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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: Thread Number Four
Thread started by theroyalacademy at 09.13.14 - 6:28 pm

One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.

It's a bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.

It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We sometimes get back pretty late.

This is the discussion thread for as of 13 September, 2014.
The older threads all got too long.
This thread is nice and short (for now).
And, even though I have nothing new to post today, I have been meaning to make a new thread for a while. So here it is. A new, short thread.

If you would like to see the old, long threads, go:
here
or
back here
or
way back here.
But please don't post to those threads anymore.
Consider them "archival."
Post here.
Only here.
Please.
Thanks.

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Alright! Let's see if we can break this thing in... by, uh, posting the route from last week? Yeah, that'll do:

p266



nathansnider
09.15.14 - 9:38 pm

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Thanks to everyone who teed off with us last night (and for double eagling the stealthiness, when it came time for stealthiness)! Our scorecard reads like this:





theroyalacademy
09.18.14 - 10:46 am

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What's so funny?





nathansnider
09.24.14 - 6:16 pm

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Thanks to all that rode and hiked and traveled through a not so brief moment in time with us last night. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
10.3.14 - 12:15 am

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Thank you to the couple who pointed me to Wonder View Drive as the Passage for me. Without you two I could have never made this ride happen. Presenting "Lets Get Lost" #269a The Sexy Route

Special thanks to my cell phone provider not working





sexy
10.6.14 - 5:32 pm

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Sorry! Should've been more clear, before starting up Cahuenga, where we were going to regroup. (Looks like you had your own adventure though.)



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by sexy
10.6.14 - 7:01 pm

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Not a hustle





nathansnider
10.7.14 - 9:28 pm

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Cool beans! But, isn't the eclipse happening 3am THIS morning? I still want to try and make the ride in the evening regardless.



Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by nathansnider
10.7.14 - 10:49 pm

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Yes yes, it was this morning, but since the moon is full, we're having a picnic tonight!



nathansnider
responding to a comment by Joe Borfo
10.8.14 - 7:08 am

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Thanks to everybody who came out last night to picnic with us! This was our route:

p270



nathansnider
10.9.14 - 11:29 pm

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Also, just to keep everything up to date here, this was the route from two weeks ago:

p268

And here are some links about how the LA County Poor Farm/Rancho Los Amigos came to be, some of the history and sordid bits, and the even more sordid bits about the place. Sadly, there don't seem to be any photos of what the farm looked like while it was in operation, but there are a few photos of what the south campus buildings look like inside today: here and here.



nathansnider
10.9.14 - 11:47 pm

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Hiya!!

First time rider here. Will I survive this tonight with the road bike/road shoes? Don't want to screw everything up.

Thanks!!



Manq
10.15.14 - 4:28 pm

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Hi. Yeah, you should be fine tonight. Nothing too crazy. Just be prepared for a (downhill) road that gets a bit gravelly. Depending on your comfort level with that, at worst, you might end up walking a bit.



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by Manq
10.15.14 - 5:37 pm

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Cool Thanks!



Manq
10.15.14 - 6:18 pm

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Well, nary a deer was spotted. But we did bag some ducks. And, by "bag," I mean "see," natch. Thanks to all of tonight's hunters. These were our hunting grounds:





theroyalacademy
10.16.14 - 3:02 am

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Thanks for coming, everybody! Did you enjoy the view? Signs point to yes:

p272



nathansnider
10.23.14 - 1:02 am

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The Eight ball lied to me, The ride was great.

Yes the View was like none I have ever witness in my years in the south land. Fantastic
BEST VIEW EVER!



sexy
10.28.14 - 2:09 am

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Meandering around some minor temples on trails through fields. Due to deep sand, some bike hiking was required.

(My first time posting photos on this site, I hope they appear.)

Take care, see you in a month or so.

David Kulka



DavidK999
10.28.14 - 9:13 pm

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Hello all from Kalay, a very remote town in northern Myanmar near the Indian border. Having great adventures here. I do miss your rides, but Cholada and I managed a few Asian "Passages" of own in Bagan, an early capital with thousands of ancient temples.

An inconvenient but atmospheric ride on the shores of the Irrawady River, near Bagan.



DavidK999
10.28.14 - 9:20 pm

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Looks like a good adventure!



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by DavidK999
10.29.14 - 2:40 am

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Still impressed. Still in love.

You people are what amazing is made out of.



TheDude
10.29.14 - 4:15 am

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Costumezz?



SkeletonKey
10.29.14 - 9:59 am

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Thanks to all who came out and got zombified with us tonight. These were our feeding grounds:





theroyalacademy
10.30.14 - 1:24 am

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Awesome route! I could go up to the Baldwin Hills every week and be content.



SkeletonKey
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
10.30.14 - 9:49 am

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So the day pass. Is that for the whole metrotrain system? Meaning for $10 I could ride from Sylmar to LA then to San Berd back to LA and then back to Sylmar?



sexy
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
11.5.14 - 2:08 pm

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Yes!

They also have a little chip in them that makes them into a day pass for Metro trains and buses.



nathansnider
responding to a comment by sexy
11.5.14 - 4:22 pm

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Bring extra tubes. Don't be that person



sexy
11.7.14 - 9:24 pm

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Well, a whole lotta nothing (and a big hill) was promised and San Bernardino delivered. Thanks to all that came and spent the day with us yesterday! This was our route:





theroyalacademy
11.9.14 - 3:58 pm

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THAT'S

BAD

ASS

!!!




Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
11.10.14 - 10:23 am

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Next one on Dec 6th..... Mark your calendar!



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by Joe Borfo
11.10.14 - 12:57 pm

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What was the energy like when you approached the peak at mileage 25? Granted it wasn't the Northumberlandia, but I bet it was pretty intense when you approached that human figure!



DArK ENERgY
11.10.14 - 9:39 pm

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Thanks for everyone who came out this week to help us take on the big Thorn (or the big Thom?). This was our journey:

p275



nathansnider
11.13.14 - 8:28 am

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what is happening here? I heard that POAFPTARBMIT is a great "date night" ride?



Roadblock
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
11.19.14 - 3:59 pm

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Feel My Heart, I'm a Lover?

(Or, apparently, emo.)



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by Roadblock
11.19.14 - 5:35 pm

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Had fun on our date tonight, everybody! Hope you did too. This was our romantic route:





theroyalacademy
11.20.14 - 12:48 am

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looks like this date had a lot of ups and downs....



Roadblock
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
11.20.14 - 1:45 pm

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I'm just glad the date didn't have any flat tires.



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by Roadblock
11.20.14 - 3:22 pm

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I forgot to give you your pre thanksgiving "great job" patch.

Great route. Great food. Great salad. Yummy wine. Melt in your mouth chest cake. The tea was delicious. Bread was warm. Route was so passage like.

