RIDE ARC Sept '08
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tomato at 09.4.08 - 8:10 am
woot woot. i am sooo glad that it is this weekend. i'm kind of bored with the "fun" rides and all the drunken idiots they attract.
this ride arc is titled "revisiting history/captured in tones: black history in los angeles"
i may not be black, but that's even more reason to go and learn!
this is tomorrow night. i should have my new bike by then- yippee!
who's goin??
says there's only a few "small" hills but i bet they're lying. i'm ready for some education and exercise.
are you?!!
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okay edit: "fun" rides--- most of the rides really are fun, but i've been turned off lately by the amount of inconsiderate bastards that turn up drunk off their asses, trying to show off by whistling at girls walking by, swerving their bikes into others, being dicks etc- not cool. i know it's kind of to be expected, but it gets old.
tomato09.4.08 - 8:18 am
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You bet!
Missed you Tuesday night Mr. R.
stevo409.4.08 - 8:44 am
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uh oh i just looked on a map and the start point is very very close to where i got hit...on a friday night.. i'm getting spooked. i wonder what the route is...
tomato09.4.08 - 9:39 am
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SWEEEET. I'm there.
Here's the info just in case:
Revisiting History/Captured in Tones:
Black History in Los Angeles [encore]
Ride-Arc for September 5th, 2008. 9:30 pm. San Vicente + Pico + Venice.
We're revisiting the Black History in Los Angeles ride. Edited and revised route like an encore performance of your favourite blues musician, fresh from a re-breaking of the heart. For those of you relatively new to the storied history of Blacks in Los Angeles, this will be a great experience complete with what is perhaps the best urban planning for a community in the country and finishing up with an everyone's-invited late night throw down of Waffles and Chicken at Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.
**** THE MEETING PLACE FOR THIS RIDE IS AT THE PARKING LOT OF THE SHOPPING CENTER AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF SAN VICENTE, VENICE and PICO....****
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2gorya
The ride's route will end at Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles, were we hope you'll join with us for a late night snack.
One or two "small" "climbs" - but very minimal relatively speaking. 20 miles of suburban explorations.
This month's flyer will be up on the website soon. We hope: http://www.ridearc.org
Test ride will happen Thursday night, the ride may be trimmed by 1 or 2 miles, but not likely.
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RIDE-Arc
Bicycles + Architecture + Urban Anthropology
1st Friday / Month
+INFO: www.ridearc.org / ridearc@gmail.com
http://groups.google.com/group/ridearc-list/
kiwi09.4.08 - 9:51 am
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This drunken idiot will be there! ------------> User1
User109.4.08 - 10:41 am
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@tomato
Agreed about "fun" rides.
(And try not to get spooked! I'm sure you'll be okay. We'll all look out for each other.)
theroyalacademy09.4.08 - 10:45 am
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I've been informed that those guys will be holding up a liquor store in some other part of town and wish you a pleasant evening.
stevo409.4.08 - 10:51 am
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see you guys at Ride Arc. I was gonna do SMCM but fukkit.
barleye09.4.08 - 11:14 am
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This one might be worth checking out if I get off work too late.
As far as the party-rides go, I keep reiterating that most of the drunken idiots will go back into hibernation around October.
Apparently, 60 degree weather makes them weak and frail.
bentstrider09.4.08 - 12:06 pm
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THIRD VIDEO: FREAKS ME OUT WHEN MY CAT DOES THAT.
eddieboyinla09.4.08 - 1:08 pm
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Knittens, or Alex Thompson, whatever you want to call yourself that's fine - but seriously, why do you go about bashing another ride?
RIDE-Arc has said NOTHING about SMCM. We don't say nor write "FUCK SMCM"... people can do what they want, attend whatever ride they wish to, and the decisions are theirs to make, so why do you go about bashing another ride without reason?
SMCM and RIDE-Arc are not, in any way, at conflict. RIDE-Arc starts after SMCM - long after, in fact. So what gives, man?
prendrefeu09.4.08 - 7:05 pm
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im not gonna say fuck ride arc. its just not my kind of ride. but if people like it than each is own right? dont hate on the this ride. we all ride bikes and have fun. okay thats all.
funanu09.4.08 - 7:07 pm
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And you've never bashed Midnight Ridazz...right?
