Midnight Ridazz

provenrad Yeah, we should Anglicise the 'Ridazz' to some thing like 'Midnight Riders', 'Pitch-Black Pootlers', or perhaps the youthfully British 'Midnite Riderz'.
Original group was called Midnight Riderz (follow the link). Velocity Boy could never be accused of poor grammar in 'his house'.

I only correct thread titles. Thread titles make us collectively look like dyslexic tits, whereas posts just make the postee look like a dyslexic tit. Besides, it makes the forum more readable when browsing and searching, and is probably good from the perspective of search engine indexing.

I was in SF a few summers ago and saw a big crew go through chinatown, that was pretty sick.

i know this isn't fixed or at night but it went down in liverpool sometime last year and about 400 showed up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7x6kAFa1go

wayne_f14 hippy you're one post away from 5555 .... scary dude

i pondered for a moment how many of those 5000+ posts were worthy and valid contributions to this forum but my eyes glazed over and i fell into a torpid stupor.

5 of them were, he just spent the other ones getting them right

You love it..

okay this sounds good....but i dont think it should eclipse or eradicate the other night rides that have been going on that may be a bit more challenging or diverse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWVxFOx_DQ

docklands was hardly challenging, 9pm-3.30am for what 20km's?! tommy was maggoted and still managed to ride around.

31trum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWVxFOx_DQ

hasslehoff doing a hippy impersonation :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30kYRp6Y68

hehe

dogsballs docklands was hardly challenging, 9pm-3.30am for what 20km's?! tommy was maggoted and still managed to ride around.

dude i know that!i was thinking about future rides that might take in more distance or are more off the beaten track than just central london. I guess if people are up for lots of night rides then thats cool

I'm from LA Midnight Ridazz and headed to London after I get done with The BFF in Rome and Milan. I'd be glad to help start up Ridazz in London, it's great.

In LA it's not really every two weeks, people post rides on the site Midnightridazz.com and they happen all the time. If you go there now and look at the ride bar on the right you see there are a ton of rides. On the weekends we have up to 5 or 6 different rides.

Just curious why you couldn't plan routes in London, do the police actually watch your websites / plain clothes at the rides?

dogsballs docklands was hardly challenging, 9pm-3.30am for what 20km's?! tommy was maggoted and still managed to ride around.

What is maggoted? Have I missed a drug craze? Do I smoke them? I must know...

rather drunk. peterD it wasn't aimed at u ;)

franz Just curious why you couldn't plan routes in London, do the police actually watch your websites / plain clothes at the rides?

There are exclusion zones if it's considered a protest. There are long term applications and bureaucracy if it's a parade. Both require police outriders, and if it's organised then the organiser can be liable for some or all of the policing cost and you need to think about providing things like portaloos, marshalls, first aid, etc.

Basically planned routes are going to have problems. And if they're not reading the site now, they only need to do so once for the game to be up. If you knew how hard they have been trying to shut down critical mass then you'd realise some of the problems the police have been giving people. Thankfully not confrontational like the NYC ones, but on the bureaucracy side it's been near constant.

Now, if you just happen to get together at a place in time, if it's done by the people and the ethos is spread without there being leaders/organisers. If no-one dictates the route (as they'd be a leader/organiser if they did)... then what do you have? Not a parade, not a protest, not anything definable except for traffic. Traffic isn't so bad, the city has a lot of that already.

So what's the difference between this and london's friday night rides...

Friday Night Ride is a bike ride around London. It's a ride for fun, fresh(ish) air and comradeship. It's about celebrating cycling and celebrating London. It's not a demo or a protest. It's not anti-traffic. Whoever you are, you're welcome to join the Friday Night Ride.

http://www.fridaynightride.com/

They have a problem understanding liability and what might happen if they grew to the point that police noticed.

You can't say you organise something in the same breath as saying you take no responsibility for anything that happens. One of those things is true.

Also they can spell correctly.

I can't.

Well, I can. But my typing is horrendous.

I can only type code accurately.

I organised nationwide 500+ all city street jams, taking over city centres, shutting down streets and pedestrian thoroughfares and didn't once look at insurance risks or approach the police for the 'okay'

Just do it and think about it later, who cares about the police?

what are they going to do? Pull you off your bike?

Not you, Midnight Ridazz.

Should be changed to : Midnight Ride.. Err?

velocity boy You can't say you organise something in the same breath as saying you take no responsibility for anything that happens. One of those things is true.

So are you saying we're not organising anything? I'm not having a go, I'm just confused :-S

Looks like the last fridaynightride night ride had 13 people, how many did we have on the bridges ride(s)? Must have been at least 50...

dogsballs rather drunk. peterD it wasn't aimed at u ;)

coolio mr balls

Dont you work....or are you a beer taster or something?

In LA we have organizers for Ridazz, it makes for a more exciting themed ride. Spoke cards or leaflets are put out with the route and we take off. If we were stopped by the police no one would say who the organizer is. Who would tell the police that, or hand them a route card? Basically after the route cards are handed out anything goes, unless there a planned stops or events.

We also have lot's of problems with Police in Santa Monica Critical Mass (westside LA) but they never look for anyone specifically. Besides me, but thats just because I'm the most obvious bastard corking the streets.

PeterD [quote]dogsballs rather drunk. peterD it wasn't aimed at u ;)

coolio mr balls

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i'm a mad scientist, who sits in front of 3 computers, waiting for stupid experiments ;)