Btw, I don’t have a car, hate driving, and am all for people riding bikes, but frankly this seems counter-productive and self indulgent.

Car use in Beijing and Dehli are growing rapidly and replacing bicycles. China is one of the few places where the sales of large vehicles are actually on the rise, partly due the fact that the Chinese government subsidizes gas prices keeping them artificially low and therefore reducing the insentive of their citizens to conserve.

It’s market forces which have finally done what years of activism could not do, get people to drive less and by more fuel efficient cars.

I don’t enjoy spending $5 on gas and driving 15 miles on the freeway. That’s why I take the Orange Line and the subway to downtown from the Valley.

Just my opinion. Thank you.

As an avid cyclist for more than 43 years (RIP, little Sting-Ray), I must respectfully disagree.

The freeway rides – risky or not – have already succeeded in getting us all talking about the real problem: our addiction to cars and all the ills that accompany them.

Even if some SUV driver successfully doors a cyclist and doesn’t make national news when the next SUV driver successfully flattens said cyclist, the riders already will have raised the profile of bicycling as a viable (and sometimes superior) transportation alternative in L.A.

Visit Beijing, Manila or Delhi and you’ll see cities where bicycles far outnumber cars – and move in harmony through traffic jams – and you’ll get a glimpse of L.A.’s future.

And hey, if your paranoid viewpoint dictates that you cringe and flinch more because the “a-holes” have somehow incited an entire city to vehicular homicide – well, maybe at least you’ll be more careful than the rest of us, who take the dangers and joys of riding in Los Angeles pretty much in equal stride.

Stay safe, and keep riding.

Unless you prefer paying $5 to drive your car 15 miles through freeway jams. It’s a free country, last I heard.

Thanks a lot a-holes.

I’m bromik666 and I approve of this ride!