2017 Freezing Saddles Thread #1

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  • November 24, 2016 at 2:43 am #1060864
    mdbiker
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    @sjclaeys 147840 wrote:

    One simple rule: you must pedal a bicycle.

    Mono, Trike, Quad, Penny Farthings, Tandems? ;)

    November 24, 2016 at 3:16 am #1060867
    cvcalhoun
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    @mdbiker 149436 wrote:

    Mono, Trike, Quad, Penny Farthings, Tandems? ;)

    At least one of these. Or something that resembles it.

    We spent a whole long time last year discussing what a bicycle was. It took up way too much time and energy. And ultimately, it doesn’t really affect the game. If someone is desperate enough for 11 points one day to define a skateboard as a bicycle, a) it will require more effort and more freezing than an actual bicycle, and b) the likelihood it will affect team standings is virtually nil. Plus, this is not the Olympics; when people are engaged in a friendly pick up game to win paper plates, we don’t need to sweat every trivial thing.

    So ultimately, we banned the obviously abusive ones (ELFs and mopeds), and left it up to participants to decide what else they thought was a bicycle.

    November 24, 2016 at 3:18 am #1060868
    streetsmarts
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    One can win paper plates?! Where has this competition been all my life?!

    I’m in

    November 24, 2016 at 3:53 am #1060869
    vern
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    @streetsmarts 149440 wrote:

    One can win paper plates?! Where has this competition been all my life?!

    I’m in

    Combine this with the free year of toilet paper you could win from the NBC you’d be totally set.

    November 24, 2016 at 8:09 pm #1060880
    DismalScientist
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    Frankly, I think clipless pedals are abusive.

    November 25, 2016 at 4:19 am #1060885
    cvcalhoun
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    @DismalScientist 149455 wrote:

    Frankly, I think clipless pedals are abusive.

    Bikes that weigh less than 65 lbs. are also abusive.

    Let’s keep going. We may have Freezing Saddles down to under 10 participants at this rate.

    November 25, 2016 at 12:02 pm #1060889
    hozn
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    I will throw out there that apparently in Switzerland gas-powered mopeds are allowed on the bike paths and it seems to work just fine :-) E-bikes are ubiquitous also.

    I think from previous debates e-bikes etc. are fine until they threaten to disrupt the competition, but so far the e-bike riders don’t ride all that much , relatively, so it doesn’t matter. To that end, I don’t think we’d have any problems with the Elf troll either, but that does seem a stretch.

    November 25, 2016 at 12:53 pm #1060890
    LeslyJ
    Participant

    I’m in ….. Now if I can just figure out how to stay healthy this year.

    November 25, 2016 at 1:48 pm #1060891
    dbb
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    @hozn 149464 wrote:

    I will throw out there that apparently in Switzerland gas-powered mopeds are allowed on the bike paths and it seems to work just fine :-) E-bikes are far ubiquitous also.

    But the Swiss have a long history of neutrality, a concept that apparently has not apparently crossed the pond to ‘Murrica

    November 25, 2016 at 6:34 pm #1060894
    LhasaCM
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    @cvcalhoun 149460 wrote:

    Bikes that weigh less than 65 lbs. are also abusive.

    Let’s keep going. We may have Freezing Saddles down to under 10 participants at this rate.

    To ensure my ride is not abusive: can I count the trailer cycle attachment in the 65 lbs? What about the accompanying 5 year old?

    November 25, 2016 at 7:54 pm #1060895
    Vicegrip
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    @cvcalhoun 149460 wrote:

    Bikes that weigh less than 65 lbs. are also abusive.

    Let’s keep going. We may have Freezing Saddles down to under 10 participants at this rate.

    65 lbs is four bikes.:eek:

    November 25, 2016 at 11:07 pm #1060899
    cvcalhoun
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    @Vicegrip 149471 wrote:

    65 lbs is four bikes.:eek:

    So if I ride my 65-lb. bike, do I get credit for four times the miles?

    November 26, 2016 at 12:20 am #1060901
    Rod Smith
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    @ewilliams0305 149326 wrote:

    Worth pointing out that would be pure anarchy! I’ve placed top 4 the last two years and as a team was DFL! That said they already do a decent job separating the ringers. If anything maybe Rod, Suby, and I can be on a three person team :) Also worth noting that we are all humans and none of us have super powers. The top three finishers last year all have children (whom they neglected for three month but that irrelevant). Point is anyone can be a ringer anytime they decided to, if that what you really want to be… besides I may decide I just don’t really want to ride much next year (wink;) wink;))

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    Uh, three of the top four…

    November 26, 2016 at 1:11 am #1060902
    ewilliams0305
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    @Rod Smith 149477 wrote:

    Uh, three of the top four…

    Oh yeah so true, and I WASNT in the top 4 last year either, he he he! Last year was insane, everyone involved is just plain nuts! (And you have a cat that was neglected for three months. Same deal)

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    November 26, 2016 at 12:39 pm #1060913
    Raymo853
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    @dbb 149466 wrote:

    But the Swiss have a long history of neutrality, a concept that apparently has not apparently crossed the pond to ‘Murrica

    I disagree with this notion of Swiss neutrality.They hide behind that falsehood to gather money from the persecuted and those subjected to genocide.

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