A drug company gives away 50 folding bicycles and donates a bike lane snow plow to the City of Chicago

On Wednesday at the ribbon cutting for the Jackson Boulevard protected bike lane (the section from Western to Ogden, that is) Advil gave away 50 branded folded bikes and presented the City of Chicago with a snow plowing truck especially for for maintaining the new protected lanes. Bears great and Advil pitchman Richard Dent was on hand to take photos with the crowd, including The Chainlink's Julie Hochstadter. Read guest blogger Katie Vogel's write-up of the event on Grid Chicago:

http://gridchicago.com/2011/advil-donates-fifty-bikes-and-a-bike-la...

Keep moving forward,

John Greenfield

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on December 9, 2011 at 5:55am

great photo...but where is richard dent's helmet ?  were they all out of XXXL size ?

Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on December 9, 2011 at 6:03am

I was thinking the same thing. But the ideal bike photo pose when standing still is with your helmet hanging on the handlebars, so you look cool but you don't get scolded by Kathy Schubert.

Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on December 9, 2011 at 7:27am

How long till some of these end up on ebay?  I want one!

Permalink Reply by Louie Louie on December 9, 2011 at 11:20am

I got one of the bikes and commuted on it yesterday.  Pretty nice single-speeds!

Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on December 9, 2011 at 11:34am

I once had a folding bike (I won it from REI at the 2010 Bike The Drive). But I later sold it, because like Richard Dent, they don't fit tall people. 

I really want to see that snow plow in action!

Permalink Reply by Tim S on December 9, 2011 at 11:34am

wish i paid more attention to when things were going on, would have been nice to go for the event.

Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on December 9, 2011 at 12:00pm

I didn't notice they were single speeds until I looked more closely, but I wouldn't mind that.  I thought the black/yellow/red combo was cool, too.  

El Guicho said:

I got one of the bikes and commuted on it yesterday.  Pretty nice single-speeds!

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