Midnight Marauders 4th annual Subterranean Ride

It is time this Saturday for the Midnight Marauders 4th annual Subterranean Ride. This has been the most popular ride we have put on since its inception. Basically it is a tour of the underground, and sub street level roads, oddities, attractions, and distractions in the down town area. For first timers, it will be a chance to see places that you probably never would, and for veterans, yet another chance to figure out “Where the hell did we go?” There will be some exciting new twists this year if we can pull them off, so even veterans will experience some new things.

For those unaware, there is a labyrinth of streets, tunnels and service roads under the city that only people that work there normally see, but this month Marauders get too as well.

We will meet at the traditional location, the Billy Goat Tavern, 430 N. Michigan Av(lowerlevel), at 11pm, August the 21st. It is located at the intersection of Hubbard, and Lower Michigan Av., if you cant find it go downstairs. There will be a couple rougher sections on the ride, but any serviceable bike should work.

This is not a trailer friendly ride, unless it is a single wheel jobbie.

Martin

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Permalink Reply by gadgetguy on August 23, 2010 at 7:29pm
The concept of a 4 mile long unobstructed tunnel/access road as a Marauders private expressway was quite awesome. That was genius. Thanks Martin Da Man and everyone else that put it together.
Permalink Reply by Martin Hazard on August 24, 2010 at 3:13am
Post ride report:
Saturday night’s ride set a new record for the Marauders. We had counts of 212, and 220. Either way about a hundred over any previous ride. There were motorcyclists that met up with us, naked guys, and mayhem aplenty. At times it looked like Critical Mass. Thanks to the diligent efforts of the Council and others, we were able to pull this off. Not even a report of an injury. It was difficult, and I was short with some of the new riders, but as we all know it was for all of our own good. Shit I even stayed relatively sober. I think the most remarkable part was the complete lack of police. They tailed us with squad cars and even a boat the entire ride last year with 35% of this years turn out.
So I think we can call this a success-but it was close. We stretched the limits on what the Marauders organization can handle on this one.
Looking forward to the winter.
Martin
Permalink Reply by Ryan L on August 24, 2010 at 7:58am
I finally finished downloading all my helmet cam footage this morning (took 14 hours to process). I pretty much have the entire ride on film up to the middle section of the really long access rode at the end. It's really weird watching the entire ride from my drunken perspective and believe you me I was pretty drunk :)

I'm also surprised how good most of the footage looks; the helmet mounting experiment worked well. I'm gonna try to get up a 15min edited version asap (Youtube limitation). I'll post a link in this thread and on the Marauders Group page once it's up on my youtube page.
Permalink Reply by Vondo on August 24, 2010 at 9:17am
What helmet camera are you using dude? I tried to talk myself into a Helmet Hero HD type camera, but at $299, I can't justify it...

Ryan L said:
I finally finished downloading all my helmet cam footage this morning (took 14 hours to process). I pretty much have the entire ride on film up to the middle section of the really long access rode at the end. It's really weird watching the entire ride from my drunken perspective and believe you me I was pretty drunk :)

I'm also surprised how good most of the footage looks; the helmet mounting experiment worked well. I'm gonna try to get up a 15min edited version asap (Youtube limitation). I'll post a link in this thread and on the Marauders Group page once it's up on my youtube page.
Permalink Reply by Ryan L on August 24, 2010 at 9:24am
The GoPro Hero HD is exactly what I have. $300 is a steal considering it's 1080p and pretty much bomb proof. In the daytime it's amazing, night time is not as good obviously but no camcorder is great without a proper light source. I also got some shots with my iPhone 4 which I'm gonna splice in. I was going to output the video a 720P anyway, 1080p is too large a file size for youtube.
Permalink Reply by Aaron Bussey on August 24, 2010 at 9:26am
Stop using Youtube and switch to Vimeo - Youtube is terrible

Ryan L said:
The GoPro Hero HD is exactly what I have. $300 is a steal considering it's 1080p and pretty much bomb proof. In the daytime it's amazing, night time is not as good obviously but no camcorder is great without a proper light source. I also got some shts with my iPhone 4 which I'm gonna splice in. I was going to output the video a 720P anyway, 1080p is too large a file size for youtube.
Permalink Reply by Ryan L on August 24, 2010 at 9:32am
Yeah, I do need to do that Aaron; although, the $10 a month does not make me happy in the pants.
Permalink Reply by Vondo on August 24, 2010 at 9:37am
Cool, I'm curious to see the video. I want to see how it shoots in "real life". I don't trust their sample videos on the site, with their controlled conditions and post sweetening...

Ryan L said:
The GoPro Hero HD is exactly what I have. $300 is a steal considering it's 1080p and pretty much bomb proof. In the daytime it's amazing, night time is not as good obviously but no camcorder is great without a proper light source. I also got some shots with my iPhone 4 which I'm gonna splice in. I was going to output the video a 720P anyway, 1080p is too large a file size for youtube.
Permalink Reply by Craig S. on August 24, 2010 at 9:56am
What passes for "cameras" these days kinda makes me chuckle, considering the hoops and hurdles I'm dealing with right now with big Sony studio cams for a broadcast that no one will be watching.

These GoPro cameras were $99 at Costco not long ago. I was very tempted but I didn't get one, I already have many cameras I don't use.

Ryan L said:
The GoPro Hero HD is exactly what I have. $300 is a steal considering it's 1080p and pretty much bomb proof. In the daytime it's amazing, night time is not as good obviously but no camcorder is great without a proper light source. I also got some shots with my iPhone 4 which I'm gonna splice in. I was going to output the video a 720P anyway, 1080p is too large a file size for youtube.
Permalink Reply by thang van ung on August 24, 2010 at 9:59am
its been a long time since the my first critical mass and other bicycle demonstrations, and this ride made that feeling novel again. interrresting! and wow, no one got hurt.
Permalink Reply by Steven L. Spinner on August 25, 2010 at 5:52pm
Rumbling around in the bowels of the metropolis - what an excellent adventure. I think I got some insight into the mind of a herd animal. Thanks to Martin and crew for the great tour with some great nighttime views of our beautiful city. Thanks to Joe from Hyde Park for beverage sharing.

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