May 1st Tweed Ride!
Details
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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Description
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 Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on April 29, 2011 at 9:48am
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Policy? Policy?
What is this? some sort of ActiveTrans Nazi ride?
;)
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Comment by globalguy on April 29, 2011 at 9:10am
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Anyone know if Brimfield carries suitable smoking materials and relevant attire? And what's the policy on helmets?
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Comment by Carl on April 28, 2011 at 10:22am
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Jen, Ha! indeed! I suspect you're gonna look smashing on the ride!
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Comment by jen on April 27, 2011 at 10:10pm
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wow it kinda looks like my closet!
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Wow, that's a great old bike! We're probably gonna have lots of non-Anglo bikes, so no worries, but bring a classic bike if you can. I'm borrowing one, and loaning another.
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Do Dutch-made Raleigh clones have to ride in back? My wife, if she comes, will be riding the Flying Jet and I don't know if she will be able to rein it in being that it is a Flying Jet!
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Comment by John on April 27, 2011 at 1:19pm
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All kinds of crazy tweed. when you are not on your bike, they have a tweed chair with glen plaid pillow.
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Just so you know, there's an amazing tweed store with lots of English stuff in Andersonville, called Brimfield.
They have a slew of tweed garments, blankets, and picnic baskets.
But they definitely don't charge 2nd hand shop prices :\
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Comment by Alan Lloyd on April 27, 2011 at 10:26am
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> That is right by Garth & Erin.
Wot: they're splitting-up & selling-up already? :-)
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That is right by Garth & Erin.
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