Black Rock Ridazz - The Playa Ride
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Cutter at 07.20.07 - 8:54 pm
Anyone going to Burning Man? August 31st looks like a great night to ride (although It's too late to add it to the Playa calendar).
Anyone interested?
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Larry Harvey is pure evil.
Ridazz on the Playa, Ride On!
Save the Man!
Joe Borfo07.21.07 - 1:04 am
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Don't they have a burning man in Europe? NO
well I'm sure they have a place where you can purchase blood diamonds. Have a nice trip Joe.
sexy07.21.07 - 5:57 pm
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Sexy, I hope you have a good time at burning man... oh, I'm sorry. You're not going. And you've never been...
Joe Borfo07.22.07 - 12:18 am
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so we gots one person excited about this ride... anyone else?
Cutter07.23.07 - 9:17 pm
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Joe it is one thing when you don't want to go and don't go,and have never been. It is another thing when you have been, want to go and are not going to go because,
sexy07.23.07 - 9:21 pm
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Well at least I have an excuse.. All I need is the recipe for Sexy's rice and then I'm all set.
Joe Borfo07.23.07 - 11:00 pm
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I've been wanting to go to burning man since I was in High School. The timing is shit fo this year, but maybe I can go next year, depends on my employment predicament at the time.
FuzzBeast07.24.07 - 2:07 am
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So Roadblock, you said you might go. Joe, you seem like you're considering it... Do any other Ridazz who are going want to camp together?
Cutter07.30.07 - 5:38 pm
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Reverend Borfo will be in Amsterdam.
I know Allen in Long Beach wanted Ridazz to coverge on the playa...
Joe Borfo07.30.07 - 7:33 pm
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Cutter! Thanks for posting! Was bummed about missing the ride chez LA and there's no way I'm missing the man this year, but a BRC ride is a fucking great idea! It is too late to put on the physical calendar but it can still be posted on line. If we/you/I/someone else can post it on Midnight we can draw a pretty big fuckin crowd. I can't think of anything sweeter than riding with our hometown contingent!
onyurmark07.31.07 - 12:36 pm
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Yeah, you beat me to it...I was going to post something up here and find out if there were any ridazz going. This will be my 5th year, and anyone even thinking about it should seriously consider this event..not to try and oversell it, but it has been a life changing experience for many.
I'm happy to help in any way to facilitate a ride, or give more info to anyone who is trying to decide to make the trip out to Burning Man.
Wonderdave07.31.07 - 3:28 pm
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I'm going this year, for sure. Last year I proposed Midnight Ridazz BRC as a Lights-Free, go as fast as you can go, danger danger ride, because, simply, everyone rides bikes at BM, and well, it would be fun to swarm the man at night, with no lights, like a dangerous cloud of dust and wheels. But no one bit.
So, yeah. Burners?! Shout out! lets have a meet.
the reverend dak07.31.07 - 4:01 pm
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Man I had plans to go to BM. I've wanted to go since I first heard about it in high school back on the East Coast. If any year this was the year for me because I'm into the whole "green" thing. I had requested my vacation from work and was set until the people I was going with changed their plans and decided not to go. Now I find out there are ridazz going after I already told my boss I did not need those vacation days any more.
Bummer
quidam07.31.07 - 4:22 pm
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Quidam,
Take the days off back...beg. Lie. Do whatever you can, even if it means doing a Princess trip and only going for a few days. I know people who have called in sick for the whole week, faked deaths in their family, hell, even quit their jobs if they couldn't get the time off.
Wonderdave07.31.07 - 5:26 pm
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This year should be a good year with their theme and all, but still doesn't hold a candle to the early times. One of these days I'll tell all you kids about the days before they had a fence and all these fucking rules. This was in the days when if you didn't bring water, you were in trouble! It wasn't some come on to scare people.
User107.31.07 - 11:21 pm
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Sweet! I'll put the ride up for BM's Friday night, then!
What about camping together? Camp Ridazz?
Cutter08.1.07 - 4:00 pm
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So who are you guys camping with? Crespin and I used to be part of the otters but think we're doing our own thing this year.
Wonderdave08.3.07 - 1:48 am
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I don't usually camp with a "Camp (tm)", tho I have camped in Gigsville. I'm taking some newbs this year. Arriving Mon morning, i'm willing to mark out some room/space if people want. Let me know.
-the reverend
(yes, that is my english 3-speed in BM)
the reverend dak08.3.07 - 10:29 pm
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Rev Dak, - "Let's go burn the man."
Borfo - "Huh? But it's Wednesday."
Rev Dak - "Exactly... (feedback).. EVERYBODY, WE'RE GOING TO GO BURN THE MAN!"
Joe Borfo08.3.07 - 11:53 pm
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rev.dak: *squelch* "DOES ANYONE HAVE A GAS CAN!!! WE NEED A GAS CAN!!!"