Thankful for giving me a great Wednesday night ride every week. Made my year much better this year.



sexy
11.27.14 - 3:51 am

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Thanks, everyone! Our practice route:

p277



nathansnider
11.27.14 - 7:58 am

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is there ever a situation where there is not enough room for bikes on the metrolink? May make it out, if so, I will pick up the train from sylmar on the way.




sexy
12.5.14 - 6:38 pm

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Do you know if you are going to exit at the Palmdale or Lancaster station?




sexy
12.5.14 - 6:42 pm

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or Acton?



sexy
12.5.14 - 6:46 pm

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Yes, we're exiting at Acton.

I think you'll be safe getting on in Sylmar. I've never seen the Metrolink fill up with bikes (I mean, maybe it would fill up on Ciclavia?). And even though the Antelope Valley line doesn't always have a dedicated bike car, each normal car has spaces for a few bikes, which has been enough in the past.



nathansnider
12.5.14 - 7:02 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out for all the 'scapes, scrapes, and scarps yesterday. Unplanned tunnels are the best tunnels!

p278



nathansnider
12.7.14 - 11:30 am

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In case you missed yesterday's ride.





liquidpremium
responding to a comment by nathansnider
12.7.14 - 8:12 pm

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Thanks to everyone that came out on our short, simple tour of the simple, understated elegance of The Renaissance Collection. Didn't see as much destruction as I would've liked, but it all worked out okay, I think:





theroyalacademy
12.11.14 - 12:38 am

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Oh, and for future archival purposes, here's a link to the ride post.



theroyalacademy
12.11.14 - 12:39 am

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Oh, and I was going to post links to that Los Angeles magazine article about Geoff Palmer that I mentioned as well as an L.A. Times piece.



theroyalacademy
12.11.14 - 12:42 am

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There was chatter of arson. Somebody suggested it was the Illuminati.
We laughed

but wait.............
of the remains of the fire stood
Three stair cases
six level platforms on each stair case
"6" 3 times = 666
a pyramid has 3 sides
Illuminati confirmed



sexy
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
12.11.14 - 1:32 am

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You guys had a Palmer schadenfreude ride? Dammet



PC
12.11.14 - 1:55 am

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...although I guess there isn't that much schaden to freude, since we all know that Palmer is going to pocket the insurance money and build the piece of crap back up anyway.



PC
12.11.14 - 3:31 am

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Watch yourself.





nathansnider
12.17.14 - 8:21 pm

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Thanks for a great end to the year, everybody! Our goatwatchy route looked like this:

p280



nathansnider
12.18.14 - 10:50 am

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Thanks to everyone that came out and mixed it up on the trails with us today. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
01.10.15 - 9:22 pm

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That had to be one of the best route you ever took me on.

For the record books I did a endo on the single track almost to the top. I would guess it was around mile 19.75. That was a crazy experience.

Such a fun ride today. Thanks again.

Great meeting Peter R. Glad somebody finally told me what this ride was all about.

Train girl on the way home drinking Steel Reserve.....lol (oh Nathan all the nonsense you have had to put up with me through the years. You should get a medal of valor!)



sexy
01.10.15 - 10:35 pm

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Yes one hell of a ride, I've seen folks come out of endos a lot worse looking than that... good save.



enzomatic
responding to a comment by sexy
01.11.15 - 12:06 pm

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Glad you enjoyed it!

(And also very glad the weather was relatively agreeable. I was in pretty low spirits in the morning there.)



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by enzomatic
01.12.15 - 5:46 pm

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Wowzers!




Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
01.13.15 - 1:09 pm

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Thanks for coming, everybody! Now we know the effect of butterflies upon a bicycle ride; they make you dizzy:

p282



nathansnider
01.15.15 - 8:29 am

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3rd & Normandie, looking east towards downtown in 1900. The donut shop / Passage meet point is now near the top of the small hill in the background, on the right.



DavidK999
01.19.15 - 8:02 pm

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Thanks for riding with us tonight, those that rode with us tonight. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
01.22.15 - 2:05 am

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sexy
01.29.15 - 12:53 am

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Let The Eagle Soar"



sexy
01.29.15 - 12:59 am

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Felt a surge of pain behind my eye and up into my brain tonight. Would have loved to pushed through but thought of the stories where a guy would have some pain while exercise, thought it was nothing, push on and then die. I decided it would be best that I stop, rest and cruise home. I feel better now. It was probably nothing, but better safe than sorry.



sexy
01.29.15 - 1:04 am

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Thanks to all who came out this week! Our route:

p284



nathansnider
01.29.15 - 12:23 pm

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Er, that is, our route.



nathansnider
01.29.15 - 12:24 pm

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Reminder that this week's ride is on Saturday, not tonight.



theroyalacademy
02.4.15 - 2:25 pm

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Also, for those wanting clarification on what "two large hills" means, it means this.



nathansnider
02.6.15 - 4:05 pm

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sexy
02.6.15 - 5:55 pm

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opps.

or just this. http://endthelie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/NBC-suits.jpg

Stay safe. It is hot out there



sexy
02.6.15 - 5:56 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday for the rocky, rocky, slippery, foggy rocket ride. Our trajectory looked like this:

p285



nathansnider
02.8.15 - 7:41 pm

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Bzzzzzzzzz





theroyalacademy
02.11.15 - 3:55 am

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For the serious among ya Passage riders (and I know most of you are)

Wally Thurman on Bees, Beekeeping, and Coase

The question for this ride is not why bees wonder off but where will the beekeepers lead us tonight?





sexy
02.11.15 - 10:40 am

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Thanks to all that came a'waggling with us tonight. These were our dance moves:





theroyalacademy
02.12.15 - 1:16 am

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Thanks for coming, everybody! Our route:

p287



nathansnider
02.19.15 - 1:18 am

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Do you know what the number of churches we passed in relation to the miles we traveled?

