#fs2018dirtybiker – Pointless Prize Mountain for Dirt Miles for Freezing Saddles 2018

[drevil]

If you do at least a mile on dirt, gravel, or mountain bike trails, put the hashtag #fs2018dirtybiker (all lowercase) into the title of your ride in Strava, and you’ll get a point for that ride for the Freezing Saddles 2018 Pointless Prize Dirty Biker contest. If you need ideas where to mountain bike in the area, go to this page on the MORE site: http://www.more-mtb.org/where-to-ride/

I’ll spot check to make sure you do at least that 1 mile on dirt and will zap the point if I don’t think the criteria’s met.

NOTES:

1. Yes, I will count C&O and gravel rides.
2. Nope, I don’t care if you do ride the dirt on a mountain, hybrid, road, or time trial bike. However, if the trail’s gnarly and you’re rocking the shoe covers, time trial helmet and aerobars, please post a picture here for laughs.
3. If the trail is not in the area (DC Metro area) and/or on that MORE list (above), post a pic of the trail with your bike on it in this thread (required) – and optionally in the ride in Strava – so we can all see how sweet it is. Action shots encouraged.
4. I want to confirm if this is possible with Hozn, but only 1 point max per day, i.e., if you do multiple rides on dirt, you’ll still get max credit of 1.
5. As a separate side prize, post any #fs2018dirtybiker pics in this thread. A favorite will be picked at the end. I generally prefer action shots, i.e., you on the bike gettin’ down and dirty.

Have fun, be safe, and always wear your helmet because rocks/roots/tree limbs are always ready to take you down

Snowy Avalon Ride by ricky d, on Flickr

EDIT 3/13/18: Read the following post for more info about contest end date, scoring, and prizes – http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?12874-fs2018dirtybiker-Pointless-Prize-Mountain-for-Dirt-Miles-for-Freezing-Saddles-2018&p=176111#post176111

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[drevil]

So official count as of 10:30am ET on 3/19/18 for folks with 5 or more #fs2018dirtybiker rides-

Rank Athlete Dirty Ride Days

1. Chris R 47
2. Bill H 20
3. Lachlan M 18
4. ricky d 18
5. Jo 🐢 16
6. Casey ⚛ 14
7. G K 14
8. jeff l 13
9. Jonathan ⚛ 13
10. Josh A 6
11. Dane ⚛ 6

To no one’s surprise (if you’ve been paying attention), Consularrider has crushed it. He has officially without a doubt no joking around totally serious you know what I’m saying won.

As for the most liked+elited pic (that wasn’t mine), D_A_N_E won with 5 points for his bunny hop practice photo.
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?12874-fs2018dirtybiker-Pointless-Prize-Mountain-for-Dirt-Miles-for-Freezing-Saddles-2018&p=172245#post172245

Gents, please PM me your shirt sizes.

Thanks everyone for playing! I wish the weather cooperated better, but I’m also glad that folks stayed off the mountain bike trails due to the mushy freeze-thaw conditions we had this winter.

The #fs2018dirtybiker competition is officially over, but feel free to post pics and comments for any more non-road bike rides that happen until the official end of #FS2018.

Cheers, and see some of you at the closing party on Wednesday!

[obscurerichard]

drevil, are you planning on having a pointless prize for this again for 2019?

[drevil]

@obscurerichard 184677 wrote:

drevil, are you planning on having a pointless prize for this again for 2019?

No sir. I’m going to do the Silly Rabbit Trix pointless prize instead.

2018 was really bad for dirt/singletrack trails (and mountain biking) because of the constant rain we had, and it doesn’t look like it’ll get better anytime soon. I’m just going to try to stay off them until they’re ready, and I encourage others to do the same.

Cheers,
rickyd

[rcannon100]

Word. The reports the last few days have been horrible.

[Greenbelt]

This year’s dirt prize could be for dirtiest commuter bike. OK, I’ll start
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[Rod Smith]

0.8 miles in Mount Jefferson Park, Alexandria. I had to retrace the almost half mile long trail because when I got to the end and went to look at the map, I realized I had lost my phone. Sad I came up two tenths short but the good news, I found the phone.

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