{"id":5673,"date":"2012-07-12T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/12\/jim-redd-the-man-who-started-chicago-c-mass\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:09:26","slug":"jim-redd-the-man-who-started-chicago-c-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/12\/jim-redd-the-man-who-started-chicago-c-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Redd &#8211; The Man who Started Chicago C-Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kkBccMP6EiA\/T_79klSyDyI\/AAAAAAAAAPk\/Xt4vnUJrbxw\/s1600\/Picture%2B14.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-kkBccMP6EiA\/T_79klSyDyI\/AAAAAAAAAPk\/Xt4vnUJrbxw\/s1600\/Picture%2B14.png?w=1100\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Before he moved to Ecuador, Jim started the monstrous\u00a0Chicago Critical \u00a0Mass bike ride. which, numbering in the many thousands, is one of the biggest in the world. He also rode for the NBG as a\u00a0Mayors&#8217; Ride scout and led the team that developed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nbg.bikeroute.com\/\">NBG.BikeRoute.com<\/a>, back in 2003, when it was a cutting edge web site..<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/chicagocriticalmass.org\/about\/website\/reddude\">More about Jim<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before he moved to Ecuador, Jim started the monstrous\u00a0Chicago Critical \u00a0Mass bike ride. which, numbering in the many thousands, is&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/07\/12\/jim-redd-the-man-who-started-chicago-c-mass\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,1,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-mass","category-uncategorized","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-1tv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5651,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/09\/27\/critical-mass-turns-20-returns-cycling-to-the-masses\/","url_meta":{"origin":5673,"position":0},"title":"Critical Mass Turns 20, Returns Cycling to the Masses&#8230;","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Here now twenty years after it began, people are finally starting to see what the importance of the Critical Mass movement. 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