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a red headed dude on a fixie at the corner of constellation and ave of the stars - i see him everyday but never on a MR ride...i need to hand him a flyer...
The new 20 is nice. Spent the last 4 days helping out and the guys spent the last month trying to set it up. A lot of changes planned, so check it out.
At least that's better than the guy I saw who looked like he had picked up all kinds of different hair from the floor of a barbershop and glued it all to his head. It was so creepy looking.
that's funny you should mention that cuz I was just thinking about that episode of Seinfeld when George gets a toupee and Jerry tells him he looks ridiculous and Elaine ends up throwing at the window. hahahahahaaa classic
Which reminds me yesterday I saw a girl on the train that had a rolled up piece of paper in her hand that had the Seinfeld logo on top and I really really really wanted to ask her what it was but I didn't.
I saw an orb spider maybe half the size of my fist hanging from a tree tonight, the fact that mikeywally and I managed walk past it side by side, and not get a face full of gigantic spider was some relief.
A couple days ago I saw a dude in an Infiniti in Glendale order 96 dollars worth of Del Taco at their drive thru. He seriously took about 5 minutes to order all of it.
i saw a girl riding fixed down santa monica weaving through traffic. needless to say i caught up and she told me she works at orange 20 and i should come by.
That's a crapload of food, but still only a tiny fraction of what this guy ordered. I'm not sure if he was buying Del Taco for everyone chilling out back at The Arbat, but he seriously ordering 96 dollars worth of food. 10 soft tacos, 20 steak tacos, 6 large fries, 6 bacon double Dels, 6 spicy chicken quesadillas, the list went on and on.
I almost backed out of the drive through, but by the time he was done ordering, the line was like 6 cars long, going out into the street. Everyone was like "WTF MAN?!"
I just ran some errands here in Burbank and I saw a professional dog walker who, amongst her many dogs, had a dachshund with rear wheels for his legs. He looked well balanced and happy.
I saw a chicken just walking around in the bushes near the Rose Bowl. I'd just rode 30 miles and was thinking about having it for breakfast, but forgot my crossbow.
Last night near the Birds Cafe I saw David Carradine talking to what looked like a homeless guy but wasn't and as I was passing right by him I heard him say " God talks to drunks".
I saw an SUV with "NO-bama" written with that glass chalk stuff on the back window. I subsequently almost crashed into the back of the car in front of him as I yelled "vote Obama!" into his window.
Last night I saw my friend piss into a broken skylight to a half pipe in the warehouse party below. I can't wait for you guys to see NY and Skidmarxxx!
I saw a homeless woman get her back of cans stuck in the door of a metro. she started screaming as the bus rolled away. she had enough hairs on her chin to be considered a beard. Below, she's picking up all her crap after getting off the bus.
I saw this guy in a nice suv putting his groceries in his car but the f'n car was filled with trash...newspapers, clothes, just basic packrat stuff. he may live in his car though...oh well.
i saw a guy in dtla riding an orange fixie.. i caught up and made a new friend he lives above lost souls and has access to a sick rooftop smoke spot.. ha.
This happened yesterday, but while going southbound on the 15 through the Cajon Pass, I spotted a couple of touring-cyclists cranking their way up the northbound 15 back towards Victorville.
I so wanted to pull over, run across the median, and induct them.
Tons of weird shit today. Only in Torrance I guess.
1. The oversized truck blocked the entire right lane. The truck looked like a miniturized version of the large hedron collider on Carson St. Have pics, will find a way to post it on twitterpic.
2. The Torrance High School band practicing along Arlington Ave before playing a band on a football game. I guess.
3. Halloween Decorations along all of Arlington to 238th streets. I guess I found a new night ride path in Torrance from work now.
AT COURT THIS MORNING, I TALKED TO A HIPSTER BECAUSE I SAW HIM SHOW UP ON A NURTURED BIKE, HE WAS CHARGED WITH DRIVING A CAR WITH OUT A LICENSE, AND I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD THAT ONE OF THOSE 'SAWED' OFF LITTLE SHIT ASS SHERIFF TOLD ME TO 'BE QUITE' WHICH ONLY MADE ME LAUGH HARDER.
Naked woman walking down Magnolia Blvd. @ Lankershim. Just now. Going east. Actually, she did have on silver boots. Yes, for reals. Almost got a picture. Sorry.
while walking home from work today, i saw a white single speed conversion, with orignal chain rings and freewheel, on 2nd and broadway. the bike was u-locked to a bike rack, via its rear wheel only. i wonder if i'll see a rear wheel u-locked to that rack tomorrow.
