Hi Lauren and all Marauders

November's ride was spectacular, We found most of the
public art we were looking for, even though we
couldn't get in to see all of it. The piece at the 911
center is not all that public being behind a large and
intimidating fence. My attempt to have our group
permitted access to the "public art was thwarted by
the officer at the front desk in no uncertain terms-
(In a SNL Chicago accent "Yeah, your gonna have to
come back in the daytime and talk to Da bosses about
goin' over by 'dere" Possibly the faint smell of PBR
and the giant Viking helmet gave the man pause as
well! I have been very lax in updating the group about
the rides, all of my various web based projects have
been suffering, the real world has been winning out
alot more often, unfortunatly it's mostly been work
that has kept me from more leisurly pursuits (Die
Capitalist Pigs!) Our new friend Martin has offered to
make the map for this month, however I would love to
have someone else offer a suggestion as well. I wont
have time to do a map, and might not be on time for
the ride(updates to follow regarding my timeliness) so
if nobody else posts up for December we will end up
doing a no-map no-leader random Maraud. Give me some
maps or suggestions and I will forward them to Martin.

Ride On
JTS

--- Lauren Sailor <elsailor@...> wrote:

> hey marauders,
>
> how did november's art ride go? i was feeling assy
> so i stayed home,
> but the route's concept sounded like an awesome one.
> come on, people,
> share the memories -- this e-mail list gets more
> mail from spammers
> than bikers!
>
> will there be a december ride? i'm visiting my folks
> for the holidays
> and can't make it, but if there will be one, someone
> should put a
> listing on the bikewinter.org calendar
>
(http://bikewinter.org/calendar/scheduleofevents.php?city_id=1).
> JtS,
> if you confirm the ride i can post it, or i can tell
> you the password
> if you don't know the name of that winter thing
> we're rolling in.
>
> and hey, check out the calendar if you haven't
> already, or haven't
> lately. there's a winter riding clinic tonight at
> performance, a bike
> maintenance clinic on wednesday at west town, and a
> winter cycling
> class in little village next tuesday. if you're more
> interested in the
> social side of things, next weekend has a host of
> activities. check
> out the latke party at the hub co-op on friday, the
> santa rampage
> (which sounds like a blast, and i'm sorry i'll miss
> it) on saturday,
> or the hanukkah ride on sunday.
>
> there also seem to be some nuts in oak park who go
> for a ride every
> sunday at sunrise (!), but i get the feeling the
> folks on this list
> are more the night owl types... which gives me a
> great idea! on one of
> our rides, we should bike, drink, merry-make, and
> otherwise stay up
> all night, then head to oak park for their sunrise
> ride! the sunrise
> rides continue through march, so we have some time
> to figure it out.
> who's in?
>
> more information on all the bikewinter events i
> mentioned and more can
> be found, once again, at
>
http://bikewinter.org/calendar/scheduleofevents.php?city_id=1.
>
> i arranged my flight back to chicago so i could make
> december's
> critical mass... hope to see you there!
> lauren
>