1st Annual Summer Kick-off Bicycle Bar Crawl was a success in my book! We started with 6 people at Pete's Place. Yes, Web Lackey was present. Carmen and Michael showed up as Team Tandem in matching shirts, Kate plus Eight and of course Marcus and Laurel from The Go Lounge. Lola was present and not up for the ride so Martin and crew had their trucks to make sure she got around safely, and just in case if anyone got too silly to ride their bike. Thanks to our tight schedule we more than doubled in numbers (it just sounds better that way) at the next bar. People were able to catch up and find us. 4 riders were waiting at Norm's when we got there. Here's the first 6 of us, note the tandem...
Thanks Norm! He took a great picture of all of us (it'll be up soon) and he fed us. Then 6 more showed up while we were there, then we headed down to Effin's. That was a long stretch, but we made it there. We gained 1 more rider there. Anyway we ended up with 16 people, and it was a freaking blast! Since Scott couldn't make it, Laurel was doing her best impression of him, sans cast, at Effin's...
Then we headed on down to Shenanigan's and that leg of the crawl was awesome. All down backstreets of the Rolando area. Sharp turns and boy was it fast. We got to Shenanigan's and brought life into the joint. Here's a pic of our bikes, and below that one is a pic of some of us in the bar.
We saddled up around 3:45, and went up Harbinson, left on Cornell, right on Dana, left on Colony and right on 71st to The Go Lounge. Sounds confusing, but it was easy enough on a bike when you just know where you're going. We got to The Go Lounge around 4:03 PM. Success. Drink specials, great food, Live music by Mike Moran and guest bartender Andrea were there waiting for us to arrive and drink and to party. Oh, and of Course, Lola was put back together...
Here's a pic from Tony, that has the bike parking in front of The Go Lounge. Marcus actually had Bicycle parking in the rear but we just threw them out front, it was a long day.
Thanks to Laurel and Marcus from The Go Lounge, Scott from Pete's Place, Steve from Shenanigan's, the guys at Effin's and Norm over at Norm's for letting us do this fun event and stop in for some cocktails and beer. This will be an annual event, we're even thinking of doing one at the end of the Summer as well. So two a year, annually. Please join us next time, it was so much fun I can't begin to tell you what you missed out on! ALSO, we're gathering up all of the pictures from everyone present yesterday so we can get an online gallery for y'all to look at, and be jealous.
-Web Lackey