boston's halloween bike ride 2007

HOLY CRAP! THE RIDE WAS AMAZING. WE HAD 189 PEOPLE AS WE LEFT JP! and we picked up others along the way. i'll have photos up in the next week or two. please check here for links. or get on the truth serum mailing list if you're interested in events that truth serum produces. also, if you took photos and would like to have us toss a link up here, we'd love to have it. please email links(at)truthserum.org Once again, a loose collective of ghouls is planning the 2007 Halloween Bike Ride. Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Halloween Bike Ride Meeting at Green Street T Station in JP 8:00pm meet up 8:30pm ride off Costumes and costumed bikes ghoulishly encouraged! Helmets and Lights too! This is a Free Event, DIY Organized and community based. more info will be posted here as it developes. check back. and spread the word. here's a link to the DRAFT route. we'll have some changes to announce at the meet up at 8pm and we'll have printouts for everyone. the route is about 18 miles long. you don't have to do all of it and we go at a family friendly pace. if you want to meet up with us along the way, or to come out and cheer us on and need a phone number of someone to call, email hbr @truthserum.org and i'll try to hook you up with a cell number. We're hoping to be back at JP Lick's for celebratory sundaes before they close at 12. Please help us spread the word. This is open to everyone! Here are some graphics. Click the links and print... A poster pdf that you can download and print out (looks good on color paper). A sheet of flyers. A web flyer that you can download and send with emails and bulletins or post up on people's website comments etc. press folks, see below. here are some photos of the rides in 2006, 2003 and 2004.

Press folks: here are some images to use. click the thumbnail to download a 300 dpi hi res image.

The ride in 2006 was amazing! The weather was perfect and everything went really smoothly. We got press in the Globe and Metro which helped bring out some new participants, we had 92 people as we rode through JP. We lost a few and gained about 10-15 in Coolidge Corner at the Devil Music show. We lost a few and gained a few (including a guy on a motorized blade thing) in Harvard Sq. and Central Square at the Middle East. Highlights (for me at least!) included a nice stop on Landsdown Street where the acoustics were fantastic for the stereo bike, teaching the cabbies in Brookline some patience, the Queen sing along in Allston, riding through the bus tunnel at Harvard Sq. T Station, screaming and making noise all night, dressing up my bike and seeing what other craziness people had come up with for costumes, the after ride ice cream at JP Licks, watching The Exorcist at people I don't know's house in JP after ice cream, and finding out that my friend Walter had come off cape to do the ride costumed so well that I didn't know it was him until the very end of the ride! As we were chugging up South Huntington some folks thanked me for the best experience they'd had in Boston so far, which was really sweet. The ride is all about everyone who rides, not just the folks who helped put it together, so thanks for doing it! I've posted my photos here. Since we don't have everyone's email addresses, please spread the word. If you have photos or video, send your links. Scroll down for links to other year's photos. some folks were asking about bike resources during the ride. send me links if you've got info, please. but here's a start: Hub On Wheels Bikes Not Bombs SCUL, those chopper kids Boston Critical Mass Mass Bike

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