?? Churches per mile

South Central gets it worship on!



sexy
02.19.15 - 9:40 am

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So I found out that my bike will take a 32c tire in the front . I tired it on m rear and it fits there also. On recommendation I bought a Vittoria Randonneur II Tire 700x32. Now it is time to purchase a second tire. Any suggestion? Do you like the gatorskin better? I was thinking of just getting the same to have a match. Never rode on such fat tires on a road bike. 25 is the largest.



sexy
02.25.15 - 2:32 pm

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Hells yeah, fatter the better. I've rode the randoneur (sic) tire myself and loved it. Get a match set! If you want flat protection, I think the armadillos are better than the gatorskin, better sidewalls.





tallcans4tallbikes
responding to a comment by sexy
02.25.15 - 4:58 pm

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is it Wednesday?



sexy
02.25.15 - 8:39 pm

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Thanks to everyone that passed over the pass (and the past) with us tonight. This is what came to pass:



And, for archival purposes since I forgot to post a link to it before, here was the ride description.



theroyalacademy
02.26.15 - 1:42 am

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Thanks to everyone that passed over the pass (and the past) with us tonight. This is what came to pass:



And, for archival purposes since I forgot to post a link to it before, here was the ride description.



theroyalacademy
02.26.15 - 1:42 am

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that was so much fun it didn't even feel like a bike ride.




sexy
02.26.15 - 2:56 am

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sexy
03.4.15 - 7:54 pm

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Thanks for coming out on the tour last night, everybody! Our course:

p289



nathansnider
03.5.15 - 10:08 am

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STAY OUT! don't go here. Passage riders only

http://www.arlingtongardeninpasadena.org/



sexy
03.5.15 - 12:19 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out tonight (and tolerated my haphazard, stammering little lectures). This was our route:



I'll also post some links to more info about tonight's stops on our Tumblr at some point soon.



theroyalacademy
03.12.15 - 12:48 am

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Oh, so I suppose that before this week's ride, I ought to post the route for last week's ride. 'Ere 'tis:

p291

Thanks, as always, to all to came out.



nathansnider
03.25.15 - 3:43 pm

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No Foolin'





nathansnider
04.1.15 - 8:19 pm

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Thanks to everybody who rode with us last night! Where were we headed? Well, we were headed here:

p293



nathansnider
04.2.15 - 7:49 am

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Thanks for making the trek to grandma's with us, everybody that grandma-trekked with us tonight. This was our route:



And, hey, while we're at it, this was the route two weeks ago (which I hadn't posted yet):





theroyalacademy
04.9.15 - 1:49 am

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Who ever knew going to grandmas house could be such a fun route.

I was way too tired to be out there. Thank you to everybody for allowing me to slow you down. I won't let happen again.



sexy
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04.9.15 - 8:57 am

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Thanks to everyone who made it out this week. Our disappointment may have been thwarted by loquats and playground slides, but I guess you can't lose 'em all...

p295



nathansnider
04.16.15 - 10:29 pm

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Thanks to all that tethered their rafts to ours tonight. This was where we floated:





theroyalacademy
04.23.15 - 1:51 am

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Before this week's ride post goes up, I should at least post last week's map:

p297

I believe the final tower count was 11. As always, thanks to everyone who came out!

(and for posterity, I suppose I ought to link to the ride posting as well, like so)



nathansnider
05.6.15 - 3:02 pm

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Thanks to all the scouts at tonight's jamboree. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
05.7.15 - 2:30 am

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Thanks for coming out this week, everybody! Our route:

p299

(and in case you're wondering which ride this was for, it was for this ride)



nathansnider
05.14.15 - 12:32 pm

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Saturday!





theroyalacademy
05.20.15 - 5:03 pm

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Thanks to all of today's climbers! This was our route:





theroyalacademy
05.23.15 - 8:01 pm

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Thanks to all that came out and rode with us tonight! These were our crossings:





theroyalacademy
05.28.15 - 12:58 am

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last week. This was our route:

p302



nathansnider
06.9.15 - 10:25 am

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Thanks to all of tonight's great riders! If you don't know, now you know.





theroyalacademy
06.11.15 - 12:27 am

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BUMP




tallcans4tallbikes
06.11.15 - 7:48 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out for our anniversary ride last week! Our route, consisting of exactly 42 uniquely-named rights of way, looked like this:

p304



nathansnider
06.22.15 - 2:42 pm

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Thanks to everyone that surrendered with us tonight. Destiny is kind of an a-hole, it turns out. But destiny plus a little human intervention yields some pretty nifty results:



(For archival purposes, the ride post can be found here.)



theroyalacademy
06.25.15 - 1:22 am

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Thanks to everyone who came out for our (sort-of) full moon tea party last night! Our heavenly path looked like this:

p306



nathansnider
07.2.15 - 8:16 pm

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Thanks to last night's bunch of braiders. This was our twisted trail:





theroyalacademy
07.9.15 - 6:42 pm

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will you give me an autograph that says

"To Sexy

Whose house I eat at whenever I'm in town"



sexy
07.11.15 - 9:00 pm

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Thanks to everyone who made the grade with us last night! Our many-hill'd route looked like this:

p308

or, in slope-o-vision, like this:

p308_slope

(for archival purposes, the ride announcement is here)



nathansnider
07.16.15 - 12:17 pm

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theroyalacademy
07.22.15 - 6:42 pm

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Thanks to all that came out tonight. This was our route:



(Also, I see that I did get Roddy McD's house wrong -- we were on Brookdale LANE whereas he lived a couple streets over on Brookdale ROAD. No matter, really, as his house was not much to look at anyway.)



theroyalacademy
07.23.15 - 2:35 am

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Thanks to all the budding real estate moguls who joined us this week! Our tour of prospective investments went like this:

p310

Anyone who wants to submit a bid on that 26-square foot parcel may do so here, or view all the available properties here, or just read about the background of the CRA asset liquidation here. To assist you in your due diligence process, you may also want to read up on the Monterey Hills debacle, and the ensuing settlement.



nathansnider
07.30.15 - 5:41 pm

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Thanks to all came detectin' with us tonight, truly. This was our route:



Maps of more filming locations can be found at KPCC.



theroyalacademy
08.6.15 - 1:50 am

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...Realized that I forgot to thank Alexi for sending me his Garmin output. Would've been hard to draw out the route map without that (since it was mostly improvised and rather convoluted and I have a pretty bad memory).

So: THANKS!



theroyalacademy
08.6.15 - 12:47 pm

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Thanks to all of tonight's not-racers! The following was my route. Your route may have varied (several people did at least a couple backwards loops, I know).





theroyalacademy
08.20.15 - 12:39 am

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pi. what will it be? A pi, a piece of it, 31.4 mile route in a circle? will the ride be irrational, transcendental ? a 96-sided regular polygon?

math minded ridazz want to know







sexy
08.26.15 - 7:28 pm

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Nah, we already did pi.

This week is more about the cooking.





nathansnider
responding to a comment by sexy
08.26.15 - 8:26 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out last week during the heat wave. Surely you will want to see the route, which looks like this:

p314

and maybe even the route from the ride two weeks before (this one), which looked like this:

p312



nathansnider
08.31.15 - 4:53 pm

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All went according to plan, thanks to our small and nimble group of riders.





theroyalacademy
09.3.15 - 1:56 pm

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316

for god so loved the world he gave of his only begotten son.

