Bike + Run

What you'll find in our March cover story, plus a slideshow to get your wheels spinning

3/1/2012

In the March 2012 issue, we highlight the city's best bicycle rides, from rugged mountain routes to casual beach cruises, plus the gear you need to get—and keep—going now.

The read the full package, pick up a copy of Los Angeles magazine on newsstands now.

If you also enjoy biking as a spectator sport, check out these photographs from Steven Rea's soon-to-be-released coffee table book Hollywood Rides a Bike and see how stars from Bogart to Bardot made two wheeling glamorous.

Joan Crawford graces the cover
Louise Allbritton has fallen off a bicycle belonging to one of her character’s four brothers in this still from San Diego I Love You (1944).
Brigitte Bardot rides through la campagne.
This shot of Humphrey Bogart was snapped outside the sound stages of the Warner Bros. backlot in the mid 1940s.
Grace Bradley tops an 1890s Gormully & Jeffrey high-wheel owned by J. Walker Lyon of Pasadena.
British It girl Julie Christie was photographed bicycling between filming scenes of The Go-Between (1970) in Norfolk.
Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth were photographed while filming the romantic drama The Lady In Question (1940), in which Ford plays the son of a Parisian bike shop owner.
In one scene of I Wake Up Screaming (1941) Victor Mature and Betty Grable hide out in a bike shop.
Elizabeth Taylor was a teenager when this photograph was shot.
Susan Peters looks out over the Pacific in this photograph taken when the actress was 22.

Photographs courtesy Hollywood Rides a Bike/Photofest

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Bike + Run

What you'll find in our March cover story, plus a slideshow to get your wheels spinning

Joan Crawford graces the cover

Louise Allbritton has fallen off a bicycle belonging to one of her character’s four brothers in this still from San Diego I Love You (1944).

Brigitte Bardot rides through la campagne.

This shot of Humphrey Bogart was snapped outside the sound stages of the Warner Bros. backlot in the mid 1940s.

Grace Bradley tops an 1890s Gormully & Jeffrey high-wheel owned by J. Walker Lyon of Pasadena.

British It girl Julie Christie was photographed bicycling between filming scenes of The Go-Between (1970) in Norfolk.

Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth were photographed while filming the romantic drama The Lady In Question (1940), in which Ford plays the son of a Parisian bike shop owner.

In one scene of I Wake Up Screaming (1941) Victor Mature and Betty Grable hide out in a bike shop.

Elizabeth Taylor was a teenager when this photograph was shot.

Susan Peters looks out over the Pacific in this photograph taken when the actress was 22.

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