Pointless Prize METRO PEAK PIONEER

[AlanA]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 184894 wrote:

SurlyTed and I would like to celebrate the recent news that DC Metro is now finally allowing bikes on trains during peak hours by sponsoring a new freezing saddles pointless prize competition.

This winter’s your chance to demonstrate that You are the KOM/QOM of METRO’S PEAK hours by going multi-modal and riding both your trusty rusty bikey and a smokey brokey subway on into work.

To score a point, ride your bike to or from a metro station and post a picture of your bike from that ride on the train during the newly opened peak hours (5 to 9:30 am and 3 to 7 pm weekdays). Put hashtag #bafsmetro in your ride to show up on the leaderboard, or post the pic and link to the ride here in this thread (hell, your impressions of the experience would be appreciated too).

The person who proves multi-modal the most times will be the Metro Peak Pioneer and win a prize to be stoked about!

Will you get bonus points if the train is so crowded and parts of your bike are up your rear end? That should make for some interesting pictures!!

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

Riding your bike is not allowed inside the metro system Alan, but you do you.

[AlanA]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 184899 wrote:

Riding your bike is not allowed inside the metro system Alan, but you do you.

I’m not sure what your reply means. But I was just posting a humorous take on what an overcrowded train would be like when you added in a bicycle commuter being very close to their bike.

[SurlyTed1187]

Well said Leo. Can’t wait to see some pics!

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[obscurerichard]

I just added a link to this to the Freezing Saddles menu. I may go for this tomorrow morning myself

[n18]

It’s not good to see what seems to be people hard at work to help reinstate the ban.

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

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In other news, The Sky Is Falling. All Freezing Saddlers are advised to stay indoors as much as possible or risk getting beamed in the face by the violent heavens. Leading scientists point to data that you may be somewhat safe from this taking the Metro but getting to and from is just too dangerous. Please be safe and stay indoors and make as many dumb posts as possible on this forum with me and n18 instead.

[n18]

You are entitled to your own views, just keep me out of it.

[bikedavid]

It was smooth sailng on the metro this morning from Farragust West to Reston! Spotted a couple of other cyclists taking advantage of the new policy too. Didn’t want my manager to know that I have the capacity of coming in earlier so using the extra 15 minutes I made a coffee ride out of it. Quite excited that I no longer have to wait until after peak and with the extra time I can now explore some coffee shops in Reston.

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[Judd]

@n18 184979 wrote:

You are entitled to your own views, just keep me out of it.

I mean, you dropped in to this thread to imply that LSG’s prize designed to encourage people to make use of the change in Metro’s policy was going to ruin that advocacy win, but want to be left out of it when he says you’re yelling at clouds?

I don’t see anything in the structure of the prize that encourages poor behavior. Most of the folks playing Freezing Saddles are upstanding citizens that will ride metro courteously with their bikes. From an advocacy stand point high utilization will create the opportunity to advocate for dedicated space for bikes on Metro like some other light rail systems have such as the St. Paul, MN system:

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[Judd]

@bikedavid 184997 wrote:

It was smooth sailng on the metro this morning from Farragust West to Reston! Spotted a couple of other cyclists taking advantage of the new policy too. Didn’t want my manager to know that I have the capacity of coming in earlier so using the extra 15 minutes I made a coffee ride out of it. Quite excited that I no longer have to wait until after peak and with the extra time I can now explore some coffee shops in Reston.

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Sweet. This would be a great picture and experience to e-mail to WABA and have them share on social media. They have a couple of folks riding metro with bikes this morning.

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[n18]

@Judd 184999 wrote:

I mean, you dropped in to this thread to imply that LSG’s prize designed to encourage people to make use of the change in Metro’s policy was going to ruin that advocacy win, but want to be left out of it when he says you’re yelling at clouds?

I don’t see anything in the structure of the prize that encourages poor behavior. Most of the folks playing Freezing Saddles are upstanding citizens that will ride metro courteously with their bikes. From an advocacy stand point high utilization will create the opportunity to advocate for dedicated space for bikes on Metro like some other light rail systems have such as the St. Paul, MN system:

Some might read the OP(both in and outside the forum) and subsequent posts and see it as a challenge for who rides the most crowded train.

[Judd]

@n18 185012 wrote:

Some might read the OP(both in and outside the forum) and subsequent posts and see it as a challenge for who rides the most crowded train.

I don’t think we should accuse poor LSG of jeopardizing the new policy just because some people inside and outside of the forum added a bunch of words to the contest about cramming on to a crowded train that just aren’t there or even implied.

I’m fairly confident that Paul Wedfield only skims the forum so I don’t think LSG is putting anything at risk.

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[Subby]

@n18 185012 wrote:

Some might read the OP(both in and outside the forum) and subsequent posts and see it as a challenge for who rides the most crowded train.

Okay now I’m interested.

[jrenaut]

@Subby 185032 wrote:

Okay now I’m interested.

There are no hills involved

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