Jesus came to earth and found the bicycle. When it was Jesus's time to take up the cross, he thought no problem dude, I got this. I'll just get me a bob trailer.



sexy
09.9.15 - 6:16 pm

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That sounds awfully complicated. You will probably find yourself overdressed.





nathansnider
responding to a comment by sexy
09.9.15 - 8:21 pm

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OK, so yes, that was more than 30 miles. Thanks to everyone who joined us on our layered, marine explorations. The route:

p316



nathansnider
09.10.15 - 10:22 am

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Ha ha!





theroyalacademy
09.16.15 - 2:15 am

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Thanks to all that came out tonight and helped us corner the market on turns (and inconvenient street crossings!). This was our route:





theroyalacademy
09.17.15 - 1:51 am

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where was the space ship planted?



sexy
09.17.15 - 8:29 am

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I don't want to sound like a whiner but really didn't enjoy the ride last Wednesday. It might have something to do with the fact that I was five minutes late and missed it.



McFool
09.18.15 - 5:13 pm

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It's a bummer that you missed the ride, but we've found that most people (ourselves included) prefer for us to start on-time when we can and then get back a little earlier. Waiting for stragglers often proved a slippery slope.

There's always next week!

BTW, this (along with other things) is covered in our FAQ.



theroyalacademy
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09.19.15 - 7:23 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the highs and lows of last night's ride. Our roundabout route looked like this:

p318



nathansnider
09.24.15 - 11:32 pm

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Thanks to all of tonight's trolley riders. This was our route:



You can find my pictures of the interior of subway terminal building here.

And a nice piece about downtown's lost train stations here.



theroyalacademy
10.1.15 - 1:02 am

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...Oh, and here are maps of the LARy (yellow car) and Pacific Electric (red car) systems.



theroyalacademy
10.1.15 - 1:08 am

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Thank you Sean for a fantastic, fun, and most interesting ride last night. This image was created by my wonderful friend Joe Sidore, an expert on L.A. rail history. You can see that the tunnel was nearly a mile long. It is no longer continuous -- Joe told me that when the Bonaventure was built in 1974, part of the tunnel were eviscerated when the hotel foundation was excavated.



DavidK999
10.1.15 - 10:21 pm

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BTW, won't be seeing you all for about a month because next week I and my brother in law from Thailand start our cycling trip from Columbus & Broadway in San Francisco to my house in Burbank. We'll be taking it nice and easy (as Tina would say) with a few rest days. One highlight will be Refugio Road, which leads (roughly) from Solvang, up the crest of the big ol' hairy hill past the old Reagan Ranch, and then down to Highway 1 north of Santa Barbara. Will post a few photos en route; hope we don't get rained on. Passage on, I'll look forward to riding with you all again in November.



DavidK999
10.1.15 - 10:53 pm

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Alligator Riding



DavidK999
10.6.15 - 10:58 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us this week! Our route looked like this:

p320



nathansnider
10.8.15 - 1:19 am

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Hope everyone had a nice, relaxing ride last night. Thanks for making it out to ride with us. Here's where we went:





theroyalacademy
10.15.15 - 11:08 am

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Left Chinatown, S.F. on the 10th, cycling home. Weather and scenery spectacular, just a few minutes of sprinkles, which was kind of refreshing. Favorite sections have been the coastal bike paths around Half Moon Bay, rolling up to the Santa Cruz wharf amid sparkling sunshine and beach scents, being gifted a carton of strawberries at a massive strawberry farm near Castroville, 17 Mile Drive near Carmel, and coasting 2600’ down Nancimiento-Ferguson Road from the coastal range to SR-1 at Lucia. Right now in Morro Bay, enjoying a day off. Met a Frenchman who’s been cycling the world for 3 years. Next stops Orcutt, Solvang, Santa Barbara. Here’s a shot from Nancimiento-Ferguson Road, peering down towards SR-1 after descending through clouds.



DavidK999
10.18.15 - 9:41 am

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Sounds like fun!



theroyalacademy
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10.18.15 - 10:41 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us this fine, futuristic evening. Our flaming tracks look like this:

p322



nathansnider
10.22.15 - 1:05 am

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Thanks again, Al, for the duct tape that helped boot my tire last night. I appreciate it!



theroyalacademy
10.22.15 - 10:30 am

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Thanks to all that got with the program the other night (not that I followed the program all that closely or well). Anyway, was a lovely night that looked :





theroyalacademy
10.30.15 - 9:55 pm

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Apparently I wasn't careful with my HTML.

The route is here.

(Fingers crossed I typed it correctly this time.)



theroyalacademy
10.30.15 - 10:03 pm

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By the way, if you're planning on wearing clipless shoes on tomorrow's ride, you might consider bringing along other shoes to change into to take full advantage of cave exploration opportunities. It requires a bit of mild rock climbing that may be difficult in clipless-style shoes.



theroyalacademy
11.6.15 - 7:41 pm

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Thanks to all of yesterday's line crossers! This was our route:





theroyalacademy
11.8.15 - 11:42 pm

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Thanks to all who came out last night to experience the cool hands (and arms, and torsos, etc.) of this week's ride, which looked like this:

p325



nathansnider
11.12.15 - 5:57 pm

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On the off chance anyone happens to notice before Nathan has an opportunity to post about tonight again... We switched up who is leading when, so I moved my posting of tonight's ride to next week, when I'll actually be leading.

But there is a ride tonight, don't worry.



theroyalacademy
11.18.15 - 12:33 pm

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Thanks to everyone who rode, hiked and scrambled with us last night! Our route looked like this:

p326

If you are so inclined, you can read some of the history of the house in Runyon Canyon, or see some photos of its current incarnation.

As for the abandoned houses on Woodstock Road, the city has apparently ordered them demolished.

Little information exists on the Laurel Canyon house except for some documents on the city's settlement with the owners and an intriguing (but almost certainly incorrect) property listing, which says that it sold for $100,000 in 2013, as a "major fixer upper."



nathansnider
11.19.15 - 6:42 pm

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Thanks to everyone that rode with us last night. Riding dead ends with my friends was a stupendous way to spend my birthday.

Bummer the cover at the afterparty was so high, but probably good that it dissuaded people on the fence because it was actually SUPER crowded inside.

Anyway, this was our route:



Tangentially related: for more information on fortune cookies, listen to this episode of 99% Invisible.



theroyalacademy
11.26.15 - 4:02 pm

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Thanks to all who joined us on our excellent adventure yesterday! Check it out:

p328



nathansnider
12.6.15 - 3:28 pm

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Thanks to all of tonight's bookworms! This was our route:





theroyalacademy
12.10.15 - 12:44 am

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Thanks to everyone who joined us on our jumbled ride last night! Here's what it looked like:

p330



nathansnider
12.17.15 - 8:27 am

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fuuuuuuuuu

I goTTA get out more.




Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by nathansnider
12.17.15 - 12:24 pm

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who swallowed the baby jesus?



Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by nathansnider
12.23.15 - 5:44 pm

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Thanks to all who joined us on our donut-shaped exploration last night! Our route (and regions of exclusion) looked like this:

p331

(no word yet on when donuts will start being figured into the PNC Christmas Price Index; maybe next year)



nathansnider
12.24.15 - 1:47 pm

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lol




sexy
12.28.15 - 4:42 am

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Fantastic drove videos of L.A. - https://vimeo.com/136228343

Happy New Year all.



DavidK999
12.28.15 - 11:55 pm

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Hey great video there! Anyone know where :34 is at? Please answer with more than "it's on top of the hill."



DArK ENERgY
responding to a comment by DavidK999
12.29.15 - 3:10 pm

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I think that may be the slab near the microwave tower off Saddle Peak Road.



nathansnider
responding to a comment by DArK ENERgY
12.30.15 - 1:50 am

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Yeah, that's it.



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by nathansnider
12.30.15 - 7:23 am

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Thanks, that looks like a must do ride. It's on my list!



DArK ENERgY
responding to a comment by nathansnider
12.30.15 - 2:36 pm

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Thanks to all of tonight's clockspotters! This was our route:



And here's a link to the 99 Percent Invisible story about fortune cookies that I was talking about.



theroyalacademy
12.31.15 - 12:05 am

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Reminder: no ride tonight; this week we once again ride on Saturday.

We'll post details towards the end of the week, when we can better gauge what the conditions will be like and therefore what kind of ride is most appropriate.



theroyalacademy
01.6.16 - 1:17 pm

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Thanks to everyone that came out on Saturday. 'Twas a muddy fine time! This was our route:





theroyalacademy
01.10.16 - 10:33 pm

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Online petition to keep the bike lanes on York Blvd. Please sign is you have a bit of free time. http://fig4all.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=a38b7165a111384f68f515306&id=f85386ffaa&e=d4283af46b



DavidK999
01.15.16 - 4:13 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out last week! Our slice of life looked like this:

p334



nathansnider
01.19.16 - 1:23 pm

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Thanks to all of tonight's perambulators! Our march looked like this:



And sorry to those that arrived thinking there would be bike riding on tonight's bike ride. Next week!

And, David, you can tell your friend that we were both right! The Brown Derby was originally at the corner or Mariposa and Wilshire, then moved to Alexandria in the late 30s, and then to its present location in 1980. (Or, at least, so says Wikipedia.)



theroyalacademy
01.21.16 - 12:18 am

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A reminder, for those who haven't noticed yet, that there is NO RIDE TONIGHT. Instead, there will be a ride on Saturday, the last of this winter's series of daytime Passage rides.

While I figure out what to put in this week's ride announcement, feel free to fondly remember the route from last week's ride:

p336



nathansnider
02.3.16 - 6:17 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out for the ride on Saturday! Our cronutastic route looked like this:

p337



nathansnider
02.9.16 - 1:30 am

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Thanks to everyone who came out to ride with us tonight. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
02.11.16 - 2:59 am

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Thanks, pool players! This was our route:

p339



nathansnider
02.18.16 - 12:34 am

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Thanks to everyone that biked (and hiked) with us tonight! This was our route:





theroyalacademy
02.25.16 - 12:16 am

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Superlative.





nathansnider
03.2.16 - 8:47 pm

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Thanks for coming everybody - you're all terrific! Here was our super route:

p341



nathansnider
03.3.16 - 1:51 am

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That was the SHIT! Thank you Nathan, Sean and The Passage of a few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time.



Roadblock
responding to a comment by nathansnider
03.3.16 - 5:00 pm

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Wow. That ride made Midnight Ridazz great again.



sexy
responding to a comment by Roadblock
03.5.16 - 9:56 pm

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Thanks to all of tonight's prisoners! Tonight's theme started off as just a non sequitur pun -- a pun sequitur, if you will -- but it kinda makes sense now, given how the ride turned out. This was how we served our sentence:





theroyalacademy
03.10.16 - 2:54 am

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Level up!





nathansnider
03.16.16 - 8:22 pm

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Thanks for playing, everybody! This was our level map:

p343



nathansnider
03.17.16 - 10:44 am

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Almost forgot to post this past week's route:





theroyalacademy
03.27.16 - 4:34 pm

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Thanks, everybody! Here's last night's route:

p345



nathansnider
03.31.16 - 9:33 am

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Thanks to ~100% of tonight's riders!

Here's more info on JK's Tunnel.

And this was our route:





theroyalacademy
04.7.16 - 12:29 am

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Thanks to everyone who joined us this week! This was our route:

p347



nathansnider
04.16.16 - 12:04 am

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Spin class





theroyalacademy
04.20.16 - 8:31 pm

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Thanks to all of tonight's reconnoiterers! This was our route:





theroyalacademy
04.21.16 - 1:38 am

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Oh hey, so remember last week's ride? Thanks for coming, if you do! This was our route to the other side:

p349



nathansnider
05.3.16 - 6:32 pm

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Thanks to all of yesterday's middlers. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
05.8.16 - 11:09 am

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Cutting the bass.



DavidK999
05.12.16 - 9:17 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us this week! Our expository route looked like this:

p351



nathansnider
05.13.16 - 6:22 pm

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Thanks to everyone that went shopping with us tonight (and everyone that has bought a t-shirt thus far!). This was our route:





theroyalacademy
05.19.16 - 1:19 am

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last night! This was our route:

p353



nathansnider
05.26.16 - 5:12 pm

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Thanks to all that joined us on last night's ride. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
06.2.16 - 1:33 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last night! This was our route:

p355

And here is what little info I could find on Camp Clarence Edwards.



nathansnider
06.9.16 - 4:33 pm

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Thanks to all who came out for the seventh anniversary ride! The attractions of the landscape drew us to draw a route like this:

p356



nathansnider
06.16.16 - 6:02 pm

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A Passage to an epic and scenic ride..5th Annual Metrolink Metric Century June 18
https://www.facebook.com/events/1328422697174275/



Bulet
06.16.16 - 8:42 pm

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We also didn't see the fire. We did, however, go here. Hopefully that was fun too.





theroyalacademy
06.23.16 - 11:59 pm

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Disco Rd Ian





theroyalacademy
06.29.16 - 12:41 am

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Thanks to all of tonight's riders and especially our "volunteer" leaders. This was my group's route (your route was probably similar, but different):



And this was the ride we covered.



theroyalacademy
06.30.16 - 1:24 am

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Thanks to everyone who helped us map the textures of the city last week! The result looks like this:

p359



nathansnider
07.11.16 - 2:05 pm

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The shirt rocks - thanks again.



