#FS2018coffeeride Pointless Prize

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This is different than Coffeecatting, but could overlap with it to some degree. Here are the rules:

1. The object is to visit as many DIFFERENT coffee places as possible (on your bike, of course!). But once you visit one place, that’s it. A second visit doesn’t count.

2. Starbucks is verboten. But other chains, e.g., Peet’s, Cosi, etc., are fair game. However once you visit one chain outlet, that’s it. A visit to the same outlet but at a different location doesn’t count.

3. “Swamp” coffee, e.g., 7-Eleven, Wawa, etc., is OK but subject to the same conditions as in #2 above. If accordioneur does his Swamp Coffee pointless prize http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?12642-FS-2018-Pointless-Prize-Thread&p=168809#post168809, there could be some overlap here.

4. Bakeries, restaurants, and even fast food joints that serve coffee are also OK but subject to the same conditions as in #2 above.

5. For your ride to count, use #FS2018coffeeride in your Strava ride title and include the name of the place you visited, e.g., #FS2018coffeeride Java Shack. Not required, but encouraged, is to also post pics on your Strava. And if you want to post your Strava ride link and pics on this thread for all to see, that would be fun too (but not required).

6. The winner will be whoever has visited the most DIFFERENT coffee places.

7. The tiebreaker will be whoever has visited the most coffee places on this venerated list:

https://dc.eater.com/maps/best-coffee-shops-in-dc

8. If needed, the second tie breaker will be whoever has visited the most “swamp coffee” places.

Please let me know if you have any questions. Get your caffeine game on!

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And the bicycle, too!

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@Boomer2U 174544 wrote:

And the bicycle, too!

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Defines “rust bucket,” except for the drive train.

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@consularrider 174553 wrote:

Defines “rust bucket,” except for the drive train.

The drive chain and SS cog, were rusted, too, except I soaked them overnight in used motor oil I got from the local PetroBras station around the corner!

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While Boomer may be enjoying his Mardi Gras coffee rides in the warmth of Rio, today’s Fastnacht ride was to Mainz and it’s Fastnachtmesse and we started at -1°C. The third common term for carnival in German, Fastnacht, refers to the Swabian Alemannic carnival, which is found in Baden Württemberg, Franconia (northern Bavaria), Hesse, and much of Switzerland. Although this word looks like it comes from the German for the “eve of Lent,” in fact it is based on the Old German word fasen (“to be foolish, silly, wild”). Thus the word, sometimes spelled Fasnacht (without the t) actually means something like “night of being wild and foolish.” it was pretty quiet when we stopped for lunch with coffee at the Werner’s Backstube and we weren’t sticking around for the Parade of convertibles since we wanted to be back in Frankfurt before sunset.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16884[/ATTACH] The R3 Mainradweg detours up the hill through the vineyard because of construction along the rail line

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16887[/ATTACH] The Kreppel (Berliner, Bismark, cream filled doughnut) had a relatively small amount of chocolate cream inside

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16885[/ATTACH] Unnamed rail bridge (Südbrücke) across the Rhine at Mainz. There is a sidepath for pedestrians and cyclists, something Long Bridge really needs.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16886[/ATTACH] You know sometimes things start small …

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16888[/ATTACH] Then they get really big!

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@Boomer2U 174541 wrote:

I stumbled out of my AirBnB this morning and onto my host’s rust bucket of a beach cruiser in desperate need of coffee after surviving the “world’s largest street party” in Rio de Janeiro known simply as “Carnaval”. I happened to find a delicious double espresso at Victoria Bakery on Av Nossa Senhora in Copacabana one block in, parallel to the iconic beach. The proprietor, Fernando, couldn’t have been more attentive, as he knew what I needed before I could muster the words in my pigeon Portuñol. I then surveyed the damage from the night before, which for some, had not yet ended. Life is indeed a beach sometimes.

This one coffee ride is so over the top that it’s almost worthy of being enough to win the whole damn thing!

