Pointless prize: Quaxapalooza
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POINTLESS PRIZE: QUAXAPALOOZA
As the wife of a local small business owner (Maryland Meadworks), I am sponsoring a pointless prize to encourage supporting your local small businesses on your bikes (aka Quaxing).
Leaderboard: https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/BAFS2021SmallBiz
How to play:
1. Go for a Quax — support a local small business by buying something (any amount) and picking it up via bike. One point per business, and yes, you can do more than one per day, but need to log separate Strava rides to each stop. You only get one point per distinct local biz (so yes, you can come 100 times to Maryland Meadworks, as well you should, but you will only get 1 point for the first visit…)
2. Take a picture of you (wearing a mask), your bike, and your purchase (or if it was a service, perhaps the signage or some such that represents that service) outside as many different small businesses as possible.
3. For your ride to count, use #BAFS2021SmallBiz in your Strava ride title AND include the name of the place you visited, e.g., #BAFS2021SmallBiz Maryland Meadworks (shameless plug, right?) And upload the related photo to the same ride. Mileage does not count unless theres a tie. The points are solely based on the number of unique establishments you support, one per recorded ride (but no limit to how many rides / points you can rack up in a single day).
4. Please play safely: For example, picking up your takeout / growlers (of mead, or even things… that are not mead) curbside (on your bike!)! Again, please take your selfie OUTSIDE the establishment, masked, to set a good example for how COVID-safe cyclists are!
5. What constitutes a local small business? I’ll give broad leeway on this. Frankly most every business (esp restaurants) is in such pain right now, I’m likely to give a lot of slack. I just want you to go out for a ride, stimulate the economy and help keep your neighbors employed. And yes, I’ll allow you to more than one of a local chain if you differentiate the tags — i.e. “#BAFS2021SmallBiz Vigilante Hyattsville” AND “#BAFS2021SmallBiz Vigilante College Park” would each count for a point.
6. Prizes? I’ll buy the top 3 winners a giftcard ($75, $50, $25) to their favorite local business. (Even if it’s not Maryland Meadworks!)
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I was riding around Madrid today and came across an intersection where a guy dressed like a clown would jump out in front of cars stopped at the red light and start juggling balls! I gave him a Euro as he came back to the side of the rode near my bike.
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Left too early to have my second cup of coffee so I sat outside of a cafe in Madrid and had “cafe con un bollo” at Panisimo
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Rode to Proteus for coffee, bought a bike. [emoji2370] 2021 Specialized Roubaix, got to ride it home too.
Extra points for spending the most money in Quaxapalooza contest??
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@HokieBeth 206679 wrote:
Rode to Proteus for coffee, bought a bike. [emoji2370] 2021 Specialized Roubaix, got to ride it home too.
Extra points for spending the most money in Quaxapalooza contest??
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Amazing!!!!!
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@HokieBeth 206679 wrote:
Rode to Proteus for coffee, bought a bike. [emoji2370] 2021 Specialized Roubaix, got to ride it home too.
Extra points for spending the most money in Quaxapalooza contest??
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I rode along w/ [mention]HokieBeth [/mention] for the coffee ☕️ and took the #newbikemoment pic. Does that earn partial credit [emoji2371]?
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