Mission Madness
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stillline at 06.30.08 - 3:14 am
We're planning a ride in SF on the 5ht of July, tentatively starting in the mission.
Hopefully we can get a good sized group of locals to join us. Theres already at least 5 people from L.A. making the trip so either way it will be a good ride.
If you can't make it but have friends in SF, let them knwo. All bikes and all riders welcome.
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Please someone give these people a ride. SF needs them. And you need SF. Make it happen. Make it shiny.
theroyalacademy06.30.08 - 1:09 pm
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Start time 8pm
Ride time 9pm
Starting point: The Bicycle Kitchen SF
1256 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 255-2453
stillline07.1.08 - 1:15 am
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Nobody wants to give MAMBB and Funanu a ride? C'mon people! The vegans in San Frisky need their banana penis!
theroyalacademy07.1.08 - 12:41 pm
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not going. i was fantasizing about having money and a place to live and then realized that i may have to sell my eggs to make some money.
meandmybluebike07.1.08 - 12:45 pm
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Funanu is not huge. lets try and squeeze him in the trunk in a bike basket.
stillline07.1.08 - 1:01 pm
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@matt
haha punk! its true though. I NEED A RIDE!!! hehe
funanu07.1.08 - 1:43 pm
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@stillline:
got your message on GOGA. i don't need a place to stay for this trip, i need a place to stay in LA.
selling eggs looks good. a friend in college did that and she got cancer a year or two later. i don't know if there was a correlation, but they were surely pumping her full of hormones.
meandmybluebike07.1.08 - 1:48 pm
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@meandmybluebike
Gross and stuff. cancer is bad.
stillline07.1.08 - 1:52 pm
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eggyweggs for breakfast in San Francisco!!!
use protection when you sleep with those dirty messengers!
meandmybluebike07.1.08 - 2:00 pm
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oh! when you guys decide to have breakfast, go to:
"IT'S TOPS!"
1801 Market St
they're open super late and have awesome pancakes and a great atmosphere!
meandmybluebike07.1.08 - 2:02 pm
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Call or email me if you are looking for a ride.
matthew DOT simmons AT gmail DOT com
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If anyone has a bike rack we can use then the car will fit 4 people instead of 2. Funanu will be the third.
stillline07.1.08 - 2:24 pm
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Matt, I sent you an email. If seat number four exists and is still open, I'll take it (for the trip up, anyway).
If Annie can go, she obviously gets priority, for being awesome.
nathansnider07.1.08 - 3:20 pm
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@matt
hey i have a bike rack that fits 4 bikes!
funanu07.1.08 - 4:12 pm
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Yay! Gas split four ways = happy wallet. (Or at least less sad wallet than gas split two ways.)
theroyalacademy07.1.08 - 5:43 pm
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AWESOME!
So its gonna be The Royal Academy, Funanu, Myself and Nathan.
No farting in the car. NONE!
stillline07.2.08 - 1:33 am
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So i been talking to the guys on La fixed to see if they know of anyone that might want to ride with us on Saturday. I learned a few interesting things.
1. The mission in not a good place to have a ride on staurday night. (thanks superfish) .
2. Luckily i was wrong about the location The bike kitchen is in fact on mission st at the address in the ride posting, however thats not the mission... It's the Soma district. That means we should maybe change the name of the ride and also now we have to bring Handbone.
3. Some of those guys think MR is dumb and messengers are gods gift to the world.
4. Theres also a cool 3-day messenger event going on that weekend in SF called quake city rumble. If we find out where they are gonna be saturday night we could have the ride meet up with them at some point. hopefully they will accept our love if not.... on to the next adventure.
stillline07.2.08 - 4:00 am
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1. From what I've been told by multiple people, SF in general is not really a good place for a ride, since it is all tracks and hills. But I'm down for whatever.
2. Hm. Yeah, this also changes what I was working on for a flyer and spoke card. What were you thinking as far as a new name?
3. LA Fixed, this is a support group for people who have been neutered, right? (Joke, guys, just a joke!)
4. Sounds cool. From what little info found online, it seems to be a race, not a ride though. But it could be fun to check it out. Weird though that there isn't a webpage for it and no blog seems to say anything about where it is. Maybe they are more concerned in SF about tipping off the law than we are?
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 9:35 am
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Also, I notice that the SF Bike Kitchen is having a BBQ on the 4th from 4-9pm. We should try to hit that up.