PC09.4.08 - 7:08 pm
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@PC
me? have i ever bashed on MR? on people yes. but not on the rides. i go to them so why would i bash MR?
funanu09.4.08 - 7:10 pm
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^^^That was directed at user:prendrefeu^^^
...who, I will state again for the record, is a nice guy in person. But hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
PC09.4.08 - 7:10 pm
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I have enjoyed every ride-arc that I have been on... It's fun to see new places.
It's a good ride to have in the mix, and the controversy surrounding it is very entertaining!!
SMCM + Something Else ride for me though, I have Friday nights reserved for having a few beers and hitting up some other very new chill locations on the West side :)
jonnyboy09.4.08 - 7:20 pm
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barleye, you should come with us- when Lane hijacks the Something Else Ride, I'm going to hijack it X2 from him and take people to the amphitheater... It's going to be a lot of fun, and we will take some fuckin sick ass hills
jonnyboy09.4.08 - 7:27 pm
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diz ryde waz bashes 4 simples
teh proponents actively bashed SMCM
in teh SMCM thred
HENCE
RIDE ARC R fare gayme
Knittens09.4.08 - 7:31 pm
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kitteh almsot nevar bashes rydes utherwize
cept for teh FUNs
Knittens09.4.08 - 7:32 pm
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Yawn.
Stop arguing on the internetzz and just ride your bikes. Whichever ride you want to do.
Problem solved.
theroyalacademy09.4.08 - 7:36 pm
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@ PC:
Personally, I've *never* told anyone to
not go to a Midnight Ridazz ride, nor have I ever written that people should not go to a ride. I've expressed my opinion on some rides about how I prefer other rides, but that is my personal opinion and has never been declared as the opinion that someone else should take up without their own experience at play. There is a difference between outright bashing a ride, unprovoked, and simply not preferring certain rides. To each their own. The hypocrisy you claim doesn't exist.
prendrefeu09.4.08 - 7:40 pm
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theroyalacademy wrote:
Stop arguing on the internetzz
Yawn.
Don't like it, don't read it. Problem solved.
PC09.4.08 - 7:41 pm
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Hey, I don't care. I just think it is needless. You all are obviously never going to come to any sort of consensus. But, if you want to continue, be my guest.....
theroyalacademy09.4.08 - 7:45 pm
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You've had two days to put a tux on me in that picture, and you're here arguing about how people shouldn't argue about stuff that isn't the same stuff you want to argue about? Fucking fail, buddy. You and Photoshop have a hot date tonight. Get going.
PC09.4.08 - 7:47 pm
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Wait... "fair game?" Knittens is a ScientLOLogist!
nathansnider09.4.08 - 7:49 pm
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Besides porn, what the fuck else is the Internet for??
jonnyboy09.4.08 - 8:04 pm
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Okay, tough guy, this is the best I could do in a few minutes..... Satisfied?
theroyalacademy09.4.08 - 8:17 pm
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You chopped PC in half!!!!
:-(::::.....
User109.4.08 - 8:19 pm
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OH NOES
side of kart goes fru PCs chest
he will dye
waht u call diz phenomenonon in arch eye texter?
Knittens09.4.08 - 8:20 pm
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Oh, thanks a lot. I look like Angus Young being impaled by a shopping cart. With stupid gloves on.
PC09.4.08 - 8:28 pm
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back to tomatoes,that was the funniest shit ever. I have not talked to tomatoes sober ever. But you can ride out with me at an easy pace. Im in Korea town. In a crowd you're much safer because the cars know they have witnesses to attempted manslaughter. And if everybody in the ride goes too fast we could still hang out at roscoes( alex's favorite restaurant, though he says northewoods inn is, though he never saw the naked pictures of chicks. on the wall in the bar.) Tomatoes it's good to hear from you. The guy hosting the vma's is totally fronting on tomatoes's style. I hope you do come. To intellectuals on bikes or atleast the appreciation of black culture in LA cuz theres lot's of it. you know where to email blackwomansidekick@hotmail 323 683 2281
veronica09.4.08 - 8:29 pm
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Stitch him back together. He has to ride these weekend!
User109.4.08 - 8:30 pm
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i know this isnt the place but user 1 cremaster 4 is showing Nov 20 at lacma for free want to get a ride together. we should dress up.-v
veronica09.4.08 - 8:31 pm
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errr . . . Tomato is not Tomatoes.
