CycLAvia

I had a totally fun afternoon at the cycLAvia event.  I went by Rachelle's place and fixed up her fixie (mostly pumped up her tires, and diagnosed a broken spoke).  There was an amazing contrast between riding on Wilshire with buses, cars and general downtown craziness; and the arrival at the suddenly empty side streets feeding into the route.  And then, totally cycling bliss!  I laughed out loud so many times as I was surrounded by traffic jams of riders at the crossing points, at the sea of riders around, at blowing past stop signs in front of police, legally.  We rode to the bicycle kitchen, and had an awesome pizza and beer.  I haven't seen so many bikes outside of the playa.  wonderful!