Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Midnight Ridazz

Streetsblog Interview: “Retired” Ridazz

By Damien Newton | Jul 17, 2009 | 19 Comments

Photo of the first Midnight Ridazz, including Ma Bell at the back/right via Midnightridazz.com (editor’s note: This interview was recorded last Friday afternoon, hours before anyone was shot. If we had talked afterward, you can bet that would have come up in our conversation.) It’s Friday, and that means throughout Los Angeles, cyclists are gearing […]

Streetsblog Interview: Andres Tena

By Damien Newton | May 21, 2009 | 6 Comments

Back on the bike: Tena after the "Bike Not to Work Day" ride last week. Late one Thursday night, or early on Friday morning depending your point of view, this April an H3 Hummer hit a cyclist, and what followed is a controversy that fuels emotions that rivals last year’s Mandeville Canyon “Road Rage Doctor” […]

Help Roadblock Find the Driver Who Hit Him and Fled

By Damien Newton | May 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

New sign on Glendale Blvd. Late Monday night, "Roadblock" one of the most prominent of the Midnight Ridazz, was rear-ended and left in the street during a hit-and-run assault on Glendale Blvd. As he wrote on Midnight Ridazz: Was heading N. On glendale blvd. Was in far right lane preparing for a change to left […]

Holidays with the Sustainable Transportation Advocates

By Damien Newton | Dec 15, 2008 | 1 Comment

Will Campbell-Claus Delivers Toys at Midnight Then Ridazz in Training Collect Toys in Pasadena Both C.I.C.L.E. and the Midnight Ridazz held and completed their respective charity toy rides this weekend. On the Ridazz front, a few stolen bikes couldn’t stamp out the festivities as literally hundreds of toys were delivered to the Alliance for Children’s […]

Bike Day Saturday: Bike Town Beta

By Damien Newton | Oct 24, 2008 | 2 Comments

The concept is pretty simple. A group of cyclists create and set up booths and other amenities around an already bike-friendly area to create a Bike Town. Organized by Alec Schwarz, one of the famed Midnight Ridazz, the event is simply described as thus: We will be transforming several square blocks into a mini bike […]