Yeti Menace

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 was the inaugural ride of Beers, Gears and Queers, a bicycle ride/pub crawl with destinations across Los Angeles. BGQ is the creation of Mike Skiff (far left in the photo). On the auspicious day of 8/27 we met at The Eagle in Silverlake and rode to the Gold Coast in West Hollywood. After a few drinks at the Gold Coast, we turned around and made the return trip to The Eagle. We started with 13 riders and covered 14 miles. The photo was taken on the return ride in front of the historic Studs Theater (fka TomKat and Pussy Cat).

BGQ is returning this week, Wednesday, 9/10. Meet up at The Eagle @ 8:30pm and we ride out at 9:00pm. As always, our destination is TBD. Be there and be queer!

fucking hilarious. well worth the entire 10 mins, it only gets better as it plays out. goddamn, i practically lived this shit in my corporate job.

via Kirsch

It’s no secret to anyone that this year has been a tough one economically. Most of us are feeling the “downturn” and having to make changes to compensate. This spring John and I decided to go down to one car and I morphed into a public transit geek.

After experimenting with my Eagle Rock to Downtown commute over various route combinations I settled on bike, bus, train. (Or more specifically: bike/bus/bike/train/train - train/train/bike.)

I ride my bike to the bus stop, take my bike on the bus to Old Town, ride over to the Gold Line station, park in a bike locker, train to Union Station, switch to the Red Line and emerge across the street from my office at Pershing Square.

In reverse, the only difference is that intsead of taking the bus, I ride my bike the 4.5 miles home from Pasadena.

BRILLIANT. Here’s pics from today’s commute.