Amlings Cycle Holiday Toy Ride

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Time: December 14, 2012 from 6:30am to 12pm
Location: Niles to Chicago
Street: 8140 N. Milwaukee Avenue
City/Town: Niles
Website or Map: http://toyridechicago.com/
Phone: 847-692-4240
Event Type: cycling, social, charity
Organized By: Amlings Cycle Shop
Latest Activity: Dec 15, 2012

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A bicycle Marine Corps Toys for Tots Ride! Join the winter fun and give a toy or toys to kids who might otherwise not get one.

Please go to the web site and register! Just saying you will attend will not register you with the shop.

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Comment by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on December 10, 2012 at 12:55pm: OOps, I mean ride Milwaukee northwest to Oakton.

Comment by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on December 10, 2012 at 12:54pm: There are limited support vehicles offering rides back to Amlings which should have been noted on their website when registering. I broke a drive side spoke on last years ride and I couldn't use the carrier because I don't have a quick release axle so they found a way to fit my bike inside the van. The nearest transportation is the Metra Northwest Jefferson Park Stop and the CTA "L" Jefferson Park stop. Just ride Milwaukee southwest to a little north of Oakton. The bike shop lights will be on. There are Pace busses from the Skokie Yellow line on Dempster and there are busses that travel Oakton but I don't know the schedule. Fortunately I live about 4 miles west of Amlings. Make sure you set your alarm or just stay up because the ride leaves at 6:30 AM when it is still dark so make sure you have an operating headlight. By the time we get to Mystic Celt it is daylight. Donations must be logged and tagged so don't get there any later than 6:00 AM.

Comment by David Barish on December 10, 2012 at 12:30pm: I am not sure about public trans to Amlings. You will have to check. I ride to the event but many will drive. There is not a ton of parking but its very early and you will get a spot at that time of day. You can ride back to the shop after breakfast. There will be some people riding there. You can check with Joe Reichart of Amlings to see if a ride is available back to the shop.

Comment by Kara on December 10, 2012 at 12:17pm: I am interested in doing this event but am worried about getting to the starting line. How do people get out to the event... Do they ride up there or drive there? I am normally fine with longer rides but it is cold and early :-). Is the public transit easy to take to that area (from Chicago) with a bicycle?

Comment by David Barish on December 10, 2012 at 6:19am: Doug, as a disc golfer, I understand. I would have never used that term on a disc golf board. However, in the general public, I use the essentially generic term which is Whammo's trademark. In fact, I have ultra light Gateway Magics. Had I used the term Gateway Magic or flying disc I suspect I would have had a lot of quizzical replies and perhaps a few WTF's. I apologize to Dave McCormick (of Gateway) for failing to use his brand name and using that of a competitor. A competitor that is in fact a very marginal player in disc golf. However, the public perception is still otherwise. They are around 120g and will be good for kids to play catch. I used the term frisbee rather than disc so the casual reader would understand what I had. Band Aide, Kleenex and Xerox along with Frisbee and others all made their brands so ubiquitous as to become essentially generic terms. I agree we should be careful using these terms to represent a class of products.

Back to the thread...no batteries, no parts to lose, no air to pump. These will continue to be toys until the kid loses the disc or he/she throws it at a school wall with great snap on a zero degree day and it shatters.

Comment by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on December 9, 2012 at 9:55pm: Were they made by Whammo (TM)? Otherwise they are flying discs. If I am asked for a Band-Aide I will bring Band-Aid (TM) brand disinfectant, not fair to Curad (TM) which, I assume refers to adhesive bandages. What is Kleenex (TM)? Is it toilet paper, napkin, or facial tissue? What about the other brands? Jewel has Jell-O on the sign on the cieling. What about Knox (TM), or Royal (TM)? or Jell-O (TM) pudding? I thought it was gelatin. In the seafood department there is walleyed pike which is genetically impossible. The Walleye is in the Perch family and the Pike is in the Pike family and they cannot cross breed. Not all cars are Fords and not all aircraft are Boeing. Never use brand names in that context.

Comment by David Barish on December 9, 2012 at 2:21pm: I am bringing a bunch of frisbees. They will never run out of air. They are lighter and made for kids.

Comment by Lisa Curcio on December 8, 2012 at 3:56pm: Looking warmer (upper 40s as a high and starting in the upper 30s) according to the latest forecast. I have Dominoes, a combination chess, checkers and backgammon game, and will get out one more time this week to get another game along the lines of the ones Doug suggested.

Comment by 1zt7hr8qm0y90 on December 8, 2012 at 7:08am: So far a temp of 41 is predicted. My donation is a game called "Beat The Parents" where parents or other adults try to answer questions kids should know and vice versa. I'll be pulling my B.O.B cargo trailer.

Comment by Lisa Curcio on December 7, 2012 at 3:32pm: Forecast holding up so far. Seems unlikely to be any significant snow.