Been noticing something lately.... Nearly every weekday morning I stop for a chai latte at a coffeehouse in East Hollywood. (What did you expect? It.... Been noticing something lately....

Nearly every weekday morning I stop for a chai latte at a coffeehouse in East Hollywood. (What did you expect? It is LA.) I like to sit back, sip, and watch the world go by outside the window, which faces Hollywood Boulevard. And what I've noticed is that the number of bicycle commuters seems to have doubled, at least, in the last month and a half.

You know they're commuters when the same folks go by, in the same direction, at the same time every day. And there are simply more of them, men and women, mostly young, but some not at all young folks. Some of the bikes look like 1970s relics...a sure sign that regular folks are becoming thoughtful about the oil economy...apparently word is getting round, probably thanks more to the Internet than the corporate media.

Maybe they'll go through an evolution similar to Haynes's protagonist in "Sixty Days Next Year," and discover that there's a lot more to bicycling than efficiency, utility, and saving a bit of dough...here's to "Wire Wheels, Wired World".... Cheers!