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February 27, 2012

Sunday Funday

Did a 50+ mile ride from Mid City LA to Hermosa Beach and back and snapped some photos along the way. [Photos here]

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July 06, 2010

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Monday afternoon on July 5th I was feeling a bit bored. I decided I wanted to ride from Downtown to Silver Lake for a cup of coffee at Intelligentsia. It’s about a 3 mile ride to Sunset Junction and the weather was just about perfect. Before I headed that way I decided to get my legs loose by riding through Little Tokyo, then east over to Chinatown and up to Elysian Park.

Coming down Sunset Boulevard towards my destination I decided to forgo stopping and to continue riding. I was in one of those grooves where I just didn’t want to stop. I figured I would stay close to the Metro red line and purple line in case I got tired and wanted to take the metro back to Downtown.

I got a call from Roel by time I was in Hollywood near the intersection of Hollywood / Highland. He asked what I was doing, I told him I was on a bike ride. I asked if he wanted to join and he responded with “yeah ride over to my place and we’ll ride to Venice”. I told him to give me 45 minutes.

By time I arrived at Roel’s house in Santa Monica I was 21 miles in to my ride. From there we rode down to Abbott Kinney and stopped at where else? Intelligentsia for that cup of coffee I wanted.

We ate at L&L on the way back from Venice as I figured some Hamburger steak, rice, macaroni salad and some Portugese sausage musubi would be a nice meal for my trek back to Downtown.

I stopped by Roel’s house, I smashed a Red Bull, some water and I began my journey back to Downtown where frozen vegetables were awaiting my knees followed by a hot bath. 49 miles of bicycling on a fixed gear track bike. R.I.P. knees.

Along the way I managed to snap some photos of my journey through L.A:

Pre-ride:

Shined up Ronald

Shined up Ronald before my ride