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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
9 months
I work with heavy machinery and I ride a bicycle everyday everywhere for everything. I have become desensitized to the gore of the daily battles in and out of the workplace and on the streets. Thankful for waking up each day trying to find the beauty in life
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
Passing through Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, I stopped to take a picture of this unique electric car 🚗. I wanted to get a shot of the back but then the driver pulled off and turned around quickly before I got a chance. Looks like a mini cyber truck 😂
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Juan Dominguez
2 years
@historyinmemes Here’s a male beauty pageant in Europe back in the day
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Juan Dominguez
1 year
Beautiful architectural parts of the city 🏙️
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Juan Dominguez
2 years
Makes me laugh when some retailers tell me to park my bicycle at the bike 🚲 rack
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Juan Dominguez
11 months
My friend visiting Munich sent me photos of how packages 📦 are being delivered around town. How much longer will it be till Chicago follows this sustainable trend?
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Juan Dominguez
2 years
Confirming what my niece JuJu found on Reddit for the family art 🖼 collection. Went to visit Eugene and Crilly in Old Town, and everything checks out as legit 🍻🔥🌃
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Chicago bicycle infrastructure... Oooh look, they can add that to the mileage of built up bicycle lanes 😜😂
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Juan Dominguez
2 years
Hoping y’all can support the south side of Chicago. Critical Mass hardly ever goes that far south and this part of town needs a better outlook for people on bicycles 🚲 Car 🚗 culture is much sicker down there 👇
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Updated map for Friday
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Juan Dominguez
1 year
This driver was very proud of this monstrosity he built. He honked his loud train horn when I stopped to take some photos on the hipster highway. Some of the cyclists nearby were laughing about it
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Inspired a coworker to buy a bicycle and ride it to work. She was surprised to see the kind of disrespect drivers shoveled her way on the way home riding on the street
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Oooh looky, a fresh new spread of tacks 📌 to flatten bicycle tires with. Early Monday morning with the highly suspected delivery driver who had nothing but ugly words to share when I asked him to not park in the bicycle lane. I tried once again to sweep up all the tacks
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
9 months
It makes me happy to see that us David sized humanitarian group of cyclists are pushing pins into this demented delusional Goliath sized population of cagers. We are going to be taking the @ChiCritMass through here to push the pins in even further 🔥
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Good morning @GFSDelivers , your delivery driver continues to park in the bicycle lane, damaging the bicycle lane infrastructure. This is today at 350 north Clark street in Chicago at 5:45 am
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Motivated to get new tires and up early Monday morning to see if I can photograph the thumb tack 📌 spreader on the Clark street bicycle lane doing the third attempt at flattening people’s bicycle tires
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
@KlutzCargo I’d like to see a more refined version of this rugged looking velomobile
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Juan Dominguez
1 year
Everywhere I go see all the garbage cager culture leaves behind. Eventually it will all become micro plastics. This deeply entrenched dependency on the private automobile. Always amused seeing the slow moving polluted parking lot called traffic during rush hour. When will it end?
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Bicycle lanes on the south side of Chicago are dismal
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
In honor of our friend who left this mortal coil last Monday, I dusted off a pony he enjoyed seeing at the monthly ride gathering around town
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Thanks to @bikelaneuprise for the free lights that allowed Nadia to explore the dark forbidden nooks and crannies of our city 🌃 with the 🐀 patrol
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
5 months
This Friday will be a twisty turny route, seeing our emerald city 🏙️ from many directions, 🗺️ passing historic sites and a rebuilt stadium 🏟️ that we still haven’t finished paying off 😉😂. Our public transport system is a joke. At least cycling is getting a little bit better ❤️‍🩹
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Experimenting with different things to make cager assholes pay for destroying infrastructure and putting lives at risk
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
This Saturday if weather permits, we’ll be planning on doing the Perimeter Ride around Chicago
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Does anyone recognize this neighborhood? My mom bought this painting from a friend of hers named Bernie more than 40 years ago. Certainly the neighborhood has changed. My brother in-law is wondering where this is in Chicago
