| Re: Club rides that were rejected
"Claire Petersky" <cpetersky@mousepotato.com> wrote in message
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> "Arthur Harris" <n2ah@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:izLKd.186$4k.91@fe10.lga...
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> > > Brickyard Tour Pace: fast Leader: Red
> > > This route winds through the brick sidestreets of
Wilmette,
> > > allowing you to pretend you are riding in one of those
spring
> > > European classics as you bump along. This ride goes rain
or
> > > shine. Lunch at the Klay Oven restaurant.
> >
> > Sounds like some rides I've been on. I'm guessing the
Brickyard Tour was a
> > real ride.
>
> There's one like that that David Robinson leads every
year -- I think he
> calls it the the Taste of Hell -- as many brick streets in
Seattle as he can
> find. He says he freaked out the City the first time he
asked where they all
> were. They thought he was going to complain! You can read a
description
> here:
>
http://www.cascade.org/EandR/Activit...m?eventID=2362
>
Art imitates life! My "Brickyard Tour" was (I thought)
fiction -- in fact, there are always a bunch of complaints if
anyone leads a ride through Wilmette on these routes.
Wilmette actually replaces brick streets with new brick
streets -- they are regarded as a traffic-calming device that
also adds charm.
The "real" ride of the ones I posted was the hospital ride, in
which we rode around to sites where club members had been hit
by cars.
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