mr rollers
07.13.16 - 10:40 pm

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Thanks to everyone that got piste with us tonight. This was our route.





theroyalacademy
07.14.16 - 12:46 am

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Errr, charmed, I'm sure...



nathansnider
07.20.16 - 5:50 pm

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Thanks to all the Sirius cyclists who joined us for last night's ride! Our route looked like this:

p361



nathansnider
07.21.16 - 8:55 pm

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this book may offend some, but it is another pice of the historic puzzle
sexy
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
07.27.16 - 10:33 am

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https://www.amazon.com/Slaughter-Cities-Renewal-Ethnic-Cleansing/dp/1587317753



sexy
07.27.16 - 10:33 am

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I'd say that guy is about as reliable a source of historical objectivity as Roger Rabbit.



theroyalacademy
07.27.16 - 4:13 pm

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Thanks to everyone that sprawled out with us last night! This was our route (lighter line is the Gold Line; darker was riding):



Also, my assertion that San Gabriel Village might've been along a Red Car route was a bit of a Roger Rabbit moment, as far as historical accuracy goes, unfortunately. Not at all the case (they ran nearby along Huntington Dr., Las Tunas, and the current alignment of the 10). Tried to quickly dig up some historical info on the San Gabriel Village neighborhood and came up empty. Anyone else able to shed some light?



theroyalacademy
07.28.16 - 1:17 pm

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Oh, and someone was asking if there was a good map of the former Red Car lines.

This one is interactive (though it only shows the alignments, not the stops).

Here and here are a couple of the classic ones.



theroyalacademy
07.28.16 - 1:26 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out this week! This was our route:

p363



nathansnider
08.5.16 - 2:35 pm

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Thanks to all of last night's cornerers (no, autocorrect, I don't mean "coroners"). This was our route:





theroyalacademy
08.11.16 - 2:16 pm

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Thanks to all who joined us on our bracing ride last night! The route looked like this:

p365

(for reference, the ride announcement is here)



nathansnider
08.18.16 - 4:17 pm

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Thanks to everyone that rode the rails with us tonight. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
08.24.16 - 11:48 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us this week! Our route looked like this:

p367



nathansnider
09.1.16 - 8:07 pm

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Here's last night's route:





theroyalacademy
09.8.16 - 3:14 pm

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Thanks to all this week's beachgoers! Our faraway route looked like this:

p369

And here's some info on Marrano Beach to supplement my rather rambling explanation last night.



nathansnider
09.15.16 - 8:55 am

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Thanks to everyone that came down the chute with us tonight. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
09.22.16 - 12:48 am

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Make a wish...





nathansnider
09.28.16 - 3:32 pm

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Thanks to everyone who went to seed with us last night! Please enjoy the following pressed memento of our route:

p371



nathansnider
09.29.16 - 4:17 pm

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Thanks to everyone that sought some urgent care with us on tonight's ride! This was our route:



And info on that art exhibition can be found here: humanconditionexhibition.com



theroyalacademy
10.6.16 - 1:34 am

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Thanks to all who traversed with us last night! Our route looked like this:

p373



nathansnider
10.13.16 - 7:19 am

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Amen.





theroyalacademy
10.19.16 - 8:21 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out and sampled the city's amenities with us last night. This was our luxurious route:





theroyalacademy
10.20.16 - 4:02 pm

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Rooound here





theroyalacademy
10.26.16 - 3:23 am

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Thanks to all of tonight's islanders. (Though, okay, we actually didn't go to any legitimate islands.) (But close enough.) This was our route:





theroyalacademy
10.27.16 - 1:38 am

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Sean, wanted to bid you goodbye last night but you were conversationally involved in the doughnut line. Thanks for the ride, good fun and good group!





DavidK999
10.27.16 - 11:12 am

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In case I don't get the announcement up in a timely fashion, remember:

NO RIDE TONIGHT

(it's on Saturday this week!)



nathansnider
11.2.16 - 3:30 pm

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Thanks to all the pilgrims who joined us yesterday! Our route to the heavens looked like this:

p376



nathansnider
11.6.16 - 12:04 pm

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A simple but hopefully helpful ride. Thanks to all that came out. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
11.10.16 - 1:48 am

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DavidK999
11.10.16 - 10:20 pm

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Thanks to all who helped us take stock of our overhead last night. Our balance sheet looked like this:

p378



nathansnider
11.17.16 - 10:01 pm

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I hear that passage is very good ride? NO



GermanguyfromtheEast
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11.22.16 - 9:27 pm

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Outta control...





nathansnider
11.30.16 - 6:02 pm

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Thanks to all who joined us last night for our polar expedition! This was our route:

p380



nathansnider
12.1.16 - 7:41 am

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Here is the route from last week:





theroyalacademy
12.1.16 - 11:32 am

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Thanks for the heads up............as I get off the train.



User1
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
12.7.16 - 7:37 pm

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Sorry about that.

Doin’ the best we can....



theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by User1
12.8.16 - 3:06 pm

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Np you guys do a great job. Bummer I cant make the ride Sat.



User1
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
12.8.16 - 10:34 pm

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I guess Im gona be busy riding with a bunch of kids tomorrow. Riding fast 2 blocks then slow for a mile...... then repeat.



User1
12.8.16 - 10:34 pm

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Yeah yeah



Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by User1
12.8.16 - 10:39 pm

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Thanks to this weekend’s small but dedicated group of OC riders. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
12.12.16 - 3:35 pm

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Thanx to everyone who mixed it up with the cruxes last night! Our expedition looked like this:

p382



nathansnider
12.15.16 - 12:42 pm

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Solo cycled some rural areas of northern Thailand last week, it was excellent. Most of the bigger roads have wide shoulders that are mostly used by motorbikes but cyclists fit right in, and when Thai drivers pass they allow plenty of space. Found lots of scenic back roads that were nearly empty of cars. Bought a cheap Samsung mobile and Google Maps kept me on the right track.

[IMG]http://wwww.dkse.net/david/biking/20161210_103024a.jpg[/IMG]



DavidK999
12.21.16 - 1:00 am

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Sounds awesome! Have fun!



theroyalacademy
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12.21.16 - 3:06 pm

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Thanks to tonight’s bowlers. This was the route Nathan and I took to meet you at the alley:



(Pretty exciting, right?)



theroyalacademy
12.22.16 - 12:53 am

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DavidK999
12.23.16 - 11:06 pm

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OK, that is the image I tried to post last week. Thanks Nathan for explaining image coding for this site. Other stretches were far more scenic -- I was having too much fun to stop for photos but that’s what a typical little road in northern Thailand looks like.