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
Route for this Friday, weather permitting about 12 miles more or less up north at the lake for a swim 🏊‍♂️ and a small bonfire 🔥. A short ride to end before sunset 🌅 so that we can go home 🏠 early enough for the naked ride Saturday 🤩
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Found conclusive evidence of where I got tacks 📌 embedded in my front and rear tires. This was in the bicycle lane going north on the bridge on Clark street. I tried sweeping 🧹 up as many as I could find. Careful out there, some asshole has bad intentions for cyclists
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
3 years
My hands were happy that I made these ugly things out of detergent bottles and shiny space blanket material for my -5 degree Fahrenheit ride to work this morning
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
3 years
Here’s the April route for next Friday. Ride along the river to Revolution Brewing to commemorate the Lager Riots of 1855 crossing the bridges that were lifted from the more recent riots. Also there is a pre ride planned for this Friday 5:30pm for the May ride at Delay Plaza
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
@lumbjackwharfie Some assembly required
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Thanks to @bikelaneuprise for giving Frank Nitty from the west side a set of bicycle lights
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Feeling a little bad that I misled/stole a large group of cyclists away from someone else who made a different route map tonight. But I made up for it by giving away a free set of lights from @bikelaneuprise to Verónica, who was really happy with them and wanted one for her son
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
7 months
March 29th 2024. The nice standard Chicago sites along with visiting abandoned rail tracks that used to feed paper to the long gone Sun Times newspaper with caution. Union Station hall of mirrors. A quick impromptu tour of a package 📦 delivery facility, and so much more for CCM
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
6 months
New for 2024 improved more legible maps for this Friday’s ride 04-26-24
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
During the pandemic I had a group of friends who would ride their single speed bicycles with me dressed in whatever. Now that they are back to working and making good money again, they bought fancy bicycles and gear. I can’t ride with them anymore 😂
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Here’s the route map for this Friyay! Mark your calendars. After passing the haunted place on Dearborn, we’ll stop at the Lincoln monument for 15 minutes before heading into the dark trails of what used to be a cemetery. Second 1 hour stop for food before the final destination ☠️
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Thanks to @bikelaneuprise for letting me test out this highly visible poncho rain jacket outer layer
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Really happy with people’s ride tracking reports. All passing grades for this epic art 🖼 project 💀🥰🤣😅
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
9 months
Just so you know , you don’t have to worry about me dealing with the reality of brutality cold 🥶 weather . Got my spacesuit on and my pony 🐎 fully rigged up Menard’s Style. Thanks to @bikelaneuprise for the reflective jacket as a bonus outer layer
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
@joshuaw711 Great info
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
@BikingPeep As a mechanic, it's very frustrating that people buy these cheaply manufactured bicycles that were poorly assembled. Then when the purchaser brings it in for repairs, they are angry that the cost to fix the bicycle is more than what they bought it for
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Thank you all for allowing me to mislead the Chicago Critical Mass ride the past couple of years on dozens of good, bad and ugly routes. I will not be leading this month's ride
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
6 months
We’ll be saying goodbye to the chocolate 🍫 factory 🏭 and the Damen silos this Friday. Also we’re going to pass through some historical sites and enjoy plenty of street art 🖼️ along the way in our ever changing city 🏙️
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
6 months
Critical Mass must go on until our city gets the well connected infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians our town deserves and needs. Until then we will continue to advocate for safer streets. Many times direct routes are nonexistent and dangerous for transit purposes
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 months
The route for this Friday 08-30-2024. As always let’s keep up with the great 😊 vibes of HAPPY FRIDAYS with our fun 🤩 rolling party 🎉. Possibly the last swim 🏊‍♀️ of the year. Bring your bubble 🫧 and costume game again. It helps to distract angry 😤 people in their cars 🚘
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
An amazing Critical Mass Ride in Chicago last night. Thankful nobody was seriously injured despite the constant looming threat of violence from enraged drivers. One of my favorite moments was the 🛹 skateboarder doing handstands and then jumping back into the deck. Much fun 🤩
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 years
Jackson Blvd between Ashland and Laflin is an ideal street for the peaceful coexistence of bicycle and automobile traffic, in my opinion. The trees also keep the road cool and the people healthy. If only the rest of the city would be like this where cars belong in garages.
