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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.

"See you on the Streets"

Enci - "illuminateLA"
illuminateLA.com
EnciPerforms.com

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 in the near future!

Mark Peterson is a graphic designer, illustrator, music producer, and may very well be drinking a cup of coffee right now.

He rides a bike with unusually fat tires, and uses it solely for transportational purposes. One day all bicycles will have fat tires.

Erik Knutzen - "SurviveLA"
HomegrownEvolution.com

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, coming out in the spring of 2008 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.

Mike McDermed - "Mikey Wally"
Mikey.Wally.wordpress.com

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.

Eric Richardson was born in the heart of South Carolina and spent time in New Jersey and Michigan before winding up in California. He moved to Los Angeles in 2001 to attend USC, where he majored in Communications.

Eric started blogging in November of 1998, back when "weblog" was still the predominant term. His non-Downtown writings can now be found at e;blog.

Professionally, Eric is a developer for the Agathon Group, a high-end web development company. He formerly headed up interactive work for Cartifact, a Downtown mapping firm. Eric's wife Kathy also works Downtown, as a teacher at Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School.

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.

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.

Midnight RIDAZZ!

A City Hall insider, Vox Populi is skilled in the Arts, both Martial and Diplomatic.

Vox is well versed in the rules of the road, both on the streets and behind the scenes at City Hall.

Vox knows that the power resides with the people.