Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - another messy cm in nyc

unbelievable... tonight i saw a cop run his moped into another cop during "the roundup", & get laid out. guys have no skills on 2 wheels.

?????

pray tell.

edit: nevermind, for some reason my screen didn't show me the part about the cops on mopeds till i'd posted my reply.

carried him away on a stretcher. f'ed up.

lmao.
ps if he had ran into a cyclist perheps it would be an assault right?

Chicago critical mass was messy too tonight! First time ever. I am not sure quite what happened, we stopped to memorialize the location where a critical mass chopper got hit and killed, and it took a long time so we were blocking traffic for a long time. Cops rolled up and tried to move us aside, people were chanting "whose streets? our streets!" That is when a paddy wagon rolled up and the copse told us to leave or be arrested. I just wanted to move along, I think we got hijacked into not moving, or that some cops cut off the front of the ride somehow.

Definitely not as bad as NYC as I've heard, but the CPD is usually exceptionally friendly to CM, why the confrontation now? But i am too drunk too give the story justice...can someone else from chi comment?

I wonder if DLR made the ride..
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/6541/s390rf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

who's that? looks like either an exceptionally ****ty hair metal band or an exceptionally rad thrash band, 80s style.

well...aside from the leather pants. but the bandanas everywhere, and is that a jackson? i'm going to pretend it is, though it's probably a strat.

Do the cops in NYC roll on Segways like they do in Chicago?

Do the cops in NYC roll on Segways like they do in Chicago?

That must be just like livin' in paradise.

who's that?

*shakes head*

hahah a paradise of hilarity. I bust up every time I see a cop on a segway. It's really really funny.

Segways are only downtown though, afaik. Does the CPD have an exceptional ammount of money or what? they have cannondale MTB's, segways, horses, ATV's, cars, paddy wagons, helicopters, god knows what else.

EDIT: CPD does not have mopeds however, mopeds are definitely among the least macho vehicles in existance.

who is that?? omg.. tsk tsk..
Van halen..
wow.. -5.2 billion points for you humancongereel

it's probably a strat.

Don't **** with Frankenstein:

http://www.vintagekramer.com/Ed/guitar-frankredstrat.jpg

That must be just like livin' in paradise.

it's mean streets out there.

DLR = david lee roth

[edit] sorry, been already covered many times.

here are some pics from tonight's CM in Chicago

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28271435@N00/sets/72057594054987111/

The best part? The ladies. Oh, the ladies.

The ladies were about tonight. Did you ever find that beauty from UofC?

oh. i'm not really a van halen fan. i hate both singers, think eddie is a good guitarist, but so much of a showoff he bores me. which is weird, because i like yngwie, and that guy is one of the biggest showoffs ever.

not to mention an a hole

Do the cops in NYC roll on Segways like they do in Chicago?

I saw one, once. a year ago or so. Told him that I'd heard they were illegal to ride on the streets, and he said that they were testing them out with the PD. I guess it never took hold.

I think that might be an oxymoron.



Did you ever find that beauty from UofC?

Better than the IIT "hotties" I am sure.

oh. i'm not really a van halen fan. i hate both singers, think eddie is a good guitarist, but so much of a showoff he bores me. which is weird, because i like yngwie, and that guy is one of the biggest showoffs ever.

OK Buddy, so I can understand that you might not be down with Diamond Dave (!?).

However, Edward Van Halen is a bonafide Guitar God! I am assuming you are at least ten years younger than my 34, but damn son! Please give a listen to any original Van Halen album. Can you say revolutionary? This guy inspired an entire generation of rock guitarists.

Original Van Halen is/was the only hair band that matters.

VH I
VH II
Women and Children First
Fair Warning
Diver Down
1984.

I posted that pic earlier in this thread in reference to:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=169233

**** it, Van Halen is awesome.

1984 was the first album I had that my mother didn't approve of (an angel,...with cigarettes....why do you need that...tsk tsk..lots of dubious looks wondering if her little angel is smoking or on the drugs) And it was the first album I'd ever purchased where I thought every song rocked. I thought that couldn't happen before, you bought an album for the song you liked and much of the rest turned out to be crap. I shortly thereafter bought the older Van Halen albums.

Before VH I listened to whatever the hell my older sister listened to cause I'd not found a sound. VH rescued me from Micheal Jackson, Yes, .38 Special, Duran Duran and similar whatever that she listened to, for that I'll forever be indebted to them.

