After missing the LATE ride last year because I was out of town, I made it this year. All I can really say is wow. The CFR crew showed everybody else there how to have fun. I think most of the people that came out for LATE ride must have thought they were in the Tour De France cause we never slowed down. Anyway, White Castle is awsome and I’m going back to sleep. 
Posts Tagged chicago freeride
LATE Ride
Jul 10
Cleveland
Jan 19
This past weekend I went with the guys from ChicagoFreeride to Cleveland to ride RaysMTB. We had a blast. Get a taste of the fun we had by clicking here.
Sunday Afternoon
Aug 8
I thought the weekend was supposed to be relaxing… I woke up at about 10 this morning after going to bed at 3:30 AM. I managed to drag myself to the shower and then out to get a bagel and a cup of tea. I promptly came back ate the bagel and went back to sleep. Wierd huh? Anyway… The ride last night was fan-freakin-tastic. Good weather, huge turnout, couldn’t ask for more. We rode for a while, then we got some beer. While we were waiting at the store for everybody that went inside, we started talking to some other people that came by and they invited us to a party that was nearby. It turns out it was a party that I had gotten invited to a couple days ago. We got everybody together and decided to roll down and check the party out. We got there and they were charging $10 a person at the door because it was a fundraiser party for some people going to Burning Man. Since we already had beer we didn’t want to pay to party. One guy there said we should just go around back and get in that way. That totally failed. A guy came out and said we were making too much noise. He said we could either pay and come inside or else we had to get out of there. We all drank another beer, made some more noise, and left. Soldier field was close so we went there. The best part of the night was spending 2 hours on the grass jumps at Soldier with nobody bothering us.
Before the ride, ( this is a reverse entry in case you were confused ) I spent most of the day at Market Days on Halstead. It was super crowded. ( as usual ) I can now say that I own a kilt. The guys from utilikilts.com were there selling their wares. I saw them there last year, and have been checking out the site ever since. I really wanted to get one, but I was wary about buying one without being able to try it on and actually see how they fit. I found one I really liked so I bought it. You may think this makes me wierd, but you probably already thought that, so whatever.
Now back to Friday night, I got some amazing fire spinning pictures that I’ll get posted in the gallery when I have time. I think now I’m going back to Market Days to take more pictures. I didn’t take many yesterday. Tonight I want to go to Brew and View, they are showing a couple movies I like.
More photos posted
Aug 1
I rode with the ChicagoFreeride.com guys tonight. I got some shots of them hitting up the jumps at Soldier Field. Check them out here.
New CFR Video
Jun 20
Yesterday afternoon a bunch of us rode from downtown to Danno’s new place to watch the new Chicago Freeride video. He lives about 10 miles west of downtown, which is a long way in freeride terms. The ride there wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected it to be. We got to ride through the Puerto Rican neighborhood on the day of the Puerto Rican parade. This turned out to be a lot of fun. There were people cruising and hanging out on corners pretty much the whole way there. We didn’t have any trouble on the way there. We hit the Jewel near Danno’s for a 30 of PBR and some Pringles. We cruised to Danno’s place and chatted for a while until everybody else showed up. We watched the first video, ate some pizza and then watched the new video. After that we decided to roll back to the city and go to a party at the bar I used to work for. We managed to fit all the bikes in Julio’s truck and headed back to the city. The bar was hopping and Dan ( the manager ) let us put the bikes on the back deck. I stayed for a couple hours, and everybody was having a good time when I left. It was a great night.
