Top 10 Tips for Great Vacation Photos
I’ve had the good fortune to travel quite a bit, and the even better fortune to spend my days leading California bike tours with people on their own travel adventures in Los Angeles. Over the years I’ve learned quite a bit about taking trip photos and here are my top 10 tips for traveller photos. […]
Best Things to do in Los Angeles
I’m going to be honest here, some LA top tourist spots are disappointing in real life. This post has a few tips for visiting Los Angeles to avoid tourist trap disappointments. Visiting Hollywood Blvd and the Walk of Fame Everyone wants to visit Hollywood Blvd, but walking the length of the Walk of Fame will […]
Couples Experience for Valentine’s Day
Every Valentine’s Day we get a lot of couples, and they always have the best time on our downtown Los Angeles Bike Tour. Sometimes one person really likes to bike, and their partner will buy them a tour in an attempt to make the cyclist happy by doing what they love. This is a sweet […]
Where to stay in Los Angeles for Super Bowl 2022
The answer is Downtown L.A. of course! Listen, if you’ve never been to Los Angeles, you might want to see Beverly Hills or the beach, But if you’re coming for the 56th Super Bowl Downtown is going to put you near the action. The LVI Super Bowl Experience, basically the biggest pre-game ever, is taking […]
Why wear a bike helmet?
“Because your head is the only thing the doctors can’t fix,” so says my aunt Meagan, an ER nurse for 30 years. Many people who come on the bike tour are reticent to use a helmet. They register their protest by not clipping it, which seams silly to me. You have it on your head, […]
How to Get a Free Rose Parade Private Viewing
While many people go to New York for Christmas, they come to L.A. for New Year’s, or more specifically, Pasadena for the Rose Bowl and Tournament of Roses Parade. We’ve all seen it on TV, Tish and Cord, the strange pageantry of making parade floats out of flowers. The Valley Hunt Club had never heard […]
Unique gift for shop small Saturday
Give the gift of a unique experience! It’s easy, our digital gift certificates are sent to participants, and priced right. Everyone is pairing down, owning less and thinking about the environment. Giving the gift of LA’s best bike tour of Los Angeles or the Arts District has zero environmental impact, with big emotional impact. If […]
Hollywood Christmas Parade-things to do in Los Angeles Thanksgiving
The shmaltziest parade ever! Everybody has got to go at least once, if only to see the Cat in the Hat balloon do the limbo under a street light! The Sunday after Thanksgiving, Hollywood officially kicks off Christmas season with a grand parade, featuring floats, movie cars and C-list celebs galore: Wally and the Beve […]
Webinar fatigue…
Is a virtual experience an experience at all? When our quarantine first began I relished being able to experience all my favorite bands from home, or seeing a performance of Shakespeare at the Globe Theater. April and May I gleefully live streamed some epic bike rides, with screaming descents, something our usual tours do not […]
Women’s History Month Tour
The month of March we are offering a special Women’s History Month Tour Sunday afternoons. We are running this tour though Discover LA Exclusives Link . You can’t tell the story of L.A. without women, and who better to tell it than a woman owned business? Biddy Mason, Mary Pickford, Adele Yellin, Dorothy Chandler and of course […]