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@consularrider 174570 wrote:

While Boomer may be enjoying his Mardi Gras coffee rides in the warmth of Rio, today’s Fastnacht ride was to Mainz and it’s Fastnachtmesse and we started at -1°C. The third common term for carnival in German, Fastnacht, refers to the Swabian Alemannic carnival, which is found in Baden Württemberg, Franconia (northern Bavaria), Hesse, and much of Switzerland. Although this word looks like it comes from the German for the “eve of Lent,” in fact it is based on the Old German word fasen (“to be foolish, silly, wild”). Thus the word, sometimes spelled Fasnacht (without the t) actually means something like “night of being wild and foolish.” it was pretty quiet when we stopped for lunch with coffee at the Werner’s Backstube and we weren’t sticking around for the Parade of convertibles since we wanted to be back in Frankfurt before sunset.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16884[/ATTACH] The R3 Mainradweg detours up the hill through the vineyard because of construction along the rail line

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16887[/ATTACH] The Kreppel (Berliner, Bismark, cream filled doughnut) had a relatively small amount of chocolate cream inside

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16885[/ATTACH] Unnamed rail bridge (Südbrücke) across the Rhine at Mainz. There is a sidepath for pedestrians and cyclists, something Long Bridge really needs.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16886[/ATTACH] You know sometimes things start small …

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16888[/ATTACH] Then they get really big!

Because of your other post about Fastnacht I read up on it. Looks like fun!

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Even though we had full sun today, I did not get out for my ride until sunset. That meant most Bäckereis were already closed so I used my default option and had my cappuccino with my dinner at Valerio’s at the Fieldhouse on the housing compound, and then rode the 200 yards back to our building.

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A Taunus snow ride in the midday drizzle to bad Homburg, Saalburg, and Oberursel stopping for coffee and a chocolate croissant at Café el Castillo in Oberursel, same place from January 5 where the Garmin file was corrupted and would not load into Strava or Garmin Connect so the manual ride did not count for #BAFS.

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Just a short ride today running errands and stopping for a cappuccino and cake at Cinelli’s next to Grüneburgpark and Goethe Universität.

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A late Saturday morning ride with no planned route. After a quick trip through the parks I headed out the Nidda to Harheim, but only found a Bäckerei chain (Siepler) I had already used. Back in Frankfurt I stopped at the Freud Backstube in Eckenheim for a coffee and doughnut.

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I was beginning to think today’s ride was going to be a DNF on coffee. Before leaving home I had scouted out potential stops since so much is either closed altogether or close early since it’s Sunday. My first bakery was in Gustavsburg, I was there at 10:50, but they closed at 11:00 and were out of pastries, so I did’t stop since there were two more possibles in the next five miles. I rode past the location for number 2 in Bischofsheim, but did’t see a bakery. Location number 3 in Ginesheim was open, but were cleaning their coffee machine in preparation for closing at noon (it was 11:40). Location number 4 was on the Kühkopf island and Mr Google said it’s open Saturdays and Sundays, nope. Finally I had success in Pfungstadt. I was prepared to stop at the Burger King, but I passed Café Tee & Co on my way through town and stopped for coffee and wafel (It didn’t look like the nearby Pfungstadt brewery was open).

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For my Presidents’ Day recovery ride I took out the Pugsley and rode around the Grüneburg and Nidda Parks. During my second pass through Niddapark I detoured over to Praunheim and stopped at Espressobar Manusco. I was there at 11 am and they close at 1 pm so my choices were limited. I had a Schweineohren with my coffee.

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I was out getting splatted both before and after lunch in Grüneburg and Nidda Parks. Then I stopped at Café Clement in Eschersheim for coffee and a Berliner gefüllt mit Himbeere.

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Sunrise through the parks before my flight. Stopped at Brot & Freunde in Dornbush near the end for an Illy coffee and Kristalzuckerdonut.

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I’m back in the USSA, we all know how unlucky we are boy, back in the US, back in the US, back in the USSA (with apologies to Paul Mccarthy and everyone else)!

On my ride loop today I stopped at Hopscotch Coffee, not the one in Winchester who supplies Bikes & Coffee in Pucellville, but the one on the B-Line Trail in Bloomington, IN. Ejoyed a great cup of their Honduras Royal Reserve and a maple bacon doughnut.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]17101[/ATTACH] The Allen-Covenantor Greenway Bike Boulevard that runs practically from my mom’s condo to the coffee shop (and Salt Creek Cycles LBS next door).

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