The Bike to Work rally was the last event of bike to work week organized by ATA. That Friday happened to be a nice day after a week of miserable weather and people seemed to be very happy. The loudspeakers played it’s Friday I’m in love by the Cure which might be a cliche yet it put me in a great mood.
Gmoty2 and his bike
The Soldier field Critirium actually takes place at a parking lot south of the stadium. If you wanna come and see it don’t go into the stadium.
Courtney O. and her bike.
No naked pictures here. The world naked bike ride is a bike ride that happen every year in many cities around the world at the same time. The chicago ride is been going on for six years and is one of largest rides in the world. This year the ride met next to Harpo Studios on Randolph. People who came with their bikes were told where the secret start location of the ride was. While taking photos of bike salutes I was surprised to learn that many out of towners go there to take their photo with the Oprah sign.
Bob T. and his bike.
The Northside Critical Mass meets every second friday at the young (no hat no beard) Lincoln sculpture at Senn park at the corner of Ridge, Clark and Thorndale.
Norh side critical mass
Tim Herlihey and his bike.
it is going to be an action packed weekend, I have plans to be in 4 biking event this this weekend. I realized I have a lot of photos from daily plaza and I am determined venture out and think outside the mass.
In other news, in this I am using a plugin for wordpress called awsom for the gallery. The faces on the thumbnail were always too small so i changed the following line
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to
imagecopyresampled ($NewImageObject, $ImageObject, 0, 0, ceil ($RealImageWidth * 0.2), ceil ($RealImageHeight * 0.2), $NewImageWidth, $NewImageHeight, ceil ($RealImageWidth * 0.6 ), ceil ($RealImageHeight * 0.6 ) );
so that the thumbnail would be a smaller cropped (60%) version of the original image. The hidden cost is that the option for square thumbnails will now be disabled. There is probably an elegant way to it. if you code it let me know.
The Wicker park Critical mass is one of the local masses. It takes place on the first Friday of every month and it meets at the “Polish Triangle”.
Marcus Deely and his bike.
