Great Pumpkin Ride 2021

[Judd]

The Great Pumpkin Ride is back in 2021. It’s scheduled for Saturday, October 23rd.

Registration is available through the interwebs, although it looks like the e-mail announcing the ride is outpacing the updating of the website: http://fauquiertrailscoalition.org

So now the tough question is: What should the group costume be this year? We’ve done gnomes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Super Mario Bros and Sesame Street.

Some costume ideas:
Bees
Minions
X-Men
Ghostbusters
Harry Potter
Treasure Trolls
Covid-19

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[SarahBee]

I met a few folks on a recent ride who mentioned the bike Arlington team costume group directly and was speculating on the group costume this year. Made me think that Hello Kitty & friends may not be as well known as other years. Any thoughts on how we could make this more Hello Kitty-ish?

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@SarahBee 211462 wrote:

I met a few folks on a recent ride who mentioned the bike Arlington team costume group directly and was speculating on the group costume this year. Made me think that Hello Kitty & friends may not be as well known as other years. Any thoughts on how we could make this more Hello Kitty-ish?

There’s my fifteen minutes of fame right there I’ve been puzzling how to differentiate being dressed as Badtz-Maru from just being dressed as a penguin. One option I thought of was to wear a t-shirt of the character, which would explain who I’m supposed to be but would make it a worse emulation of the character, since Badtz-Maru doesn’t wear a t-shirt with his own picture on it.

[SarahBee]

I could get us all Hello Kitty face masks we could wear prior to ride & at rest stops.

Anyone interested in strapping a 5 foot inflatable Hello Kitty balloon to the back of their bike or carrying a Hello Kitty head piñata? Both available at Party City!

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[CBGanimal]

@SarahBee 211464 wrote:

Anyone interested in strapping a 5 foot inflatable Hello Kitty balloon to the back of their bike or carrying a Hello Kitty head piñata? Both available at Party City!

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I like the balloon idea!

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[Steve O]

@SarahBee 211464 wrote:

Anyone interested in strapping a 5 foot inflatable Hello Kitty balloon to the back of their bike or carrying a Hello Kitty head piñata? Both available at Party City!
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It’s on ebay for $2!!! Shipping from China for delivery after the ride

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[NoVaNoobGA]

I could go as a taco. Are you all starting together and riding together, too?

[CaseyKane50]

We could also just ride on properly branded bikes.

[Steve O]

@NoVaNoobGA 211477 wrote:

I could go as a taco. Are you all starting together and riding together, too?

I’m not clear on how a taco relates to Hello Kitty.
I suppose one could make a taco with kitten meat, but that seems an obscure connection.

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@Steve O 211482 wrote:

I suppose one could make a taco with kitten meat, …

You mean kitten-like meat, right?

[Steve O]

We still need a Hello Kitty. I vote for the HF onesie!

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@accordioneur 211483 wrote:

You mean kitten-like meat, right?

I think the Friendship Heights Whole Foods carries kitten-like meat.

[Steve O]

Okay, riders, I ordered a whole bunch of flags and pennants and stickers that we can put on our bikes or wherever to help people figure out what we are.

[accordioneur]

What length are people thinking of riding? This year’s routes are 18, 49, and 64 miles. I miss the 30-ish mile option they had in previous years

[LhasaCM]

@Steve O 211482 wrote:

I’m not clear on how a taco relates to Hello Kitty.
I suppose one could make a taco with kitten meat, but that seems an obscure connection.

Anything can be related to Hello Kitty with the right adjustments…
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[CBGanimal]

There is even BEER!!

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