Notes from the Skrapyard: Custom Bike Frames Shaped by a Drive to Serve
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Their mutual love for bikes gave them a way to help youth, heal themselves, and leave a lasting imprint on the streets.
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Los Ryderz
Los Ryderz Celebrate Six Years of Community-Building in Watts
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It's tough love, to be sure. But the love couldn't be more genuine, and the members of the club have always known it.
“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic
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"I knew where I was," muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway - the heart of East Coast Crips territory, "but I was just riding by..."
Ride4Love Rides Again: More than 200 Cyclists Roll for Unity, Love in Watts
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“This is such a great turnout!” was something I must have heard come out of my own mouth somewhere between 20 and 30 times during the East Side Riders’ Ride4Love last weekend. And it was. I mean, they always get a good turnout. Last year, just under 200 cyclists showed up for the event. But […]
Los Ryderz BC Suffers Setback with Theft of Tools; Still Plans to Ride Saturday for Cancer Awareness
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As he often does, Javier “JP” Partida, president and founder of Los Ryderz bike club in Watts, took some of his club members for a bike ride on Saturday. When they returned from Torrance that afternoon, they locked up the bikes and called it a day. When he came back Sunday morning to work on […]
South L.A. Voices Speak on Link Between the Arts, Recreation, Food, and Social Justice
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“Fun in the sun!” Watts resident William Fabian wrote under the prompt “My South L.A. is…” created by organizers of the Visions and Voices panel, “Food, Recreation, and the Arts as Social Justice and Civic Engagement,” at USC last night. The panel was the second in a three-part effort by USC to engage some of […]