May 1st Tweed Ride!
Details
Time: May 1, 2011 from 1pm to 6pm
Location: Red Lion English Pub
Street: 4749 N. Rockwell (not Lincoln Park!)
City/Town: Chicago
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/m…
Event Type: social, ride, tweed, bbc
Organized By: Carl
Latest Activity: May 8, 2011
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Description
Dress in your finest tweedy gear (or at least Sunday best), strap a picnic basket on your steed, and let's ride! This promises to be a delightful spring ride, and if you're not familiar with this part of the city, you'll be quite chuffed at the charming sights along the way.
Everyone who arrives in appropriate garb, receives a commemorative hub shiner or basket medal, handmade from leather. Spandex queens and hipster bores shall have none.
We will meet at a dandy English establishment - the Red Lion - for some pastys and chips. It's BYOB, so be sure to have your picnic basket packed for the journey. (there is a libation vendor at Rockwell and Lawrence, and a green grocer -Harvestime- one block west of there) Then at 2 o'clock sharp, we shall ride leisurely through urban countryside, over hill and dale, to a delightful place where we shall nosh and drink from our baskets! Along the way, shall be more parks, Chief O'Neills, a stroll on a riverside boardwalk, and then finally rolling into the Anglo-friendly Globe (with whomever managed to get out of O'Neills). Those who need to return to the starting point, but are too exhausted, may shuttle their steeds on the Lincoln bus.
Here's a map of the general route.
Comment Wall
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Comment by Ed on April 26, 2011 at 10:45am
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That hub shiner looks great.
I remember having those on our bikes as kids.... worked great on keeping the hubs shining.
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Comment by globalguy on April 26, 2011 at 9:42am
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Stuff the Wedding, Fight the Cuts!
Over at Slate:
Of all the annoying things about the royal wedding—the crass materialism, the outrageous invasion of a young couple's privacy, the bad TV—none is more troubling than the occasion this event gives for the non-English to transform themselves into besotted Anglophilic wusses.
More here!
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Comment by Doug Haynes on April 25, 2011 at 7:46pm
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Wonderful, I shall see you all there and work hard to keep up; maybe I'll work in tweed.
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Comment by Carl on April 25, 2011 at 7:43pm
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last stop is The Globe. See ya there!
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Where is the ride planning to be around 6 or so; I am going to be working until then but would like to join the ride, or at least drinking, after.
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Thanks Garth! It's been alot of work, but I like the results. John supplied the hardware.
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WooHoo looks fantastic!
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Here's the finished hub shiners / basket medals:
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Map and details are up!
Weather is *supposed* to be good!
Tweed swag in the works!
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Not on this one, my good man! There will be well-paced dry-out periods (otherwise known as 'riding') involved.
And if some folks get left behind, then that's what cabs are for ;)
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