CICLAVIA ReCap from Two Cooks

Andrew West provides the words and Jonah Schwartz the images. It was a truly great day!

"Well, we made $750 that day. I was impressed. And then between the cycling insanity and the gangster ganja, I couldn't figure out where the door lock was, had Jenny call Jonny Green to find where it had gone, and later realized I had put it where we found it, earlier in the day."

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarlo/sets/72157625012256945/show/

REI Northridge Bike Corral THIS Saturday!

Saturday, October 16th | 10am - 2pm

REI Northridge is partnering with the Bicycle Kitchen [www.bicyclekitchen.com] to promote the bicycle as a fun, safe, and accessible form of transportation, to foster healthy urban communities, and to provide a welcoming space to learn about building maintaining, and riding bicycles. Each individual that donates a salvageable used bike to La Bicicocina will receive a 15% off REI coupon towards bike accessories (exclusions apply) and will also be entered to win a raffle prize valued at $100 retail. The first 15 people who donates a reusable bike will receive a $15 REI Gift Card so make sure to be the first in line! ** We will not be accepting kids bikes.**

18605 Devonshire St.
Northridge, CA 91324

The Bicycle Kitchen/La Bicicocina would especially like to thank Jean Lim, Outreach Specialist for organizing this for us!

In the heart of L.A., wide open spaces, courtesy of CicLAvia - latimes.com

In the heart of L.A., wide open spaces, courtesy of CicLAvia - latimes.com

Woo Hoo! Go, Bobby, go!

Bikes and Books Go Together

Outreach events can be a fun way to hip people to the awesomeness of your DIY/DIT bike workshop. Even the boiling sun couldn't keep us down. Here's some pix from JP's Library Ride and our booth at the WeHo Bookfair. Big shoutouts to JP, Craig, Alex, Mabell, Xotchil, Kelly, Muff and Kate.

Library Ride to the We-Ho Book Fair this Sunday!!

SEPTEMBER 26^th | 10am-6pm

Leaving from the Bicicocina to the West Hollywood Book Fair.

Meet at Kitchen at 9:30 and leaves at 10am. There will be musical accompaniment, treats, short readings, spoke cards and FUN.

A Bicycle Kitchen Booth at the Weho Book Fair: Teaching some workshops (like fixin' flats), handing out BK info, hanging out and assisting kids/people making crafts from 10am - 6pm.

This is all put together by JP, Craft Captain and F.O.K.

Write me at jparrsnip@mac.com for more info or to RSVP.

AND, may we add, curated by Tess Lotta, at 2pm, we've got THREE bicycle poets reading their stuff: J de Salvo, Jen Hofer, and Eric Howard. The program is a half hour, and is called POETRY & PAVEMENT

Two Awesome Bicycle-Related Events!

cicLAvia::October 10th!

Tour De Fat::October 23rd!

Vuelta!

(from Allison of City of Lights)

Hi all-

If you are free September 18th, and you want to come ride with a bunch of awesome day laborer ciclistas, then I'm sending this to all of you! We're hosting our second City of Lights ride with the jornaleros we work with. The flier says "First BiciDigna ride", being that that is a (relatively speaking) more recent project, as the intention is to highlight the workers of the IDEPSCA downtown center.

The workers themselves planned the route, using our Spanish Resource Guide map of safer streets to then end in a soccer game. Mind you, this is some of the guys' first bike rides ever--they usually ride alone to work--so I wanted to invite other community members to help show them how exciting they can be!

Please feel free to forward-the flier is not translated into English, but the ride will be leaving from the CARECEN day laborer center (1600 Shatto, x-sts Wilshire/Union, excuse the 7th st mention on the flier) at 12pm and end at Pan Pacific Park at 3pm.

Anybody with extra tools, supplies, or caboose skills are VERY welcome! Please let me know ahead of time so we know to expect extra help.

Thanks and feel free to call if you have any questions!
Allison
213-629-2142