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 […]
Unique Valentine’s Day gift-Things to do in Los Angeles
If you’re looking for unique experiences or things to do in Los Angeles for Valentine’s day, book one of our Los Angeles bike tours. I love it when we get couples on tour who’ve surprised a loved one with the gift of a bike tour. Neither one knows what the tour is like, so its […]
Tips and tricks for the Rose Parade!
The Tournament of Roses, as it’s officially known, is world renowned and for good reason. Its the best parade you’ll ever see, if you do it right. My number one tip for enjoying the Rose Parade is to head east, and STAY AWAY from “TV Corner”. The cross streets of Orange Grove and Colorado is […]
Vacation Plans Cancelled by Unscrupulous Tour Operators
Have you ever had a tour operator cancel on you last minute? Sometimes weather, safety or employee illness can not be helped, but other times a tour provider will cancel because its not financially viable for them. This is news to us, we never cancel under-booked tours. Lately we’ve picked up a few customers who […]
Tips for a California Coast Road Trip
A drive up the California Coast is on traveller’s wish lists around the world, and we meet quite a few people on our DTLA bike tours doing just that. Sadly most people make the same mistake of not allotting enough time to truly do the US 1 right. While we’re focussed on things to do […]