
I’d call it casual, but they’re all casual. A few of us are planning on taking a leisurely ride from the Watertower to Fell’s Point, have a lemonade/other treat at the foot of Broadway, and then return. We’ll be at the Watertower after 7:30, and we’ll plan to leave at 8:00. Monday. Tomorrow. The 21st. Hemingway‘s birthday. Anyone who wants to come is totally welcome. But please wear a helmet and have your safety lights on. Safety vests are encouraged and damned stylish.
One caveat: If there are storms, the ride is cancelled. Drivers don’t know what to do in the case of storms, and it’s not worth the risk of getting flattened by someone on the phone in a land yacht with the windshield blinded by a downpour. If there was a place you had to be, it might be different, but this is just fun. (Before you call us sissies, ask yourself if you ride in the rain and in the winter. Because we do.)


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07.20.08 at 9:30 pm
bob
AM or PM?
07.20.08 at 9:37 pm
Johnny
Doh! PM:)
07.21.08 at 7:20 pm
Pragmatik · Happy Birthday, Ernie.
[...] celebration of Paps’s birthday today, NBBB is having a casual ride to Fell’s Point. Here is the poem I will toast with: I’m off’n wild wimmens An cognac An [...]
07.22.08 at 12:25 pm
greaterbrown
How’d it go? -Bob
07.22.08 at 2:12 pm
Johnny
Very relaxing. We rode down to the pier in Fell’s Point, chilled for a few minutes. I’m ashamed to say that we only toasted Papa with water in our bike bottles, though, with the heat. Next time, beer!
I was thinking it might be fun to do something for Poe’s birthday, too, to involve a nice warmer-upper (January!). I don’ t know if Poe has any poems as cool as the one we used for the Hemingway toast. Nothing that short anyway.