Have you ever washed your car the day before it rains only to have to wash it all over again? Well, something similar happened with Spring Street's brand spanking new day-glo green bike lane. more ›

Downtowners, your 'hood continues to opens its arms to bicyclists. A 1.5-mile-long bright green bike path is in the works along Spring Street. Part of L.A. County's Bicycle Master Plan, the new 6-foot-wide pathway stretches from Cesar Chavez Boulevard to 9th Street. Workers from the city's Department of Transportation are expected to trim the lane with white thermoplastic stripping by Sunday. more ›

Malibu already attracts bicyclists from afar hoping to take in some gorgeous seascapes on their rides. But now the city wants to make it official and become a "Bicycle Friendly Community." more ›

In tonight's Extra, Extra, Zsa Zsa Gabor is rushed to the ER, Burbank does not want a Taco Bell and NoHo pot shops get raided as promised. Plus: Keep up with us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter: @LAist @LAistFood @LAistSports. more ›

ArtCycle took over the streets of East Hollywood yesterday for the third year in a row. Because the art scene is just a little too sprawling for pedestrians — and because bikes are so important to the scene — the event caters to attendees on two wheels. more ›

Beverly Hills is trying to become more bike-friendly. The city is working on a plan to create a bike route through the city. To start, the city's bicycle committee is planning improvements to Crescent and Beverly drives and Carmelita Avenue and Charleville Boulevard that will make those north-south and east-west thoroughfares more hospitable to bikers, Beverly Hills Patch reports. more ›

If you are a cyclist who would use Metrolink to get around more if only their trains could store more bikes, your wish has been granted. The transit agency has announced a pilot program that finds two of their passenger railcars remodeled as "bicycle cars," set up to accommodate at least 18 bicycles. more ›

Next week, it's time to bust out your big two-wheeler and celebrate your freedom to ride. That's right -- it's LA's 17th annual bike week, during which the city will encourage riding, celebrate new programs designed to make biking easier and offer up some incentives for you to hit the pavement on your Schwinn instead of your Honda. more ›

The transportation committee tomorrow will discuss the Department of Transportation's report on its proposed 2010-2011 allocations for available funding from Measure R. The measure, which set aside roughly $40 billion over the next three decades for upgrades to transportation and was estimated to create over 210,000 new construction jobs, was approved by voters in November 2008. more ›

Los Angeles' Planning Commissioners yesterday rejected the city's long-term vision for bicycles, delaying approval of the city's bike plan until improvements are made. The vote came at the end of an eight hour meeting, in which half of it focused on the document, where cyclists across a wide community of opinion united against its approval. more ›

It isn't often you have most all facets of L.A.'s cycling community in agreement, but today they are coming together to protest the City of Los Angeles' bike plan, which goes up for a vote at Thursday's Planning Commission meeting. more ›

Last December Councilmember Bill Rosendahl proposed that the city create a law that would prohibit the harassment of cyclists in Los Angeles. It was cheered by the cycling community, but others were cautious, citing that many existing laws already cover any such harassment. more ›

Often legally parking a bicycle is very hard to do, and beyond that, sometimes it's even hard to find a tree or pole or something to lock your bike to. In Pico-Union at the CARECEN day labor center, there are about some 50-100 Spanish speaking cyclists who use the center daily to find work and yet little bicycle parking is to be found. more ›

By all accounts, Los Angeles experienced something amazing for five hours on Sunday. An estimated 100,000 people took to a stretch of 7.5 miles of streets closed off to cars and open to people. And those people responded with positive zeal. more ›

An 800-mile Tour de France-style road race tailored for California will be back next May and include two stages in the Los Angeles region, race officials announced today. The Tour of California is scheduled for May 15 through 22 and will hold stages between Claremont & Mount Baldy and Santa Clarita & Thousand Oaks, home to the sponsoring company Amgen. more ›

Silver Lake's oddball emporium Coco's Variety Store is a not so general neighborhood market that's actually a bike shop. more ›

Speaking of Lindsay Lohan, her punishment today by Judge Elden Fox is coming under criticism by cyclists. Plainly put, a drunk hit-and-run driver who disabled a bicyclist was sentenced by Fox in July to 90 days of community service. On the other hand, Lohan is getting harsher punishment for harming herself. Legally speaking, the cases are very different -- Lohan violated probation -- but it's just another sign that priorities should maybe be reexamined. In July, cyclists staged a "bloody" protest outside the Beverly Hills courthouse in reaction to the light sentencing [corrections made per comments #2 and #11]. more ›

A violent altercation between the LAPD and cyclists on a large group street bicycle ride last May beget something unexpected: a monthly Critical Mass, notoriously known across the country as a leaderless sometimes chaotic event, ride accompanied by the police officers for the last three months. more ›

As evident by a recent bike lane controversy in Northridge, sometimes the most civically active cyclist doesn't even know what plans the city has for bicycle infrastructure. Now the L.A. Department of Transportation has launched a Google map showing all bicycle projects, whether completed, in progress or planned, for the current fiscal year. more ›

Los Angeles may be gearing up to finalize its master bicycle plan, which would bring some 1,600 miles of bikeways to the city, but that may not be enough for those whose primary location is USC. That's where some 10,000 to 15,000 cyclists roam the campus each day, according to 2009 report. more ›

Following confusion about bicycle lanes that suddenly appeared along Wilbur Avenue in Northridge, Councilmember Greig Smith is taking action so people aren't taken off guard again. more ›

A series of public hearings about the draft Los Angeles Bicycle Plan, which seeks to bring the city 1,633 miles of bikeways, have been announced. The five meetings (,pdf), including one to be held online, will take place between Sept. 25th and Oct. 2nd. "This is the third time they’ve released dates for hearings on the Bike Plan, and the last two times the meeting schedule was met with outrage from the cycling community after only four meetings were scheduled for a city with four million people," noted Streetsblog LA. "Because there were only four meetings scheduled again, Planning did the only thing they could and released the schedule not just on the Friday before a holiday weekend…they did it at 5:40 P.M." more ›

Up in the Northwest Valley, 1.2 miles of a city street are slated to get a bicycle lane in each direction. For cyclists and some residents, it's welcome news, for others it's not. But for either side of the issue, the problem was that no one knew, even cyclists who closely monitor the progress of bicycle infrastructure, about it until pre-striping markings were painted on the street earlier this month. And that brand of sudden change can freak people out, setting them on an opposition war path. more ›

Just a week out from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's bicycle summit and he's already taking action. Today he unveiled the first of many to come simple bus shelter posters that are aimed at educating drivers to give cyclists three feet when passing. Such a concept is law in other states like Arizona, Arkansas and Connecticut and Councilmember Bill Rosendahl wants L.A. urge California politicians to make happen here. more ›

A clean-tech company that wants to consolidate its headquarters on Santa Monica's eastside may end up ditching the city after all. Why? Because some factions of city leadership want the company to install a bicycle lane through the property -- it's city land that cancer research company Agensys would lease for 50 years, a city street runs through it -- as part of its condition of the development. But Agensys says they can't fit it in without compromising safety. more ›

This morning's bicycle summit organized by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was recently spun into a bicycle advocate after a recent cycling incident that left him with a shattered elbow, started off with a laugh. Former Mayor Richard Riordan presented Villaraigosa with training wheels. But it was only a bittersweet moment as news spread that a cyclist died in the San Fernando Valley this morning. more ›