Thread started by dave at 08.12.06 - 3:07 pm

This whole midnight ridazz thing reminds me of start ups during the dot com era.

It was fun when they started but after the business gets some serious customers, most start ups principles get some "professional" help to run the day-to-day logistics and either stay on as an advisory board of directors or go off and start up another shop somewhere else.

Trying to make the ride smaller is a pipe dream at this point. And may not be a good idea anyway since this ride brings together many more people and puts them on a bike than any other ride I know of.

More people on bikes is a good thing.

If the rides not fun, people won't come and ride their bikes. If the rides not fun anymore for the organizers, maybe they should step aside and let someone else continue? Don't kill the ride. And don't continue to whine about "the good ol' days".

Don't fuck with the format, deal with it. Embrace change or get out of the way. jmho

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actually a very easy way of making the rides small is to make more of them. how about a ride every friday? how about 2 rides simultaneously on the second friday of the month and locate the starting point in two different halves of the city? They could meet at the same point.

Having these uber giant size rides wont last much longer now that we have the cops on the hunt. why not imrpove bike relations by working to spread out the love to other parts if the city.

imagine 17 rides of 100 people spread across the calendar and across the city instead of one massive and unmanage-able 1700 person ride. each ride growing on it's own merit, being less agistative to the community and increasing bike culture.

one ride once a month is no longer the future. we're going to make this shit bigger.






Roadblock
08.12.06 - 6:55 pm

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"Don't fuck with the format, deal with it. Embrace change or get out of the way. jmho"

c'mon Dave comments like these are pretty ignorant. change is inevitable. we can manage change to create posistive results or we can continue with our blinders on. change will still occur. lets analize this and try to steer it in a direction that makes things easy for the community, motorists and bicycle culture.



Roadblock
08.12.06 - 7:22 pm

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rides currently exist in other parts of the city. I'm in favor of more rides in different parts of the city. People can choose which ride they want to participate in and natural selection can take its course.

the ridazz attempted to change the ride last year when they "stopped" hosting the rides. when they began advertising again, the rides seem to have become even larger.

I think I'll just kick back and see what happens this time.

ride on.



dave
08.13.06 - 2:12 pm

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Dave the last thing we need is to sit back and see what happens. We need guys like you to continue t step up and effect positive change. yes the Ridazz stopped that one month because things got ugly the previous ride. that was a crucial opportunity missed in which there wasnt much done to alleviate the problems. this is an oppotunity to steer this ride in a better direction and to channel this energy towards good relations with the community the cops and motorists.



Roadblock
08.14.06 - 8:03 am

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