Lazy.
For certain you have seen the Disney Pixar masterpiece Wall-E wherein a plucky robot who was left behind on earth after it was abandoned by humans for being too trash-filled, falls in love with a different robot and followers her up to the space station where humans now live in a futuristic paradise.
All needs are instantly met, convenience and ease the priority. Humans spend their days gliding here and there on powered La-z-boys having solved the problem of exerting energy. Very much like humans on today’s e-bikes.
But oh is the e-bike a pestilence in your town? It is in mine with Wall-E-adjacent chunks speeding here and there, ripping down paths, barely moving their legs. Carrying the same rotten attitude as road bikers without even beginning to earn it.
Very gauche.
And rumor has it that in San Clemente a local Orange County e-bike maker is petitioning the city council to install charging stations down at the bottom of the path leading to Lowers.
Imagine the horror. Rich children, Mayhems affixed, flying at 20mph on mommy’s latest gift. Spoiled adults, feeling like environmentalists, Mayhems affixed, running over those fated to amble. The Lowers path becoming a choked freeway of gross incompetence and entitlement.
Extremely gauche and I can’t really imagine anything worse.
Can you?
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That time back in the 80’s when some kook got the State of California to issue him a permit to run a for pay Tram operation from the top of the Trestle trail down to Barbwires/Uppers. Thank god the Uppers crew put a stop to that bullshit and beat the shit out of the guy, convincing him he had made a horrible business decision. How times have changed.
I’ve just introduced a bike to my surf commute. What a revolution. I’ll be going out more often for sure now. Definitely not an electric though.
A total beater of a shit old MTB with a home-made board rack.
Dudes come down with their fucking 5k + Santa Cruz electric bikes carrying SUPS etc.
I personally think it’s ‘bad’ for some inarticulate reason, but what do I know. I’m just a sour old cunt.
Who knows. It doesn’t mean anything.
JS’ affixed
That’s not easy, but Chart house was not open for lunch in my day. Have to admit, had no money for expensive lunches….
Just let the homeless camp on the trail down, it’ll be like Waianae boat harbor.
Fooling around on the course, bad language, smoking grass….poor caddying!
Want to get replaced by electric golf carts, just keep it up.
Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.
I remember taking some kids from LA to Lowers…. my buddies kids. Mid 80’s.
The trail was almost a nature walk aside from the cement and graffiti.
Birds chirping, weeds everywhere… it was these kids first trip into “nature” from the South Bay.
Oh the innocence of that era. Uppers packed with locals, Lowers empty due to a longer walk and no good left at that point. No bikes beyond Barbwires. The two dead dogs on the tracks over the creek. (Man that one head lasted for months!).
The left got good after 82′-83′ El Nino winter Hip. Sounds like maybe one too many doobies puffed on the trail fogged your mind.
E-bike for two years, great invention, board rack, cruise up beach a few km north Moilets, surf alone. Cruise back, pedal home.
Love that movie hell yeah BBW APOCALYPSE
imagine how many cakes you deliver if you went electric.
I say put in hundreds of them and just give up Trestles to the masses. You know what you are getting into if you paddle out to that shithole anyway.
Great idea Barrelled!!!!!
Maybe like those rental bikes/skooters all over the cities!!!!!
Trestles is already so fucked up.
20 years ago it sucked. It’s a black hole now. Tell me I have to walk across the desert to surf K-38 I’ll do it. Walking to Trestles? FYOU! Can’t punch people out there any more.
True, true, twas better when you had them Marines to do the dirty work for you.
Perhaps they’ll install a T-bar or magic carpet like on the ski slopes.
Or an airport travelator…
Now you’re talkin!
Out to the lineup?
What’s wrong with walking?
And don’t get me started on cars, let alone Teslas, bloody microwaves, build a fire under your wood stoves you spoilt soft colonial terrorists
old 44 gallon drum in the living room. what more do you want. when it burns its way through the floor just grab your goon bag and follow it down stairs.
Works for the locals
No one would ever wipe poo on those cords, never ever ever.
Haha! Yusssss! That’s the spirit!!!!!
Was Wall-E the inspiration for the Chas/Asston bromance? True, theirs has been a stormy relationship, but there’s still time for a happy ending. I just know it!
FUck Ebikes!!!! You go Chas!
Although LaZyboys would be funny, be a mess in the sand.
And the arrogance of fake petalling??!!
Can’t even imagine hiking down the Trestles trail with morons buzzing by you faster than we used to skate.
And fuck Mayhems, fuck Biolas and fuck just for the sake of fucking.
Trestles local. How do you live down there? Sound on for full nauseam.
https://www.instagram.com/p…
Its not the vehicle that’s the problem, its the person using it.
And I haven’t tried petalling (or fake petalling) yet but I’ll have to give it a go.
