THE NEW RIDE TYPE G
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superblueman3 at 05.10.10 - 5:09 pm
This, our 7th ride, is going to be absolutely epic. We're going to a store first to get our *stuff* then ride straight to Griffith Park, where we'll begin riding up to the observatory. Then we continue on up, using a few trails and roads, to the top of Mount Hollywood. The view from the top gives you a 360 degree of the entire LA area -- from the tip of the valley, to long beach, to Pasadena, to Catalina island. This spot being our main destination, we party up there for a while, then ride allllll the way back down, through the famous Griffith Park tunnel and back down to into Hollywood. We'll stop for late-night munchies at pink's hot dogs and then return to the start at pan pacific.
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dont be one of the ones who regrets missing this ride....... it's gonna be freaking awesome
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sounds awesome. i will be there for sure.
goosegoose05.10.10 - 5:12 pm
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The ride post says it is a mom ridazz sponsored event. Does that mean there will be free 420? or free stolen freakbikes?
Haha
Just kidding. You have some good ideas and I like your spirit. Hopefully my old ass will make it out one night to your ride.
Foldie05.10.10 - 5:58 pm
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or free stolen freakbikes?
oh foldie, very cheeky....
@superblue, i believe griffith "closes" at 10 not sure about weekends though. Last time the passage ride went up there we got followed by the park rangers even though we all turned off our lights and hada ride by moonlight. it was pretty fucking awesome doing the dirt trails, yet scary and in the end they caught up to us and baisically asked the group of less than 10 to leave. I dunno how cool park rangers would be if a big group went all up there. Just sayin...
Gizzard responding to a
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05.10.10 - 6:05 pm
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oh... btw, either way, this sounds awesome!
Gizzard05.10.10 - 6:06 pm
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foldie -- whoever wants to smoke on the ride gets smoked out by me if they ask. hope to see you there
gizzard -- that sounds troubling. i also know that the griffith park coyote ride used to come up there once a month, and i've done a ride with 4 guys after ten, heading onto a trail in front of rangers next to the observatory...... but there would be considerably more people than that.... i dunno, we'll just have to hope for the best and if we get asked to leave, we'll get out and enter the park from another entrance :]
superblueman3 responding to a
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05.10.10 - 6:11 pm
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Bikes are officially allowed until 10:30, I think. That's what I've been told by park rangers, anyway.
I've been kicked out of the park 4 or 5 times and never been ticketed. I actually don't know anyone who's gotten a ticket up there yet, but apparently if they do ticket you, it's a misdemeanor and not just an infraction.
On one Ride-Arc, the park rangers stopped us (a group of maybe 25) at the pass after we had come up the north side of the park, and they basically just gave us a warning when we acted completely oblivious and told them that we were "just training for the AIDS ride." While we were waiting for the stragglers to make it up the hill, one of the rangers talked about his road bike for a while, and then they escorted us down through the tunnel to Vermont.
Mind you, on our way up, we had ridden right through a filming of Mad Men (to the great annoyance of the set security guards and the great delight of the crew, a couple of whom actually yelled "Midnight Ridazz!" as we passed by). Anyway, the rangers had been called out to deal with us, so they had plenty of reason to be annoyed. But even then, they didn't ticket us. They mostly seemed to care about whether we were drinking or not. It sounded like they gave out a few tickets a month to people who came into the park at night to drink. So there's that to consider.
I think that for the most part, the rangers would rather not deal with writing tickets, so just try to look as clueless and harmless as possible if you do run into them.
nathansnider responding to a
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05.10.10 - 11:45 pm
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if we can get into the park up onto the trails with our lights off before 10:30 then maybe we shouldn't have a problem? we'll just have to see
superblueman3 responding to a
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05.11.10 - 11:42 am
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postponed......june 12th.........be very very scared
superblueman305.19.10 - 1:00 pm
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how bad are the down hills going to be!??
meezem7806.12.10 - 4:06 pm
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sickly sickly awesome, not like really really steep though. if you're on fixie or have brakes you'll be fine. no freewheel brakeless
superblueman3 responding to a
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06.12.10 - 4:32 pm
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fail..... we got kicked out near the observatory on our way up, had to route down and do another route. there will be a redux in a couple of weeks ..... we will be coming in the back entrance.... which i have tested..... it will be successful and awesome... look out for it
route for tonight
you can see where we had to turn around in griffith
superblueman306.13.10 - 2:45 am
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it wasn't a complete fail. peter did play the epic sax solo on his system. it lifted my spirits.
mechazawa responding to a
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06.13.10 - 3:48 am
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Shit happens man, it was a good ride nonetheless. It was pretty funny watching the rangers escort us down the hill lol. All I gotta say is New Ride Type G: REDEMPTION here we come!
Nygmatic06.13.10 - 4:17 am
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its all good sam having a fun ride is never a fail. i got pretty high and lazy. and thinking of climbing was no option haha
Jeff Yess06.14.10 - 1:46 pm
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