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Southbay Cruisers
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Categories: Local Flavor, Active Life [Edit]
Neighborhood: Hermosa BeachPier Ave
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
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5 reviews for Southbay Cruisers
Warning: BIASED
Hehehe, I'm an assistant organizer for the group :D
Well I found this group on Meetup by accident last April, rode for the first time in May 2008 to a Roller Derby match. I have not missed a major ride since! This group is just awesome, everyone is very welcoming, there is always something fun to do, and there's always music.
The best part is that there are rides for everyone. Fast-paced rides down the beach, the medium-paced monthly theme and bonfire rides, and slow-paced morning rides.
In the last few months the group has really expanded what it has to offer - going from a once-a-month night ride led by John, to having several assistants leading day and night rides almost every week. We also ride in several different cities of the Southbay, not just on beach. And there is the exciting musical addition of the Southbay Bicycle Music Festival.
I hope to stay with this group as long as it rides.
I've only been on one SBC ride. It was an AM ride on a cool and rainy morning.
The cruisers are great people and John puts together a lot of rides for a good cause.
I'll be sure to update when my fear of 'night riding' is conquered!
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Local flavor at its finest! Southbay Cruisers is a wonderful way to explore the neighborhood, meet the locals and burn a few calories. Each ride is themed with hand picked music--and costumes are optional. That's right, I said music and costumes, but that's not all! Rides also include pit-stop games, and sometimes bonfires, karaoke, piatas, or musical performers. The people who make up this group are friendly, too. There's no pretense, all ages and fitness levels are welcome, and I guarantee that even as a new comer you'll feel like part of the pack, within 3 street lights or less.
For me, one of enjoyable parts is witnessing other people's reactions to a horrid of cyclists riding to music and wearing funky clothing. It's priceless! The community loves it! When they see us coming they cheer, dance, hoot and holler--and all want to know, "What's going on??!!"
If you'd like to more about what's going on, visit http://Southbaycruiser... or join the mailing list, info@southbaycruisers.com (spam-free).
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My friends and I joined the Southbay Cruiser's on 12/21 for their Holiday ride from the Hermosa Beach Pier to Candy Cane lane in Torrance.
We showed up with our canned food and toy donations for the Richstone Family center and got a kick out of seeing the way the SBC's had gotten all decked out for the ride. There was a santa claus, a guy with Christmas lights on his tire spokes and a woman with a light up baby Christmas tree mounted on her head and others had decorated their bikes with tinsel.
Before we knew it we were OFFFFFFFF heading south on the strand following John S. who was blaring a fun instrumental version of Wham's "Last Christmas I gave you my heart" on the boombox attached to this bike. We turned at 22nd St and rode down Hermosa Ave towards Redondo Beach and then cut on over to Torrance where we arrived at Candy Cane lane where we took a short Hot Chocolate and Water break as we enjoyed the festive lights and decorations of the neighborhoods.
I was surprised by how nice everyone was and how much they all watched out for each other. When anyone would slow down and stragglers would fall behind one or two people would head back to check on them and at times the group even stopped to wait up. It was a wonderful holiday event for my girlfriends and I. We try to do something "Christmassy" every year. We enjoyed waving to people and wishing them a Merry Christmas. We encountered pedestrians, police officers, people on their balconies, honking cars... It was good clean FUN!
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This is a community bicycle group that rides through the Southbay on the third friday of each month. I've been on a number of their rides. I actually help organize them, so admittedly I'm a little biased here. What happens on a Southbay Cruiser ride? Well I guess you can ask, what doesn't happen on a Southbay Cruiser ride? Our rides aren't really traditional rides-they're social rides. We cruise through neighborhoods on our bikes, skates, rollerblades. We stop in random parks, hit pinatas, sing songs, dance, hold mock races in vacant parking lots along the way, dress up for different themes, sometimes we even have live bands perform for us. Some other things we've done: hula hoop & limbo contests, fire dancing at Dockweiler Beach, and drum circles. We've even had a Who reunion concert in a vacant park in Redondo Beach at our '60's Bicycle Love Ride. We don't race, we're a social ride. We have custom made bicycle stereos keep the beat goin' along the way.
We were originally inspired in part by the midnight ridazz, http://www.midnightrid... , a downtown LA social ride group that now has spread it's influence nationwide. See the Public Access Documentary "No Rida Left Behind' for more on the Midnight Ridazz.
Who comes to these rides? Anyone who can respect the communities we ride through. You have to be willing to want to have fun too.
These rides rock! If you live in the southbay, or even if you don't you have to come to one sometime. Why? Because there's more to life than being stuck in traffic, in your car, by yourself, on a friday night.
http://www.southbaycru...
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