National Bike Challenge 2016

[bobco85]

@Steve O 141774 wrote:

So if you happened to see one of your forum friends wearing that while riding around, would it be like a double 1/8th sighting, once removed?

It’d be a 1/4th sighting!

[vern]

@dkel 141785 wrote:

I don’t think a bike would get very far without a seat tube.

Wouldn’t be an issue if wheels&wings was the cyclist.

[GovernorSilver]

@hozn 141775 wrote:

Yes, it looks pretty close. Except that apparently the NBC folks decided to change the design of their bicycle –maybe to make it more “distinct”? Too bad that they apparently don’t know how to draw a bicycle.

Would Sewell still have enough of a case to sue them?

[rcannon100]

@GovernorSilver 141795 wrote:

Would Sewell still have enough of a case to sue them?

But seriously – y’all might make clear to NBC that you are not thrilled with the rip-off of the work of someone from our community.

[dkel]

@TwoWheelsDC 141788 wrote:

The Y-Foil would like to have a word with you…

That bike makes up for the lack of seat tube with the beefiest downtube I’ve ever seen.

@vern 141793 wrote:

Wouldn’t be an issue if wheels&wings was the cyclist.

I still think the thing would collapse. The angle of the top tube and chainstays is a brace against the pedaling force (like a suspension bridge), but only if there’s a seat tube. But I’m not a physicist or an engineer, so what do I know?

[Steve O]

@dkel 141798 wrote:

I still think the thing would collapse. The angle of the top tube and chainstays is a brace against the pedaling force (like a suspension bridge), but only if there’s a seat tube. But I’m not a physicist or an engineer, so what do I know?

Um…it’s a line drawing; shockingly, that bike does not actually exist in the real world. It also has no chain, and the pedals are at a weird 150-degree angle. And the rear wheel has 8 spokes that don’t even cross. I don’t see any brakes either. So the missing seat tube seems to be a relatively minor problem.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Steve O 141799 wrote:

Um…it’s a line drawing; shockingly, that bike does not actually exist in the real world. It also has no chain, and the pedals are at a weird 150-degree angle. And the rear wheel has 8 spokes that don’t even cross. I don’t see any brakes either. So the missing seat tube seems to be a relatively minor problem.

The one it ripped off has none of those issues.

[Steve O]

@ShawnoftheDread 141816 wrote:

The one it ripped off has none of those issues.

I don’t see any brakes.

[bentbike33]

@Steve O 141841 wrote:

I don’t see any brakes.

Duh! Coaster brakes (or FG).

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

Congrats to Ricky A, he just won one of these shirts hehehe

[consularrider]

We’re off to a slow start for July, in second place for the month 800 points behind Three Rivers Velo (which has only 99 riders). My excuse is that I’m in the process of packing out for our move to Germany, what’s yours?

[mello yello]

I was walking around Toronto, that and I’m on a different NBC team. should I switch alliances? Will past miles be added to Washington Area All Stars?

[huskerdont]

Signed up. Didn’t realize you could do it without Strava. Because I wasn’t paying attention.

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

@mello yello 142547 wrote:

1: should I switch alliances?

2: Will past miles be added to Washington Area All Stars?

1: Sure!

2: It did last year. I dunno how it works this year. Supposedly now the end of each month is its own cutoff point but I have no faith that it actually works that way… I’d ask if someone who signed up recently got backdated individual points, but how individual and team points work could be handled differently now.

editing in a random observation: I can only see the first 195 people on the team, and supposedly we have 408 riders, but people who occupy positions 150-195 are basically people who rode 1 or 2 days total. I’d say a good 2/3 of the team this year are inactive old account chaff.

[Kitty]

I still enjoy it, even if things are different this year and I don’t get on the site daily–for the first time I’m not manually uploading and the lack of the Gainesville drama. Admittedly, the technical problems with the site have cast a pall on things. I used to get really exited watching the various leader boards, but now I never know it its accurate.

That said, part of what I love about it is seeing how far I come in a “season” and comparing it to previous years. It’s been the only consistent yard stick I have to measure my growth over the four years of riding. What’s exciting about this year, is now I know some of the people I’m riding with!

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