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
These thoughts fill my mind when leaving work during the cager filled rush hour. So many determined people alone in their automobile distracted by their own little life in their cages creating a mess
@fietsprofessor
Cycling Professor 🚲 
1 year
Every time you bring up car reduction schemes there is somebody who asks "what about emergency vehicles?" Thomas Hug made a useful video. What does not block emergency vehicles? 🚶‍♀️ People (🚑in #HongKong demonstration) What does block emergency vehicles? 🚗 Cars (🚑 in #London )
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
It was a super challenge leading a much larger critical mass that I think I've ever attempted. To tame traffic and a fast group of riders unintentionally misleading the group is becoming too much to handle. I'm going to take a break next month. Anarchy is a wild stallion
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Diondre sporting new lights and a new head badge at Critical Mass meetup at Federal Plaza thanks to @bikelaneuprise
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
11 months
It’s a trigger that I have to deal with when a neighbor sees me getting my bicycle out for a commute and they think I’m crazy for going for a leisurely ride in the cold weather. Thus dealing with a population that still doesn’t understand that a bicycle is a form of transport
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Weather permitting, we’ll be doing about 11 miles through fairly new bicycle infrastructure that I’ve always enjoyed. Ending at a great bonfire 🔥 spot with music 🎶Next month I’ll be showing my artwork of my high hanging fruit transportation ideas for the Bicycle Winter Art Show
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
Loaded up a new portable fire 🔥 pit for end point purposes
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
9 months
@pes10k I’ll play drunk and just squeeze by, “adjusting “ the side mirror. Oops 😅 sorry
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
8 months
Met up with a great group of riders for the opening of the Bike Winter Art Show. Thrilled to see and enjoy new kinetic and static artwork on the streets and in the gallery. Winter 🥶 made sure to make a visit ❄️ as well. The ride home was brutal, but at least I was prepared
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Another great time with my alternative transportation family. Making cagers lose their shit, intrigue pedestrians and end the night spectacularly
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Sporting the fancy new glasses my buddy gave me “that fell off the back of a truck” and enjoying the recently built bicycle lane on Belmont. I’ve never felt so safe riding through that intersection before. Thankful for thoughtful transportation infrastructure! I feel 🥰 loved
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
8 months
Here’s the route to the Bike Winter Art Show for this Friday
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Juan Dominguez
5 months
@foxyjewishmama Car brain 🧠 is extremely powerful programming. Many people are lost inside that vehicle matrix machine
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Juan Dominguez
1 year
This Friday is going to be critical with points of interest and then a dip in the lake
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Once again, thank you @bikelaneuprise for providing free lights for Marshall who will be hosting the end point this month at a community garden on the north side for Critical Mass
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
If I was mayor, I'd put bollards at the entrances of the bicycle paths and then do what Mayor Daley did to Meigs Field Airport to DLSD!!!
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 months
Clark street “protected” bike lane was nice 👍🏽 for a tiny bit until it tossed me back into a restaurateur and cager paradise 💩🎉🚗
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
3 months
Still working on the map 🗺️. Please let me know what needs to change
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Juan Dominguez
9 months
@lumbjackwharfie @ChiCritMass Lowest form of cancer in a livable city
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Juan Dominguez
5 years
Postal worker acted completely clueless and pissed off I took a photo of his superb parking job, making it very difficult to use the bicycle lane and forcing me to ride in regular traffic.
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Yesterday was the two year anniversary of working at my new career as a setup machinist operator. According to my mom, it’s the kind of challenge that sanctifies my soul. I’m just glad to find finally get back to work again for decent pay. I’ve seen many people quit and get fired
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
7 months
The double decker Divvy continues its development. Hoping that they will also offer up cargo bikes and raked out choppers
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Last Friday’s ride through the spaghetti 🍝 bowl highway interchange on the tallest ramp with a unique perspective from the tallest bicycle. Skilled photography taken by Yly Coyote. Look at all those happy smiling faces full of adrenaline! Happy Friday!
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Josh in Humboldt Park was very thankful for the lights from @bikelaneuprise
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
5 months
Yo, safety noodles in da hizzy!
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
The entitlement of drivers is always going to be ugly. Whether it’s on a side street or a larger road, it’s best to not engage enraged cagers
@Pflax1
Peter Flax
4 months
Legit question: Why do folks who drive choose to patiently sit in their cars for 10-30 minutes to get coffee or burgers lose their shit if a bike rider delays them for five seconds? Why is one a desirable lifestyle choice and the other an infuriating infringement of liberty?
