Dirty Biker… #DirtyBikerFS20

[Dachs6]

A few of you know me, most do not…so this is going to be interesting, fun, and weird…that’s not the dirty part. The dirty part is the grime and mud that some of us willingly ride our bikes through because pavement is fun, but boring (and dangerous) in the winter time.

That hashtag in the thread title should be used to denote rides that qualify as not on pavement, it’s an honor system.

1) To qualify a ride must be more than 5km (3.1 miles) in length, sleaze rides won’t get it done.
2) Any ride type counts, commute, social, errands…the key is using a path or trail that is not paved (sorry, the MVT despite its horrific and ever worsening condition is still paved).

The goal here is to recognize those riders (like me) who split their time on pavement and gravel/dirt. I believe in the years past the scoring of the rides using the FS database was binary, a tagged ride counted as 1, and the rider with the most tagged rides was the winner.

That’s awesome, but, let’s make it better. If you want to participate, make a post in this thread after your first #DirtyBikerFS20 qualifying ride, so tagged in the title on Strava. In the post, list the date and the estimated distance off pavement. For each successive ride that meets the criteria, tag your rides appropriately in Strava, then edit your post here to keep a running log of your “dirty” rides and total distance, the idea being that the most miles off the paved surfaces earns a “dirty” award to be given at the closing happy hour. To keep things fair (because it is simply too easy to go ride gravel here in Stuttgart), I will recuse myself from competition, though I will most certainly tag rides and keep a running record of my mileage on dirt as well for motivation.

Helpful would be a photo attached to each ride in Strava proving it…remember, if it isn’t in Strava, it didn’t happen.

Remember, wash your bikes…dirt and mud really wreak havoc on your drivetrains.

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[Dachs6]

@mwolf00 204032 wrote:

Hi everyone. I’m a gravel grinder and I’ve started tagging my rides with #dirtybiker – man is this dirty work so far this year! Have fun out there. Try to rinse your bike off when you can!

I took over this pointless prize last year, and I hadn’t considered doing it again, though maybe I should. Hmmm. Give me a few days to think on it. In the meantime keep tagging.

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[mwolf00]

@Dachs6 204036 wrote:

I took over this pointless prize last year, and I hadn’t considered doing it again, though maybe I should. Hmmm. Give me a few days to think on it. In the meantime keep tagging.

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I see that a few rides do now show up for some other riders but not mine. What hashtag should I be using?

[josh]

@mwolf00 204977 wrote:

I see that a few rides do now show up for some other riders but not mine. What hashtag should I be using?

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#dirtybiker or #DirtyBikerFS20

(although the devs are trying to discourage the use of years in the hashtags because of the increased maintenance incurred, although if sponsors come and go it might be problematic anyways). While the Strava premium hashtags/statmaps work in both activity title and description, the BAFS leaderboard implementation does not — it just uses the titles.
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This should probably be indicated more explicitly considering it’s come up multiple times (or we could change the implementation, but considering I’m not actually helping with that I’m reluctant to make that recommendation).

[JoM]

@Dachs6 204036 wrote:

I took over this pointless prize last year, and I hadn’t considered doing it again, though maybe I should. Hmmm. Give me a few days to think on it. In the meantime keep tagging.

Cool, I didn’t realize that #dirtybiker was a thing for FS2021. Happy to help, if needed. So, gravel and MTB rides count as #dirtybiker rides? Haven’t done much MTBing, because of the freeze-thaw effect on the trails, but I definitely have a few gravel rides.

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