Tuesday Night Bike Ride ride report
I wanted to tell all you naysayers from the comments section yesterday that I was right. There were 190 riders last night and we stopped at the lights, dutifully walked our bikes en masse across the crosswalk on Campbell Ave., and were generally well-behaved. I’d say we got a B, maybe even a B+ for our efforts, as opposed to a very clear F- five weeks ago.
Kylie from BICAS was there showing off the cargo bike that is to be raffled at the BICAS 20-Year Birthday Party and fundraiser at the Hut (see post on that below), and lots of people were rocking the free reflective TNBR bike stickers that Dwight at www.worldsbestbikestickers gives away free at each ride.
Plus I took second in footdown. Always the groomsman, never the groom.
It was a great time!
Oh and P.S. — I saw some skillful and elegant fixie riding last night, too. So I was wrong about that.
–Erik Ryberg
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Glad to see the ride is not a complete disgrace. Maybe I’ll start coming again.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
No mention in the bike lawyer’s narrative of unicycles! Red Star wonders whether unicycles were even present and in operation…
Might unicycles be the next hipster hipster thing?
Consider ARS 28-817…it’s all about bicyles as is much of ARS, except for that devilish “device” thing that crops up.
Time for a Tucson Unicycle Lawyer? Device Lawyer?
Hipsters, you simply must awake to the unicycle!
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Actually, although none were present yesterday, there are some exceptionally talented unicycle riders that regularly attend the ride, and they typically finish the whole thing. They even play footdown.
EBR
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Seems some nights nascent hipsters are a mystery…
brakes or not
September 24th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I’m an old time TNBR rider, and I stop at red lights. I rode on the last ride and had a pretty good time. It was a great route, and a nice long ride. There was some subtle leadership at the front that set a nice tone. What I missed from the old days was the camaraderie. I have made some great friends at TNBR, and had lots of interesting and positive interactions with riders I never saw again. But on Tuesday it was hard to strike up a conversation with anyone I didn’t already know. Hmmmm…maybe each new crop of UofA students comes damaged from the StrangerDanger fear campaign and needs some time to unlearn it. Next time I’m bringing cookies (without razor blades or LSD, kids).
September 24th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
You can send those other cookies to me, Janet…lolz.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
I remember they did cookies and cupcakes a couple years ago! They were tasty.
September 26th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Cupcake night was so inspiring!
October 5th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I remember they did cookies and cupcakes a couple years ago! They were tasty.
October 14th, 2009 at 5:35 am
where does the ride start?