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 9:56 am
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Rumble Saturday time/place:
Sat., Jul. 5 | 12pm-5pm |
Alamo Square Start
(Sorry for the many posts. I should have searched, collected, and then combined all the info. But I didn't. Oh, well.)
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 10:01 am
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The rumble thing sounds fun, but during daylight hours I'll mostly be hanging with the family. Also, LAfixed is kind of hilarious sometimes...
nathansnider07.2.08 - 10:16 am
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We should go to that BBQ for sure just to talk to some locals about a route and pass out the flyer.
stillline07.2.08 - 10:27 am
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LAfixed is funny. I hear folks talking about how the board breaks fairly frequently.
Also, MR.com is impossible to "figure out." And even harder to use.
I may be able to offer a ride up to the Bay Area, but not a ride back. Does this help anyone?
Also, by Bay Area I mean Santa Cruz. My brother said it's a 75 mile ride from SC to SF. There is also a bus if you're not feelin your oats. (that's 75 miles on the coastal hwy 1)
Matt, can you call me so I have your number. 6Z6 688 7 I I 3
Eric Hair07.2.08 - 11:31 am
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Seriously, though, we need a new name for this ride. C'mon clever people, here's your chance.......
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 11:59 am
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Its in SOMA... letes call it the Handbone ride.
stillline07.2.08 - 12:02 pm
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I'm down with that.
Can someone (RB?) send me the MR skeleton hand graphic for a flyer/spoke card? Thanks!
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 12:06 pm
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I was sort of kidding. But that would be funny. More suggesstions? We can't just take the first one.
stillline07.2.08 - 12:09 pm
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Is that shirt meant for women and guys with bitch tits? Cause those hands look a little frisky.
stillline07.2.08 - 12:11 pm
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First thought, best thought. Let's just fucking go with it. I think it's pretty funny to go up there with a ride that is totally an L.A. inside joke.
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 12:12 pm
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Allright then. The Handbone ride it is. Can we get a dog bone between those hands? Is that too vulgar?
stillline07.2.08 - 12:15 pm
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I think Royal Accademy is doing a handzz across CA thing......not grab my tits/bitch tits/chest hair etc.
Eric Hair07.2.08 - 12:29 pm
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ONE HAND AND A SHARROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eric Hair07.2.08 - 12:34 pm
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I likes this idea.
+ skull in palm.
So done.
I can haz hand grafix now?
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 12:38 pm
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It took me way too long to figure out what the hell a sharrow was. I want that 20min of my life back.
Sean, whatever you do will be cool. I saw your website the other night and you have some really nice work.
stillline07.2.08 - 12:39 pm
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Thanks man. For this stuff, I am thinking something super simple and stark. Just hope I can get it all together before it is time to depart. I've never made spoke cards before. (How many do you think I should make?)
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 12:48 pm
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i have NO IDEA how many people will show up. Looks like 10 at the very least. Maybe 50 or 60 if we are lucky. Do you have a laminator?
stillline07.2.08 - 12:57 pm
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No laminator here. I was just going to go to a place. Staples? Office Depot? Some place like that. (NOT KINKO'S!)
Anyone got a free/cheap lamination (or, for that matter, color laser printer) hook up that I could use sometime between now and, like, 9 tonight?
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 1:02 pm
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I was hoping for noon. Any later and we could get stuck in traffic getting out of LA.
Also, who can ride here with their bags, and who needs to be picked up at their place?
stillline07.2.08 - 1:23 pm
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wait when are we leaving?
funanu07.2.08 - 1:35 pm
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Miguel, I was hoping ot leave at 12pm. not a problemif you guys wanna leave a little earlier or a little later.
I live in downtown LA.
18th and main.
stillline07.2.08 - 1:40 pm
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Tomorrow. Thursday.
I was actually hoping we could make a slightly earlier start. Like maybe depart LA around 11am. Which might mean meeting at 10-10:30.
I could probably get to your place on bike/Metro without any problem. But being picked up would definitely be easier for me (though not for you, so.....).
I'll give you a call.
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 2:16 pm
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i will be up in san jose this weekend. if i can't make it up to the city for the ride i might be able to go scouting instead. keep us posted.
tfunk40807.2.08 - 2:24 pm
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Just talked to Matt (Stillline) on the phone. I am going to meet him at his place (tomorrow) around 10 or so. We hope to make it out of L.A. by 11.
