Echo Park Bike Posse

The Brown Derby Dome _ Wilshire & Alexandria

Good buddy Nate is riding his bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles as part of the annual AIDS Lifecycle.  As part of his fundraising efforts, he threw a neighborhood carnival, with “an AMAZING levitation artist and a HILARIOUS clown troupe, and FUN games!”

The Levitation Artist, Special Head.

Will Wright.  In jail.

Not only did this neighbor win the hula-hoop contest, she also won teh $50 gift card to Velo Love.

Iglesia Ni Cristo _ N. Union Ave., Historic Filipino Town

Edware Road / 101 Freeway _ Angeleno Heights

McDuff St / Scott Ave. _ Echo Park

Laveta Terrace Steps _ Echo Park

Chung King Rd _ Chinatown

Mozart St. 5 Freeway Overpass _ Lincoln Heights

Fortune Cookie Dumpster _ Secret Location

Happy Lunar New Year!  It’s the year of the Snake!  And if you didn’t already know, I love parades.  Especially small, local, community parades where barricades are non-existent, and spectator participation is encouraged.  No Rose Parade here.

In that spirit, the Echo Park Bike Posse might or might not have ridden our bikes through the parade - in our capes.

Good ol’ councilmember Tom LaBonge - on a mountain bike in the parade.

“Boy, oh boy, do humans like to wrangle nature. We chop it, extract it from the ground, refine it, move it, dam it, shape it, smack it up, flip it, rub it down, just generally bend it to our will in every which way we can. Yeah. Do we ever.

The passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time. One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

STAPLES Center

With the Echo Park Bike Posse & the Bodacious Bike Babes.