June 10, 2006 12:04 am
That Time Of The Month Again…
Posted by Will under biking
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If it’s the second friday of the month you know where I’ll be: pedelating and picturetaking out and about through the night and among the hundreds of other Midnight Ridazzez. Hung out pre-ride with Mr. Roullier and along the way bumped into Eric Richardson and his fiancee Kathy , Jillian and L.A. Alternative’s Evan George, who I’d just seen last weekend when we did the cover shoot for the current issue of the newspaper. No sign of Sean Bonner or his bud Michael. Too bad, because they missed out on a sweet flat route down to the South Central Farm and back, where actress and farm advocate Darryl Hannah was out among the farmers cheering us on. Dedicated lady.
At the end of the ride a jovial looking lad came up to me asking if I was “the wildbell.” After answering in the affirmative he told me he was Dave and had enjoyed reading my blog. When he saw the name didn’t register with me he said he’d left a few comments along the way, but it was only after he headed off in search of Silver Lake that I realized it was Dave. My apologies to him for being a tad flummoxed. I’m still getting used to this concept of people not only reading my deathless prose but also picking me out in a crowd.
Anyway, pix of the Midnight Ridazz are here.
June 10th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Silverlake, Echo Park, wherethe FamI? What do I know about these obscure corners of LA?
Before the ride , while staring at the huge throng of people, I thought, oh boy, this is going to be one real circus of a ride. But it was great and a lot of fun. I went with flow on the return and made it back to Echo Park easily. Little did I know that the flow was up hill all way.
Its always interesting to meet people you’ve only read about. I’ll see you next month.
June 10th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Yeah I chickened out at the last second, it had been a VERY long day and a week of just getting back into riding was catching up with me and my shoulders were hurting something fierce. When Michael told me he wasn’t gonna be able to pull it off I took that as a sign and bailed myself. I’ll have no excuses next time.