How does the "online source for Chicago biking" have very little to do with the Late Ride?

Are you hipsters too good to participate in such an event?

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Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on July 10, 2011 at 8:59am
I don't quite see the problem. if late ride organizers wanted to talk up the late ride here nothing is stopping them.
Permalink Reply by gadgetguy on July 10, 2011 at 9:07am
Every night can be a late night ride.
Permalink Reply by Adam "Cezar" Jenkins on July 10, 2011 at 9:39am
Obvious troll is obvious
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on July 10, 2011 at 10:05am

Yes.  Next question.

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on July 10, 2011 at 10:27am

Jesse-  Thanks for joining the community.

 

The ride was on the calendar and was mentioned in last week's email that goes out to the entire Chainlink community (5500+ people).   

 

I did have a few people hand out bookmarks at the event to cyclists they met, but you are correct that we did not have an official presence or table like other organizations. Next year I hope to do more.

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Vilda on July 10, 2011 at 1:01pm
Jesse Juwana suck it !?! ;-)
Permalink Reply by shar on July 10, 2011 at 1:28pm

there are calendar events for multiple rides on here everyday. none of them say more than they need to for each event, including the L.A.T.E ride.

it's is very ignorant to insult an entire online community b/c you did not find them all to be 'talking, discussing, obsessing' over one ride.

every person on this site has different riding interests.

perhaps if you didn't find the information you were looking for on here, you should have checked the promotion cites from Active Trans and Friends of the Parks.

 

 

Permalink Reply by jen on July 10, 2011 at 1:52pm

I was there as a volunteer.

 

Not every cyclist on this site is into participating in the same type of activies. The late ride tends to draw a more suburban and weekend warrier type crowd. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I hope you went and had a good time. Thats really all that matters right?

Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on July 10, 2011 at 2:51pm

That's why I don't participate or volunteer a bunch of people drive downtown with bikes pay money to ride through the city, it's sponsored by corporations with (at best) questionable environmental practices. It's like cleaning up a park once a year on Earth day or planting a tree then not watering it is going to do any good.

Ride a bike to work, support your local bike shop, volunteer at the forest preserve THAT will do more good.



jen said:

I was there as a volunteer.

 

Not every cyclist on this site is into participating in the same type of activies. The late ride tends to draw a more suburban and weekend warrier type crowd. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I hope you went and had a good time. Thats really all that matters right?

Permalink Reply by Ace Mann on July 10, 2011 at 4:03pm
1) the LATE ride organizer could have easily reached out to the chainlink community thru many different ways.Maybe they didn't want hipsters at the event.I volunteered to help load packets for the race at finkle & sons on both July 5/7 and there was over 7 volunteers on both days,who are on the chainlink.
Permalink Reply by Dr. Doom on July 10, 2011 at 6:07pm
I'm not interested in the Late Ride because I ride around Chicago at night all the time, but I probably would have volunteered if I'd noticed that someone with the ride had posted here asking for help. (Maybe they did and I didn't see it?) I've done that for several Active Trans events, including ones I'd have no real interest in participating in, because they engage with 'the community' and because they let people know when they need a hand. These aren't hard things to do and when an organization doesn't do them I suspect there's a reason for it.
Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on July 10, 2011 at 7:04pm

Please explain to me why I should support a paid event that bills itself as a cyclists only chance to ride the city after midnight when I do just that every week?

 

the Late Ride is yet another cycling 'event; that works hard to make a larger gap between cyclists and those who don't ride.

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