Mobile bike shop: Thanks to all who donated!
Since my request on Feb. 12 during Black History Month to help raise $7,000 for East Side Riders and their effort to buy a mobile bike shop for Watts, readers …
Black Lives Matter
World cup winner: A conversation with Anthony Freeman
Anthony Freeman is a lifelong competitor. The minute you see him on the bike, you know he’s serious about what he’s doing. No big surprise there–he’s a national title holder …
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History lessons: A conversation with Marty Blount
Martin Blount is a founding member and president of one of Los Angeles’s largest and most influential black cycling clubs, Major Taylor Cycling Club of Los Angeles. Named after the …
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Telling it like it is: A conversation with Elijah Shabazz
Elijah has, as he will tell you, “been around.” With more than fifty local race wins and two state titles over a career that spans close to twenty-five years, if …
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Do you want to help?
John Jones III runs the East Side Riders bike club based in Watts, California. It’s a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to improving the lives of Watts residents. Since the pandemic …
Black history: Methods to Winning, LLC
Methods to Winning, LLC, is one of the first bike racing teams in the world founded by blacks for the promotion of blacks in cycling. I called up one of …
Whites know best
A friend sent me to a link to this story about diversity in cycling. The title said it all, “US cycling powers are hoping to create change with a focus …
Demand
Velo Club LaGrange hosted a meeting on Zoom last night to discuss racism and violence against blacks in the context of Black Lives Matter. They began the day before in …
Celebrate good times (come on!)
Okay, so I’m no flag-waver. But I’ve always recognized that I was lucky to be born where and when and to whom I was born. When I was a kid …
Let’s talk about racism in cycling
I got an email from Robert Efthimos, the deposed president of Velo Club La Grange, and it wasn’t a plea for me to take up his appeal to get him …