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 Carl on April 30, 2011 at 7:19am

Doug - we shall forge on to the Globe regardless.

Julie - come early and tweedy, or "no soup for you!" :\

 

Hey another Nazi reference!

Comment by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on April 30, 2011 at 6:31am
I plan on starting on lees ride and meeting up....or maybe other way around, haven't completely decided yet.....
Comment by globalguy on April 30, 2011 at 6:10am
Nothing says British May Day quite as much as pig bristles, burled wood, and mention of Nazis!!!!
Comment by Ed on April 30, 2011 at 4:13am
But be ready to ride the route in reverse Dug....keeping an eye out for inebriated well dressed riders swaying down the road on old bikes. 
Comment by Doug Haynes on April 30, 2011 at 3:05am

You guys better make the last bar this time; I want to see everyone!

 

Comment by Carl on April 30, 2011 at 2:45am
Hey, I wanted to point out, -if you haven't already figured out from the map - we'll be picnicking less than an hour after the Red Lion, so save room in your gut for your basket goods, or try what I plan to do, and fill your basket at the Lion.
Comment by Alan Lloyd on April 29, 2011 at 10:39am
Scored something pretty damn British at the Salvation Army thrift store in Streamwood for $12, but can't really bring it along on Sunday: a genuine pig-bristle dart board and cabinet - perhaps I should give it to Erin & Garth as a wedding present?
Comment by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 29, 2011 at 7:34am

This is my "helmet."

 

Comment by Carl on April 29, 2011 at 7:32am
Ditto John
Comment by John on April 29, 2011 at 7:09am
I did see some nice burl pipes there, if you are looking.  Due to the nice weather, a flat cap might be called for.

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