In Chiang Mai I did an easy 25KM route with the Sunday Cycling Club. They do a very relaxed pace compared to Passage, or nearly any other Stateside group. Mid ride we stopped at a park for an hour to observe ferns, then rode 10 minutes and did a 1 hour lunch stop. This ride was more social than cycling, though they do more ambitions rides, and some with a historical theme. They didn’t run any red lights at all. Hopefully the photo will also display...





DavidK999
12.24.16 - 2:27 am

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Not Thai-related, but check out this Backwards Brain Bicycle — the handlebars turn backwards. The guy who made the video spent 8 months learning to ride it but after he finally succeeded, he fell down every time he tried to ride a normal bike. I thought the video was hilarious but he also draws some interesting conclusions about how subconscious biases make it harder to learn. Smarter Every Day has a whole series of amazing stuff on science and nature.



DavidK999
12.24.16 - 2:39 am

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Reminder:

No ride tonight, December 28th.

Next ride is Saturday, January 7th.

Have a happy new year!



theroyalacademy
12.28.16 - 5:26 pm

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Again:

No ride tonight, January 4th.

This week’s ride is Saturday, January 7th.

Details forthcoming...



theroyalacademy
01.4.17 - 2:39 pm

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Thanks to the small crew who made it out for our first nautical voyage! Our route looked like this:

p384



nathansnider
01.7.17 - 10:20 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out tonight -- especially those that stuck with it after things got wet (I probably wouldn’t have, if I wasn’t leading). This was our route:





theroyalacademy
01.12.17 - 12:57 am

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Im really hoping and praying to the good satan theres a ride tonight.



User1
01.18.17 - 6:26 pm

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Things are looking up! Announcement going out shortly...



nathansnider
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01.18.17 - 7:33 pm

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Last night’s route:





theroyalacademy
01.26.17 - 11:57 am

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"I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list … But then someone at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And a man on a bicycle blew the condor away."

Steve Jobs



DavidK999
01.30.17 - 2:43 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out and slopped through the mud (and the Valley) with us yesterday. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
02.5.17 - 2:33 pm

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Tonight’s route:





theroyalacademy
02.16.17 - 12:59 am

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Bzzzzzz...





nathansnider
02.22.17 - 7:32 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came out for the ride last week. This was our route:

p391

Oh, and hey, remember the ride from a couple weeks ago? Here is the route for that one:

p389

Here is a bit of info on the decline of the auto industry in LA generally, the Chrysler and Firestone plants specifically and, for added fun, some scenes from a TV movie with helicopters flying around the ruins of the old Goodyear plant (the blimp hangar is visible in a few of them).

Also, remember the Megalomania ride from way back before the inauguration? Here is the route for that one:

p386

Also some info on Alexander, Ruler of the World, a brief bit on the mansion purchased by the daughter of the former dictator of Uzbekistan, the evergreen story of the Hollywood Star Whackers and, finally, some photos of The Source restaurant back in the day. And if you wanted to know what the Source Family’s records sounded like, here’s a bit of that too.



nathansnider
02.27.17 - 3:33 pm

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Thanks 2 everyone who rode with us last night. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
03.2.17 - 6:02 pm

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Thanks to all who joined us on our return to the Emerald Isle last night! This was our route:

p393



nathansnider
03.9.17 - 1:32 pm

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Thanks to everyone that did not heed the soothsayer's warning and joined us this evening. This was our route:





theroyalacademy
03.16.17 - 1:31 am

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Thanks to all who joined us for our commonplace ride last night! This was our common route:
rn
rnp395



nathansnider
03.23.17 - 7:04 pm

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Oh, I guess link tags are broken now too. Anyway, the route is here:
rn
rnhttp://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7043344



nathansnider
03.23.17 - 7:07 pm

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Thanks to all that bummed around the beach with us this week.
rn
rnThis was our route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7046896



theroyalacademy
03.31.17 - 1:45 pm

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Hmm, has the site been (cruci-)fixed? Let us find out...
rn
rnhttp://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=10807
rn
rn



nathansnider
04.5.17 - 8:03 pm

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Thanks to everyone that joined us for our "bike ride" this evening. This was the route of our "bike ride": http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7055392



theroyalacademy
04.13.17 - 2:20 am

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Climbing up a chute in the narrow riverbed at Devils Punchbowl.
rn

rn

rn



DavidK999
05.1.17 - 11:39 am

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Passage bikes loaded with gear for camping on Saturday night. (Except mine, I was a lightweight day rider.)
rn

rn

rn



DavidK999
05.1.17 - 11:56 am

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BEST RIDE EVAR



Roadblock
responding to a comment by DavidK999
05.2.17 - 10:31 am

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Thanks to everyone that joined us for our 400th ride (and 1st campout)! And an especially big thank you to the many people that helped out!

This was our route over the two days: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7067008



theroyalacademy
05.2.17 - 10:34 pm

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theroyalacademy
responding to a comment by Roadblock
05.2.17 - 10:43 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us on last night's exquisite ride. This was our route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7071783



theroyalacademy
05.11.17 - 12:18 pm

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Looks great.



Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
05.12.17 - 3:41 pm

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the lighting especially



Roadblock
05.12.17 - 8:21 pm

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So chill:

http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=10838





nathansnider
05.17.17 - 8:01 pm

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So that happened.

http://gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7081333



theroyalacademy
05.28.17 - 12:55 am

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Speaking of things that happened, here's the route to last week's ride:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7083668

p405

and from two weeks before that, #403, the Vaporwave Mix:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7075831

p403

and before that, #401, our exploration of Three Act-Structures:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7067637

p401

and before that, #399, when we were Breathing Easy:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7059638

p399

aaaand before that, #397, the Crux Redux:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7051162

p397



nathansnider
06.4.17 - 1:02 am

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Yay, Commerce! Our route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7088102



theroyalacademy
06.8.17 - 6:25 pm

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Like sands through the hourglass:

http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=10860





nathansnider
06.14.17 - 6:41 pm

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I DON'T UNDERSTAND



el zilcho
06.15.17 - 8:44 pm

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Thank you to all of last night's graduates. This was our syllabus: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7095559.



theroyalacademy
06.22.17 - 10:55 am

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Last night several of us puzzled over all the loud jets passing over the park, at what seemed like a fairly low altitude. I was curious and did a little research. All those flights were incoming from the north and the west, making their final U turn before joining the westbound glide path down into LAX. I read that they increase power while making the turn and I think they are typically at 3000 feet or less, so from the park at about 420 feet, they are not very far overhead. I marked this flight path image to show the location of the park. If this works.









DavidK999
06.29.17 - 12:35 pm

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Our faraway, so close route from last night: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7102810



theroyalacademy
07.6.17 - 10:19 am

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Our route last night: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7110205



theroyalacademy
07.20.17 - 2:12 pm

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Thanks to everyone that joined us on our little Tour de PR Williams. This was our route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7118165 .

