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dayum all these pictures are SO RAD. I am happy i kept the rest of my subway sandwich as ornament for the back :)
Btw, riding from eastside to westside, freeway ride, then east to jedi ride, (which was a fucking marathon and a half), I've done 80 miles today on Kabuki. That's quite an achievment, but my body and mind hate me. Thanks to those who spotted me the cliff bars!!!
it's dope it really is. glad that you decided correctly to keep the announcements and planning of the ride underground. shit the videos make me want to roll out! someone add me to the list. I got notice so late in the game (friday at 12noon) I couldnt help film either.
After exiting the freeway, everyone stopped for a breather at Santa Monica and Cotner. The plan was to rid up to the 405S onramp at Wilshire and go down to santa monica again, or Venice for the brave. While we were sitting there CHP blasted the sirens and pulled up. Everyone scattered and a chase ensued. Roughly a 3X3 block radius of bicycles riding away from the po until of course, they singled the tall bike with the party time cape, ME. Paul bringetto stopped with me. The first things they said were, "look, we're not giving you a ticket, not taking your bicycles, we just want to know what you were doing on the freeway and to stay off of it". They gave us their concerns which were mainly safety. Very nice officers . I mean hell, i would have arrested me, i dont know why they didn't. Could you imagine the part time cape in my mugshot! YEEEEOWWW!!
If they didn't see you riding on the freeway, or where not in pursuit of you and didn't lose visual contact with you, they really can't write you a
traffic citation, they didn't see you commit.
No need to run. It makes you look guilty. You didn't even need to admit it was you. If they didn't see you, how do they know for sure it was you. You could have just come up Santa Monica Blvd, and decided to stop at that spot for a rest.
"This is KCRW traffic...we are getting some reports of bicycles...that's right folks bicycles... on the Santa Monica freeway, including a couple of very tall bikes, heading up the north 405 connecter on ramp. We have received a few phone calls and CHP is heading that way to investigate....that's certainly one way to beat the 405 traffic and the $4.00 a gallon gas...um..er but KCRW and NPR does not advocate riding a bicycle on the freeway....up next...Darfur genocide, 100,000 dead in Myanmar cyclone and analysts say oil will hit $200 a barrel in August...."
My report is fictional, but I would love to have a transcript of the real report from KCRW.
I mean how do you report bicycles on the freeway. First off, if a few phone calls come in...you think it's a hoax. Then when you start getting more and more people calling in, especially long time listeners who are verifiable, then you start to wonder what's going on.
CHP might have thought the same thing. A couple of people call them, they think...this is a hoax. They call the closest patrol cars and tell them to go check it out. Remember CHP has a 10-15 minute response time. The bike ride was like six minutes.
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CHP=Harder than Hell, training academy. But relatively easy/not easy job as long as you keep the nose clean.
I'm still awaiting those test-scores from last ShatterDay, but if I were one of the officers, I would've played the stumped, scratching the head, bit.
I mean, it's not everyday you're going to see an armada of bicycles on the freeway.
In the meantime, no one got hurt, or arrested and all we could do is look towards the puddle in time.
So, simmer down and listen to some Jon B, or Babyface, or some other soft RnB.
Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike Bike
you have one humungous achievement. but the eastside has a longer and epic, and a more rich and historic past than all your westside history and endeavors. but congratulations.
THE EASTSIDE IS STILL THE BEST SIDE, THE O.G. MR side!
you were not on the list because we have you listed as a card carrying nay sayer. if this information is incorrect please write the following in big bold pink letters, preferably on a lol cat pic:
I am not, nor have i ever been, a card member of the Naysayer party.
Hey, what's up with the video? I wanted to show a friend and he says it needs a password now. Also... somebody please put me on the list for next time... srsly, I love riding on freeways.
hey, I had a thought about this theatrical demonstration. Does anyone else think that the people on the freeway might get the point a little more clearly if everyone was dressed like freeway commuters? After watching the video, my father (an old bay area cycling advocate) suggested that the drivers might connect the dots a little better if they saw a projection of themselves pedaling past them in traffic. I think it's a good point and maybe a good idea for next time. If you do this again and put me on the list, I'm gonna rock a suit and see if I can find a briefcase.
thank you for the historical fact my sith apprentice.
and to this i'd the EASTSIDE will be even more fun soon. I'd like to announce that "THE HORSEMEN ARE DRAWING NEARER...."
By the last breath of the fourth winds blow
Better raise your ears
The sound of hooves knocks at your door
Lock up your wife and children now
Its time to wield the blade
For now you have got some company
The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
You have been dying since the day
You were born
You know it has all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once a sinner twice
No need for confession now
Cause now you have got the fight of your life
The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
Time
Has taken its toll on you
The lines that crack your face
Famine
Your body it has torn through
Withered in every place
Pestilence
For what you have had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
There is nothing you can do
So gather round young warriors now
And saddle up your steeds
Killing scores with demon swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgment hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat
The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
Yeah, I wish I could take all the credit for it but I think I've gotta give it up to dad. He said he'd like to do it too. It would be a trip to have a 60 year-old bearded man in a suit rolling with us on his go-fast derosa
What I meant, and let me try to clarify, was that I was born and grew up in Koreatown before all the pre-hipsters and gentrified doohikies and vegan chicanos moved in with a hatred of anything west of Western and began calling it K-TOWN. Before they fixed the EQUITABLE sign. Before the Western Red Line. Before they put the fence around Ardmore park. Shit, I was there when King Koopa was painting and Henry Chalfant photographed the LOD graffiti murals on Olympic and Normandie. Before the chinese man built the garden around the murals on Irolo. I remember the RTD... real commuters never forget.
