The Return Of The RIDE-Arc Rides

By
Will Campbell
 – February 2, 2006Posted in: Uncategorized

bike.jpgThe first-Friday-of-the-month evening group bike rides known as RIDE-Arc are back tomorrow after a two-month hiatus. Organized by members of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) community and inspired by the Midnight Ridazz, RIDE-Arc rides tour a loosely referenced architectural theme that rolls its riders past places that have shaped and are shaping our urban landscape.

Blogging.la’s Eecue wrote about the fun he had with the last RIDE-Arc to take place in November. I’ll be doing my first one tomorrow night. Here are the details:

WHERE: The gathering/starting point will be the Mobil Station on the southwest corner of Sunset and La Brea in Hollywood
WHEN: Friday, February 3 at 9 p.m.
THEME: “Sex, Sexuality and Love” – RIDE-Arc founder Alex Amerri tells me “the route is themed around sexuality expressed in architecture (male vs. female buildings/architectural spaces), places that are centered around that ever-present human need to find love, and the variations in expression of love (singles, couple, children, families, (lust?)).”
ROUTE: Roughly 16 miles ending where it started at Sunset and La Brea; a few slight hills
FOR MORE INFO: ridearc@sciarc.edu
ADDITIONAL DETAILS: “There are no requirements of ability or skill to ride with everyone, just bring your own bike! Any bike! Road, MTB, Fixed Gear, BMX, Cruisers, Choppers, Lowriders… even recumbants. Really!! A helmet is a good idea if you’ve got one, but it is optional and we ride safely. If you’ve got a light, bring it lit up – the more the better. No rider left behind! “

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About the Author

Will Campbell arrived in Los Angeles via the maternity ward at Good Sam Hospital way back in the sixty-fourth year of the previous century and has never lived anywhere else, which makes him two things: middle-aged and a native. He can count 16 residences over the course of his nomadic existence as a latchkey kid and deadbolt adult and presently he resides in Silver Lake with his wife Susan, their four cats, three treefrogs, two dogs, and a Russian tortoise named Buster. Blogging since 2001, Will's web endeavors extend back to 1995 with laonstage.com, a comprehensive theater site that was well received but ever-short on capital (or a business model). For better or worse, the pinnacle of his online success arrived in 1997, when much to his surprise, a hobby site he'd built called VisuaL.A. was chosen "Best Website" in Los Angeles magazine's annual "Best of L.A." issue (in large part no doubt because he shrewdly avoided using blinking text which was all the Web 1.0 rage back then). He enjoys experiencing (and writing about) pretty much anything creative, explorational and/or adventurous; is an alternate transportation proponent, a horrible golf player and an OK tennis player. His prefered mode of civic travel is a bike, and he loves all creatures great and small -- especially the ones people can't stand like coyotes, and opossums and spiders and potato bugs. As a rule he carries a camera with him pretty much everywhere he goes. Oh yeah -- And when he was a leeeetle boy he thought he was related to his idol, Dodgers pitching legend Sandy Koufax because they were both southpaws. Secretly he still wishes it were true. He can be found on Twitter via: @wildbell. His email addy is wildbellatgmaildotcom.