Hunter's Moon

Anyone else watching American Horror Story? They know all about fucked up things happening during the full moon.

We started at Red Lion, home of spotted dick jokes and fried fish.

Then we took a meandering ride to a spot down by the river.



No one did any sick tricks in the Garden but we did hide from the moon in the trees.




And we decided this would be a good location to take our photo.



We took the pic on a ramp which gave it a nice "field of asses" look.

After that we headed to Lizard's Liquid Lounge for surprise karaoke! I unsurprisingly massacred a song but others saved our group with some Weezer and Jane's Addiction.

Lots of skull themed artwork

There was one song that I haven't seen in a karaoke book before and it decided to lodge itself in my head all week. So I share it with you. 

October Ride

Next ride is Saturday, October 15th!

We meet at 8pm at Red Lion Lincoln Square, 4749 N Rockwell. There are multiple Red Lions, make sure you go to the right one!

We meet, eat, drink, socialize, ride, and repeat...there will be a park stop, a surprise destination, and as usual, a great photo opportunity! As the cold weather has descended, and because we have not done so in a while, there is a good chance that the ride will head in the direction of warmer temperatures (or at least there is likely to be someone blowing hot air by the end of the evening). It is a weekend, so there could also be a bonus stop.

Harvest Moon

angry bartender

eyes frostier than your mugs

are you a drug front

Welcome to the September edition of FBC! 

Our starting location this month was Leadway bar, home of salty pizza and a nice empty patio for us to take over. We had a good size group come out which I credit to good weather, weekend moon and Neil Young. 

The bartenders also don't care if you sit on the ground.

spilling out onto the sidewalk

From there we headed to The Magic Hedge. 

The hedge is a good place to watch birds and cruising guys but I didn't see either. Then we headed down a narrow, poorly lit and paved harbor path. 

affection?

bike lights and city lights

affection

Then it was on to a bar that may or not may not be open!

It was open!

The bartender seemed honestly confused by customers on a Friday night. Also she wouldn't serve mixed drinks even though I could see the mixers in the cooler! We had new people but I forgot to make them drink Malort. I'm not even sure they had Malort. 

What did they have?

Butts!

And shortly after that, the bartender decided the bar was closed for the night. I'm sure it was a coincidence. 

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September Ride!

Next ride is September 16th! Leadway Bar! So much excitement!

Leadway is at 5233 N Damen Ave. You like fried things? They have fried things.

We meet around 8 and leave around whenever.

We'll do a park stop and end at a fine dive.

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Sturgeon Moon

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I wanted to join the haters for our new new location but Gio's ended up being a good spot! They had cheap wings, good service and we took over almost the entire front patio (except for a guy and his dog named after Rosa Parks, wtf). The group also seems to like moving around to new spots so we haven't settled on a permanent start location.

Taking over the patio

ActionTandem

Sometimes social rides are more about the social than the rides. We ended up staying late at Gio's, even for us, so we skipped the park stop and headed to Windy City Inn.

Enthusiastic bar decor

It started to rain right as we ran out of for a photo. Soggy moon!

New New Location for August Ride!

Next ride is on Thursday, August 18th for the Sturgeon Moon! Meet at Gio's Bar, 4857 N. Damen around 8. Leave sometime around 9.

Enjoy a summer evening with some old and new friends, food, beer, a bike ride, a park stop and a surprise destination (TBD), and also see some full moon(s).

Buck Moon

Is Malort the official initiation shot of Chicago? The last couple times I remember drinking Malort was when I joined a new group. Before that I just ordered it to trick suburbanites and out of towners into thinking I was taking a shot with them so I could see their Malort face. A good $3 wasted.

We had 2 new riders this month so we handed out 2 shots of Malort. Altogether we had 27 people meet at O’Shaugnessey’s and 22 people ride with us. I don’t know if it was the new start location, the weather or just luck but we had a great turnout! We convinced one bikeless person to take a Divvy on the ride and it worked out pretty well so remember that if you ever find yourself with a broken bike on FBC night.

Our first stop was by the Diversey driving range.

It’s really hard to take photos when one side of the group is bright lights of a golf course and the other side is a dark field.

Talking hammocks

After that we headed to Delilah’s and took over the 2nd floor.

Around midnight we headed out to take our photo. It wasn’t easy to get everyone across both lanes when the street was empty. Safety 2nd!

Bonus SFW version

Next full moon is August 18th! We haven’t decided if we are going to stay with O’Shaugnessey’s as a meeting place but I will post when I know.