The 10th Annual Bicycle Film Festival in Los Angeles is this week! Things get started this Wednesday with the Joyride Art Show at the Morono Kiang Gallery 218 W. 3rd St. Film screenings begin this Friday and continue through Sunday. There is also a BFF Street Party hosted by our friends at LA Brakeless at the Paragon Parking Lot until 7:00 232 South Main Street this Sunday the 5th of Sept.

There is a huge buzz about the premiere of To Live And Ride In LA and the first showing is sold out but tickets for the 11:00 show are still available. Matt Hoffman will be at the Friday screening of his featured documentry The Birth Of Big Air. This is big big news for me and if you don’t know about the significance that this individual has had on the religion of BMX then you have a once in a lifetime opportunity to find out for yourself this Friday.

Present proof of purchase to any of the BFF events at the counter at Orange 20 and get 5$ off any purchase through Sunday!

Looks like LACBC’s “Give Me Three” poster is already showing up around town, as you can see in this photo from Streetsblog LA:

It’s part of a campaign to get California to pass a law mandating that motorists give at least three feet of clearance when passing a cyclist or other “vulnerable users” on the state’s roads.

We’ve all been buzzed by careless or malicious drivers, so a sentence or two in our favor in the CVC might result in a different kind of sentence for the selfish twerps who think (quite wrongly, as you know) that they “own the road.”

Even Mayor Tony V. is behind it!

However, V-Dog has also come out in favor of a mandatory helmet law, so temper your enthusiasm, or at least send him an email about it, yah!

Have fun, do good: Streetsblog LA, which narrowly avoided closing for lack of funds, is back without losing stride…but still lacks funds. So they’re throwing a fundraising party, sponsored in part by New Belgium Brewing of Fat Tire Ale fame, over on the Westside:

This is run mostly by Damien Newton, who does a hell of a lot of good work for the LA cycling community, and also helps keep us networked with bike folk in other cities, so show up, have fun, help out!

Details

For Sunset Junction!

BAD BRAINS!

The Westside’s Bikeside is presenting another rabble-rousing meetup this saturday, August 21st, with features followed by the Disposable Film Fest.

Afterparty at the Hotel Erwin in Venice. See the Bikeside blog for details. The lineup includes CD4 candidate and local bike advocate Stephen Box, Gary Kavanaugh, Cool Ass Mike, and more.

$3 Fat Tire on Draft if you ride to CASA!! Wed. 7:00-8:00pm Charity Guest Bartenders- $5 Cocktails all tips go to BIKE MS…Good Intentions, Great Time and there is no such thing as a Bad $5 DRINK!