Hey you just clued me in to the fact that I have a myspace thing. Totally forgot. I heard it was an awful, hateful place, Myspace, so I thought I better check it out. Then I never went back. Someone looked me up while I was gone, now I have one friend!

sigh...I always wanted a friend

Mr.Hermann, weren't we supposed to go cruise some parking garages? But yeah, check out HBMA on myspace. We got a ride on. sombreros for the first 20. I'll be your friend Sam...

oh man oh man. you guys want to make me move back to Houston so much. I would if I didn't have this darned girlfriend. haha.

Anyway, I'll be back in a few months, I'm terrible at relationships and H-town is my home. I probably wouldn't have left had I known you guys existed. Seriously I rarely saw a road bike (outside of Memorial park) and the only fixedgear I ever saw was the rattlecan-paint gold one locked often outside of Helio's.

aw shore

I see some lone fixies in the crime-free Montrose, passing by a place where I work on Mondays on West Gray. When I see a group ride its always either been roadies or MTB riders. I am just starting to ride again after being in a no-fun rut for a couple of years; no group rides yet for me yet, and I have yet to take my fixie on the street. Rudyard's does seem to be a mecca for those on two-wheeled transportation, whether bicycle, motorscooter, or full-sized motorcycle. I believe a manager there rides a pink Stella motorscooter with a matching sidecar. Westheimer is one mean street!

haha at first I was like "crime free montrose"?! But then I thought about the catholic university neighborhood, the ritzy west alabama area further west, etc etc
I used to spend many nights (literally) sleeping out at montrose/westheimer! sometimes sneaking into apartments to find a wooden deck or something to sleep on. beats dirt anyhow.
I remember once riding through Bellaire, Rex, and I found a huge ****ing book. didn't know what it was but later read the entire thing and it was a biography of Marvin Zindler!!!(from Eyewitness News!).

I wondered if someone would comment on the "crime free" part. There was a DJ on K101, which for years was the major rock station in Houston, who always mentioned that he was broadcasting from the "crime free Montrose." Of course, back then, in the 80's, it was wilder than now, though the intersection of Westheimer/Montrose is still a hub for street kids and other homeless folks, and, yes, a certain level of crime. The Taco Cabana on that coner is sometimes called "Taco Cannabis" by a friend of mine, which caused me to laugh for quite a while when I first heard him say it.

Some of use med center folks hook up on wednesday night for a quick 20 up and down braes bayou and then to rice village. Fun ride.

i get my stitches out of my foot tomorrow
so i'd be down for an easy ride (my left leg is still tiny as all
get out and my ankle still can't handle hard skidding or sprinting yet)
later this week. i stay in mid town so i can hit up pretty much anywhere in the loop
within a few minutes.

anyone going downtown to watch the "houston grand criterium" this weekend (or next? i forget).
it seems kind of funny.

Yeah the Crit is this Sunday. https://www.houstongrandcriterium.com/

Wednesday the 17th is the Ride of Silence. Starts 7 pm at the zoo parking lot.

How does a pubcrawl or something sound for the weekend of the 20th/21st?

Edit:Would love to go to the Crit, but drinking with the in-laws... I mean hanging out with my in-laws has priority.

Which med center folk might you be? I'm on a red fuji with bullhorns and usually I hang out at crossroads cafe on the weekend. I see a fixed every now and then, unless I'm riding with my messenger friends. Cinco night was great! We all had sombreros and went riding around the Montrose area. We hit up Cecil's, Catbirds, and Rudyard's. We must have been a sight to all that were in the bars when we came in, and also to those on the street when we rode by! Lotsa cool people, I'm glad it all came together. One of the ladies that rode with us is a member of the Houston Roller Derby. Hopefully we'll have more rides like that. I'll have to add a big +1 to riding outside the loop as being the suck. My regular riding buddy just got back from China, so I'll be able to do my usualy evening rides to UH, Downtown, and back to the Village. I just met a nice lady from Atlanta who'll be going to UH in the fall (she noticed my fixie and commented it was the first she saw in H-town). she wants to start up Critical Mass down here. Dunno how that will work out, but hey, I'll give a hand.

20th is also a Houston Roller Derby bout at the Arabian shrine on N.Braeswood by Kirby. It would be cool to get a ride going and then end up thereabouts.

Burn, I will ride with you sometime. Do you know Dustin at Rudyard's (gray Surly)? I've ridden with him and his friends before.

That sounds like a good idea for the 20th.

And yet another thing going on this weekend, the Art Car Parade.

yeah i know dustin. i've never really ridden with him.
actually, i've never really ridden with anybody in town
since i moved back, but i've only been back on the bike for a couple weeks
here and there so...

i ride the silver/yellow polrad, if you see it/me around, say hi.
i'm totally up for pub crawling around the 20th or so.

what do you mean "start up" Critical Mass? Last I was aware there was one. Well really it was us pack of punks and mostly just an extension of the Food Not Bombs/ Earth First! group of kids. I even remember indymedia marking our rides on the calendar.

Noriel,
Its Jason, after the MS I picked up to junkers to "fix." I havnt been on a ride since, got real sick last weekend and hope to be vertical be the end of the week. I might sell the Jamis and ride around town/train on the fixie and the other junker ride with the wife. Next wednesday 17th we roll!

Noriel did you ride over to the Roller Derby thing? Thought I spotted you in the crowd. They were actually showing high lights on TV last night.

Nah, wasn't me, musta been another guy with a hawk. We had good times this weekend, too much beer, too much sun, and too much beer again. If you're on the street and hear a mini siren, that's us signaling you to come in. burn, if you were out on Saturday, then I think we saw you was your mini-u in your back pocket? Jason, hope your fixie is okay, and that your chainline is straight. Get better and we'll ride again.

Go Psycho Ward Sirens!

yeah i was out on saturday. went to the art car parade with
my dad then rode all over the place, loitering everywhere i could think of.
mini lock in the back pocket and yellow/silver frame, porbably me.

i saw a few people riding around the parade area that looked like i should have talked
to...next time.

Burn how it that leg feeling?

Just curious, does anybody know the route for Wednesday's Ride of Silence? Just in case I'm running late, I know where I can jump in at.

what I got from Rideofsilence.org:

Houston
Contact: Chris Holmes <--Send email
Distance: 10 miles
Notes: This is a West Houston ROS. We will begin our ride from the 24hr fitness at Saums and Fry road just north of I-10. We will head south for about 5 miles and turn around and come back.
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Houston
Contact: John Lewis <--Send email
Distance:
Notes: Herman Park/ZOO Parking Lot
Ride Route: 1. Exit the Herman Park Zoo parking lot and follow Golf Course Drive to Caroline St. (on the east side of the Museum - designated bike route) 2. Turn right onto Caroline St. Follow Caroline to Alabama. Turn left on Alabama for one block then right onto San Jacinto Street and take San Jacinto into downtown. 3. In downtown, turn left on Congress and left again onto Fannin to return. 4. Exit Fannin with a left turn on Ewing Street then right onto Caroline St. 5. Turn left onto Golf Course Drive from Caroline St. and follow the Golf Course Dr. loop back to the Herman Park ZOO parking lot. Riders of all abilities are welcome to join the group. Several hundred are expected to participate this year. The ride rolls out of the parking lot promptly at 7:00 pm so be sure to arrive early

let's ride all day on saturday...

What all did you have in mind? I might be able to hook up in the afternoon.

Yeah, let's do the parking garage ride that was being talked about a few months back.......

ah!! we should streak sprint through the galleria...but yeah man it'll be like the video for "bad" except on bikes...its gotta be at night too, and fast.

so what the hell is anyone up for tomorrow?