How far you've ridden in 2018

a big fat zero. at this rate, that will be my total for this year, too!

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Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on May 1, 2018 at 9:09am

No gps or gpx.

This is how I map my ride.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on May 1, 2018 at 10:17am

Permalink Reply by Jared on May 1, 2018 at 9:34am

Have you done the annual perimeter ride?  If you search here you can probably find mentions of past rides with routes.  We never would do an actual perimeter.  We skipped going around O'Hare and Midway for starters, it would probably be 80-90 miles for the route that we usually do.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on May 1, 2018 at 11:43am

A literal perimeter is somewhat "unwieldy" for reasons that a close look at a google map of the City of Chicago would help illustrate. In particular, choices have to be made regarding how one navigates the southeast corner. Furthermore, there is just no good way of crossing I-94. I use 130th Street, which is intimidating, to say the least, for most cyclists.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on May 1, 2018 at 11:44am

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on May 1, 2018 at 3:37pm

is that your soundtrack as well as your route? how about leading us on your route sometime?  :-)

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on May 2, 2018 at 3:26am

Bob, last spring I DID invite the Chainlink community to participate in a Perimeter Ride which would have coincided with a closing party for my exhibition at Compound Yellow in Oak Park. I had a few nibbles, but no one committed.

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on May 2, 2018 at 6:57pm

give us another chance this year?  :-)

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on May 4, 2018 at 4:03am

If I could tie it to another exhibition, which I currently do not have, I would be very open to the idea of making it a group ride.

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on May 6, 2018 at 3:59pm

hmm, an exhibition. btw, i didn't know you were an artist!

how about a performance piece? a group ride with a boombox playing those records during those segments?

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on May 9, 2018 at 5:19am

I missed the "wink" (as in "just kidding, folks!")

I mean, dragging / rattling / bouncing a boombox around for a near century ride sounds rather tedious, to say the least. Furthermore, the DJ in me would not care to be limited by the perimeters of this playlist. I dig creating the killer mix-tape (on cassette, of course) and could riff off this theme. But it ain't gonna happen -- at least not for a group ride. After-party? Possibly.

Still, I appreciate your spit-balling.  

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on May 1, 2018 at 3:43pm

527 after the Fourth Step Ride, extrapolation for 2018 down further, to 1616.4  :-(

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