I saw 4 squirrels taunting a cat from each corner of a square lawn. The cat was spinning in circles in the middle trying to figure out which squirrel was the slowest. It was funnier than hell.
I saw a guy in a car give me the bird for riding down side streets without holding my handlebars. Then I saw a cop give me a look for riding without my handlebars.
Oh and I forgot to mention that down the street from "Kool-aid fountain" (Los Feliz fountain) on Riverside is a new taco truck in the midst of a bunch of shady people. In an old gas station. Christmas lights.
So having left Taco Tuesdays at 1st & Main, we biked back on Venice, and shortly past Hoover, a car pulled over a block in front of us and held out a black plastic bag. As we slowed down to a crawl, he walked with us, saying,
"Hey! I want you guys to have this!"
"Really?" I said.
"Yeah! Give these to your friends for Christmas!"
I took the bag, and said, "Thank you!"
As we biked on, we opened the bag to reveal XL & XXL copies of a polyester collared shirt covered with full-color Pam Anderson bikini photos. (see attached)
You'll be seeing us wearing them on a future ride, 'natch.
I don't care if it's stinky, I just don't wanna have to swerve into the fucking cars on my left. PUT YOUR TRASH INSIDE!!!!
Okay,
-end anger-
New story.
So about an hour ago (before the trash can incidents on my way home), Alfredo and I were sitting in Little Tokyo calmly, enjoying our nice cold cans of soda when a group of riders pass by... we're like "hey..." then we figure HEY IT'S THE MOSEY. Now, let me mention, these guys were flying. Anyway, we decide we wanna catch up, so we hop on our bikes at lightning speed and go crazy fast. We get up to the top of Echo Park on Glendale, where Sunset connects with that slope, and we figure, damn, they're definitely gone by now. But no! They're on Sunset at the light! I see blinkies! At this point we got cut off by a car when we ALMOST had them, but they were FLYING. Now, this was either a really special super fast mosey or it was ROOT RUN, running the streets of Echo Park. Hmm.....
HaHa! That was the Forge and Gorge. K-Town was really booking tonight. The Mosey we were not. I wish we'd seen you guys. That would have been cool.
And since this is the "What I saw" thread, on the Forge and Gorge, after we regrouped in Echo Park, we went through Hollywood and saw three fires in two blocks. The first one was at Melrose/La Brea, where there was a fire truck with its ladder reaching across the street, blocking our path. As we went through the alleyway to get around it, we could smell the nasty charred remains of whatever boutique shop used to be there. Then as we cut up La Brea on the next block, there was a black VW Beetle (the "new" kind), surrounded by cop cars and covered in fire retardant foam. And then on the next block as we looked left, there was another group of fire trucks with their hoses out.
This was friday ...
But I saw a double decker bus buzz me while I was in the bike lane in echo park. The driver had the nerve to yell "MOVE" as she blew past me. Then she flipped me off when I replied to her unwelcome advice with a hearty FUCK YOU!
Then I saw my self actin' like a damn fool, hammering for almost two miles to catch up to that bus driver and "re-educate" her very enthusiastically and at a very high volume level.
The upside is that i made it on time to my appointment cause I was chasing that stupid busdriver.
oh that must have been shues
i kinda like them barz
Candy Cane
11.30.08 - 10:38 pm
Shues? does he have ridiculously huge gauged ears that I can only imagine smell like the worst shit I've ever taken in my life?
I can see how the bars would come in handy riding through downtown, but I mean 2 inches really? For some reason it gave me the impression he had a small penis. Why? I do not know.
Caught a glimpse of a cute fixie rider with spoke cards blow through Ocean Park and Lincoln while I was riding my full suspension bike on the sidewalk on the way to the laundromat. How embarrassing!
""""Shues? does he have ridiculously huge gauged ears that I can only imagine smell like the worst shit I've ever taken in my life?
I can see how the bars would come in handy riding through downtown, but I mean 2 inches really? For some reason it gave me the impression he had a small penis. Why? I do not know.""""
my lungs nearly collapsed from laughing at this.
you bitch, it hurts.
it doesnt take much force to set one of those off....
they're set to go off at any collision more than 5 mph on most cars. The scene in fight club where they hit cars with bats and make em pop, that wasn't any sort of special effect. In fact the vw beetle was not even supposed to be part of the shot, turns out both actors hated the car so much that as there was one on the lot and they lobbied the director so much, they put it in the scene.
