May 1st Tweed Ride!

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May 1st Tweed Ride!

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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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 Lisa on May 2, 2011 at 3:13pm
http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/17362111?profile...
Comment by MeganK on May 2, 2011 at 2:46pm
A few videos! I'll put up photos eventually...

Tweedy Trail from Megan Kearney on Vimeo.


Picnic Tweed from Megan Kearney on Vimeo.


May Tweed from Megan Kearney on Vimeo.

Comment by Alan Lloyd on May 2, 2011 at 11:06am
Lisa: feel free to use any of my photos ...
Comment by Ash L. on May 2, 2011 at 8:57am

I mostly just have photos of bikes. What can I say, it's an obsession.

http://www.thechainlink.org/photo/albums/may-1st-tweed-ride

Comment by Lisa on May 2, 2011 at 6:40am

Alan,

With your permission I can post the group picture of us with some Photoshop tweaking to make it look old-timey and artsy. Is that ok with you?

Comment by Carl on May 2, 2011 at 5:17am

Thanks, Alan! And thanks for the photos! Everyone's been asking for them.

Other folks: Please link your photos here, so we can all enjoy! I foresee alot of Facebook profile photos changing in the next day or so!

Comment by Alan Lloyd on May 2, 2011 at 5:06am

Great ride and well planned, kudos to Carl. My photos ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26361775@N02/sets/72157626506286475/

Comment by Doug Haynes on May 2, 2011 at 4:41am
I wish I had been able to join the ride earlier, but even the last stop was a blast.  So good to see everyone!
Comment by Lisa on May 2, 2011 at 4:19am

It was a blast! I'm looking forward to the next one.

 

Please point us to the various photos that were taken if you can! I'm kicking myself for not really taking any.

 

Thanks, and we'll see you at the next one!

Comment by Carl on May 1, 2011 at 4:54pm

Glad everyone had such a good time, and sorry some bums got sore (actually my back is killin me!).

 

And like I said, ALL tweed rides are this fun!

 

I tend to go a little crazy setting things like this up (still can't believe I made 30+ leather widgets), but now the bar has been raised. Expect great things from future rides!

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