Relax and take a rip Itchy Scratchy.
I just saw 2 docos on downtown LA, SF, and Seattle.
The pinnacle cities of progressive society.
You can keep that shit, don’t call it progressive, cause its not, its so fuked up, anyone who supports the CALI govt should be shot.
California is a huge place. Unfortunately due to bearable outdoor weather for homeless people and lax drug laws it has attracted drug addicts from across the country to sleep on the streets and panhandle. Nobody is going to be a homeless drug addict in Michigan, where you get a felony for drug possession and it’s cold as fuck .
I’ve been to Europe Hawaii. mainland mex. Nothing beats Nor-cal for the geography of the state.
It’s a mega rich state
So so wealthy, run by liberal progressives for a long time now. 60 blocks of tents downtown, makes the favelas look comfy
Epic Fail.
I went to high school with Gavin Newsom. He’s pro business, and more middle of the road. The big cites are a small part of California and anywhere twenty miles inland are no different than Kansas. Gavin knows this.
YOu mean President Gavin 2024
Yeppers. Playing both sides of the road.
gunna happen, get on board with the train or it leaves you behind!
You can tell it’s been his goal for years. Sucked up to trump during covid to not piss off the right.
Didn’t suck up… dude knew that he needs federal assistance and Trump with holds money and services on a whim. Knows how to play and get what he needs done. Say hi for me.
Ha! he used to live six houses away from me before moving to Sactown.
Does he prefer indica or sativa…. pretty established I prefer indica.
You know a dude named Muir that runs a famous skating shop in Dogtown?
Jim Muir, Mike Muir’s brother, Suicidal Tendencies.
bingo!
Ran into a dude, ancient friend, who owned Bronze Age, then founded Von Dutch… nearly homeless now and fucked up on something…. usually I’m good at diagnosing drug addicts. Anyways, told me to drop his name at Jim’s shop for a bro deal. Told him that I got hurt skating last week, not that I wanted a new skate. Sad as fuck C415…. you move away and it’s hard going back and seeing the decay.
Hurts to hear about a descent into hell like Kevin Reed. Last I heard he’s living on the streets. Maybe it’s gotten better for him. Jay Adams etc. Seems like the most creative are susceptible. Some of my best friends too.
Hard drugs is tough way to live.
Jay was always sketchy and not creative.
Story is about Ebikes at Trestles and Chris Mc Elroy shaped immaculate boards, RIP.
Have a 6’0″ roundtail in a warehouse in Newport…. the lady that bought my last business moved and didn’t tell me to come get it and others…. dayum. I’ll intro myself and see if the new tenant is cool with my in his/her attic. Like a hippy museum I suspect.
Agreed. I’ll save my thoughts for a story on the fragility of surfing genius instead of E-bikes. Something that anybody who has been around for a while knows all too well. I have a feeling I’ll be waiting a long time for that one. It’s all about Koa “unboxing things” apparently.
Unfortunately C415.
My crew in HS turned 18 and one by one…. inheritances, stipends…. cocaine. Fucking hated it. Lost souls. Arrogant and lost. No interest in daytime anymore. Sadder than sad. I turned my back instead of confronting them. Will carry that with me forward.
I jumped the gun above in the thread. I was one brother removed from being correct. What a band! I’m unashamedly a worshipper of that whole era in LA of surf/skate/punk and it’s influence. I even gave a speech on the LA punk scene once in a history class in high school. Surfing and punk were not cool then so I was mocked – probably rightfully so, footy jocks were never gonna get it.
Yea wasn’t very accepted in the early eighties by jocks. So many good bands back then. You could go see four bands in a hole in the wall club for a few dollars. The Adolescents, Minor Threat, DRI. Suicidal Tendencies. etc. there were punk scenes in certain areas of the U.S like The SF Bay Area. Upper midwest. (Husker Du, Big Black). D.C(Minor Threat) the southwest(JFA. Butthole Surfers, The Minute Men ). All kind of grew, and then bands traveled on tours to other places.
Man that whole era of music is my dna. I was a kid then but had good older influencers/tormentors and watched so many skate and surf vids it just implanted into me and I’m sure a whole generation of fuckers around my age.
D.I. and Agent Orange among all the others you’ve mentioned are still on high rotation.
I’m stoked to hear from someone who seen it first hand. It’s like a history book come to life!
I worked in the skate industry from 86- 95. and shared houses with skate and snowboard pro’s along with filmers. My best friend made a skate vid called Sick Boys” around 87.
See, it was hella fun when Republicans ran the joint.
Now theres no man to stick it to
Just other people
Raygun. JFA, a band I listened to stands for Jodie fosters Army. Because Hinkley was in love with her and shot Reagan to impress her.
BOOM!!
