Halloween Bike Rides

PICTURE	DESCRIPTION
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	A bunch of us from the Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa got together for a couple of Halloween bike rides. We dressed up ourselves and of course our bikes and trailers too! Here's my bike trailer decorated with a dead pumpkinman on it.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	The dead pumpkinman with the axe in his head.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	The dead pumpkinman.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Ouch.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	That's me dresses up as some sort of redneck-pumpkinhead-undead-zombie-killer...or whatever.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	We met up at Martin's place to get the main attraction of our ride set up: The organ trailer! Martin, Jody, Mike, Liam, and Mark help get out of the house and on the trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jody, Mike, and Liam staring at the Hammond Organ as we get it set up.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	The organ is in place on the trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mark decked out in his wizzard costume. His bike has a skull theme going on: A couple of skulls attached to the bike, and of course the whole skeleton in the coffin on his trailer!
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Mark and his coffin-trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mike Watson, dreseed as a clown with his freshly built chopper.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	The gargoyle gets attached to the organ.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	here's my reflecto-bike with a jack-o-lantern on the rack, and the dead pumpkinman trailer.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	My bike and trailer.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Someone hacking at the pumpkin head. :-)
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Richard and Liam riding the tandem Greenspeed trike, pulling the organ trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	The organ trailer! This thing is carrying a Hammond Organ, Leslie speaker, a couple hundred pounds of batteries, and of course the organist, Martin.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Our first night ride took us around through a few residntial neighbourhoods.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	The whole group riding down the street.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jody with his hockey mask, and the organ trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mike Watson dressed as a clown on his chopper, and Jody riding his newly built chopper.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin plays some creepy Halloween music.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	We stopped for a break under the Percy St. Queensway bridge and let Martin wail on the organ to create quite the loud, echoey sonic blast!
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin rockin' out on the organ.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	He's "in the zone".
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Riding through The Glebe, we came across this house that was in full Halloween mode. They had all kinds of funky lights, a smoke machine, and some guy talking in a creepy voice over a PA system. When we rode by, they told us to come back, so we circled the block and hung out there for a little while.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Liam in his alien mask.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	The Halloween house blowing out some smoke.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin gets someone to accompany him on the organ.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	The kids really liked this Halloween house...
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Oooohhh....scary.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	My reflecto-bike and a bunch of our other bikes.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mike and Mark being all serious.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Many people came by to see Martin's organ....err...that doesn't sound right.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mike on his new chopper.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Riding through The Glebe some more.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Richard and Liam pulling the organ trailer with the trike.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin "The Grim Reaper" Petersen.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mark towing his coffin trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Waiting to cross Catherine St. at Metcalfe.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Instead of just going back to Martin's place to drop off the trailer, we decided to ride down Elgin St. to entertain the bar-hoppers. A little further down Elgin St., we stopped infront of a church for some photos and to talk to people.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Martin looking all gothic-like. :)
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Martin rocks out infront of the church.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Being a musician means Martin gets all the groupies!
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	No comment.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	We bumped into Mark's photographer friend (on the left), so he got us to pose for a whole bunch of pictures too.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin, Jody, and Mark on Elgin St.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	The photographer, Mark, and Martin having a chat.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Martin and the gargoyle.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Gargoyle.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	After our trip down Elgin St., we stopped off at Martin's to unload the organ trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Later in the evening we met up with a few more cyclists at the Nature Museum for another night ride. Here's Richard's Goldmember chopper all decked out in Halloween lights and a dangling skeleton.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Goldmember and the skeleton.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Before heading out on the second right, we had to refuel with some pizza.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	"Elton" Jen Niece sitting in the stoker seat of the trike before we head out.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jen and her reflective musical-note costume.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Jen's back.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	We didn't have the organ trailer for the second ride, but at least we had the really bright reflective musical notes!
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mark and Martin get ready to head out for the second ride on their choppers.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jen, Jeff, and Greg gather around Mark's chopper and coffin trailer.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jen (foreground), Jody, and Mark riding down Elgin St.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jody and Mark on Elgin St.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mark and his coffin.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Waiting for a light to change on Elgin St.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	We stopped on Parliament Hill to ride around a bit and take some photos. Mark and Martin dismount their choppers.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Martin and Jeff infront of the doors at Parliament.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jeff and Martin.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin and Mark with their choppers.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Jody and Liam had some issues with the trike's chain.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Not much to see in this picture. Let's move on.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Looking back at downtown Ottawa from Parliament Hill.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin's chopper with the electro-luminescent wire turned on, and Mark's chopper with the skull headlight.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	A clearer shot of Martin and Mark with their lit-up choppers.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	...and another.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Greg Furlong and his old bike carrying a jack-o-lantern and other fall harvest type of stuff.
Medium (600 x 800) Large (1704 x 2202)	Someone sould give Greg some Tremclad. ;-)
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Martin and Mark have a chat with Elton Jen.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Me wearing my pumpkin helmet, rotten redneck teeth, and torn up clothing.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Mark casting a spell on me.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Reflecto-bike gets revenge (no, I didn't really fall off).
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Having a nap on sidewalk as we wait to locate part of the group that we got separated from.
Medium (800 x 600) Large (2272 x 1704)	Good night.
All photographs ©2003 Victor Gedris

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