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Mad Max on Bikes: Beyond Bike Dome!

by bikey mcridesalot
A fun mystery ride which found us running from the Bronze, ruling the Wastelands, and having a fun time exploring our community and making new friends!
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§stopping at laurel and pacific
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See, SCPD? We follow the CVC!
§bike church
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We arrived at the Bike Church to bolster our numbers and draw more to our ranks...
§river
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Down River to the Wastelands...
§stopping at the ped bridge
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To congregate and reflect on the horror that lay below us...
§cars
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...the sardines in their cans!
§photo op!
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Amidst the ruins of Santa Cruz, we found an abandoned piece of construction equipment...
§down to the wastelands...
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Looking out across the industrial district
§harvey west
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through the ruins of Harvey West....
§futuristic gladiator match
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Many valiant souls tried to tame the unseemly beast that was this small, poorly maintained bike...
§another rider
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Another brave bike warrior...
§another rider
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And another...
§crash!
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Many tried, and many fell in glorious battle with the bike...
§another rider
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Our stalwart leader conquers the track....
§more track
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Nearly all of us attempted the death bike, and few succeeded in making it more than 20 feet...
§ghosts?
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As we explored the ruins of the industrial district, we were reminded of visages of a life past...
§bikesharks and minnows.
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After the epoxy-clips, the main sporting event is bike sharks and minnows. Those who lost were robbed of their Tri-Flow, and doomed to wander the Wasteland in an H2 for all eternity....
§traveler
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A fellow bike warrior regales us with tales of Mystery Rides past...
§tracks
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Riding back along the rail road tracks
§A beautiful sunset
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As we left the ruins of Harvey West, the sun set brilliantly. Join us every Friday outside of O'Neill's at 5:30- and for Critical Mass, the last Friday of every month at 5:30 at the Clock Tower! Hope to see you there as we advocate for bicycling in Santa Cruz, sustainable transportation, and best of all, make new friends and have fun riding together!
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by cp
I had wanted to go to that but couldn't make it, and I wondered where you would go.
by Aleeeeeya
Spectacular pictures! I love them -- they make me kick myself for not getting out and going! Will you be doing the Friday rides into the Fall? I hope so. This looks like a great time. bonus points to the guy who make body armour from tp rolls! Recycling rocks! ;-)
by What's the point?
why post this on indymedia? How is this news? What's the point? Looks like you had fun, but come on people. This is like the fluff they play on corporate media stations in leiu of real news.
Good Question: How is this news?

Isn't NEWS just BAD stuff that happens, stuff that scares us so that (as Marylin Manson says in Bowling for Columbine) we will consume more stuff to make fear go away.

The REAL news...the future changing news... is that people are building bike fun community....and they are having a good time, and you are invited and maybe you want to join them or start your own bike ride next time.

Is a program which sponsors solar panels being installed on 20 peoples houses in your neighborhoods news? If yes, then similarly 20 people out to party on every Friday nights on bikes with creative art, theater and exercise. This much more news worthy then the number of drunke car accidents on the same night....which is what the sentinal and corporate news will cover....unless you just want bad news....
bad news, breeds fear, by stuff , stuff fear, watch bad news....


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