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How does the "online source for Chicago biking" have very little to do with the Late Ride?

Are you hipsters too good to participate in such an event?

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I don't quite see the problem. if late ride organizers wanted to talk up the late ride here nothing is stopping them.
Every night can be a late night ride.
Obvious troll is obvious

Yes.  Next question.

Jesse-  Thanks for joining the community.

 

The ride was on the calendar and was mentioned in last week's email that goes out to the entire Chainlink community (5500+ people).   

 

I did have a few people hand out bookmarks at the event to cyclists they met, but you are correct that we did not have an official presence or table like other organizations. Next year I hope to do more.

 

 

 

While a worthy effort, Friends of the Parks does absolutely nothing to support bicycling-- cyclists are only there to suck money from once a year.

FOTP president Erma Tranter was candid enough, in a 2008 interview in regard to a possible Velodrome for Chicago, to give a hint of FOTP's true feelings about bicycling:

“A velodrome in Douglas Park? I mean, who is going to use it? No one uses a velodrome in the city of Chicago."



 

 

Jesse Juwana suck it !?! ;-)

there are calendar events for multiple rides on here everyday. none of them say more than they need to for each event, including the L.A.T.E ride.

it's is very ignorant to insult an entire online community b/c you did not find them all to be 'talking, discussing, obsessing' over one ride.

every person on this site has different riding interests.

perhaps if you didn't find the information you were looking for on here, you should have checked the promotion cites from Active Trans and Friends of the Parks.

 

 

I was there as a volunteer.

 

Not every cyclist on this site is into participating in the same type of activies. The late ride tends to draw a more suburban and weekend warrier type crowd. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I hope you went and had a good time. Thats really all that matters right?

That's why I don't participate or volunteer a bunch of people drive downtown with bikes pay money to ride through the city, it's sponsored by corporations with (at best) questionable environmental practices. It's like cleaning up a park once a year on Earth day or planting a tree then not watering it is going to do any good.

Ride a bike to work, support your local bike shop, volunteer at the forest preserve THAT will do more good.



jen said:

I was there as a volunteer.

 

Not every cyclist on this site is into participating in the same type of activies. The late ride tends to draw a more suburban and weekend warrier type crowd. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I hope you went and had a good time. Thats really all that matters right?

1) the LATE ride organizer could have easily reached out to the chainlink community thru many different ways.Maybe they didn't want hipsters at the event.I volunteered to help load packets for the race at finkle & sons on both July 5/7 and there was over 7 volunteers on both days,who are on the chainlink.
I'm not interested in the Late Ride because I ride around Chicago at night all the time, but I probably would have volunteered if I'd noticed that someone with the ride had posted here asking for help. (Maybe they did and I didn't see it?) I've done that for several Active Trans events, including ones I'd have no real interest in participating in, because they engage with 'the community' and because they let people know when they need a hand. These aren't hard things to do and when an organization doesn't do them I suspect there's a reason for it.

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