2024 Pointless Prize: Street #Treats

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    Boomer Cycles
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    Treats
    This game is about finding perfectly good, orphaned #treats while riding your bike that are “lost” or dropped UNintentionally by people as they go about their daily life. While “treats” are subjective, intentionally discarded trash or garbage doesn’t count as it is not “lost” and therefore cannot be “found”. The exception to this rule is if you rescue something from someone else’s trash and give it another life by re- or up-cycling it … thus diverting its fateful destination to a landfill.

    Some common street #treats are money, usually coins, and orphan gloves or hats. I’ve found $20 bills, sunglasses, a six-pack of unopened beers and a brand new pair of Speedplay Zero cleat covers. I even found a pair of Barr Mitts once,too.

    How to play:
    1. Find a street treat out in the wild while riding your bike. This means a random item that was “lost” by someone and “found” by you, not something that you intentionally went out to find like a friend, or intentionally discarded as trash unless you re- or up-cycle it (i .e. put it back into use).
    2. Hashtag your ride title #treats on Strava
    3. Post a picture (1 only, please) of the street treat with some part of your bike in it to this thread and/or your Strava post.
    4. Follow me and allow me to follow you back on Strava so that your street #treats can be verified.

    Scoring:
    1. One #treats point per ride posted on Strava
    2. Extra point if you re- or up-cycle the street #treats and share a story of its new life about it here or on your Strava post.
    3. Bonus points if you donate the street treat to someone in need and share a story about it here or on Strava.
    4. Angel points if you return the treat to its rightful owner (as I did with Trey Harris’s Barr Mitts) and share a story about it here or on Strava.

    Note: Bonus & Angel points will be arbitrary, subjective & w/out appeal but your effort and creativity will be taken into consideration.

    The winner will receive a special treat TBD. Send me a PM if you want to donate your street treat to become the award for this pointless prize.

    Good luck finding street #treats!

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  • #1134422
    Sophie CW
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    3/18/24 – Found another penny for my last FS24 treat:

    #1134424
    chill-dad
    Participant

    3/18/24

    On my last FS ride I found the ultimate street treat by someone’s garbage pile. I had a Burley tow hitch on my bike and brought it home.

    #1134425
    chill-dad
    Participant

    @bikingjenn, can you find any serial numbers or markings and figure out who sold it?

    You could also take it to a phone company store and see if they could pull the SIM card to find the owner.

    #1134432
    Boomer Cycles
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    3/18 – my last #treat find of BAFS2024 – a bike helmet. I think it might be the pointless prize for this season’s winner. 

    #1134435
    Boomer Cycles
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    @nadine your 3/14 submission is indeed gross but also looks like intentionally discarded trash so it doesn’t count.

    #1134436
    Boomer Cycles
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    @consularrider the faceless cabal disqualified the guinea fowl as they may have indeed escaped, but weren’t lost … but had you returned them to their rightful owner, it might’ve been considered legit for this game.

    Treats – 3/11/2024 – Oh Faceless Cabal, does this flock of guinea hens count as a treat? 

    #1134437
    Boomer Cycles
    Participant

    @nadine that looks like it could be intentionally discarded trash & not a #treat (see definition on page 1) … except if you picked it up and properly disposed of someone else’s litter?

    3/12/24
    I think this is a car floor mat 

    #1134438
    Boomer Cycles
    Participant

    @bikingjenn did you recycle the litter after you took the pic? If so, then it counts. Otherwise no points for litter pic.

    3/12 Punch can to match my bicycle

    #1134439
    Boomer Cycles
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    @consularrider yes, please remove the hashtag as faceless cabal rules that as litter and so it doesn’t count … unless you drank whatever was in the Gatorade bottle?:-0

    #treats – 3/3/2024 – faceless CABAL, the Gatorade bottle was refilled, I don’t know what with.  Should I remove it?

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