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.
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Comment by Alan Lloyd on April 11, 2011 at 11:19am
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Sometimes we ride so far off of the back, to be cool, that we don't make it out of the first or second bar!
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Comment by Carl on April 11, 2011 at 11:17am
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Although tweed robot outfits ride right up front, and get a free round at the first pub =)
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Comment by Robot Gabe on April 11, 2011 at 10:36am
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Thats ok. I'll have my flask to keep me company. Plus all the cool kids ride in the back.
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Sure, bring the Frenchie, but just like Harley club rules, non-Brit bikes have to ride in back and you'll be given a tweed cone of shame to wear... ;)
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Looking forward to meeting many of you at the Tweed Ride. I'll be heading solo but ready to tip back a few pints. My bike is French, so I hope that's allowed. :-)
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Comment by Ed on April 10, 2011 at 2:43pm
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Maybe we will even get to more than the 2nd stop !
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Nice! Bring one to go with your flask, Garth!
Alan, That's exactly what we'll be doing ;) We will forge on till the end. "No bender too severe, we shall persevere!"
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Now THAT is a commemorative mug I'd like to have!
And have you seen the "Drink Beer & Carry On" spoof of the "Keep Calm ... " design?
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Comment by globalguy on April 10, 2011 at 11:51am
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Don't forget
your commemorative marital mugs!
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