u2019s. I guess I fit in with the population out there. L.A. is great to ride. I don\u2019t know why people think it\u2019s not a city for bikes, IT IS THE BEST ONE. It\u2019s pretty flat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}