MurFreesboro Bike Night

MFBN IV from Natalie Newberry on Vimeo.

Other wise known as Mother Fucking Bike Night. The bicyclists of Murfreesboro gather to ride their second favorite form of transportation around town every Thursday night (weather permitting). While milkshakes and slushies aren't exactly my thing, we decided to pack up the SUV and make a trip out to the "Boro" to hang with the kids and see what the fuss was all about. The first trip was exciting enough. High points included being told that I needed to pick up speed to get up a hill that I then rode up with no hands (look ma!), tricking Devan into thinking that the town square was the same one from Back to the Future, and the foot down comp (if only they knew we had to wear teflon vests in Nashville to play).

After getting the feeling that this ride was a little like a G-rated version of Nashville Critical Mass, we decided to spice things up a bit and throw Skumlife into the mix. The next Thursday we returned with some Skumlife All-stars; we showed up fashionably late and ran out or beer by the time we got there. Unfortunately, I had a bruised/possibly broken rib (from the previous weekend) which took me out of contention for the foot down competition (Ryan lost by "trying" to do a 180 in the final). At one point, I was in back and noticed a traffic jam at the CircleK just past "Clean" Jim's. Of course Ed had called for a beer pit stop less than a mile into the ride and threw the sheep into a "follow the leader" dilemma that left them in seizure for a minute or so (for future reference, Murfreesboro, keep going! You're not fast! We will catch up). Highlights included Ed talking to the Murfreesboro police with one hand on a beer under his shirt, hearing that people had heard that Skumlife rides around with shotguns, ski-masks, and steals bikes at gun point (it's shotguns with banana clips btw), an impromptu stop at the Dodge Store for the best chicken in the world, and a little bit of loving on the floor during a bad ass performance by the The Prophet Nathan.

All in all, you make your night what you want it to be. If you live in Murfreesboro, definitely book your Thursday nights for this ride, but remember Thursday night isn't the only night to ride bikes. If you live in Nashville, I seriously doubt it's worth taking two hours of driving time and as much gas as I use weekly to do something that we already do everyday (with more excitement) here. I don't want you to take my word for it; I want you to try it out for yourself. If you want to waste a couple of hours and money driving, feel like you are ruining someone's night by having a good time, ride at moderate speed (no faster!), then this one is for you. They meet up every Thursday at 9pm on MTSU campus at the Quad (In front of the Library). As for me, every night in Nashville is Mother Fucking Bike Night!

PS. I love the real Boro riders (you know who you are). Do your thing. Also, thanks to Natalie (our new Murfreesboro corespondent) for the vid. She will be hooking it up on the blog from now on (as far as current events in Murfreesboro are concerned).