Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race

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Here’s the route notes for tomorrow’s ride, if anybody’s up for something a bit unusual, and very, very Baltimore!

Reminder, our shop ride this weekend is to Baltimore, leaving Proteus at 7am. We’re hoping to get to the Kinetic Sculpture Race opening ceremony by 9:30 to light the eternal flame or something. (If it’s eternal, why does it need to be lit?) This is a long ride at a medium pace on pretty amazingly nice roads, considering.

66 mile round trip: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2449007

Bring food, water, spare inner tubes, etc. Have a back up plan/bail out rescue plan if you want to stay in Baltimore — I’m planning to get some food and then head back around 11am or 12pm, getting back to Proteus around 2pm or so — not planning to stay in Baltimore for the whole day. -Jeff

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Some cell phone pics of this year’s entries: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.482310805168975.1073741835.307014479365276&type=1

[Rod Smith]

Fun ride. The “sculptures”, human powered vehicles, were spectacular. Some very impressive designs. Here’s one featuring a mustache and a mustachioed stoker in drag, longtime DC messenger (and many times alleycat champ) who just happened to be good friends with the tallbike rider we escorted to Baltimore and along the parade route who also had a mustache on his bike…

Bruce said “Hey Rod, we have a trailer!” and proudly pointed it. The trailer had a round, rotating trailer bed with a mouse on it.

Ryan and Ben

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@Rod Smith 51178 wrote:

Fun ride. The “sculptures”, human powered vehicles, were spectacular. Some very impressive designs. Here’s one featuring a mustache and a mustachioed stoker in drag, longtime DC messenger (and many times alleycat champ) who just happened to be good friends with the tallbike rider we escorted to Baltimore and along the parade route who also had a mustache on his bike…

Bruce said “Hey Rod, we have a trailer!” and proudly pointed it. The trailer had a round, rotating trailer bed with a mouse on it.
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That’s my friends’ entry! And they won the mediocre award!

Thanks for the good picture; I heard all about it while it was being assembled, but this is the best picture I’ve seen.

Liz

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