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Old 10-26-19, 07:29 PM
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Group Rides With A Theme

My hobby is to video and photo document local group bike rides. Some are charity rides and some, like this one, are just for fun. Providence Bike Jam was Critical Mass in the past. CM is no longer necessary and CM is now PBJ, that organizes a ride on the last Friday of the month. This ride was Zombie themed with around 60 biker ranging from 8 to 70 years old.


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Old 10-28-19, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by capejohn
I tried to delete this post with no success. I wanted to post a video and see that cannot be done. Sorry about that.
You can post videos. Click on the chain icon and post the URL there.
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Old 10-28-19, 03:53 PM
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My favorite theme: "Ride Your Bike!"
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If dressing up like zombies gets people to ride their bikes, then it's not wrong. Not my idea of fun, though.
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Yup, we have a lot of weekly, monthly and annual group, event and theme rides here. They're fun. I tend to turn every road bike ride into a hard workout. Even our weekly "recovery rides" tend to be workouts. So the casual group rides encourage me to relax on my hybrid and get in a real recovery ride.
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Old 10-31-19, 07:59 AM
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If dressing up like zombies gets people to ride their bikes, then it's not wrong. Not my idea of fun, though.
Not only dressing like zombies. Stopping a couple of times for a dance party. Breaking out the beer and bourbon, and riding the streets of Providence with three synchronized boom boxes blaring.
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Originally Posted by capejohn
Not only dressing like zombies. Stopping a couple of times for a dance party. Breaking out the beer and bourbon, and riding the streets of Providence with three synchronized boom boxes blaring.
You sure this isn't a gang of punks on stolen JUMP bikes?

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Originally Posted by _ForceD_
You sure this isn't a gang of punks on stolen JUMP bikes?

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Ha! Lyft removed all the Jump bikes a couple of months ago. They said Providence wasn't mature enough for them. Jump didn't mention how easy they were for high school kids to jailbreak them.
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Fun video of a fun event!
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