Time: November 10, 2012 from 1pm to 11:45pm
Location: Four Moon Tavern
Street: 1847 W. Roscoe
City/Town: Chicago
Website or Map: http://www.thechainlink.org/g…
Event Type: tweed, bonfire, social, autumn
Organized By: BBC
Latest Activity: Nov 12, 2012
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Join British Bicycles of Chicago to celebrate the 407th anniversary of the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot. How? By spiffing ourselves up, riding our bikes and having a bonfire.
We will meander from Roscoe Village to Bridgeport, pausing at Happy Village and Skylark to refresh ourselves and chat. The ride will be capped off with a roaring bonfire at Bubbly Dynamics, thanks to Mr. Owen Lloyd.
One of the best loved BBC rides, it promises a scenic route, great riding companions, snappy dressers and a fire hot enough to melt glass.
Break out your finest winter clothing, strap a log to your bike rack and fill your flask. A golden autumn day awaits you and your bicycle. BYOM (marshmallows).
Come earlier and enjoy lunch if you like ~
Departure from Four Moon Tavern will be at 1:30 pm; Skylark is cash only and you will need photo identification to enter.
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A bit of serendipity here....I've just stumbled across an article from the defunct British magazine, The Cyclist, dated 3 Nov. 1937 on cycling to notable places in the Guy Fawkes story. I'm happy to e-mail this two-page illustrated article in a pdf version to anyone who would like to read it. File size is 914k. Just write with your e-mail address to wrongwaypete@gmail.com and I'll send it along.
Cheerio,
Wrongway
PS: Does anyone know if there's a way to upload a pdf to this ride page?
And as always, it will be unseasonably, unreasonably warm!
should have a nice tailwind that day...
Julie, I cannot do the whole ride, but would like to do some of it. Maybe turn around somewhere with you and head back at least part of the way?
I like happy village and skylark! I have to be in Skokie somehow by 5 pm.
Here is the route in Ride With GPS, if anyone (apart from me) wants to plug it into their Garmin, or whatever ...
Will you wear your hat at a jaunty or rakish angle?
Here is the route map. Departure from Four Moon Tavern will be at 1:30 pm, with stops at The Happy Village and The Skylark. The finest bicycle accessory will be a piece of firewood!
Intriguing Mystery Stop added for après-feu . . .
I was wondering if anybody had a playlist of music that I could have for this ride?
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