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May 1st Tweed Ride!

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May 1st Tweed Ride!

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 Carl on April 6, 2011 at 11:10am
And I think I will be forgoing spoke cards for a more tweedy gift to the riders. Just waiting to see if I can get all the bits and bobs I need to make them...
Comment by Carl on April 5, 2011 at 7:22am
Ok, think i have a route and theme: Urban Countryside Ride
Comment by Ed on April 4, 2011 at 9:27pm
aahh  It won't be the same without you Kevin.
Comment by Kevin C Dormant on April 4, 2011 at 5:37pm
Once again proving it is better to be loathed than to be ignored.
Comment by Ed on April 4, 2011 at 5:24pm

If Conway isn't going...I'm in.

 

Comment by Carl on April 4, 2011 at 2:13pm
Alan, waddya think the picnic baskets for? ;)
Comment by KatieP on April 4, 2011 at 1:11pm

Bugger - hopefully next year!

 

Comment by Aaron Bussey on April 4, 2011 at 12:59pm
I'll be in MI tasting wedding vittles
Comment by Alan Lloyd on April 4, 2011 at 12:29pm
BYOB, or will they have gotten their (liquor) license by May?

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