South Side Riders

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This group is for bikers whom are not going to get outdone by some lousy north side riders...South Chicago Let's Unite!!!

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Latest Activity: Jul 18, 2017

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Comment by h' Zerocats on February 9, 2010 at 5:18pm: Details for 3/13:

South Side Irish Parade Family Fest
Saturday - March 13
11:00 AM - 11:00 PM

Honoring Chicago's Own Gaelic Park!

Admission (from 11am-4pm): $10 Adults, $7 Seniors, Free for children under 12
Admission (after 4pm): All tickets $25

Event will feature a Grand Raffle. Tickets are $50 a piece and prizes range from $250 to $10,000. For more information about the raffle or to purchase tickets, CLICK HERE or call
(773) 445-3838.

Event will feature activities such as an Irish soda bread contest, a best-dressed “Irish” dog contest, and a children’s parade around the art center’s grounds. The event will also offer family-friendly activities such as Irish-themed arts and crafts for kids, children’s films, and a live production by the Beverly Arts Centers’ own children’s theater group. In addition, this event will feature food, drink, numerous Irish vendors, and live entertainment from bagpipers, Irish dancers, and a host of Irish musicians including The Larkin & Moran Brothers. The evening will culminate with a performance by Hothouse Flowers, a world-renowned band hailing from Ireland that combines traditional Irish music with influences from soul, gospel and rock. Micheal McDermott will open for Hot House Flowers.

Hosted by the South Side St. Patrick's Day Parade and the Beverly Arts Center.

Comment by h' Zerocats on January 8, 2010 at 5:29am: Good to know about the Flip. Maybe I'll grab one when they're on "last chance before the landfill" closeout. Staples is drowning in them.
Re: Handbrake there are some major compatibilities added to the most recent update-- don't even bother with it until you've upgraded to the most current version. It choked on Aaron's piece with the version I already had, but was able to handle it with the current version.

Comment by Vondo on January 8, 2010 at 5:23am: Thanks H3, I actually had handbrake on my computer before, will probably update. Actually the Flip has an internal battery that charges through the USB port and 8gb drive. It can do 2 hours of video. Its not for shooting feature films or weddings or anything, but for web videos I think it does fine.

Comment by h' Zerocats on January 8, 2010 at 5:23am: Er, wait-- your camera saves in "movie" format, then you convert them to AVI so they can be outputted by your movie editing software in .wmv?
You need to become an Apple weenie like, yesterday . . .
of course that's a slippery slope though-- it would only be a matter of time until you started to think Queen was pretty groovy.

Comment by Aaron Bussey on January 8, 2010 at 5:18am: I only do it so I can use the dumb Windows Movie Maker software - I know I need to buy some better software.....

Comment by h' Zerocats on January 8, 2010 at 5:17am: Also, I'm seeing these little cameras that only do video-- it's like there was some industry decision that everyone was going to need one for christmas-- and wondering who would buy them.
Now I know . . . I think the flip uses 2 AAs? Would that even give you enough battery time to make more than a 30 minute clip?

Comment by h' Zerocats on January 8, 2010 at 5:15am: Vando and Aaron, take a look at Handbrake.
It's available for mac and PC and the free version may do what you want. I used it to convert Aaron's wmv to .mov/MP4 for importing into iMovie.
Aaron, MPEG4 is becoming the dominant standard-- you're kind of screwing yourself by converting anything to AVI.

Comment by olloyd1 on January 8, 2010 at 4:45am: Maybe next storm a south side snow ride is in order?

Comment by Vondo on January 7, 2010 at 5:57pm: Sorry dude, as a matter of fact I was asking because I use Imovie which doesn't play well with AVI. I use a Flip MinoHD that uses H.264 and saves as MP4. I was just wondering if you use a different camera that doesn't use AVI so I could check one out.

Comment by Robot Gabe on January 7, 2010 at 7:37am: Howdy! Fellow South Sider in Bridgeport. Glad to join. First time all year rider....today was great!