Tuesday Bike Night, Trafik, and Pan Ector Present: To Live and Ride in LA

Are y’all ready for the ride tomorrow? I know I am. If you haven’t heard yet, we’re going to be premiering the film To Live and Ride in LA. It’s primarily fixed gear, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t come if you don’t care to see another fixed gear movie. Why, you might ask…because they’ve given us some stuff to give away. We’ve decided to have a nice little race after a very short ride. Winners will get some prizes and stuff.

The ride will still meet up at the UNT Language Building at 9PM and depart around 9:30. I’m not sure what route we’ll be taking, but it will be a short one. The race is a circuit race through a neighborhood that is generally low in traffic at night. We’ll probably do four or five laps, so it’s not too long but there will be some climbing involved. There’s no entry fee or anything like that, so if you show up and do well you can walk away with some stuff.

So come out. It’ll be fun!

8/16: What’s This…A Post?

I never remember to update this, but I am this week. Two things.

1: We’re obviously riding this week, like we have been every week. The movie nights have been going well from what I’ve been told (I’ve only managed to be at the first one). We’re going to keep it going this week with The Bootleg Series 2 and 3, so come out and join us. Like always, we meet up at the UNT Language Building every Tuesday night at 9PM. I’m usually always there AT 9. We try to leave by 9:30, but we’ll sometimes hold off for a few minutes.

2: It’s back to school time. There are new kids moving to Denton to pursue their college degrees and kids who move away at the end of every semester returning to this glorious city, and it’d be nice to get them riding bikes. Starting next week we’ll begin every ride by rolling through campus and advertising the ride vocally. Very vocally. It’s an age-old tradition (by ‘age-old’ I mean we’ve been doing it since I started doing the ride when I was a wee sophomore).

Anyways, if you’re an avid rider and come out and ride every week, do your part and talk to kids you don’t know. Tell them about the ride. Encourage them to come. If they make excuses, counter their excuses because so few good excuses exist (there are only a few “valid excuses;” things like “out of town,” “death in the family,” “test at 8am,” and “work”).

-owen