BAFS 2016 Team 13 Official Thread

[Powerful Pete]

Dear esteemed fellow velocipede users, this is the official thread for the BAFS 2016 Team 13 – official name to be decided in a highly participatory fashion hopefully involving fermented and/or caffeinated beverages in copious quantities. 😎

As per Sunyata (team making czar) and her minions, the elite members of this unbelievably great team are:

barbielwc
beaversd
bruzasd
culery
FFX_Hinterlands
Henry
ian74
Judd
LeprosyStudyGroup
Powerful Pete
rwhiffen
Teresa A
HancockBS

A few housekeeping thingamajigs:

1. Please join the Strava Club for Team 13: http://www.strava.com/clubs/175419

2. Please double-check that you have a functioning Strava account and have authorized the BAFS website to access your rides/information – drop me a line and we’ll figure it out if you have any questions (I am clueless in these matters but will appeal to others and pretend to be useful).

3. Please do “check in” on this thread once you have signed on the team, that way I will be able to confirm to our BAFS/forum overlords that we are all “on board”

4. If you are willing, please pm me your email address – this will simply make it easier to reach out to folks in planning rides and get-togethers – if you do not want to share this information, that’s fine of course (the info shall not be sold or used for marketing purposes, unless someone offers me enough money to purchase a Campagnolo Super Record EPS groupset – then all bets are off).

5. GET OUT AND RIDE. Remember if at all possible to at least sleaze daily.

6. Begin thinking (or don’t think at all and propose anyway) of a name for our most awesomest bestest super duper team.

7. Encourage your riding buddies who are not on our team to save their energy and not ride. It’s better for their health.

8. Please use this thread to organize rides, encourage other team members, brag about how awesome we are and make fun of the other teams.

9. Always encourage Boomer to look after his health and not ride.

HAVE FUN! RiDE SAFELY!

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[Teresa A]

Hi All! I’m happy to once again be Team 13 again this year (how did that happen?!) Obviously this team is the most awesome.
I’m joined up on the Strava club. Thanks for getting us started!

[rwhiffen]

Here we go!

[Powerful Pete]

Hey TEAM 13, if anyone is up for a team ride tomorrow, I was thinking of something nice and easy, either heading out on the WOD or towards Mt. Vernon. If we opt for the latter those who are interested could then opt for a few HP laps to complete their January Strava Gran Fondo challenge.

The idea is to have a social, no-drop ride involving coffee and pastries (ergo, motivation). Proposed meeting place: Best Buns Shirlington @ 10 (it is the weekend, after all).

By all means make other suggestions if these do not appeal… remember, you are in the capable hands of an Italian organizer…

[Teresa A]

@Powerful Pete 131379 wrote:

Hey TEAM 13, if anyone is up for a team ride tomorrow, I was thinking of something nice and easy, either heading out on the WOD or towards Mt. Vernon. If we opt for the latter those who are interested could then opt for a few HP laps to complete their January Strava Gran Fondo challenge.

The idea is to have a social, no-drop ride involving coffee and pastries (ergo, motivation). Proposed meeting place: Best Buns Shirlington @ 10 (it is the weekend, after all).

By all means make other suggestions if these do not appeal… remember, you are in the capable hands of an Italian organizer…

Sorry, I have an NCVC Women’s team ride tomorrow at the same time. I might be able to join people in the afternoon though!

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

I’ll be around eventually. My rear hub decided to die wed. night and needs replacing

[FFX_Hinterlands]

Hi, long time follower, first time BAFS rider! Most of my rides are commutes and errands regardless of weather. I don’t think I logged many “fun rides” last year, which is too bad. I would be interested in meeting up for a weekend ride if anyone is in the Reston/Herndon area. I’m in the Hinterlands of Fairfax County, after all!

– Tom

[bruzasd]

I’m all in! Joined the team Strava group.

10am ride from Arlington tomorrow should work for me.

A few random team name ideas to get us started:
– Iced nonfat ride a lot, eh?
– Abominable snowpeople
– Not done Yeti

[ian74]

@bruzasd 131405 wrote:

I’m all in! Joined the team Strava group.

10am ride from Arlington tomorrow should work for me.

A few random team name ideas to get us started:
– Iced nonfat ride a lot, eh?
– Abominable snowpeople
– Not done Yeti

Team name? Glacial Pacers.

I won’t be able to make the 10:00 am ride tomorrow. But I was granted permission for a late afternoon ride so I will go out and get a few miles. Sorry PP, the weekends are harder for me since the arrival of terror baby. I will keep plugging along and find a Saturday to join in.

[Boomer Cycles]

Dear Team 13, your leader is with holding a deep, dark secret which will inflict great harm upon you. Do not ride with him, under any circumstances. You have been warned!

[Henry]

I think I’ve checked all the boxes and I’m ALL IN! But I sadly can’t do a ride tomorrow AM. Will be at Transportation Camp all day. Will bike there and back, though.

Name ideas:

The Triskaidekaphilians (people obsessed w/#13)
The Untrue Wheelers
13 the Dream
Cracked Sidewalls
Just a Number

Henry

[Powerful Pete]

Excellent suggestions. Let’s give it until the end of the weekend then I will set up a poll for voting on the different names.

In the meantime, whatever you do, beware of that Boomer fellow. Above all, do not be seen in public with him – it is bad for your reputation. If you happen to see him riding, do the Washington DC area cyclists a favor and try to disable his velocipede.

[ian74]

Other team name ideas:

Cold Test Icicles
Chafing the Dream

Also, we are team number 13, there are 13 of us, so if anyone can come up with some play on that it might work. I got nothin.

[bruzasd]

More bad name ideas

Lucky Bakers Dozen
Bare Your Polar Bear
Ride Day the 13th
Team 169 / 13

[ian74]

@ian74 131451 wrote:

Other team name ideas:

Cold Test Icicles
Chafing the Dream

Also, we are team number 13, there are 13 of us, so if anyone can come up with some play on that it might work. I got nothin.

Bible verse?
Romans 13:13

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

I kind of like the alternative to daytime walking honestly.

[bruzasd]

@ian74 131453 wrote:

Bible verse?
Romans 13:13

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

I kind of like the alternative to daytime walking honestly.

That’s amazing. So team name “Romans 13:13, In Orgies and Drunkenness”?

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