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
The beautiful colors of fall 🍃 🍁 will also make you fall down when they are wet . Careful out there, rubber side down…
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
10 months
So excited to see more bicyclists showing up each month. It’s a sign 🪧 that perhaps 🤔 more people are starting to be interested in not being a caged in drivist
@ChiCritMass
Chicago Critical Mass
10 months
This is THE END of 2023. Thanks to everyone who came out this year & rode with us. See in 2024 🙌🏻 #bikechi #Chicago #Criticalmass
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
4 months
When feeling down, it’s nice to live nearby the underground streets and explore unfamiliar places to get my mind off things and perhaps even find new discoveries
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Juan Dominguez
5 months
@Boenau @ThisIsClappTrap Paint 🎨 as infrastructure is a big joke
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Juan Dominguez
5 months
It’s very encouraging to see more new riders bicycling in to work. Thanks to @bikelaneuprise for giving Shawn in second shift a great set of lights for his late night commute home ❤️
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Crucially important information for the ride this Friday. It’s necessary to reintroduce again from the old analog Critical Mass archives.
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
South side Critical Mass rolling soon. Remembering our friend Buck who rode his various BMX bikes with many different groups throughout our city 🌆
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Juan Dominguez
9 months
My ever evolving cobbled together winter 🥶 pony has provided me with over 10 years of mood and cardiovascular 🫀 health. From ransacking piles of snow to getting me safely to work over streets covered in sheets of ice 🧊, I’m always amazed at all the fun things that it brings
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Juan Dominguez
6 months
Carbage #1 . You can always tell how regular the crashes are by all the different models of car trash lumped together
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Juan Dominguez
6 months
A sober reminder of why we continue to gather together to ride en masse. On this anniversary, the rain 🌧️ is a welcome complement
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Juan Dominguez
2 years
Back when Big Marsh was a developing idea, I showed up to support a group working to help make the park a reality. My involvement in the bicycle community has surpassed my expectations of just wanting to go for a fun group ride
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Juan Dominguez
2 years
Rolling!
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Juan Dominguez
1 year
A sneak peek of Black Cat custom’s hand made chopper bicycle to be enjoyed by everyone tonight at Chicago Critical Mass
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Here’s the route map 🗺️ info for Saturday’s ride. More details about the secret 🤫 launch 🚀 spot coming 🔜
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
8 months
Still would like to see a larger than February Critical Mass take over the North Avenue bridge 🌁
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
5 months
We were supposed to end our monthly ride at Northerly Island Park but some private company closed off our public park for their own personal music event. It has been reopened but plenty of trash was left behind
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
7 months
Last July we planned on visiting the UPS facility to send a message to the company. We finally did it in March of this year because we made better plans on how to herd the rowdy anarchic crowd of young riders who kept misleading and splitting up the Critical Mass Ride at front
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
Had to listen to my inner voice, and mislead those willing to follow down the underground paths and forbidden places. Sadly we couldn’t do the route that I planned because of the weather
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Made it to Queens Landing for the Ride Of Silence much too late. Poured one out at the end point since it was where I started out in this car sick paradise
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
1 year
Taking the whole lane ✔ Distracted (singing) ✔ No helmets ✔ No lights✔ No reflective vests ✔ Riding in a pack ✔ RADICALIZED by the sound of music
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
3 years
@capittalism Was drunk last night on my bicycle ride home. Stopped to piss on a car parked in the bicycle lane
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Juan Dominguez
4 months
Bigger streets are in the plan next two months for the larger rides coming up. Perhaps we should encourage more bare as you dare ridership for those who missed the naked ride. Nothing like a set of knockers and asses to knock out the aggressiveness of drivers stuck in traffic
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
8 months
Anyone who rolls on a bicycle daily knows just how much fucked up this matrix we live in is. Rubber syde down yo. Hope to catch up with ya all on the flip side
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
7 months
West side abandoned lot 🔥. We leave it cleaner than it was before
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Juan Dominguez
2 years
Going north on Halsted from Milwaukee Avenue is a true test of urban cycling 🚴🏿‍♀️😂. A suggested bicycle lane and an uphill climb towards Chicago Avenue, with aggressive drivers coming at you from behind, especially right before Division street. Raging cagers trying to kill me 👀💩
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Juan Dominguez
1 year
@Nova__999999 @bikegridnow This city is so deeply brainwashed by car brain
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
10 months
The route for this Friday will be about 7.6 miles of streets covered with 65.4% of beautiful 🤩 festive lights that will lead us to Northerly Island
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@bikefreek
Juan Dominguez
2 years
An appropriate ending for the bicycle winter art 🖼 show yesterday on my way home. Byke Lyfe spot thinking of my peeps
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