Spotcovr LA Bike Ride
November 5th, 2007 by huphtur under bikes, photos, skateboarding, webThis Saturday I went on a bike ride with two fellow IRC nerds to contribute to Spotcovr, a web 2.oh site for skate spots, done by Ivo Janssen (keep that kid in check, he’s got some other cool stuff coming out soon).
From left to right: Me on the Riding Nemo fixie. I grew out my beard for extra hipster points. Next up, Dude on his road bike. He’s training for some triathlon and already biked 35 and ran five miles that morning. And finally Stonermike on his mountain bike. He took five bong rips in the morning.
We biked from my apartment to Downtown LA and took all kinds of photos of skate spots. We got kinda lost in downtown trying to find some food, but ended up at some super cheap market food plaza deal. The spots we documented were:
- Belmont High
- Convention Center Ledge
- Downtown Car Wash
- LA Library
- Piss Benches
- Staples Ledge
- USC Ledges
In the end we had some ice cream at Scoops (I had white chocolate and sea salt flavor, which was amazing). Overall we biked about 20 miles and hope to do it again soon, there’s still ton’s of spots to be added to Spotcovr.
November 5th, 2007 at 7:11 am
Just got The Route uploaded to mapmyride.com. Stupid GPX importer isn’t working so I had to install the GPS browser plugin crap.
That was a lot of fun though. We should do it again sometime. Next time I need a bike without clip-in pedals though, that kinda sucks for riding through lots of traffic.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Bikers adding skate spots! That’s classic! But it’s awesome though, these spots are killer. Here’s to Spotcovr tours to come….
Thanks for the shout outs.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Really good and really interesting post. I expect (and other readers maybe :)) new useful posts from you!
Good luck and successes in blogging!