2025 Pointless Prize: #GroupRideGuru & #GroupRideGroupie

[drevil]

There’ll be a third prize for the Guru that organizes/leads the biggest group ride #GroupRideGiganticus

We’ll go by how many ride participants we can distinctly count in the pictures that are posted for that ride. The Guru doesn’t even have to be the person that posts the pic, but they are of course welcome to. I just want them to be recognized for the effort they put in to round up the Freezing Saddlers and go in a direction 🙂

For example, this was a great ride that Lumberjack set up in 2018 with a lot of participants:

[Porrick]

Hey Drevil.  Looking forward to another doughnut shop ride!  If I lead a ride (and post as instructed), do all of the participants have to be FS-ers and/or friends, or can we mix in some other nuts?

[drevil]

For these group rides, I leave it up to the leader/organizer to decide whether they solely want Freezing Saddle riders and friends on their group ride, or open to everyone. It doesn’t matter for this pointless prize; I just care that the group ride is open to FS Riders and Friends.

That was a great ride, thanks for coming! (Although I’m not quite sure who you are solely by your handle, but you can let me know when we see each other, if you want :D)

I’ll definitely organize another Donut Ride for the ’25 Freezing Saddles!

[Serdar]

Come join my group ride, friends!

Jan 4 Saturday Morning Ride to Caboose in Vienna

[obscurerichard]

Thank you Serdar for organizing today’s ride – alas we had only 4 participants so technically this ride was not eligible for the prize with the rules as written.

[Serdar]

That’s fine, @obscurerichard. Our ride itself was a prize for me. 🙂

[drevil]

Hi @Serdar and @obscurerichard! Thanks for playing, and sorry I didn’t respond here. I was away for a few weeks so haven’t been checking.

Not sure if you noticed, but I changed the minimum number of participants from 5 to 3. If you post up group pics from the ride on this thread, I’ll retro-count this one since I was not attentive and trying to get a feel for what works best.

Thank you for getting the ball rolling on the group rides. I hope to start organizing some myself when I get a little less busy 🙂

[Serdar]

Thanks, @drevil. I will take your offer. Here is our group photo at the Vienna Community Center.

[Serdar]

Hi Freezing Saddlers,

You’re invited to join Team Super NoVa for a ride at Hains Point on Sunday, January 26, at 9 AM! Let’s ride as many laps as we like and connect with each other.

Friends are welcome, and you don’t have to be a Freezing Saddler to join—everyone is invited! The more, the merrier, so feel free to spread the word.

We hope to see you there!

Team Super NoVa

[Boomer Cycles]

Great idea, and I just extended this invite to my team’s #6 Strava Club so hopefully it’ll will bring more Freezing Saddles together. Thanks for organizing.

[Serdar]

Hi Boomer. Thanks for extending the invitation. I hope to see you and your team there.

[obscurerichard]

This is a picture of 2 of the 4 of us that were on this ride, does this count towards #groupridegroupie? It’s the same ride that Serdar posted as the Guru.

 

[drevil]

Donut Ride 2/1/25: details going into the following thread as they are worked out: https://www.bikearlingtonforum.com/forums/topic/group-ride-donut-ride-2-1-25/#post-1136325

Cheers,

rickyd

[Robbie Rob]

1/26/25 I was a GroupRideGroupie with Team 19 to Hains Point and did three laps.

[Serdar]

GroupRideGuru – 26/01/2025

Thanks to everyone who came for Team Super NoVa’s group ride at Hains Paint!

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