President’s Day History Ride – Monday, February 19th

[Judd]

I’m hosting a President’s Day Ride again this year. In recognition of the bicentennial of the Great State of Illinois, this year’s ride will visit sites associated with the four Presidents who have called Illinois home: Lincoln, Grant, Reagan and Obama. I’m planning just 6 stops this year. At each stop I’ll share some history of the site or individual. I’ve tried to pick sites that for the most part you probably haven’t visited. (I’ve only been to two myself). I’ll once again try to tie historical events to the present.

The official ride will meet at the Lincoln Memorial at 10:30. I plan to get rolling by 10:45. The ride will end at the Lincoln Cottage, which has a museum and also does tours of the cottage (tours are $15). I’m planning on visiting the museum. Scheduling a tour of the cottage with an unknown number of folks arriving at an unknown time will be too unwieldy, so I opted not to include it as part of the ride. If the weather is nice (it was awesome last year) I may do a half DC loop back to Virginia.

I’m planning on starting the morning by having pancakes at Lazy Mike’s in Falls Church at 8 a.m. There was a great crowd there last year.

Hope to see you one the ride.

Full Details:
Pre-Ride Pancake Option: Optional meet up at Lazy Mike’s in Falls Church for pancakes
Ride Meet: 10:30 in front of the Lincoln Memorial steps (look for the tall bearded white guy and the short Asian lady with bikes that look like this: https://i0.wp.com/www.waba.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Judd-and-Josephine-quote-1.png?zoom=2&resize=581%2C305)
Safety Brief: 10:45 I’ll give a quick safety brief (intro of the marshal team, hand and voice signals and ride overview)
Roll out: Lincoln Memorial is the first stop. We’ll roll out afterwards.
Bathroom Break: There will be a bathroom/snack break after the third stop at Glen’s Garden Market
Route: Approximately 9 miles all on DC streets, with heavy use of low traffic streets, bike lanes and cycletracks
Stops: There will be 6 stops on the tour, all related to President’s who have lived in Illinois
End Point: Lincoln Cottage – There’s a visitor’s center with exhibits to view. They also have a bike rack, though we will likely exceed it’s capacity and need to lock bikes to each other. There’s a tour of the cottage as well that costs $15. I’m not expecting to do the tour since space is limited and our arrival time is uncertain.
Bring: Bike lock, money and any snacks you need
Optional late lunch: For anyone that wants to grab lunch afterwards, we’ll pick a place after the Lincoln Cottage

Watch Bobco’s video of last year’s ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mLL8wkM6Ew

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[Steve O]

@Judd 174808 wrote:

“Erotomania is a type of delusional disorder where the affected person believes that another person is in love with him or her. This belief is usually applied to someone with higher status or a famous person, but can also be applied to a complete stranger.”

What is the word if you think everyone is in love with you? (asking for a friend)

[Edelweiss]

Don’t you mean Lincoln WASNT born there? He was born in Kentucky. e

[Judd]

@Edelweiss 174811 wrote:

Don’t you mean Lincoln WASNT born there? He was born in Kentucky. e

Omitted word has be un-omitted. Lincoln was born in Kentucky.

[Judd]

@Steve O 174810 wrote:

What is the word if you think everyone is in love with you? (asking for a friend)

Steveomania.

[Judd]

I’m working today to finalize the notes and the route for Monday’s President’s Day Ride. The current weather forecast is favorable with temperatures in the mid 40’s and low chance of rain.

The ride is going to have some interesting connections to the present: civil rights, gun control, removing Trump, and I even found a way to work in bike infrastructure. Hope to see lots of people there.

[awitt]

How long is the ride?

[Judd]

@awitt 174837 wrote:

How long is the ride?

Route is coming in around 9 miles all of which is easy paced riding in DC. Starting at Lincoln Memorial and ending Lincoln’s Cottage. Emm, Kitty, Sarah Bee, and Komorebi have graciously agreed to assist as marshals since we’ll likely get split at traffic lights. Make sure to bring a lock for the final stop at Lincoln’s Cottage (which has bike racks).

There will be a bathroom/snack stop in the middle at Glen’s Garden Market. I guesstimate that the ride will take 2.5 to 3 hours.

[Judd]

I’ve updated the first post in this thread with as many details about the ride that I could think of.

[Judd]

There are potentially dudes throwing a roll of toilet paper across the street on our route tomorrow. I’ll try to keep you safe.

Interestingly enough, this picture is from outside of the Woodrow Wilson house. Although Wilson did not live in Illinois, he has something in common with another President who is included in the ride.

https://goo.gl/maps/hjymgu7qVgD2

[streetsmarts]

I’m riding from DC.
If anyone wants to ride together together, meet me at the Francis Scott Key Memorial, on the Georgetown side of Key Bridge before crossing to VA – at 7 am tomorrow.

Let’s all do the not-much-rain dance!

Yay Pancakes!! Thanks for planning Judd Lumberjack!

[Judd]

I’m skipping out on pancakes this morning to avoid the ill timed rain. It looks like we’ll be good on weather for the ride today. See everyone at the Lincoln Memorial at 10:30 today.

[MrTinDC]

Aww bummer, I was going to join you for this one, sounds like a fun route, but something came up this morning. Have a good ride!

[Judd]

Thank you to everyone who came out to today’s ride. It gave me warm fuzzies to have so many people show up. I did a count and then some more people showed up. If I did that math right, I think we had 28 people on the ride today. Extra special thank you to Josephine, Sarah, Grace and Erin for marshaling today through city traffic. It really helped keep the ride moving when we got split in city traffic.

Sorry that the Secret Service wouldn’t let us go see Barry and Michelle.

I’ll post my notes sometime this week once I have a moment to clean them up.

[streetsmarts]

Great ride, great history lessons. Saw new parts of the city. And all of you peeps and met some new ones. And got a Frozemon. And… saw this

Thanks Judd and everyone

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[bikesnick]

@Judd 174887 wrote:

Thank you to everyone who came out to today’s ride. … Extra special thank you to Josephine, Sarah, Grace and Erin for marshaling today through city traffic.

Judd,
Thank YOU for all the work in putting together and leading a great ride. Also, thanks to the marshals and sweep.
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