Opening happy hour for Freezing Saddles 2016

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@Vicegrip 131105 wrote:

Lack of safe bike parking is not good… Can we set up a rotating watch?

I thought that was the plan? Assuming it is, I will take a watch for some period between 5:30 and 7 if there is a need.

[ccfinger]

I should be there by 6:30.

[Kitty]

It occurs to me that this is the sort of Happy Hour where there will be announcements and things happening. There is no way I can be there by 5 (my regular office hours go to 5:45… assuming I get out on time), is there is certain time we should shoot to be there by if we don’t want to miss anything? :confused:

[HokHuk]

Andrea N. and I will be there.

[anjalik20]

I will be there

[kwarkentien]

Rest easy my fellow BAFSers, we your HH organizers are planning to do a bike corral. Anyone who would like to help us stand guard for a shift (10-15min or so), please let us know. We appreciate anyone willing to take one for the team.

[jrenaut]

I plan to Bikeshare down, but I can do a shift. Are we going to do pairs or something so it’s not quite so lonely?

[kwarkentien]

@jrenaut 131127 wrote:

I plan to Bikeshare down, but I can do a shift. Are we going to do pairs or something so it’s not quite so lonely?

I think pairs are a great idea. If we have enough suckers, I mean volunteers, to help out, that would be wonderful.

[jrenaut]

@kwarkentien 131128 wrote:

I think pairs are a great idea. If we have enough suckers, I mean volunteers, to help out, that would be wonderful.

We have 19 pages of RSVPs. If we don’t have enough volunteers, we should all be ashamed.

[Vicegrip]

@kwarkentien 131125 wrote:

Rest easy my fellow BAFSers, we your HH organizers are planning to do a bike corral. Anyone who would like to help us stand guard for a shift (10-15min or so), please let us know. We appreciate anyone willing to take one for the team.

I am in for a shift. Only other tasks are (1) One pointless prize and (2) Beers.

I have a feeling the bike bin will be party #2.

[Arlingtonrider]

If we’re doing pairs, I would be happy to do a shift.

Also, I’d vote for short 10 or so minute shifts in pairs and lots of volunteers. Freezing Saddles depends on participants stepping up to help out, and spending 10-15 minutes in pairs is a great opportunity to do that and make new friends in the group at the same time.

[Bilsko]

@KWL 131095 wrote:

What about across the street?

Please don’t take this the wrong way…but there is not a single place to lock up a bike securely in the entire picture. The *only* thing I would consider is my Fughedaboudit chain around one of the light poles and even that probably wouldn’t make it all the way around pole and frame. There are no parking signs skinny enough for a U-Lock (no parking meters either). You could consider locking up to one of the benches facing the fountain, but that’d be pretty rude.
You could get a skinny U-Lock through the hoop at the top of the garbage can, but that’s both rude and gross.

There are a handful of parking signs skinny enough to lock up to on the North side of the street, but unless you’re playing snuggle-bikes, the best you’ll do is 2 bikes per pole.

[bobco85]

(Ongoing discussion about bike parking at the happy hour)
Me (thinking to myself): “Hmm, if only there were some sort of way to find bike racks in the area? It’d be great if there were some sort of bike rack spotter… wait a minute, there is!”

Here’s a map of the area using a screenshot of the Rackspotter site http://rackspotter.com/. Mr Smith’s is the red star, and bike racks are identified with the green push pins.

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According to the entries for the closest bike racks:

• 14 spaces at the movie theater (5 U racks at the theater, 2 U racks on the sidewalk)
• 6 spaces at the church 1 block NE of Mr Smith’s (1 U rack at the church, 2 U racks at an adjacent building)
• 4 spaces at the Patagonia at Grace/Wisconsin (2 U racks)
• 40 spaces at the east end of Georgetown Waterfront Park (wave racks)
• 10 spaces at Grace/Potomac 2 blocks NW of Mr Smith’s (5 U racks)

I will likely lock up my bike at the movie theater or east end of Georgetown Waterfront Park. I hope this helps!

[KLizotte]

According to this website, the garage next door has racks.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zsl7X-sOAwZQ.kctV74Iu4n6g&hl=en_US

[sethpo]

@kwarkentien 131125 wrote:

Rest easy my fellow BAFSers, we your HH organizers are planning to do a bike corral. Anyone who would like to help us stand guard for a shift (10-15min or so), please let us know. We appreciate anyone willing to take one for the team.

Is there (or will there be) a sign-up schedule for this? I’d think we’d have enough folks to do rotating 15 or 20 min shifts with two people per shift. That’s only like 25 people needed.

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