PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN - sat may 9 2009!

Team Midnight Ridazz is having an awesome art/food/bike event on May 9th, 2009! Come on down!

PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

Images from the LA BIKE SCENE

Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time: 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Location: The Bike Oven / Flying Pigeon L.A.
Street: 3706-3714 N. Figueroa
City/Town: Los Angeles, CA

Come out and check out the fabulous photography and art produced in LA's bike culture. Select pieces will be available in exchange for donations. Amazing art by some of Los Angeles' most talented underground photographers will be available for your enjoyment and acquisition!

All proceeds go to sponsor Team Midnight Ridazz, who in this year's AIDS/LifeCycle are riding 545 miles (from San Francisco to LA) to fight HIV! Come on out and support, this is a great cause.

Vegan catering will be by DOOMIE'S Home Cookin' - that's right, LA's famous vegan comfort food master will be doing his thing right here.

The Bike Oven's Spoke'n Art Ride will be finishing up at Pics Or It Didn't Happen on this night. Check that out for even more galleries to visit on your bike, and there's even a ride over from the westside.

Tell your friends who are into photography, art, bikes or vegan noms! Spread the word on Facebook or check out the listing on Midnight Ridazz.

Get Your I BIKE LA tees this weekend!

Team Midnight Ridazz will be all over Los Angeles this weekend to make sure you can get your fabulous I BIKE LA t-shirts. We'll be at The Ride With No Name on Friday night, and CRANK MOB, The ALC Day On The Ride, and the Palms Cycle BBQ on Saturday, so come see us and come get one!

Each one comes with a spiffy matching spoke card with which to adorn your bicycle and our sincerest thanks for your sponsoring us!

There's just six weeks left until we ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles as part of AIDS/LifeCycle 8, and we still have a lot of fundraising to do.

These look and feel great and have special AIDS-fighting powers - each one you buy directly goes to helping those in need as well as prevention and information services at the forefront of the fight against the HIV epidemic.

2009 official I BIKE LA tees!

Team Midnight Ridazz is producing wearables for your bod. And they're delicious. They're the all new 2009 Official I BIKE LA shirts.



Ain't that awesome? They're just $20 and come in sizes S to XL and any color you like as long as it's black. Each one comes with a fancy limited edition laminated spoke card telling you how awesome you are for joining in the good fight.

ALL PROCEEDS go to the fight against HIV/AIDS via AIDS/LifeCycle via Team Midnight Ridazz.

Tell your friends! They're available starting this weekend. The team will be exchanging shirts for HIV-fightin' dollars at the Long Beach Bike Expo, San Diego Custom Bicycle Show and Prix Body Adornment in West Hollywood for the Ink-N-Ride Tattoo and Bikes FUNdrazor.

Yeah. It's getting crazy up in here. I'll have these around for sale for the next two months or until they run out! Ping us if you want one or know someone who does.

ALC8 Training Kickoff Ride

We had a great turnout for Team Midnight Ridazz at the AIDS/LifeCycle 9 Training Kickoff Rides at Griffith Park on Saturday. All told, about 20 folks consisting of previous team members, new signups, riders curious about joining us, and supporters, came out to ride in addition to all the other teams and individuals.

It was great to see so many familiar faces again and to have three folks convinced after their ride to register to do ALC with our team. We also had numerous folks who are interested in coming on our training rides and making up their minds later, which is also great.

Some of us did the Category 2 ride which was a 20 mile double loop with a short climb in the middle, and some of us did the challenging 35 mile climb of La Tuna Canyon. The purpose of the Category to ride is to extend casual riders into going maybe a little further than they've gone before.

We'll be hosting many more training rides in the upcoming months in preparation for that 545 mile ride in June next year. If you would like to come along and try it out and see what we're about, keep your eyes peeled to this blog - we'll post all the rides we are organizing here and on the midnightridazz social rides site.

Photos by Mike (seen registering here!)

ALC 8 Kickoff Training Ride!

That's right, we're doing it again! After a successful ALC 7 Ride in June 2008 from San Francisco to Los Angeles where we raised over $55,000 to help fight HIV, Team Midnight Ridazz is reforming to do it again in 2009!

We'll be at the Griffith Park Training Ride Kickoff on Saturday, October 25, 2008, and invite you to join us to get a taste of the ALC experience.

Maybe you'll want to join the team after this! The kickoff is a great place to register for the ALC because you get $20 off the registration cost which is usually $75 (but of course if you just want to ride with us, that's totally free).

Come on out and support! See the training calendar for more details about Saturday's ride.

Dark Century III

Ah, the epic insanity that was Dark Century 3. Certain memories from our journey come to mind. Like pedaling through a flooded underpass tunnel with water so deep my feet had to go completely underwater to continue pedaling. If the biking endlessly in the rain hadn't made your feet wet yet, that sure did. Singing songs in a half delusional state of mind. The god send that is 7 Eleven, even if they had the worst croissant I've ever had in my life. Seeing a bat take shelter with us under a bridge as we took a breather.


The Dark Century always attracts a certain detected few in the cycling community, but last night especially brought out only select mentally deranged individuals, of which I am included.

Meghan from our team completed the ride with me as well, as her first century. Less then ideal conditions for a first time, but she hung in there. Also out there was Mark, who rode strong all night. I'm sure riding with the Wolfpack helped, and he was on his sweet new Bianchi. Randy started the ride, and went for a good stretch, but was having trouble and took the blue line home. It was an absolutely crazy night, and bailing was probably the smarter thing to do. It was an honor to be in such good company with everyone there, on the most enjoyably miserable bike ride ever. Dark Century forever.

-Gary