We had business man, ala Falling Down, white shirt and slacks (sans the briefcase) roll with us... I think it may have even helped him not get stopped when CHP pulled a u-turn and saw him traveling west alone.
But yeah... stereotypical business man on bicycle would be sweet, especially if we rush houred it on a morning commute to Century City with manila folders and depositions flying everywhere.
Bike to workday ride anyone crimanimal mass style anyone :-)
I’m wondering what the Freeway Riders vision of a future LA looks like. My vision includes auto only freeways for longer distance high speed traveling in and out of the city. It is the smaller streets in the neighborhoods where I see the need for change. Those streets should be mixed use including walking and very slow speed autos when necessary.
I envision a day when gasoline gets so costly (call me crazy!!?!) that N% of angelinos take to the streets on bicycles. The expendable income crowd will still be driving cars.
Bicyclists will say HEY!! Why are we on the streets where there are lights and cars trying to park and doors flying open and cracks and pedestrians and motorists coming out of parking lots... LETS RIDE SMOOTHLY ON THE FREEWAY!!
Remember our handicap brothers and sisters, they need to get around too. Bike, bus or walk sometimes won't work for handicap people.
Ever under what all those mini vans that say access paratransit are doing. They transporting handicap folks that don't have chauffeurs around town. F.Y.I. this is a service for those that can't get to the bus on there own, created by the Americans with Disability Act
The freeway is smooth, fast, direct, no lights. It's like a big huge bike path, but instead it goes somewhere. It would be awesome if we could get a piece of that. If you're talking long term vision, having ridden on the freeway, I'd like to have that for bikes.
Wait. Some of you guys seriously want to ride your bikes on freeways legitimately someday? Fuck the skull of that shit.
Freeways are snoozeville even in a car, where you can at least listen to the radio and sip your coffee for partial relief from the tedium. I can only imagine how dull it would be to ride a bike ten or twenty miles each day on freeways.
you say your nay
through visceral dismay
of winding gears on cogs with ears
the sound of the gopez
is none, yet but a nuisance
the lost true sense of the west -> east protrusions
of BIKE. of BIKE. of 2 Wheels for LIFE.
Live like one, break your foot for fun.
Nopez Gopez. Naysay Naysay.
Noise.
If they don't build a subway to the westside, riding a bike on the freeway may be the only alternative. Sounds crazy? A subway that starts from downtown LA and ends at Wilshire and Western is even crazier.
"If they don't build a subway to the westside, riding a bike on the freeway may be the only alternative. Sounds crazy? A subway that starts from downtown LA and ends at Wilshire and Western is even crazier. "
You can thank our MORONIC STUPID MONEY SERVING RACIST SELFISH IDIOT representative HENRY WAXMAN for that.
in the future bikes will rule the streets and it will be hip and cool and whatever to gather around with your friends IN CARS on friday nights and get drunk and run red lights and stay out all night running red lights. and drinking.
One day i will run for mayoral office in los angeles and I'll start a budget to build bikeways/bikepaths on every major l.a. county freeways. it will be the bikeside of the forces dream come true. i'll be palpatine as gopez a I rise to power then i will unveil my alter ego and the bikeside of the force will rule the galaxy for the first time ever and for all eternity. it will be the bicycling empire, the biketopian example society of the world. it is absolute and we must think in the absolute.
Who those people from the Media talk to? I curious to see if they actually talk to someone or they just made that up. I don't ever remember anybody around here saying it was a protest.
As for riding on the freeway. I'll do it for adventure and fun, but it just didn't seem like an advantageous way to get around on bicycles. Lots of inclines and declines, Too much exhaust fume. I would say the freeways is for motor power vehicles only, if it wasn't what fun would it be riding are bikes on the freeways.
Remember Waxman is a representative who live in Maryland, he just did what his constituents who live in his district wanted. He doesn't have to deal with the traffic but a few times a year.
Just read the Santa Monica Daily Press article
Can you imagine the traffic mess we can cause just by saying we are going on this on-ramp and then just hang around and watch traffic get backed up because car can't enter an on-ramp, because CHP blocked it off.
“This is the first I’m hearing about (the
rides),” said Ana Markey, the public information
officer at the CHP’s Culver City station.
“If we know about these rides in
advance, we’d block off on-ramps to keep
them from getting on the freeway.”
This is so beautiful, crazy, hilarious, amazing, anarchic, wonderful... I only wish I knew about it so I coulda been there. Love the videos and pics -- truly amazing. A glimpse of the future, no doubt.
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Who is this masked man!????
If you rode a bike...
"This is KCRW traffic...we are getting some reports of bicycles...that's right folks bicycles... on the Santa Monica freeway, including a couple of very tall bikes, heading up the north 405 connecter on ramp. We have received a few phone calls and CHP is heading that way to investigate....that's certainly one way to beat the 405 traffic and the $4.00 a gallon gas...um..er but KCRW and NPR does not advocate riding a bicycle on the freeway....up next...Darfur genocide, 100,000 dead in Myanmar cyclone and analysts say oil will hit $200 a barrel in August...."
Alec
No big whoop... look at all these peeps!
Alej I think we have a mole, that girl you brought seemed like a cop to me.
She is no narc. I fully patted her down and checked for wires. Inside and out.
Yawn.