Strangers Camping: "We have one, what do you need it for?"
rev.dak: *crackle* "WE NEED TO CARRY GAS!"
Strangers: "What for?"
rev.dak: "WE ARE GOING TO BURN DOWN THE MAN!!!"
the reverend dak08.14.07 - 5:37 pm
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yo, this will be the first year i've missed burning man in the past seven years. hope y'all have fun out there. still would be cool to meet up with some folks into burning man and bikes i'm not yet acquainted with. so anybody want to organize a pre-BM (ha ha ha, love the initials. cracks me up) roll around?
Bruce Steel08.17.07 - 4:32 pm
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I'll be at Sins & Sprockets tonight if any of you guys want to talk plans and stuff. Just ask for me if you don't know me personally.
the reverend dak08.17.07 - 5:58 pm
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Ack! I've been so busy i haven't kept up with everyone. the plan remains the same if no one has any objections...
Cutter08.20.07 - 10:58 pm
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I spoke with Crespin & Dave but we really didn't come to anything. heh. so i'm down with sticking with the original plan. We can ride around, stop at bars (I recommend Fandango and Lamplighters) and, ride around.
the reverend dak08.21.07 - 12:22 am
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very excited...can't believe we're leaving in a few days. The ride sounds great. I'm down for doing something more mischevious if we can come up with something. Don't know where we're camping yet, but we always enter our info in the computer at the visitors station in case anyone wants to find us...dave vernon and crespin rosas. Also put something under midnight ridazz. But the ride on Friday sounds great...will be awesome to see you guys there!
Wonderdave08.21.07 - 8:03 pm
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w00t w000t w0000t!!!
yay, I got the whole week to burn!
spiraldemon08.22.07 - 9:46 am
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I'll be at 4:20 and Estuary..
It's my first year and I've been holed up in my house making costumes and trying to figure out what to do with this beautiful new cruiser I just bought to make it less purty..
I'll be at the Big Ass Ride with my big ass (see picture).
At least at the afterparty..
I'm so down to ride on the playa!!!
But I think it should be as inclusive as possible..
thunderthighs08.22.07 - 10:03 am
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Hey Jeff....didn't know you were going. Do you know where you're staying? Crespin and I won't know till we get there....but we'll be registering our info in the computers at the visitor's section...would be fun to hang out.
Wonderdave08.22.07 - 3:03 pm
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I don't know where it'll be, but I'll be camping with Rev Dak-dak-dak-dak-dak
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dak-dak-dak-dak-
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oh, and I'll be riding a bike
spiraldemon08.22.07 - 4:27 pm
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Just look for the drunk Chinese guy in a bunny suit.
Joe Borfo08.22.07 - 5:29 pm
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We'll be camping with the BM Philharmonic. I think it's right around 3 o' clock plaza.
Cutter08.23.07 - 1:06 am
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Once we find a spot, and get set up, i'll enter myself into the computer thing too. File under Dak Ultimak or Reverend Dak
the reverend dak08.23.07 - 2:38 am
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cool...we'll check the computers for you guys. We're aiming for something around 3 or 9:00.
Gotta come by and check out our yurt and the rickshaw...sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Wonderdave08.23.07 - 2:26 pm
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Yeah, def giving out rides on the rickshaw. And all ridazz get priority!
Wonderdave08.24.07 - 4:55 pm
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leaving los angeles NOW!
will be there on monday morning and we're gonna enter our info into that 'puter thing too.
her bike looks like a neon horse, and mine has black and white stripes.
see y'all there!
Cutter08.25.07 - 2:09 pm
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Good Luck to all the RIdazz going to BRC. Wish I could be there, but stupid "responsibility" keeping me in LA again this year. Please post a photo of the Ridazz on the Playa when you get back. --Perhaps on some of the 1200 Yellow Bikes that a anonymous donor gave to Burningman. (Black Label BC painted them all green with "Yellow Bike" stenciled on them. These bikes are unpossesable ans accesable to everyone, playa-wide.) The photo is by Danger Ranger.
TAR08.26.07 - 1:31 pm
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WOW this is like Black Rock's 9/11!!! Man all this time today I was thinking it was Al Qaeda in Black Rock, and it turns out to be some white dude from SF. Maybe they got the wrong dude? Does the FBI suspect more attacks? Is the border sealed off? The SF Gate article has very little on what's happening. I think what they ought to do now is get all the SUVs out there and stack them all up and burn that! Shit give the people their moneys worth! I'm sure they would trade that for the man. Hell I might even go up there and see that!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=5&f=/c/a/2007/08/28/BA2ARQRFI.DTL
User108.29.07 - 12:08 am
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OMG!!!! I just realized this! If you add all the numbers to the date above, it adds up to 25. This tragedy happened on the the forth day of the week. You subtract four from twenty five and you get 21. This year is the 21st year of Burning Man!!! Wow this is spooky! Could this be a sign from the gods above? Very uncanny!
