Anybody plan on attending bikefest this weekend?
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June 10, 2011 at 11:29 pm #926881
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ParticipantConfessions first: I avoid fundraisers like the plague. I write checks. Small checks. But WABA is doing it right. No ridiculous dress to buy. No getting trapped at a table with nine bizarre people for three hours. No bidding on obscure objects I don’t need or want. No pretending to know which fork to use when. No bad wine that gives me a 12 hour headache. In other words, no enforced- “We are having fun because we are supposed to.” This is a good event. Full of low-key, low-pressure fun. If I were in town I would be there.
God, I hate the fork roulette game… Gimme Spartacus and some road any time. Except for this.
Ann
June 10, 2011 at 11:45 pm #926882CCrew
Participant@acc 4537 wrote:
Confessions first: I avoid fundraisers like the plague.
Amen!
I’ll be watching our baby girl graduate HS tomorrow, then drowning my sorrows with a bushel of crabs and a case of Dos Equis :p.
And you have no idea how painful it was to get a bushel of good crabs out to the sticks of Winchester where they think steaming a dead female one is perfectly acceptable….
June 10, 2011 at 11:45 pm #926965Participant@acc 4537 wrote:
Confessions first: I avoid fundraisers like the plague.
Amen!
I’ll be watching our baby girl graduate HS tomorrow, then drowning my sorrows with a bushel of crabs and a case of Dos Equis :p.
And you have no idea how painful it was to get a bushel of good crabs out to the sticks of Winchester where they think steaming a dead female one is perfectly acceptable….
June 11, 2011 at 5:10 am #926897KLizotte
ParticipantCowbell?! Cowbell?!!! The stuff this sport requires is getting more and more insane. Funny looking shoes, spandex sausage clothes, cow plows on the front of my bike to clear the kiddies off the MVT, band-aids the size of Pluto to cover my road rash, brain buckets…..
No wonder the runners think we’re all a bit nutty.
June 11, 2011 at 5:10 am #926979ParticipantCowbell?! Cowbell?!!! The stuff this sport requires is getting more and more insane. Funny looking shoes, spandex sausage clothes, cow plows on the front of my bike to clear the kiddies off the MVT, band-aids the size of Pluto to cover my road rash, brain buckets…..
No wonder the runners think we’re all a bit nutty.
June 11, 2011 at 11:49 am #926901ParticipantAll true, except the shoes aren’t funny looking, black leather boots with chains are funny looking, velco and ratchets on shoes are god-awful. But the view is better from a bike saddle, I can create a breeze for myself as I ride along, there is no up and down bouncing or brain rattling on a road bike compared to running. There is an entire vocabulary associated with cycling that allows me to say things with a straight face that make me laugh. “Yesterday I was down at the LBS being measured on the Assometer, and picking up more lube.”
I hope you have a lot of fun this evening.
Ann
June 11, 2011 at 11:49 am #926983ParticipantAll true, except the shoes aren’t funny looking, black leather boots with chains are funny looking, velco and ratchets on shoes are god-awful. But the view is better from a bike saddle, I can create a breeze for myself as I ride along, there is no up and down bouncing or brain rattling on a road bike compared to running. There is an entire vocabulary associated with cycling that allows me to say things with a straight face that make me laugh. “Yesterday I was down at the LBS being measured on the Assometer, and picking up more lube.”
I hope you have a lot of fun this evening.
Ann
June 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm #926905eminva
Participant@CCrew 4538 wrote:
And you have no idea how painful it was to get a bushel of good crabs out to the sticks of Winchester where they think steaming a dead female one is perfectly acceptable….
Did you do this on a bicycle?!
June 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm #926987Participant@CCrew 4538 wrote:
And you have no idea how painful it was to get a bushel of good crabs out to the sticks of Winchester where they think steaming a dead female one is perfectly acceptable….
Did you do this on a bicycle?!
June 12, 2011 at 1:41 am #926998Participant@eminva 4550 wrote:
Did you do this on a bicycle?!
Naa… Car free is far from possible out here in the land of the bubba’s
June 12, 2011 at 1:41 am #926917Participant@eminva 4550 wrote:
Did you do this on a bicycle?!
Naa… Car free is far from possible out here in the land of the bubba’s
June 13, 2011 at 7:37 pm #926956Mark Blacknell
ParticipantA belated thanks to Kathy & everyone else who came out on Saturday. There are some definite lessons to be taken for next year (seriously, we had *Corona* at a bike event??), but I think a good time was had by all.
June 13, 2011 at 8:21 pm #926958Riley Casey
ParticipantIt was fun to put faces with at least a few names at Bike fest. Maybe next year it won’t be competing with Pride day and so much else that we can add some more faces – and perhaps better veggie hot dogs. Great bluegrass band though.
June 13, 2011 at 8:30 pm #926960ParticipantNo such thing as good veggie dogs, nevermind better [adds another thing to the list . . .]. Great to meet you, Riley – thanks for the sounds.
June 13, 2011 at 8:30 pm #926962ParticipantWoah. I just saw what I did to my status. I think I need to go back and delete four posts. There can be only one.
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