Saturday Ride

Hello

Last week, in the calendar section was the First Annual BlackHawk tour, a ride that was going to visit all the places the BlackHawks have played in or at. I arrived at the clock tower at 8 am, the ride was supposed to start at 8:30 NO ONE showed up. I drove from Bartlett. Anyhow, does this happen often?

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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on October 12, 2010 at 1:18pm

I'd say it's pretty rare that no one - not even the ride leader - shows up.

It isn't listed as cancelled on the CCC website - http://www.chicagocyclingclub.org/rides/index.asp?nmonth=10

Maybe Joe can shed some light on what happened.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Dickstein on October 12, 2010 at 10:37pm

Hi Alan:

I was to be the leader of the ride and did arrive at the Clocktower at about 8:20 AM and waited until about 8:45. When nobody showed up I went home. I was very disappointed that no one came and would have given the ride even if there was just a single rider. It was especially discouraging because the weather was actually quite nice. I attributed the lack of showing to the fact that I had scheduled this ride so late and close to the actual date of the ride (the previous Monday). I plan to try again with this ride, probably next spring and hope you can make it then. I also will be leading a football nostalgia ride Sunday after next (October 24) and also extend an invitation to join us then. I apologize for any inconvenience but I was there and am sorry we missed each other.

Joe Dickstein

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Permalink Reply by Cameron 7.5 mi on October 13, 2010 at 11:16am

I’ve never heard of no one showing up before. Generally I’d say most rides have 70-80% of the people listed as attending and maybe 20-30% of the people listed as might attend show up.

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Permalink Reply by h' 1.0 on October 17, 2010 at 8:43pm

Cameron, I think this situation is more specific to a Chicago Cycling Club ride than a "chainlink ride".

Alan, did you figure out how you and Joe could have missed each-other? Sounds like he was there at 8:20 and I can't imagine you would have left right at 8:30. I would have tried to call the ride leader but I'm aware not everyone has a cell phone.

Also-- I don't see this ride in the chainlink calendar for the 2nd/3rd or for the 9th/10th . . .?