August Midnight Ridazz Comes to My Part of Town

Friday, August 12, 2005, at 08:51PM

By Eric Richardson

The August Midnight Ridazz was tonight. The theme was Tron, which I was pretty excited about. Not excited enough to actually figure out any sort of costume, but excited none-the-less. I had patched my front tire earlier today, so I was all set to ride.

Turns out the ride, or at least the part I was on, went through Downtown. I wrote about that over on blogdowntown. We went down Hill Street, then took a pass through Central City East, and finally circled the Caltrans building a few times. Then it was back through the 2nd St. tunnel to Echo Park, which we circled before just hanging out for a bit.

I show 14.93 miles from leaving my apartment to my return. Average speed shows up at 9.3mph, but I can't say if that's accurate; I did a lot of speeding to the front and then stopping to either take pictures or occassionally to stop traffic while the ride went through.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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