Completism - Saturday, May 18

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What does "regular" mean anyway, when one is talking about...

COMPLETISM

It's a bike ride.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Departing California Donuts #21 at 9pm

The good news: Nathan has re-scouted and the roads for route #400 are clear! The bad news: I (Sean) had to do a bit of a reality check and admit that this weekend is actually a pretty bad weekend for me to be busy all weekend. So, yes, our overnight Completism is  delayed just a tad more: (barring inclement weather) June 1 & 2 are now the definitive dates for route #400. Re-re-mark your calendars.

But, as with the last delay, we will still do a Completism this weekend.* Just perhaps, again, in comparison to the more ambitious previously-planned route, it will be a rather tame affair. On the other hand, it does put us back on doing these things in the correct, original order. And if there is one thing we appreciate around Completism HQ, it is tidiness and order. (Right?)

This month's route then, #386 - Megalomania, is also still rather topical and relevant. Unfortunately. Would that it were not, but here we still are, still dealing with this whole thing. Like the worst version of the movie Groundhog Day. Though hopefully with a different outcome than we were faced with in January 2017. Please. 

(I mean, the ride's theme, if I understand it correctly, expanded out beyond the elephant in the room, sure — but the elephant is still there. And still here. Sigh. Yeah.)

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* Note that this means there will be no Urban Improvisation ride this Friday. And I am out of town next week, so there will also not be a ride Friday, May 24. Nor on May 31, since we're riding that weekend. OUI will return on Friday, June 7. *

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Here's what Nathan had to say about this month's route back in the day:

Dream big, they say. Fake it till you make it. Don't let the haters get you down. This can all be good advice of course, up to a point. It all depends on what sort of big dreams you have, how many people you have to "fake it" to, and whether the haters actually have some really good points.

The conundrum here is that the biggest dreamers can have the most damaging ideas and the least ability/desire to assess their merit. And though Los Angeles certainly has no monopoly on this kind of grandiosity, it does have its own ways of cultivating and institutionalizing it, some of which we will explore tonight, on bicycles.

(about 20 miles; paved; maybe a couple small hills)