Bikeride is BACK! New album, new shows, and an appearance on MOJO's March compilation (out in February). Let's check what the band has to say:
Well, we're happy to say we'll be participating in a Beatles Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band covers record for MOJO magazine. It's to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the greatest album ever made. We'll be doing "Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite", probably Lennon's trippiest song ever, and a perfect time capsule for 1967. It will be out in M
I wrote about the weekly live music at The District at Tustin Legacy a couple days ago, and this Saturday The Block at Orange is hosting "Rock ‘n Road: Where the Music Meets the Road," which brings together high school bands and road safety education. Finally!
National Adult Spelling Bee, Saturday, 2 p.m.This annual event in Long Beach is only for adults who live or work in the United
States. Spellers can register for $30/advance or $50/week-of-event.
And it's just $5 to spectate. Watch some grown ups spell their asses off! Sorry, no heckling. Bay Shore Church, 5200 The Toledo at Nieto, Long Beach, CA; 562-439-3316
Intermediate Mountain Bike Ride, Sunday, 9 a.m.Enjoy ocean and canyon views on this 13-mile ride over steep terrain
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The Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach presents its first ever Changing Gears Long Beach Bike Ride Saturday, offering riders the choice of a 40-mile or 75-mile loop starting and ending at Shoreline Village and winding down the coast through Irvine. The ride begins at 7 a.m. and registration is either a $65 fee or a minimum of $125 raised from donor. Go here for more details about donating. Funds raised help fight HIV/AIDS through outreach, prevention programs and health educ
As Orange County does (but mostly does not) celebrate Bike to Work Day today, here is a little present from Amy Novotney, Monitor on Psychology, on Sott.net:On a Tuesday evening two years ago, avid cyclists Christy Kirkwood and
Debbie Brown were finishing a 13-mile bike ride in Orange County,
Calif., when a driver talking on a cell phone swerved into their bike
path, knocking Kirkwood off her bike and throwing her 227 feet. The
motorist--who had been travelling at 55 mph--continued a short
dista
Dave LiebermanOrange County is a surprisingly bike-friendly place, and the crown jewel of north OC has to be the Santa Ana River Trail, which goes from the ocean at the Huntington Beach/Newport Beach border to Prado Dam in Corona, completely separated from cars. (It will eventually, when Riverside County gets off the dime, continue further up the river, too.) Weekdays see a lot of commuters using the trail; weekends are a blur of Lycra-clad speed racers and recreational bicyclists whose pace