...but it would be hilarious (in a schadenfreude way) if there were some way to trigger the air bags. I'm pretty sure it's much harder than just whacking the front of the car. Probably an accelerometer triggers it when the car slows down too rapidly.
nope, they're triggered by impact as well. they're set to go off if something hits the car if it's standing still. Hitting it ON a sensor is one of the biggest things, with a heavy enough object, such as whatever she has in that bag, takes only a moderate amount of force, hit a parked car at or very close to a sensor with an object traveling say, 25-30 mph (a pretty slow swing, most people can swing a bat near 60-80 mph) and you will probably set it off, it depends on the sensitivity of the sensors and how accurate you are though. There is a pretty good chance of there being a sensor on either corner of the bumper and the dead center, there may be more.
a bit about em:
Airbags are designed to deploy in frontal and near-frontal collisions more severe than a threshold defined by the regulations governing vehicle construction in whatever particular market the vehicle is intended for. U.S. regulations require deployment in crashes at least equivalent in deceleration to a 23 km/h (14 mph) barrier collision, or similarly, striking a parked car of similar size across the full front of each vehicle at about twice the speed. International ECE regulations are performance-based, rather than technology-based, so airbag deployment threshold is a function of overall vehicle design.
Unlike crash tests into barriers, real-world crashes typically occur at angles, and the crash forces usually are not evenly distributed across the front of the vehicle. Consequently, the relative speed between a striking and struck vehicle required to deploy the airbag in a real-world crash can be much higher than an equivalent barrier crash. Because airbag sensors measure deceleration, vehicle speed and damage are not good indicators of whether an airbag should have deployed. Airbags can deploy due to the vehicle's undercarriage striking a low object protruding above the roadway due to the resulting deceleration.
The airbag sensor is a MEMS accelerometer, which is a small integrated circuit with integrated micro mechanical elements. The microscopic mechanical element moves in response to rapid deceleration, and this motion causes a change in capacitance, which is detected by the electronics on the chip that then sends a signal to fire the airbag. The most common MEMS accelerometer in use is the ADXL-50 by Analog Devices, but there are other MEMS manufacturers as well.
Initial attempts using mercury switches did not work well. Before MEMS, the primary system used to deploy airbags was called a "rolamite". A rolamite is a mechanical device, consisting of a roller suspended within a tensioned band. As a result of the particular geometry and material properties used, the roller is free to translate with little friction or hysteresis. This device was developed at Sandia National Laboratories. The rolamite, and similar macro-mechanical devices were used in airbags until the mid-1990s when they were universally replaced with MEMS.
Nearly all airbags are designed to automatically deploy in the event of a vehicle fire when temperatures reach 150-200 °C (300-400 °F).[citation needed] This safety feature, often termed auto-ignition, helps to ensure that such temperatures do not cause an explosion of the entire airbag module.
Today, airbag triggering algorithms are becoming much more complex. They try to reduce unnecessary deployments (for example, at low speed, no shocks should trigger the airbag, to help reduce damage to the car interior in conditions where the seat belt would be an adequate safety device), and to adapt the deployment speed to the crash conditions. The algorithms are considered valuable intellectual property. Experimental algorithms may take into account such factors as the weight of the occupant, the seat location, seatbelt use, and even attempt to determine if a baby seat is present.
The article seems to be saying that you're right, but only if her purse weighed as much as a car. The sensor is an accelerometer, so it's the movement of the entire car that matters. If car A is parked and car B plows into it at 25 mph, car A is of course going to accelerate. It's the acceleration that would cause the air bag to deploy, not an external sensor being struck.
not really, as e=mc^2, an object moving faster has more force, so an object weighing less than a car impact would, when moving faster would set it off.
I saw an airbag set off once as part of a demonstration about them, this was like 1997 or so. to set it off they hit the sensor with a hammer.
The primary sensor is for impact. followed by acceleration. Initially airbags were JUST impact.
remember, hitting a fixed object will transmit an accelerating shock, pretty much the same as an object decelerating pretty fast, and the sensors, being as tiny as they are don't need to move too hard to think they're being part of an auto impact.
