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23 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

By the way, what the hell ever happened to the ROT Rally?  I haven't heard of that even in years.  And maybe more to the point, I haven't heard the motorcycles downtown in years.  Is the ROT Rally just dead?

As the above posters stated it looks like it’s been reduced to a meet up one day at a motorcycle store. A weird 1-2  punch 25 years ago to go downtown in April and the bars be dead, two different weekends, because of the events in the area.

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On 8/1/2025 at 2:42 PM, Ghost of LL said:

By the way, what the hell ever happened to the ROT Rally?  I haven't heard of that even in years.  And maybe more to the point, I haven't heard the motorcycles downtown in years.  Is the ROT Rally just dead?

They left when The Chain Drive closed.

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Keep your garages closed!
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Boys in the crime lab are working in shifts solving all these garage robberies.

The combination of a variety of factors with APD quietly quitting and Garza politics and APD’s fight against community accountability is quite the shit show. All too often it seems we have union honks piling on Garza when the reality is we’re citizens in a rudderless city surrounded by jurisdictions that want to kick us in the balls.
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Don't miss your chance at some easy money, courtesy of the city of Austin.

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“Upon installation, the Downtown Austin Alliance plans a barricade ‘beautification’ project to enhance the visual experience and aesthetics of the concrete barricades through graphic design and painting,” the memo said.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-to-install-concrete-barriers-on-sixth-street/

 

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I will say, I like the barricade approach that they've taken.  I'm not an "Old Austin" vs "New Austin" person in that I liked Austin then and I liked it now.  That said, when I was at UT, 6th street had traffic flowing on it and it was fine... plenty of idiocy but not as bad as when they shut down the street to pedestrians.  So, I don't mind this move to make it more permanent.  Bars will adapt.  Now, if we could only resurrect the King of 6th Street 

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33 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I will say, I like the barricade approach that they've taken.  I'm not an "Old Austin" vs "New Austin" person in that I liked Austin then and I liked it now.  That said, when I was at UT, 6th street had traffic flowing on it and it was fine... plenty of idiocy but not as bad as when they shut down the street to pedestrians.  So, I don't mind this move to make it more permanent.  Bars will adapt.  Now, if we could only resurrect the King of 6th Street 

CSB alert.

Back in the mid-90s, I remember walking up a cross street almost getting to 6th when I saw car drive through the intersection down 6th with a dude out of the sunroof pointing a gun at the car behind them. They get out of view and pop, pop, pop, pop. I heard screaming and saw people running. We run towards the commotion on 6th. Everyone is ducking down. Cops are running down the 6th with guns drawn. We get to the scene to see 2 dudes hobble out of a car. One dude was shot in the arm. The other dude was shot in the leg. I remember standing over the leg shot dude thinking, damn, that's a lot of blood.

I believe maybe it was shortly after that incident that they close 6th to car traffic.

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20 hours ago, Deej said:

They left when The Chain Drive closed.

Actually made the mistake of drunkenly walking in there one night. Real life version of a movie scene, drunk dude barges in, everyone turns around and stares at him, needle rips off the record, dude immediately turns around and walks back out. 

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20 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Actually made the mistake of drunkenly walking in there one night. Real life version of a movie scene, drunk dude barges in, everyone turns around and stares at him, needle rips off the record, dude immediately turns around and walks back out. 

"mistake"

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