On deck – Liar’s Ride For the last 100 years, we have celebrated April Fool’s Day with the Liar’s Ride. In our century version of the ride, we plan to do things just a bit differently. We also plan to end the ride at Revolution Brewing, which might just be the only true thing I will say about the ride in this email, or ever. For those unfamiliar with the ride, and even for those that might have been on previous versions, the rules are different this time around. In case you have been on any of the previous 99 annual Liar’s Rides, please review the new ground rules for this ride.
Namely:
- The ride is 1,000 miles and will take approximately 3 hours.
- All riders must obey the speed limit.
- All riders must ride a unicycle.
- All riders must ride their unicycle backwards.
- All riders must ride their unicycle both backwards and upside down while pedaling with their hands.
- Riders that cannot pedal with their hands may instead use their tongues.
- If a rider can pedal with their hands but prefers to pedal with their tongue, they must instead pedal with their nose.
- All riders must ride clipped in.
- There will be no stopping or resting on the ride.
- All riders must stop at all stop signs and red lights.
- Since all riders will be pedaling with their hands, tongues or nose, all riders must communicate in foot sign language.
- All riders must communicate in foot sign language in German.
- If any riders speak German, they must communicate in foot sign language in Portuguese.
- If any riders speak German and Portuguese, they will be shot from a military-grade extra-large slingshot directly into the eastern-most Paseo Boricua Gateway Flag.
- There is no speaking on the ride.
- All riders must hold their breath for the duration of the ride.
- There is no passing out.
- Entry fee is one platinum bar.
- Attendance is mandatory.
Here are more gory details:
Liar’s Ride
Sunday April 1 at 6:00 PM
Ciclo Urbano at 2459 W Division Street
No cost but you can buy the 2012 Ross Felten Tour poster for only $5 here. | You can also pick up last year’s Tour poster for another measly $5 here.
Chainlink Page | Starting Spot at Ciclo Urbano | Ending Spot at Revolution Brewing | Ciclo Urbano |Revolution Brewing
Our new tour of the season will be the Tour of Rogers Park. What a great area this has been to explore and research! I know this will be a tour with checking out and for those of you that don’t know this far north side community, it will be a wonderful and satisfying surprise. Here are a few links to check it out, though info is a bit scarce at this point.
Buy Tour Chainlink page | Starting Spot | Ross Felten Tour Poster |
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