Stephen
Box is a bike activist and community organizer.
He rides, he writes about riding and he is a fierce protector
of our right to ride.
He
believes that the streets are the new "public space" and
that our ability to share that space is one of our greatest
opportunities for revitalizing and redefining our communities.
Enci is
an actress who
rides her bike everywhere, to auditions and to jobs, be it
in the theater, at a studio or on location.
She
organizes rides to support local theaters and to encourage
her community to
get out of the car and on a bike. She hopes you will join
her on a ride in the near future!
Alex
Thompson is a mathematician turned bike activist.
He organized in support of Santa
Monica Critical Mass for the last two years, and co-founded Bikerowave.
He
claims that he's working on a secret project but no one believes
him, and he likes pizza.
Josef
Bray-Ali runs a bicycle repair collective called the Bike Oven
which was started in his garage and now has a home on Figueroa
Ave.
Josef
devotes significant free time to researching, writing and advocating
on behalf of bicycles and the benefits of transportation
planning for bicycles.
Josef
and his wife have a new baby girl and they live in Lincoln
Heights.
Erik
Knutzen likes to ride his bike, even when it means
pulling a trailer.
When
not riding, he writes about bikes, backyard vegetables, and
chickens at www.HomegrownEvolution.com.
He's the co-author, with Kelly Coyne, of the Urban Homestead from Process Media.
Will
Campbell is a Los Angeles native whose first work
commute by bike was way back in 1989 covering the 14 miles
across the San Fernando Valley between his home in Burbank
to his job in Tarzana. It was an arduous experience but he's
come a long way, baby - literally.
Will's
pedaled thousands of miles across this great city to work
and for play, including more than 3,000 in 2007 alone. Why?
Because he considers it a pursuit both noble and essential,
and also just because any day he can get on his bike is a
better day... for him, his fellow travelers, the city and
the planet. He currently resides in Silver Lake with his
wife Susan and a menagerie of animals.
Mikey
Wally was born and raised in God's country, West
Michigan. After brief stints in Wisconsin, Chile, and Amsterdam,
he moved to Los Angeles in June 2007.
Mikey
Wally is an alumnus of Beloit
College. Currently an autodidact, he prefers to study
power and its relation to expressing his desire to cycle
freely. He is the only contributor to Mikey
Wally.
Gary Kavanagh is a video game developer converted to the ways of the bicycle, riding for transit, F.U.N, and for sport as a beginning amateur racer.
He organized as team captain a group of cyclists from Midnight Ridazz for AIDS LifeCycle 7, riding from San Francisco to Los Angeles by bike and collectively raising over $55,000 in the fight against AIDS.
Documented on his blog Gary Rides Bikes, are his photo's and stories about life in the bike lane.
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