Thanks to Carlos Morales at LADOT and Jim Kennedy in Bill Rosendahl’s office, Bikerowave has 4 shiny new horseshoe bike racks, to compliment the original two. Below is a shot from a slow night . . . the best was at the Bikeroparty when every rack had four to ten bikes locked to it – sometimes a bike was locked to a bike to a bike to a bike.

Bike racks at Bikerowave on a slow night

If the past is any guide, we’ll have these racks working at maximum capacity in no time flat!

Tags: bike racks, new stuff!

Check our “Workshops” page tab above, slightly to the right.  That’s it… “Click” on it!

I had a good time at Bikerowave’s third anniversary last night, but it was a bit chilly.  A proposal was advanced last night, of shifting Bikerowave’s birthday to the summer.  Vote yay or nay!

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Tags: Bikerobirthday, Bikeroparty

The Bikerowave has been in operation for a whopping 3 years already.  Hard to believe, I know.  Come celebrate with us cuz our party-ism has has been dormant far too long.  We survived the “terrible twos” lets bring in our third year with a bang.  Also, we are saying, “Bon Voyage!” to one of our favorite Bikerowave wrenches–Steven Ma.  We want to send Mr. Ma off  in style.  There will be food and drink, some raffled items, a fully functioning disco ball to elicit tasty beats and some tail shakin’, maybe a food truck or two.  Fun for much of the family!

Somebody (me) dropped off a copy of Breaking Away, the greatest bike movie ever, at Bikerowave.  We’ve got a DVD player and TV, and you can hook up the shop sound system to them, so if you want to watch Breaking Away in the bosom of West LA’s bike community, come into Bikerowave and press play!

Tags: Breaking Away, Movies

Bikerowave’s server was hacked in mid January which brought it offline. After some rebuilding and time off, it’s now tanned, rested, and ready.

We will be closed on December 24th, 26th, and 31st. Happy holidays!

This last Sunday, despite threat of rain and what seemed like the coldest day in LA ever (to me, anyway) the Bikerowave held it’s first ever Bike Swap Meet.  I’d estimate about 250 people came by and checked-out some really cool bits and pieces and complete bikes being sold by locals and cross-town bikeophiles alike.  Speaking for myself, I did quite well for the efforts and actually sold more than I bought.  I suspect we’ll be doing more of these, at least off in the early Spring.

Thank you everyone who participated by selling and shopping.  Thank you Lucas for planting the seed and thank you Steven for making sure the coffee was there and the donuts were fresh.  Oh, and who was the mystery girl who patiently unknotted her giant ball of yarn the whole time?  Jason?

Pedal With Me is a group ride that is being put together to address homelessness. United Steps is a non-profit organization which finds unique solutions for homelessness and is sponsoring this event. If you’d like to help out, ride, donate a bike, money or time to this event, contact them here.

There are two rides. One leaves at 9 am and the other leaves at 11 am.  If you’d like to help us, the Bikerowave, with getting everyone from point A (The Bikerowave) to point B (Venice Beach, less than 3 miles away) great!  We need help getting folks fitted properly to bikes, escort them safely to the beach for the rally there, and provide a valet service for the bikes.  We’d love to see you there helping out.  You can contact us at info@bikerowave.org