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4th Annual Guy Fawkes Bonfire Tweed Ride

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4th Annual Guy Fawkes Bonfire Tweed Ride

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 ~

Route map

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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Comment by Wrongway Pete on November 8, 2012 at 11:40am

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?

Comment by globalguy on November 8, 2012 at 11:14am

And as always, it will be unseasonably, unreasonably warm!

Comment by igz on November 8, 2012 at 8:51am

should have a nice tailwind that day...

Comment by Lisa Curcio on November 7, 2012 at 1:20pm

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?

Comment by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on November 7, 2012 at 12:24pm

I like happy village and skylark!  I have to be in Skokie somehow by 5 pm.  

Comment by Alan Lloyd on November 7, 2012 at 9:28am

Here is the route in Ride With GPS, if anyone (apart from me) wants to plug it into their Garmin, or whatever ...

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1870803

Comment by John on November 6, 2012 at 10:52pm

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 . . .

Comment by Alan Lloyd on November 6, 2012 at 7:41am

Comment by buddaa38 on November 5, 2012 at 5:15pm

I was wondering if anybody had a playlist of music that I could have for this ride?

Comment by Aaron Bussey on November 5, 2012 at 3:59pm

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