They measure a speed change, and when they are moving with a car at the same speed (as they are attached) an object hitting them is the same sort of deceleration they would incur in a collision event.Therefor, an object hitting them seems, to the analog sensor to be the car rapidly decelerating, as they feel they are at 0 when they are moving with the car. In other words, the object being collided with would incur the same amount of accelerating force as the amount of decelerating force applied to the moving object. this does not mean ALL of the force of the moving object is transferred, just that the same amount is transferred (think of what happens if you slam your front brake, your momentum is killed by the wheel stopping, to some extent, and is then applied to another direction as the stopped wheel can only take so much force, a crashing car may ricochet as the fixed object can only absorb so much of the moving object's force before the force transfers in a different, easier, direction becoming a lateral force and sending the object a different direction).
Oh, and I'm not saying the video clip itself is real, the way it was filmed really feels produced to me, all I am saying is that it's possible to hit the bumper of a car with an object and set off the airbag.
"not really, as e=mc^2, an object moving faster has more force"
Fuzz, I know you were an Art major, but the equation I think you mean here is F=MA, which is force equals mass times acceleration, which most people think of as "momentum" (not to be confused with inertia).
It's a whole 'nother discussion, but e=mc^2 is the equation that basically states that matter and energy are the same.
A procession of at least fifty motorcycle cops going north on Figueroa, cruising through red lights at will with the help of some pretty skilled corking.
A straight up bumper-to-bumper traffic jam from Echo Park all the way to downtown, along Glendale Blvd and continuing along 2nd St at about 6:30 PM.
i saw a bunch of drunk santa clauses on bikes in hollywood on saturday, weird, i asked if they were a cult and i followed them and wound up really drunk on the red line, some crazy cult that was.
I saw a huge concert/party/shin-dig going down 2 blocks from my crib. There was a huge tent and all these people right there in the middle of 8th street. Random.
As I was driving to work (thought about riding, but couldn't face the cold this early) saw an old dude on a bike ahead of me; he came to a four way stop, paused slightly then rolled through (the way we all do). As he was rolling through, an older dude in a Prius BLOWS through the stop sign to his right and almost hits him!
It was very reminiscent of my own accident earlier this year (right down to the make of car) and I think it made my heart beat faster than if it had been me on the bike. At least the guy in the car this morning realized what he almost did - I saw him put his hand to his head.
^^^yikes, that happened to me too a few months ago but it was a PT Cruiser.
So I spent this weekend downtown Toronto... and I'd be freezing my ass off waiting for a street-car, and I saw SO MANY RIDERS just slowly riding through the snow and slush in -15 degree weather. There was slow and slush all built up in their cassettes and stuff, but they just kept on going through, slow and steady. Seriously BAD ASS.
I also saw countless bikes along the streets locked up and covered in snow.
I saw a bunch of great blue herons. I saw a raccoon hanging out in a dead palm tree--in what was once a woodpecker house. I saw a manatee cresting the surface of the banana river. I saw that the brake hood cover on my rear brake lever has just started to wear all the way through.
I was unfortunately but necessarily in my car west bound on beverly between normandie and western and then i saw what i thought was B-RAD. after trailing him 5 car lengths behind for a bit we all came to a red at western. I give him a call just to make sure it's him (before catching up to him and pullling alongside him and i yell at him jokingly: GET A CAR YOU FUCKING HIPPIE!). So he picks up and i watch him pick up. then he asked me for a ride to sweetzer and 3rd coz he was a wee bit late to work. I was on my way to century city to pick up court filings for sta. monica and burbank so i had to be in my car for those 3 runs. I love seeing ridazz on my bike i enjoy seeing them in my car too but I feel pathetic when seen or noticed in a car by one of you guys. I guess it's because i much rather be riding with you or just like you are on that day instead of driving my car.
riding home from work I stopped at a redlight and saw a fellow biker at the cross walk, we both nodded to each other and he asked how i was doing, and then proceeded to get on the most EPIC moped i have ever seen and crooz off into the sunset.
He looked back at me when I was looking at him ride away with a smile on my face and he waved.
I saw a girl on a white roadie heading west on culver blvd.in front of trader joes while I was arriving at the same place last friday. She was wearing my awesome helmet.
a couple weeks ago I saw 4 dudes getting hauled off in the back of a cop car and about 4 other police cars a few blocks down from my place on my way to school, around 9 in the morning.