If you didn't already listen to the episode of 99% Invisible about Williams, here it is again: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-architect-of-hollywood/ .

And here is the URL for the Paul R. Williams Project at the U of Memphis: www.paulrwilliamsproject.org .



theroyalacademy
08.3.17 - 10:32 pm

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This week:
http://midnightridazz.com/forums.php?topicId=19218





theroyalacademy
08.16.17 - 7:17 pm

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This was last night's route (to the best of my recollection):
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7126930



theroyalacademy
08.17.17 - 2:11 pm

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Exhaustingly Pleasant:

http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=10897





nathansnider
08.23.17 - 7:37 pm

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Thanks to everyone who came with us to the Ultimate Destination this week. This was our ultimate route:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7134907



theroyalacademy
09.1.17 - 12:11 am

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Bored of looking at a bunch of spam posts? How about looking at a bunch of Passage route maps instead? Like, say, this week's exploration of our mechanical advantages:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7138159
p419

or the one from two weeks ago, when we got the bends:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7130512
p417

or two weeks before that, when we tried to take in all the views, vues, vistas and whatnot:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7122415
p415

or even before that, when we let the terrain choose the flattest/steepest route for us:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7114178
p413

or the one where we adjusted our latitude:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7106881
p411

or the one where Nathan's phone died and we let a chihuahua pick the destination:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7099002
p409

or, way back, the anniversary ride, when we drew a map at 1:1 scale, a smaller version of which is here:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7091514
p407

There you go; no handbags or bootleg pharmaceuticals to be found...



nathansnider
09.9.17 - 7:14 pm

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Thanks to everyone who spent some quality Eastern Time with us last night.

This was our route:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7141788



theroyalacademy
09.14.17 - 1:17 pm

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Here's the route for last week's jaunt (as best as I could remember it several days later):
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7150087



And here's the route from two weeks ago:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7146185



And here's some more information about that 100-year-old concrete marker: http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2017/06/08/57266/hidden-history-is-this-a-mile-marker-in-pasadena-o/



theroyalacademy
10.2.17 - 2:04 pm

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Just like it says:

http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=10918





nathansnider
10.11.17 - 7:38 pm

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Thanks to everyone who joined us last night for all the lazy eights! They looked like this:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7154647

p424

And the comparatively straightforward route from last week looked like this:

https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7151566

p423



nathansnider
10.12.17 - 4:10 pm

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Thanks to all of last night's riders, first-timers and old-timers alike! This was our route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7157592





theroyalacademy
10.19.17 - 6:47 pm

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Heart of Dorkness:
http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=10924





nathansnider
10.25.17 - 8:09 pm

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Thanks to all that toured the ducks and such with us this weekend!

This was our route:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7164423



And I posted links to more info about the various sites we visited on the Passage tumblr:
http://thepassageride.tumblr.com/



theroyalacademy
11.6.17 - 8:27 pm

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Crikey!



Joe Borfo
responding to a comment by theroyalacademy
11.7.17 - 9:08 pm

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Thanks to everyone that joined us for last week's music studio tour. And a BIG THANKS to David Kulka for organizing and lecturing!!!

This was our route:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7168239



If you just can't get enough studio history, read more in these in-house newsletters from David's time back at United/Western: http://studioelectronics.biz/the-urei-urc-newsletters/. And if you poke around his site there, you'll find even more stories and info.



theroyalacademy
11.20.17 - 4:01 pm

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Last night's route:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7172500





theroyalacademy
11.30.17 - 2:28 pm

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Thanks to everyone that went meatballin' with us last night.

This was our route:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7176506





theroyalacademy
12.14.17 - 12:38 pm

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Hello from far away.



DavidK999
12.15.17 - 4:09 am

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Please note:

No ride this week (12/27)


And next week will be the January weekend ride, so no ride on Wednesday, 1/3, either.
Next Passage on Saturday, January 6th.



theroyalacademy
12.24.17 - 11:22 am

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Forget where I left off, as far as posting routes here (and too lazy to check), but this should catch me up...

#431: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7172500
#433: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7176506
#435: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7211409
#437: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7188112
#441: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7200714



theroyalacademy
03.14.18 - 2:13 pm

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Wait, why did I skip #439?

#439: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7214453

Also, here's...

#445: https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7212675



theroyalacademy
03.21.18 - 2:27 pm

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Hey, everybody, just thought I'd acknowledge that we're obviously not really posting each week's ride here any more. There was never any discussion or decision; it just sorta stopped happening. We held out longer than most, but it just really does feel a bit, let's say, "quiet" around here these days and the extra effort has not felt worth it lately.

But we're still doing the ride each week. And you can find out about upcoming ones by joining our mailing list, here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/the-passage-announcements

(Indeed, you don't even have to join the list; you can simply view each week's post at that link.)

And maybe at some point we'll take the time to post here again too. Who knows? We are predictably unpredictable.

Ride on!



theroyalacademy
03.28.18 - 7:18 pm

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Passage #450 = this Saturday

[NO RIDE TONIGHT]

For thee latest:
Join our mailing list, mmkay?



theroyalacademy
04.18.18 - 6:28 pm

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More routes!

#447 - https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7239942
#449 - https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7239947
#451 - https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7231444
#453 - https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7239463



theroyalacademy
05.11.18 - 9:48 pm

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Finally got our website back up to date again!

You can find all our past routes there:
http://www.thepassageride.com/



theroyalacademy
06.16.18 - 11:15 pm

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Thanks to all that joined us last night for our anniversary (and all that have joined us over the last nine years too!).

This was our route:
https://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7259324



theroyalacademy
06.21.18 - 4:52 pm

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Starting up our annual series of weekend rides this Saturday!

Sign up for the details: http://www.thepassageride.com/MailingList



theroyalacademy
11.8.18 - 2:12 pm

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For anyone who's not on the mailing list or otherwise missed the announcement:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/the-passage-announcements/bsqntJZw4Uo

There's no Passage tonight, no Passage next Wednesday (that one is on Saturday instead) and after next June, no more Passage. We're letting y'all know now in case you've been wanting to make it out on the ride (whether for the first time or just more often).

25 rides to go!



nathansnider
12.26.18 - 8:31 pm

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It's happening!

http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=11135



nathansnider
01.4.19 - 7:39 pm

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Thanks for the heads up on your ride I will have to make to one



crossbones
01.5.19 - 6:54 pm

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Gotta get down on Friday:
http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=11156



theroyalacademy
03.6.19 - 8:16 pm

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Good-bye and thanks for all the miles.



vladster
06.26.19 - 7:47 pm

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Talking bikes with Bike Talk:
https://soundcloud.com/biketalk/passageofafewpeople



theroyalacademy
12.18.19 - 1:12 pm

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