Don't ride your bike!
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trickmilla at 11.16.08 - 9:18 am
The Air quality is absolute shit.
Do something nice for your lungs and stay at home today.
For updates check the
AQMD
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Or wear a mask
skd11.16.08 - 9:26 am
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Oh yes we do.
I'm not saying to not ride because the AQMD says so.
I'm saying not to ride because the air is shitty.
Maybe I'm in the "sensitive group" but I started to get a headache yesterday, just pumping up my tires.
But yeah ... if you gotta ride.
Get a mask.
trickmilla11.16.08 - 9:42 am
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It won't be too long before we all have to start hauling around respirators.
I don't smoke, but I appear to age quicker due to all the shit I breathe in on a daily, basis.
bentstrider11.16.08 - 9:49 am
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+1 on the headache
just sitting around gave me one.
aksendz11.16.08 - 9:51 am
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I got 2 miles into my planned 10 ride to the beach for breakfast before I realised this may not be a good idea.
I turned around and will live to ride another day.
Creative Thing11.16.08 - 10:21 am
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Everyone complains about the ash and makes a big fuss about handkerchiefs and masks.
After riding home from Robotz (Vote for Robozevelt!), I would have murdered a Romanian child for a pair of goggles.
mikeisadumbname11.16.08 - 11:51 am
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yeah riding home from robotz last night was hard on the lungs.
funanu11.16.08 - 12:36 pm
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Check this out, I'm eddieboyinla!!!
HEY, IF YOUR LUNGS ARE HURTING AND YOU NEED SOME FRESH AIR, AS OPPOSED TO FRESH ASH, COME UP TO WHERE I LIVE!!!
THE SKY IS AS BLUE AS NICOLE KIDMANS EYES AND THE ONLY SMELL YOU'LL HAVE TO PUT UP WITH IS THE NUTRO-DOG FOOD PLANT!!!!
bentstrider11.16.08 - 12:39 pm
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Yeah, not gonna ride today. We rode to LACMA and back yesterday and it wasn't bad, but today, wow! and it's getting worse by the minute as I look out the window here. I've got the headache, too.
mr rollers11.16.08 - 12:57 pm
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Yeah, that is the main reason I didn't go to Robotz. I knew that I could make it there and do the ride, but the ride home would kill me.
imachynna11.16.08 - 12:57 pm
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The bandana was pure genius. Wetted it before the ride home and I think that helped a ton.
Today my lungs seem to be 100%, but I agree with the comment about goggles for the way home. I spent a good 2-3 minutes digging the ash out of the corners of my eyes AFTER taking a shower AND washing my face. Goggles would have been AMAZING.
Last night (this morning) was so intense. Crazy shit really.
jonnyboy11.16.08 - 2:57 pm
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After robots last night i got home and didnt have time for a shower so i just passed out and when i woke up i got naked and saw that i was coverd in white specs, i was rather confused but then i looked outside into my yard and saw that my table was coverd in white powder just like me, i asume there was just a bunch of coke last nigth.
WHITE POWDER POWERRR.
popsiclekid11.16.08 - 3:05 pm
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Yeah I dont know about all this smoke talk, I smoke a lot of various substances on a regular basis, and those fires didn't really affect me at all as far as I can tell. Mebbe my beard filtered all that shit out? Either way I got far more buzzed of smoking half of somebody's menthol cigarette!
tallcans4tallbikes11.16.08 - 3:08 pm
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yea, conditions are pretty bad and the looming cloud of ash over L.A is making it hotter.& I think its really really not safe to do much activity outside. Because, it wasn't just trees that were burned to the ground. But mobile homes, cars, household cleaners, regular homes etc. Its almost the same situation as in New York when the Trade Centers went down. The people that helped clean up ground zero, weren't told to wear the masks with the filters in front. As a result, they got asbestos disease and small fibers of glass in their lungs that took them out of the job.
yay....
Alfredo11.16.08 - 3:36 pm
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"i looked outside into my yard and saw that my table was coverd in white powder just like me, i asume there was just a bunch of coke last nigth. " - popsicle
You crack me up. I'll laugh about this all day . . .
inside. This stuff can really mess you up y'all. It's not good - exercise as little as possible. I've been getting in pretty wicked running shape, and you can bet I'm really jonesing to run right now, but I'm not going to. Take it easy.
Alex Thompson11.16.08 - 3:38 pm
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IF I COULD RIDE MY BIKE I WOULD EVEN IN THIS UGLY MESS!!!!!!
smashen24711.16.08 - 4:09 pm
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My advice is to stay inside and smoke weed all day.
bananaphone11.16.08 - 4:20 pm
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fire= ash in your boogers + headache
KiMS111.16.08 - 4:31 pm
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One thing that always gets my hackles up is when they say, "Stay inside" on a smoggy or smoky day. Like where do they think that the air you're breathing inside comes from? Outside, right?
I had an air conditioning contractor (of all people) tell me that inside air is always more polluted than outside air. The air indoors gets stagnant and is subject to all kinds of out-gassing (insert flatulence joke) from a variety of common household substances.
The thing that you do want to avoid is unnecessary physical exertion on such days, which is why I tend to agree that doing a lot of riding on a day like today probably isn't such a hot idea.
mr rollers11.16.08 - 5:14 pm
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I've had three nose bleeds in the last 2 days...
folks that don't feel affected by this consider yourselves lucky because my throat, head, nose, eyes etc are all sorts of fucked up.. I feel no relief indoors or out.. my system feels itchy and heady...
but heads up for peeps saying they don't feel anything bad right now.. I didn't feel affected by the air quality after 9/11 in NY and I rode with a bandanna on 9/11 and on 9/12 and 9/13 etc.. only to find myself involved with a respitory infection that I couldn't kick.. and later I had developed asthma that still effects me negatively today as well as costs me around $100-200/month (with insurance).
this shit might not affect your lungs in the short run but shit in your lungs now makes unhappy lungs later.
redridinghood11.16.08 - 5:31 pm
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fuck it, you can get a headache jacking off. It ain't no thang.
Mohicano11.16.08 - 5:43 pm
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I agree, by all means DO NOT RIDE YOUR BIKE!
If you have to go anywhere please drive, and please drive your large suv or truck. If you don't have one visit enterprise or budget rentals and rent one. Just not worth it to drive a small fuel efficient car if you don't have to.
Oh, I heard if you fill your lungs with crack smoke the wildfire smoke will not be able to get in- then you're good!
Ratpick11.16.08 - 6:01 pm
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I'm with tallcans - it didn't affect me hardly any. I was coughing a little bit when I woke up sunday morning, but even that subsided shortly. Maybe living in the valley makes us more tolerant to smokey air?
kryxtanicole11.17.08 - 9:20 am
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No, I was just watching that B-Movie with Howie Long, called Firestorm!!!
One handed, chain-saw throws through a car-window kick ass!!!
bentstrider11.17.08 - 9:27 am
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on the day this was posted, Team Midnight Ridazz plowed up then bombed down Chevy Chase in Pasadena. Then we ate spaghetti, drank beer, and jumped into a jacuzzi.
It was either that or sit in an air conditioned room and watch TV. We chose the above.
indigis11.17.08 - 10:34 am
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