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hey everyone, i live in los angeles for the last 3 months. houseless/apartmentless. homeless sounds hopeless to me. anyway i have been living on my bike to save $, as i came here on bus and to study real contact kali(stick fighting) at a martial arts academy. and didn't want to work like nuts to pay for high rent. and connected with a local co op bike shop called the bike kitchen. volunteered for them for a couple months, and now they help me with the know how to build a touring bike and the parts so it will ride when it comes time to leave this city. thats a short piece of what i been doing.. tim