IAAL-MAF Invitational 4.0 - THE TAINT RIDE
04.19.07
THURSDAY START TIME: 7:30 pm
Hello, L.A. cyclists - particularly those of you with a taste for weird and uncommon scenery, a nose for bizarre and pungent smells and a burning curiosity about unseen parts of Los Angeles.
The notorious (and fictitious) IAAL-MAF invites you to join its fifth (yes, 5th) invitational bike tour - a leisurely 15-mile nighttime cruise through L.A.'s quiet eastern barrios and across its gritty industrial underbelly. We're callin' it "The Taint Ride."
Taint like t'other rides. T'aint a noirish jaunt, a majestic observation, a hilly ordeal or a cultural pilgrimage.
We'll be following the course of last summer's IAAL-MAF club ride through parts of east L.A. and the city of Vernon - where 91 people live and another 54,000 toil away days (and nights!) in the city's factories, mills, shops, bakeries and slaughterhouses. And that's what makes it a whole lot more like the colloquial definition of the word taint.
The good news is that the trip ends with a hill climb and then wickedfast plunge down 4th street (land-speed records are made to be broken) so you can let the windrush blow the grime off you before a refreshing bite of sushi at Joy Mart, IAAL-MAF's favorite post-ride noshery in Little Tokyo.
But t'aint gonna be any fun without you. So join us - bring a friend or three, a camera and a few bucks to spend on sushi immediately afterwards.
IAAL-MAF Invitational 4.0 - THE TAINT RIDE Ride at your own risk. No Rider Left Behind.
Where: Start point: Factory Place, between 5th and 6th Streets, just east of Alameda (map)
Route:
East L.A. and points south
Gather: 7:30 p.m.
Start: 8 p.m. sharp!
End: Little Tokyo, around 10:00 p.m.
Message Board (click here to discuss this ride.)
Contact info for this ride: ping factoid
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