(or if I knew HTML I could probably put that "not equal" sign in)
mr rollers09.4.08 - 8:33 pm
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Anybody riding from silverlake/bicycle district to this? Also, which Roscoe's are they planning to end at?
web77709.4.08 - 8:34 pm
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wait, what? There's nothing posted on lacma's calendar
User109.4.08 - 8:35 pm
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I'll be riding down from the Wilshire/Western area.
KITTORZ09.4.08 - 8:36 pm
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isnt there only two good ones long beach and hollywood and i dont think well end up in long beach or else we are going to have to sleep over user1's house.
veronica09.4.08 - 8:37 pm
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I can join in on the ride from a red line station, and the roscoe is about a mile away from the start.
User109.4.08 - 8:37 pm
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I'll say it here, anyone stuck in LB can crash here. That is as long as I know you! I've had lots of peeps offer their place, so it's only right.
User109.4.08 - 8:39 pm
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Then this one it is then!!
Besides, SMCM will have started ny the time I get back from Nogales, AZ.
Yep, 120 fuckin' miles away from Phoenix.
Tonight's going to be a long night.
bentstrider09.4.08 - 8:40 pm
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okay user 1 fuckit, al i dont call you user 1 it's weird. Do you have the fold out with the vanity fair it's brand new there are four free events on the inside. Cemaster 4 with the football field and the blimp and the woman eating grapes. Yeah folks it's a bit bizarre but im a genuine film freak.
veronica09.4.08 - 8:40 pm
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plus i apoligize to the tomato that is not tomatoes. so rollers is it like an alternate universe tomato were one drinks all the time and the other one is sober all the time
veronica09.4.08 - 8:43 pm
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ones female, ones male, but both have long hair.
bentstrider09.4.08 - 8:55 pm
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I'm game Veronica! You'll be on the Ride Arc ride, yes?
User109.4.08 - 8:55 pm
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@web777 and whoever
I too will be riding to the ride from Koreatown.
theroyalacademy09.4.08 - 8:56 pm
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Shall we have a meetup point at Wilshire and Western? Or Vermont and Wilshire? Or?
User109.4.08 - 8:59 pm
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Riding over from Echo Park, so yeah, let's meet up if we can.
Yeah, feel like I'm living in an alternate universe myself, like my job's been taken over by Cylons, or maybe a better analogy is those assholes from the Pegasus . . .
mr rollers09.4.08 - 10:00 pm
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hi veronica- not sure we've met. yup- i'm not tomatoes- but i love tomatoes too. he's great. both his dad and my dad are from argentina- it's like we're long lost brother and sister.
my roommate's name is veronica =)
hope to see you at ride arc
tomato09.4.08 - 11:04 pm
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hola, say I also coming from Sylverlake/echo park where ya all meeting up is wilshire and vermont or....
SONNY09.4.08 - 11:22 pm
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I really love Ride Arc. It's a sanctuary from the idiots. +1 tomatoes
Roadblock09.4.08 - 11:22 pm
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Wiishire and Vermont sounds good (easier for the Red line peeps) How about meet up at 9ish and leave around 9:15?
web77709.5.08 - 10:19 am
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I prefer Wilshire/Vermont too. I think we should plan a 9pm roll time encase of a flat. 9pm and roll a few minutes after?
User109.5.08 - 10:35 am
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All the beef above is irrelevant, folks should be discussing the most efficient route to get to Ride Arc from SMCM.
Anyway, Vermont and Wilshire sounds good. That's about 12 miles from Santa Monica, should be a fun hustle to get over there.
Goddamn first fridays are exciting.
jericho1ne09.5.08 - 11:23 am
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Scratch that, I guess I was looking at a previous Ride Arc - for Westsiders it's only about 10 miles... There's a huge parking lot at the San Vicente and Venice split, but you should really ride to the ride.
jericho1ne09.5.08 - 11:34 am
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Wilshire & Vermont @ 9pm it is!
See you there.
mr rollers09.5.08 - 11:43 am
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@ tomato
my father (and mother!) are also from argentina.
i know 2 more guys (that ride) that are from there as well.
deboRAWR09.5.08 - 12:46 pm
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That's pretty amazing, i have a life-size map of Argentina in my living room. (steven wright joke).
stevo409.5.08 - 12:47 pm
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that's where you get your looks from deb! you have the coolest eyes.
i know lucas is from there too. i think he now works at la brakeless but i don't go in there enough.
i'm excited for tonight
tomato09.5.08 - 1:19 pm
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