Bike Party!

I was trying to track down references to past efforts to create a political party around the promotion of the bicycle, and came across this article:

http://www.energybulletin.net/stories/2011-05-11/bike-party

Just thought I'd share it up. There have been superficlally similar local efforts with the Ride-Dance-Dance-Ride (current status?) and arguably Midnight Marauders, and maybe FBC . . .

Also, wondering about the "regular route"-- how would that work in Chicago? Is there something about SF or San Jose that would make that more practical or desirable?

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Permalink Reply by Tiberculosis on September 23, 2011 at 7:41am

I don't see how they'd manage to run a regular route without obtaining a permit of some sort. S.F., San Jose, wherever. Starting out they likely didn't, but they do make mention of the defining differences btwn Bike Party and CM is the route planning and the event management. The quoted length at the begining of the story said 4 miles, hardly the match for any of the Chicago CM rides or any other group rides here. S.F. is only 7X7 miles and alot of that is hills. Maybe you don't need a permit for 4 mile rides.

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on September 23, 2011 at 11:13am

This may be TOO far in the past, but 5 term Chicago mayor, Carter Harrison, won largely through his bicycle constituency. One of his slogans was "Not the Champion Cyclist but the Cyclists' Champion." Harrison reigned in Chicago from 1897-1915 and rewarded his supporters with a bike path along Sheridan Road from Edgewater to Evanston.