You need the yin and the yang.
Not people jerking off in the street with impunity
Dems have ruined all the big cities with their kindergarten cop approach.
Gee, who coulda seen that happening?
Deblasio
We are safer now that we emptied the jails.
Black dudes behind him nodding and smiling behind their masks…
Faaarken idiot
Fuck man. What an era.
Quick search and I’ve got my you tubeing down for this evening. Verbal Abuse, another gem of a band listed in the description.
You ever see Slayer back in the 80’s by any chance?
Never saw slayer. Was more into thrash music than metal. Big Black from the upper midwest.
ah who was the bass player in Suicidal tendencies???
In the eighties it was Louiche Mayorga but there is a more recent one that just died. Tim Williams.
Jerry Clark.
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
sick man, post it!!!! history is us.
Haha long lost! From memory I threw it out after being laughed at in class.
Hard to find a good Indica high now, everything’s a hybrid. The story of the chem line is an interesting one. Four seeds found in a bag of four hundred dollar weed sold at a fish concert in 1994. The fourth seed was never cracked until the early two thousands. Was an indica pheno, unlike the other four seeds. Strong as hell indica high.
Anything with “Afghan” in it is true indica. GOod Day Sir!
Good one!
Surely that’s Mike of Suicidal Tendencies fame. In my mind, there’s only one Muir from LA.
brother is legendary DT dude, runs the skate shop for the west side. cred.
and ST’s bassist…is a surfer …Rob?
Trujillo. Yeah indeed. Local folklore has it he hung out getting waves last time Lars and the boys were out.
Yea Yosemite, Eastern Sierras, Tahoe, J Tree, Bishop are basically Kansas… Newsom is an archetypal politician aka cunt… Excellent hair, mediocre brain, only in power because he sucked up to Getty… Completely overstepped his authority in the pandemic
He made tough decisions when the Fed abdicated their duty, dropped every ball. Was not easy on Governors so that the Chump would make them take any fall.
Dude had a job to do and acted. Monday morning QB’ing is fine and should be done, full edit, but there was no National Response. None. Humiliating. Desperate.
Gavin stood at the plate and swung. Chump spoke lies and ducked while bailing his board, again.
The French Laundry thing was not helpful.
Big deal. I didn’t like their menu and ate at Filippi’s Pizza Groto an hour after I left the business meeting!!!
There are good resturaunts that are a fifth the price. Mustards is good.
WAsn’t the price, I wasn’t paying. I got a pork tenderloin in an amazing sauce, but it was like two ounces and raw in the middle…. ? Everything was too over designed. And small. I don’t drink wine so I think I drank water. Made my client happy, drove back to Napa to pizza and craft beer on tap. Hell yeah.
Now Coles steak house in Napa is fucking top shelf.
Owens Valley, one of my favorite places on earth. Grew up going on backpacking trips and fly fishing over the big Passes to the high Sierras from there. Gavin seems to be looking ahead to 2024 and a presidential run for sure.
You really think his bureaucrat tech speak gobbledygook is going to take anywhere else in the country? He might not get recalled but his political career is cooked.
The only business he is in favor of is his own businesses and his auntie’s
Recall Newsom – sign here: https://recallgavin2020.com/
worked in downtown LA last two days…. fucking mess in the rain and the new Favelas are tent cities spanning the fences that line the freeways. A messes mess.
How embarrassing.
Mortifying. Human disgrace.
I thought Chas was from California!?
Chas likes wine spritzers and cheese cake.
He is from Oregon, lives in SoCal. I am sure he would claim California as home. Chas?
Read the article again, and then my question.
Nice to see such “conservative” thoughts expressed so radically.
So 2 docos makes a Sydney based POME an expert on California society and geopolitics? Bahahahahaha!
You live in California Minor POME.
Just so that we don’t turn into Mongrels around here, I think you meant Pommies.
Don’t want ben chiming in with a spelling lesson and sticking around for a few hundred comments.
Actually its POME, Prisoner of Mother England.
Oh, thank you….
All these years I’ve been using the minor insult for the English and never knew it was an acronym. Makes sense. But I’d definitely never considered us Aussies to be POME’s, head of state notwithstanding!
Pretty sure it’s an Aussie term so def not saying Aussies are Pommies. But Bexy is a POME through and through. He just lives in Sydney and wants to be a Seppo.
You are correct
It’s Pommies
and you are a pommy!
Plural yes but you are a POME.
It’s a privelage
soap dodgers
De nada
Fuck e bikes! Lowers is already overrun by exactly the people you described. Charging stations definitely won’t help the situation.
If the salt in the air doesn’t ruin them the people will – give those things less then 24 hours to live at Lowers!
“Extremely gauche and I can’t really imagine anything worse.
Can you?”
Yeah, reading this.