Pretty thorough story. Follow the link for the bulk of the story, lists
of other midnight groups and LA area CM-style rides.

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Midnight Ridazz are bound to keep on riding

By Liam Gowing, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

10 p.m. on a dreary, drizzly Friday, and it looks as if it's turning
into one of those gridlock-filled evenings for which our city has become
sadly infamous.

Traffic along Echo Park Avenue is backed up from the Echo Lake boathouse
all the way to the 101. And along this serpentine stretch of road sits
an improbable number of idling vehicles -- first dozens, then perhaps
200 or 300 -- all waiting for the light at Sunset Boulevard to offer
release. Finally, with a flash of green, they come to life in a
synchronized swell, inertia overcome not by petrochemical combustion but
by mitochondria and muscle.

It's no ordinary traffic jam, of course. It's Midnight Ridazz, the loose
network of bicycle enthusiasts, rogues and hipsters who have helped
foment a cultural revolution in L.A. since 2004. Along with Critical
Mass -- a multi-city bicycle "event" founded in San Francisco in 1992 to
promote cyclists' rights by taking the streets once a month at rush hour
-- Midnight Ridazz and its growing diaspora of bicycle clubs have been
pushing the envelope of what it means to be traffic, to the delight and
fury of residents and officials.

More:
http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-gd-cover6dec06,0,1527407.story?coll=cl-
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