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Bicyclists ride free on Metro, Metrolink today
Colin Bogart leads a memorial bike ride from the crash site at Colorado Blvd. and Terrace Dr. to the Pasadena courthouse.
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It's been a busy week for bicycling in SoCal. Bike Week gets into full swing today with Bike to Work Day. Anyone with a bicycle or helmet on Thursday can board public transit for free on these lines:
- Metro
- Big Blue Bus (must show coupon)
- Culver City Bus
- Glendale Beeline
- LADOT: DASH and Commuter Express
- Long Beach Transit
- Montebello Bus Lines
- Norwalk Transit
- Pasadena ARTS
- Santa Clarita Transit
- Torrance Transit
- Metrolink (must have bicycle)
There has already been much bicycle riding and celebrating this week. Sunday marked one of the first guided group rides to Dodger Stadium. Bicycles were blessed at Good Samaritan Hospital, while riders from around the region held rides of silence to honor those who have been killed by car drivers. Professionals raced Wednesday afternoon from Santa Clarita to Ojai and Santa Barbara as a part of the Amgen Tour of California.
If you haven't gotten out to ride yet, there are still many rides, rodeos and parties to come:
- Thursday: C.I.C.L.E's Bike Home From Work Shift Party at Pasadena's Incycle Bicycles - one free beer for all commuters 21 and over.
- Thursday: LACBC at Pete's Cafe and Bar on 4th and Main in Downtown Los Angeles - cyclist's slider special and an Angel City beer for $5
- Thursday: Downey Bicycle Coalition at Uncle Henry's on Old River School and Florence
- Thursday: Pomona Valley Bicycle Coalition at The Press in downtown Claremont - Happy hour all night
- Thursday: Walk Bike Glendale at BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse on Brand Blvd.
- Thursday: Santa Monica Spoke at Pono Burger on Broadway in Santa Monica - Happy hour
- Friday: Bike Night at the Hammer Museum Group ride from Santa Monica Bike Center to UCLA's Hammer Museum for a party including a movie screening, bike crafts, art and free admission
- Friday: C.I.C.L.E's Bike-In Movie Night, featuring Napoleon Dynamite at One Colorado in Pasadena
- Saturday: Silver Lake Bike Rodeo a fair for children, no bike or helmet necessary
- Saturday: 20th Annual Palms Bike Rodeo
- Saturday: Kids' Costume Bike Parade ride with Pasadena's mayor
- Sunday: Bike to Chuch Day in Long Beach classes Meet at Ruth Bach Neighborhood Library to ROCK Christian Fellowship Church
Here are some highlight photos:
The bike brigade has arrived! Bikes park for free at Dodger Stadium. #BikeWeekLA pic.twitter.com/IS5jJHjPNZ
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 11, 2013
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