The ladies were about tonight. Did you ever find that beauty from UofC?

no, new ones. BETTER ones. Long story short, being a Jew pays double.

OK Buddy, so I can understand that you might not be down with Diamond Dave (!?).

However, Edward Van Halen is a bonafide Guitar God! I am assuming you are at least ten years younger than my 34, but damn son! Please give a listen to any original Van Halen album. Can you say revolutionary? This guy inspired an entire generation of rock guitarists.

Original Van Halen is/was the only hair band that matters.

VH I
VH II
Women and Children First
Fair Warning
Diver Down
1984.

I posted that pic earlier in this thread in reference to:

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=169233


you're right about my age (in fact, a couple of years younger--22), but i'd never deny eddie van halen's status as guitar god or anything...he just doesn't do it for me. you know...doesn't move me.

1984 was the first album I had that my mother didn't approve of (an angel,...with cigarettes....why do you need that...tsk tsk..lots of dubious looks wondering if her little angel is smoking or on the drugs) And it was the first album I'd ever purchased where I thought every song rocked. I thought that couldn't happen before, you bought an album for the song you liked and much of the rest turned out to be crap. I shortly thereafter bought the older Van Halen albums.

Before VH I listened to whatever the hell my older sister listened to cause I'd not found a sound. VH rescued me from Micheal Jackson, Yes, .38 Special, Duran Duran and similar whatever that she listened to, for that I'll forever be indebted to them.

i like early yes.

who is that?? omg.. tsk tsk..
Van halen..
wow.. -5.2 billion points for you humancongereel

+1

edit: dad took me to a show during the the diver down tour in 1980 (?) then in 1984 i saw them
at maple leaf gardens in toronto. blew my mind forever...van halen is the jam.

i noticed a certain bike forums member doing some good samaritaning last night at the NYCM. maybe now the cops'll lay off the ride and time's up a bit...

here's a link i just found about the NY ride. it's worth reading.

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002384.php

i noticed a certain bike forums member doing some good samaritaning last night at the NYCM. maybe now the cops'll lay off the ride and time's up a bit...

Oooh... cryptic!

http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/5976/d638dp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

christian hosoi's final run at Del Mar keyhole's pro contest 1985 (?)
anyway, cranking "jamie's crying" as he blasts into 4 or 5 consecutive backside airs...

gives me chills just thinking about it.

Not Hosoi, it's Diamond Dave. Apologies for the goofy sh*t, I just learned how to post pics about a week ago and I'm having fun :D

Not Hosoi, it's Diamond Dave. Apologies for the goofy sh*t, I just learned how to post pics about a week ago and I'm having fun :D

oh, i know thats dave...i was just posting my instantaneous thoughts about seeing dave shredding on a sktbrd. hosoi shredding to "jamie's crying" at Del Mar. is that dave's house in the background of that pic? man, dave was living fat back then...

i like this pic. i used to practice this move in my bedroom when i was 12. oh and there's hosoi at del mar for reference...just two dudes gettin' rad in the U.S. of A. damn i'm hungover today.

Chicago critical mass was messy too tonight! First time ever. I am not sure quite what happened, we stopped to memorialize the location where a critical mass chopper got hit and killed, and it took a long time so we were blocking traffic for a long time. Cops rolled up and tried to move us aside, people were chanting "whose streets? our streets!" That is when a paddy wagon rolled up and the copse told us to leave or be arrested. I just wanted to move along, I think we got hijacked into not moving, or that some cops cut off the front of the ride somehow.

Definitely not as bad as NYC as I've heard, but the CPD is usually exceptionally friendly to CM, why the confrontation now? But i am too drunk too give the story justice...can someone else from chi comment?

That's pretty much what I saw. When the cops started to sort of surround us, that guy in the orange jump suit started chanting. I took off when I saw the paddy wagon. I stopped on a sidewalk a few blocks down to wait for my friend, and cops are yelling, "keep on moving!" and made me move. They were really aggressive and pissed off this time, not like the other CMs I've been to. I don't even feel like we were blocking the streets for that long before they showed up.

THIS THREAD HAS BEEN HIJACKED! NOBODY MOVE NOBODY GET HURT

Nice, can't mess with Hosoi or DD! Dave is working on the radio in NY now and he rides to and from work on his bike! I can't wait to bump into him. Hell Yeah.

Hosoi was my all-time favorite when I was a kid. I used to cut out the Hosoi decks from the ads in the back of Transworld, glue them to cardboard, attach wheels I had ripped out of dinky cars and make ghetto fingerboards.