May 1st Tweed Ride!

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Time: May 1, 2011 from 1pm to 6pm
Location: Red Lion English Pub
Street: 4749 N. Rockwell (not Lincoln Park!)
City/Town: Chicago
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps/m…
Event Type: social, ride, tweed, bbc
Organized By: Carl
Latest Activity: May 8, 2011

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Dress in your finest tweedy gear (or at least Sunday best), strap a picnic basket on your steed, and let's ride! This promises to be a delightful spring ride, and if you're not familiar with this part of the city, you'll be quite chuffed at the charming sights along the way.

Everyone who arrives in appropriate garb, receives a commemorative hub shiner or basket medal, handmade from leather. Spandex queens and hipster bores shall have none.

We will meet at a dandy English establishment - the Red Lion - for some pastys and chips. It's BYOB, so be sure to have your picnic basket packed for the journey. (there is a libation vendor at Rockwell and Lawrence, and a green grocer -Harvestime- one block west of there) Then at 2 o'clock sharp, we shall ride leisurely through urban countryside, over hill and dale, to a delightful place where we shall nosh and drink from our baskets! Along the way, shall be more parks, Chief O'Neills, a stroll on a riverside boardwalk, and then finally rolling into the Anglo-friendly Globe (with whomever managed to get out of O'Neills). Those who need to return to the starting point, but are too exhausted, may shuttle their steeds on the Lincoln bus.

Here's a map of the general route.

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Comment by John on May 8, 2011 at 8:07am: http://vimeo.com/23434844

Comment by John on May 8, 2011 at 1:11am: Here are some from me; video to follow.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37481616@N00/sets/72157626671533152/

Comment by John on May 7, 2011 at 7:28pm: The nice folks at the Red Lion posted some pictures as well -

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.207688319253383.51768.1458...

Comment by Slow Bicycle Society on May 4, 2011 at 3:09pm: What a GREAT day! Thank you all for a lovely ride. And such beautiful documentation from Ron, Megan, Ash, Lisa and Alan and all. Nice!

Hope to see you all soon, Sarah

Comment by Lisa on May 3, 2011 at 5:36pm: Oh wow, Ron's pictures are amazing!

Comment by MeganK on May 3, 2011 at 2:08pm: Love the photos Ron. I have to stop frowning in photos, geez. I see that big wheel pedals persisted after I left.