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Permalink Reply by Vilda on March 30, 2011 at 5:31am

Oh John. Don't do this to our ears or the bike community. please...

Permalink Reply by Dubi Kaufmann on March 30, 2011 at 7:38am

Do it. I think it would be awesome.

Permalink Reply by Todd Allen on March 30, 2011 at 7:46am

I watched the video and the car love aspect is pretty horrific and it would be good to counter it with some bike love.

But I'm not sure one would effectively counter a 13 year olds notion of the coolness of riding around in  the cars of their older friends with much younger kids riding around on bicycles with their parents.  Seems to me that a more effective counter would be from older riders such as Critical Mass,  or Midnight Marauders.

Anyway, if other KM'ers want to do this, count me in so long as I don't have to sing or do anything excessively embarassing on film...

 

 

Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on March 30, 2011 at 7:54am

Good point, but I'm going to be busy this next Mass and young kids doing this would be really cute. I will

probably show up next Saturday with my guitar, mic, cord and stand (can I use your trailer for sound?).

I'll check in with you later in the week to confirm. Otherwise we can do this at Palmer Square the following week.

 

Thanks!

 

John Greenfield

Permalink Reply by BalloonBiker on March 30, 2011 at 8:09am

As usual, I agree with Todd. I don't think that doing a parady with young kids would do anything to make riding look cool.  It could even serve to make biking seem like something to be grown out of.

 

We could surely write a much better song than "Friday."  Critical Mass would be a really good tie-in since it is a Friday activity.  Even better would be a more normalizing bike video.

 

Of course, the most important factor is finding someone young and attractive to be the actual star. That's how pop stars are made, isn't it?

Permalink Reply by Todd Allen on March 30, 2011 at 10:33am

John, thinking more about this, the Palmer Square ride would be a much better choice then the Uptown ride.  First the turn out is likely to be much better and it will be a more experienced group and a lot of the people there know you and will be more inclined to participate and help out.

In Uptown we are synchronizing with the Cyclelogical event and don't have flexibility on the ride departure time.  Before the ride I expect many will be inside for the safe riding presentation and when that ends we need to get rolling asap to make it back on schedule.  It might be possible to do it after the ride, but some will likely leave immediately and others will go inside for the event closing party/swag give away.

Doing it during the ride would also make much more sense on the Palmer ride.  It tends to go very smoothly because it has a high percentage of repeat riders.  The Uptown ride will have just a few seasoned volunteers and they will have their hands full with leading, sweeping, corking and making sure all the 1st time kids aren't racing ahead or veering off into traffic, etc.

 

So in closing, you can use my bike sound system, but I can't delay the Uptown ride for you or guarantee anyone will be available to participate before or after the ride.  At Palmer there's time to find people to do this before or after the ride and if there is interest there's the capacity to do it during the ride.

Permalink Reply by karen furlong on March 30, 2011 at 11:45am

Hazel, Louisa, Kevin and I will be at the Palmer Square ride on April the 9th.  We'll get there at 10:30amish (ride starts at 11am) to participate in said video project.

Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on March 30, 2011 at 12:25pm

Cool, Let's plan on doing this at Palmer Square.

I will be there from 11:00 - 11:30 sharp since I have to go lead another ride after that.

So let's plan on just doing one or two quick run-throughs of the short song.

Todd, if you want to shoot some footage of the ride itself, maybe this can be spliced

into the video.

 

Thanks!

 

John Greenfield

Permalink Reply by Todd Allen on March 31, 2011 at 3:36pm

10:30 would be better.  The ride usually heads out at 11:00.

John Greenfield said:

Cool, Let's plan on doing this at Palmer Square.

I will be there from 11:00 - 11:30 sharp since I have to go lead another ride after that.

So let's plan on just doing one or two quick run-throughs of the short song.

Todd, if you want to shoot some footage of the ride itself, maybe this can be spliced

into the video.

 

Thanks!

 

John Greenfield

Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on March 31, 2011 at 5:16pm

Great, 10:30's better for me as well.

Todd Allen said:

10:30 would be better.  The ride usually heads out at 11:00.

John Greenfield said:

Cool, Let's plan on doing this at Palmer Square.

I will be there from 11:00 - 11:30 sharp since I have to go lead another ride after that.

So let's plan on just doing one or two quick run-throughs of the short song.

Todd, if you want to shoot some footage of the ride itself, maybe this can be spliced

into the video.

 

Thanks!

 

John Greenfield