Funanu and Nathan, are you guys still in? Do you need to be picked up? If so, from where?
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 2:48 pm
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I'm in, and I can ride downtown. My number is (eight won ate) seven fore four - sicks nine oh one, in case anyone needs to call to coordinate anything.
nathansnider07.2.08 - 3:04 pm
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i dont think ima be able to go. but you can still borrow the bike rack. just dont lose it!!!
funanu07.2.08 - 3:07 pm
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That's too bad, Funanu. But thanks for the rack! Where are you and when is a good time to pick it up? We'll be careful with it for sure.
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 3:10 pm
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matt is coming by to pick it up later today.
funanu07.2.08 - 3:38 pm
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Just lost two hours of my life in the vortex that is the Staples print center, but at least the spoke cards look DOPE. Now I just gotta finish the flyer. And eat dinner. Damn, I guess there is no Mosey for me tonight.
theroyalacademy07.2.08 - 9:16 pm
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Sean, You rock. Thanks for all your help.
stillline07.2.08 - 9:25 pm
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I hope you gais get a turn out. Have you promoted it anywhere?
What about the person who started the Frisco thread?
Joe Borfo07.2.08 - 9:54 pm
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I emailed the Sean from the old frisco thread (later.means.never), so if he didn't know before, he knows now.
Also, my brother just moved to SF (as in literally just pulled into town 4 hours ago), and I told him to have his bike ready.
So our local contingent is growing. We might be inadvertently starting Crank Mob SF after all...
nathansnider07.2.08 - 10:24 pm
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Also, were there any other LA peeps interested in going in the car tomorrow? Did Handbone actually want to go?
nathansnider07.2.08 - 10:32 pm
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Okay, I've got flyers for handing out to people, flyers for us to photocopy and then post, and then also a flyer for the screen.....
theroyalacademy07.3.08 - 12:52 am
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...oh, and with apologies to Digable Soul, for jacking your picture for the background.
theroyalacademy07.3.08 - 2:29 am
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Nice! We can start handing these out when we get into town tommorow evening. Anyone on a bike gets a flyer.
Someone from LA Fixed posted the ride info on SF Fixed. I can't seem to get an account approved on that site.
stillline07.3.08 - 3:19 am
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Dudes, I'm super excited.
This is gonna be rad.
I'm bussing it. I'll let you know how that goes, by the way, for future trips.) I'll hit town around 7. My sister's gonna meet me at Powell Street station on her bike, she's gonna grab one of my backpacks, and then we roll.
Do you have plans for food? Maybe we could all meet up and eat in the city.
Katie
503-702-1409 <-- for callings.
katiepoche07.3.08 - 8:57 am
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O hay, this same biker sister of mine is having people over for food and things on Friday (4th). If you guys wanna head out to Oakland and enjoy her delicious food, you are invited. Call that number I just posted, and I'll tell you where to go. It's very BARTable.
katiepoche07.3.08 - 8:59 am
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I personally have dinner plans with friends in town tonight, but maybe others are available.........?
I think Matt and I are going to the Bike Kitchen BBQ tomorrow, but it would be cool to meet up with you and your sis afterwards. We're staying in Oakland ourselves I guess.
We'll call. We'll talk. We'll MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Excited!
theroyalacademy07.3.08 - 9:08 am
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I handed out some flyers tonight and met an old messenger who has a radio show. He says you can hear it over the air Silverlake, Berlin and SF. Supposed to be on 87.9 in Los angeles. He said he would announce our ride on the radio :)
stillline07.4.08 - 4:17 am
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@katie
I would be down to meet up in the city tommorow. what time is the BBQ in oakland? we are going to stop by the bbq at the bike kitchen tommorow as well.... so maybe after that.
stillline07.4.08 - 4:23 am
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Just heard from Regular Mike. he's gonna ride with us on saturday WIN!
stillline07.4.08 - 11:35 am
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We'll be riding around the city all day today if anyone wants to cruise.
