The Bike Bandit

I've equated bike riding at midnight to a lot good vibes music gives you.  If you roam the streets on Marquart in La Mirada, California at 12:00am you'll find that there's this very vibrant erie feeling that attracts a good ride on a bike accompanied by some solid music to give you soundtrack. There are the street lights that shine the road ahead, but truly what inspires me to come back every night is the sense that you never know how beautiful something really is until you plunge out of bed and discover some of most exciting features that are really closer to normal than abnormal.

If you turn onto this street it feels like a deserted two lane street, but if you really look with heart you will find that the whole street down to the park and up it's hill is lit up by a strong row of dozens candle lit poles. The only other fascination of an explanation I can use to describe it is Disneyland or some amazing dock/pier lighting I picture in my dreams about a london photograph at night.

I have to say the most exciting part besides my extreme imaginations is the ride down this hill where the world is silent and you are speeding down this runway. You start slow and you speed until you grip the handle bars cause you are going faster than you can even pedal. Then the sudden thought comes... 

Let's ride in the middle of the road. How about we swerve to the right and the left lane like we own the street. Why not?

I imagined that some of life's high points musically must be the ones where we clash between how hard we can work vs. how much we enjoy the ride on this current that we ourselves cannot control. Maybe it's what we can't control that bring us thrill or it's maybe it's the trust we put in the moments that bring us glory.

Life is cause and effect... but it's also sprinkled with grace. So if you are ever in the time of day where you can't find that freedom or outlet. Try a bike ride when the worlds asleep with a little of your most enjoyed music and find liberation knowing that sometimes the things we can control are far more rewarding than the things we can't. 

-Bike Bandit