Bike sceensters ride heavy load.
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rev106 at 06.24.10 - 10:10 am
Bike sceensters ride heavy load.
Los Angeles: The local bicycle counter-culture has become so strong in the past few years many riders are now dealing with a new problem: Gratuitous spoke cards.
“I can barley get my bike up a curb now.” Said one local rider who wished to be unnamed. “I have so many spoke cards stuck in my wheels now that they weigh a good ten pounds heavier than the bike did before I started going to group rides.” Many group rides, the participants are given a spoke card; a laminated pieces of paper with a design or logo about the ride by the ride organizers. With several rides going on a week it has become a problem for local cyclists who can only fit so many spoke cards in their spokes. “I tried to get them all in there but at some point they all start falling out on the ride, spoke cards everywhere.” Amanda, 23 stated that because of this she has chosen to not use them anymore. “I don’t want to piss anyone off, so I take them and just keep them at home in an old shoebox.” During stops many of the trick riders have suffered the pitfalls of too many spokecards. “I was doing some barspins and my back tire slipped on a spokecard and I fell off my bike.” Stated Juan, 19 during one of the many nighttime bicycle rides that go on through out the city. “It’s too much man, what do you do with all these thing once it’s over?” In addition to run-ins with the LAPD, this is one of the many problems facing LA bike culture during it’s growth.
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good for training
66606.24.10 - 10:12 am
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I'll collect 'em like Pokemon cards!
Never display them unless there's a hot girl around, then it's like a mating sign.
^olsko*jr706.24.10 - 10:22 am
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"Once it's over." Fuck you Juan. Go eat a beardick.
Fuck, I can't wait till this fucks just get tired of it and go find something else.
But yeah, I have always treasured spoke cards. Especially epic ones and ones that people take the time to make. Either by design or hand.
It's like card collecting, except I don't think they'll have any significant financial value in the future.
Well, maybe when everyday ridazz, which will be all of Los Angeles and the World, go back in their history books and see that people used their cars more often than their bikes.
They'll see what we did, our culture, our love, our heartbreak, our antics. Our life.
FUCK YOU JUAN.
Alfredo responding to a
comment by 666
06.24.10 - 10:23 am
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Yeah im with you on this one Alfredo. Fuck you juan...
Debut213 responding to a
comment by Alfredo
06.24.10 - 1:01 pm
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Looks like I missed the deadline...anyway I do several bike culture exibits every year, namely the Choppercabras rides and coaster brake challenge. I don't know...I never gave the bicycle/art thing much thought and I'm too busy to mess with it now so I guess the answer is no.
rev106 responding to a
comment by trickmilla
06.25.10 - 7:23 am
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What? What's the problem? ; )
rev106 responding to a
comment by mandingo
06.27.10 - 5:30 pm
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You should still send something by way of a proposal. Even if it is crazy. Would be dope to see a crazy choppercabres thing st the gallery, or a collection of awesome. Chicken head art.
Duet!
trickmilla responding to a
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06.27.10 - 5:36 pm
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Ridazz Roulette!