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stillline07.4.08 - 11:36 am
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not gonna be able to go scout with yall today but i'm looking forward to the ride tomorrow!
tfunk40807.4.08 - 12:35 pm
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@tfunk
awesome man, see you there. We went to the BBQ at the bike kitchen sf today. Some of those cats are gonna join us too.
stillline07.4.08 - 9:37 pm
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14 people showed up almost all L.A. transplants, We rode the wiggle to golden gate park and then around lake merced. Two Flates not many beers and low temps. The mission is not as bad to ride as they said it was. One 7-11 stop not anywhere near crank mob styley but none the less.
stillline07.6.08 - 2:23 am
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great ride fellas! thanks for organizing, scouting, spoke cards, etc. hope y'all had fun at zeitgeist (sp?). it was an awesome ride, with the freeze, the fog, the hills, the flats, and the tracks. i'm glad i was on my mtb and not my fixie. can someone post the route map here? see y'all later!
tfunk40807.6.08 - 1:30 pm
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Here's the route:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2055668http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2055668.
I have it stopping at Zeitgeist, since that is essentially where the ride ended (though some of us did pass by the Kitchen again eventually). Just under 20 miles (which is more than I thought it was) and only slightly more than 300 ft. at its highest (which was less than I would've thought possible in such a freakin' hilly city). Overall, a pretty good route. Though I was feeling a little bad when we were at that one stop and the police rolled up and basically said, "Uh, do you guys realize where you are?" Not that I was scared, I just didn't want to be responsible, if anything happened. But all turned out A-OK.
Pix soon............
theroyalacademy07.7.08 - 10:20 am
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oh i didn't know those peeps in that car were police? were they on an undercover tip or something? but damn, my friend was right, we pretty much ended up in daly city at that point. that was a fun 20 miles though.
tfunk40807.7.08 - 12:10 pm
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Glad to hear it was a success. I was up here in the Bay Area, but couldn't get up that way on Saturday.
If anyone's still up here, I'm in Santa Cruz for the week just actin' the fool. Ridin' the coast, flossin the trails, hangin out with the bike people of SC. For a good time call Mr. Eric @ 626 6BB 7I I 3
Eric Hair07.7.08 - 12:19 pm
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Yeah, the car was unmarked and they were in plain clothes, but they all had big badges hanging around their necks.
Guess we found the part of San Francisco where people ARE confused to see people on bikes.
theroyalacademy07.7.08 - 12:19 pm
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I'll post the videosoon too. The ride was seriouzly fun. San Francisco is a great city to ride.... full of adrenaline laced downhills (with tracks aplenty) and leg testing climbs. The city is so small you could ride all the way around it in less than a day.
stillline07.7.08 - 12:30 pm
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Posted pics from ride..... Will post the ones from our various other SF shenanigans later.
Still sorta pissed at myself for not taking a photo of Matt and my random, unplanned meet up with E-Rock at an In-N-Out along the 5 on the way home.
theroyalacademy07.7.08 - 2:42 pm
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nice pics, i guess there really were bison after all!
tfunk40807.7.08 - 3:24 pm
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Too bad i wasn't on the net enough to find out about this, would have been great to have met up with you all in the city...
tho.. it was pretty hilarious to see Ridazz out in the boonies of Kettlemen City, on a Sunday! (Aren't you all supposed to be hungover....)
e-rock07.7.08 - 4:11 pm
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oh snap i stopped at kettleman in-n-out too sunday night on the drive back. hella crickets everywhere.
tfunk40807.7.08 - 5:05 pm
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I just want to give another big thanks to Matt (Stillline) for making the SF thing happen this past weekend. Plus he's repping MR up on the TV? Don't know about Rida of THE Week, but he is certainly the rida that made MY week. Danke! Danke!
If you guys want to see what bikes and cars coexisting on the road looks like, ride around in SF sometime. Mucho bikes lanes and sharrows and real bike routes (with numbers and everything). It ain't perfect, but it is WAY ahead of LA. And for a city that is all hills and tracks, that is really saying something.
theroyalacademy07.8.08 - 11:26 am
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Nice pics sean. I like the ones from the quake city BBQ.. nice work.
stillline07.8.08 - 10:22 pm
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Nice Job, Gaise!
Too bad you didn't get any locals to ride with you. That's how all of this got started, I think.
Joe Borfo07.8.08 - 10:26 pm
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Nathan, I have your tape adapter. Let me know when I can get it back to you........ Are you doing the Dead ride on Friday?
theroyalacademy07.9.08 - 10:50 am
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Sean, yeah, I'm planning on going to the Dead ride. Great photos from the weekend, by the way. It was a great weekend all around. Thanks to everyone who was there making it happen!
nathansnider07.9.08 - 7:17 pm
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Annie has precious eggys.
wait more like this.
yeah, meandmypreciouseggyweggs!
This is his dad.