On my way to Westchester today, I was riding down Washington. At the light just before La Cienega, I see a little commotion in a ally... People were hooting and hollering... So I went down the ally to catch a gander and saw what looked like a Gardner's Fight Club... Two fights happening at the same time. What made me laugh and note this was witnessing the exchange of money while the fight was happening... As I was riding away, I thought to myself... "Glad they were not Cock Fighting!"...
I SAW a guy on a mountain bike sitting on his handlebars and pedaling backwards around the intersection of Olympic/Alvarado. He was carrying a black plastic bag in his hand, smoking a cigarette and "directing traffic" when the light changed. He would just ride backwards in the crosswalk and do this sweeping "come here" motion with his non-bag-holding hand, as if he were the Pied Piper and the cars were supposed to be following him.
I gave him a thumbs up, but he seemed to be pretty single-minded in in his task to get traffic moving, so I doubt he noticed. Godspeed to you, Pied Biker of Pico/Union.
I saw this shirtless guy walk into a coffee shop, empty a bag of Doritos on the floor and proceed to eat them while saying "for God, for God, it's all for God." Then he picked up the crumbs and walked around to each table offering them to the customers, all while saying "for God, for God..."
After that, there was some stuff breaking, a security guard getting punched and other commotion. But throughout it all, he kept repeating "for God, for God, I would die for God."
1.On my way home from work today I saw a 14K gold ring on the floor which of course I picked up Hehe...
2.I saw two ladies that sell tamales fighting on the corner of 8th and Alvarado...
I just saw this total DOUCHE BAG fucken throw a half eaten bag of idk what out of his car onto the road. I yelled to him that he dropped something and that piece of shit told ME to pick it up.
I am now kicking myself for not having picked up that man's trash and thrown it back into his car. what a fucken piece of shit. throwing not just trash, but FOOD out of his window like LA is his own personal fucken garbage can. ugh
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I saw an orb spider maybe half the size of my fist hanging from a tree tonight, the fact that mikeywally and I managed walk past it side by side, and not get a face full of gigantic spider was some relief.
I saw an actual Jack Stephan truck!!! some of you may be too young to understand the significance of it. 
I saw a giant yellow bear wearing a diaper sunning himself in the cool water of the L.A. River
I saw a homeless woman get her back of cans stuck in the door of a metro. she started screaming as the bus rolled away. she had enough hairs on her chin to be considered a beard. Below, she's picking up all her crap after getting off the bus.
I saw about 100 Mongols riding their choppers down Venice Blvd. today. 
I saw this guy in a nice suv putting his groceries in his car but the f'n car was filled with trash...newspapers, clothes, just basic packrat stuff. he may live in his car though...oh well. 
Today I saw the nastiest leg in westwood. looks like you can scrape scab for years with a cheese grater. anyone hungry?
It's Halloween....are they dressing up or are they for real? I couldn't tell. 
It wasn't The Todd, was it?
So having left Taco Tuesdays at 1st & Main, we biked back on Venice, and shortly past Hoover, a car pulled over a block in front of us and held out a black plastic bag. As we slowed down to a crawl, he walked with us, saying,
THEY BE FLAMING.
"WTF Hollywood? Why are you so burn-y?"
I saw a cruiser locked up with a kryptonite lock.....to the basket only.
What did i see today? I saw a new pair of converse covered with pasta sauce in the street. 
pink chemtrailz
not really
Today I saw a homeless asian man in Westwood. Asians are very rarely homeless in Los Angeles.
a man in DTLA with longggg fingernails.
a plumbers crack outside ReForm School in Silverlake.
a girl riding her bike with her dog in the bike lane. 
I saw a manequin with HUGE mammajammas
girl on girl action next door before i came to work! so Hott, and with tounge rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....
I saw a girl on a white roadie heading west on culver blvd.in front of trader joes while I was arriving at the same place last friday. She was wearing my awesome helmet. 
On my way to Westchester today, I was riding down Washington. At the light just before La Cienega, I see a little commotion in a ally... People were hooting and hollering... So I went down the ally to catch a gander and saw what looked like a Gardner's Fight Club... Two fights happening at the same time. What made me laugh and note this was witnessing the exchange of money while the fight was happening... As I was riding away, I thought to myself... "Glad they were not Cock Fighting!"...
you remember that guy, from the muppet show, that played saxomophone in the band? yup. I found him.