Cruisin’ on Halloween

The World’s Friendliest Viking, Joey Mac, put together a great cruise for Halloween. About 20 cyclists gathered in front of Monty’s Crown on Monroe Avenue in Rochester around 8 p.m. for a slow, no-set-direction ride through the Park Avenue and South Wedge neighborhoods. There were Critical Massers, folks from Blue Cease’s New History Tours, members of Team RocBike, and unattached cyclists. Joey handed out glowsticks for all. He had also had a basket of candy on the front of his cruiser bike. He tossed candy to bystanders as we rode.

We started out on Monroe Ave, quickly turning into the Park Ave neighborhood. We cruised around shouting “Happy Halloween” at the trick-or-treaters, who cheered for us a lot more frequently than I expected. Everybody was in costume. We had a Viking (Joey), the Chicken Avenger (Adam Durand), a Ghostbuster, mountain men and many more. The show stealer for me, though, wasn’t a person. It wasn’t even a bike. It was two glass tubes:

Adam’s new Down Low Glow. Man, oh man, it’s cool!

Photographer and inline skater John Lam was with us, too, which was cool because he took my crappy camera midway through and managed to get some decent shots. He also rode the Packet Boat (Xtracycle) part of the way with his skates down — human training wheels!

We cruised by Frederick Douglass’s house on Bond Street and I told the ghost story that I had heard on the “Not So Smugtown” tour. Eventually, we made our way to the bar LUX on South Avenue. Let me tell you, 20 cyclists entering the back patio — including one with the Down Low Glow — was a hip sight to see. Here are the photos John Lam and I took tonight:

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Joey is planning to host a cruise every Wednesday for at the least the next several weeks. Watch our calendar for details!

UPDATE: Joey sent this note:

Thanks again to everyone who came out. I can’t take all the credit for the event, my buddies Brian Killmore and Karl Uschold helped plan and organize the ride, and Team Rocbike supported it! I uploaded pics from the ride that Brian took, on my flickr page

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