User108.30.07 - 1:15 am
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Oh yeah I forgot, nice job on the Christ figure above my Buddha master.
User108.30.07 - 1:18 am
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A metal sculture of bicycles greets visitors to the Center Camp at
Burning Man 2007.
It's a real city of bicycles.
I hope our Burner/Ridazz are having fun tonight.
Ride On!
Joe Borfo08.31.07 - 11:59 am
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Welcome back burners!
So how does the real world taste on a fine smog filled Tuesday in good o' SoCal? We're expecting a two page single spaced report on how I spent my Labor Day Holiday no later than Friday at 8am.
User109.4.07 - 11:32 am
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back.com
We had a great time, we being Crespin, Dave, Jeff and yours truly.
Start thinking about going next year, NOW. We're going to start a proper Midnight Ridazz camp. Details soon. Ideas, thoughts & questions should be saved for a proper thread, which we'll start soon.
If you think Midnight Ridazz is exhilarating and you enjoy the parties, you've seen nothing until you've ridden and partied in Black Rock City -- seriously.
20 minutes,
rev.dak
the reverend dak09.4.07 - 11:35 am
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back.com ????? huh?????
User109.4.07 - 12:14 pm
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Fluffa got his cherry popped at burningman! He's Mr Fluffa to us now!
User109.4.07 - 1:33 pm
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words can't describe Burning Man. my pictures can't capture the energy and scope of the event. I also didn't remember to take photos when I was having fun.
if you like bikes and Midnight Ridazz afterparties, then you must go to Burning Man. there's nothing like thousands of cyclists partying everyday for a week. bikes may be incidental to the art, but they were the primary reason why I decided to go.
oh, and all the naked women.
spiraldemon09.4.07 - 2:50 pm
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Cutter,
I guess we f'd it up on friday. I just looked at your ride announcement/post, and we had it all wrong. We tried to look for Cutter and the Philharmonic at Playa Info, nothing.
Next time, we'll pay more attention and lay off the "chocolate".
the reverend dak09.4.07 - 4:02 pm
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Had a fucking amazing time. Great to hang out and get to know Rev and Jeff....we really tore things up there. I'll be posting our pics soon...but seriously, it's not too early to start thinking about next year. They've already announced the theme..."American dream"...and bikes and bike riding fit into that theme almost too well!
Wonderdave09.5.07 - 5:57 pm
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yeah, i tried to get into the playa info computers, but that line was just too damn long every time i got over to center camp.
i hung out at 3 'o clock on friday night for about 30 min or something until i realized that trying to single out any of the ridazz in a city that's pretty much made for bikes would be kind of impossible.
i'm sure y'all had a great time anyways!
Cutter09.6.07 - 2:35 am
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Yeah, no big deal. We all had a great time...
But next year we should try a bit harder and get a big ride set up. BM is a lot like San Fran, being that everyone is on a bike. But you don't see bike gangs doing bike rides, you don't see much in the way of PACKS of bikes roaming, exploring and partying on the playa. It's fun in LA, so it would be amazing to do out in BRC.
We're doing a Midnight Ridazz Theme Camp next year, FOR SURE. You're welcome to stay with us, or just come an visit. We're going to plan a couple events, provide bike repair, and the extent of the camp will probably be the bike repair shop and a common shade structure/chill space. Everyone else should be self-sustaining.
Once we all decompress, catch up with the default world shit, I want to get the ball rolling so we have something in place and planned for next year. My vision is very simple, and will accomodate just about anything that people want to do.
Everyone should start giving it some thought, and burnerzz should be able to share their experience to make the camp bitchin.
the reverend dak09.6.07 - 11:44 am
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Yes! I am going next year no matter what and I hope to see as many Ridazz as possible on the playa!
Start planning now for next year!
Joe Borfo09.6.07 - 11:54 am
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Yes Dak, while you guys were gone I had this vision that Borfo was my spritual leader. It was on the Big Ass Ride. He looked like my Buddha Master after he shaved his head. But it turned out I was following a false prophet. Borfo was just Borfo.
I'll be going to Burningman to find my spiritual leader next year!
User109.6.07 - 11:51 pm
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it's now next year, and User1 is not going to Black Rock City
spiraldemon08.18.08 - 12:03 pm
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I've come to realize that all prophets and religions are false. They are all just a manifestation of man.
My search has been called off. :-(
User108.18.08 - 12:23 pm
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I AM VERY FUCKING EXCITED, I can stop thinking about it, I got all my shit ready and some funky extras.
Graham08.18.08 - 3:33 pm
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