Yesterday’s CicLAvia was mindblowing and mindblowingly well-attended, and to documemmorate it differently than the forward-facing handlebar perspective with which I timelapsed the inaugural CicLAvia last October, I bolted the cam to the seat tube and pointed it out over the rear wheel — the better to look back at the event, both figuratively and literally:

From East Hollywood’s “Bicycle District” to Boyle Heights’ Hollenbeck Park:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQnMN5OsUh0[/youtube]

And back from Boyle Heights to East Hollywood:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ95whuTGgE[/youtube]

Here are the direct links if the above embeds fail: East Hollywood Out, and Boyle Heights Back.

UPDATED (5:39pm): Lost in the video translation are some of the details that can be found chosen from the mass of higher-resolution stills used to make the timelapse — no, not via the thumbnail farm below (though it slightly bigable), but via this Flickr photoset: