Pointless prize: Quaxapalooza

[rumipumi]

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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[CBGanimal]

Short shopping trip to Toni’s

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[rumipumi]

I love this. Yall are amazing

Please bookmark this leaderboard

https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/BAFS2021SmallBiz

Current leaders are
Leslie T 33 quaxes
Komorebi L 31 quaxes
Chris Randall 27 quaxes

Total mileage ridden on quax rides does not matter unless we have a tie at the end of the competition So pay attention to the number of rides more than the mileage ranking.

You can do multiple quaxes in a day but only one per ride. So you’ll have to start a new ride for each new quax stop. There’s no minimum amount of miles per individual ride.

It’s an honor system. You need to go to a different business for each quax to count for a point. You need to spend money there but any amount. You can go to different locations of the same business if you distinguish them by location in your description (vigilante college park vs vigilante Hyattsville Can each be a separate quax)

And I am letting you be the judge of what qualifies as small business. The goal of this is to keep our local economies surviving so they can continue to employ our neighbors.

I am excited about the prospect of awarding gift cards to the winners, as a way of paying forward the stimulus check I’ll get whenever they pass this package, so that the winners in turn can pay it forward by their favorite neighborhood small businesses.

Keep on quaxing. When you quax, everyone wins.

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[CBGanimal]

Met my niece for coffee

Zarzuela bar and restaurant!

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[Shawnbeast]

Dropping off my work clothes at Sandy’s Custom Cleaners 2/3/21

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[CBGanimal]

Mercadona…a little vermouth with bread!

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[Serdar]

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Ice Cream at the Fairy Godmother in Alexandria
https://www.strava.com/activities/4746698945

[JoM]

From Tuesday, after riding helping Rumi get her TFM, stopped at Kung Fu Tea for boba!

[JoM]

Banana Blossom Bistro
Picked up dinner from Banana Blossom in Riverdale. They have vegan Bánh mì sandwiches that travel well!

Located right off the Trolley Trail so stop by if you are in the area!

[JoM]

College Park Coffee Club at Board and Brew

Southwestern Bagel, without bacon, and an oat milk latte.

[JoM]

Julia’s Empanadas

Handmade veggie empanadas are the best mid-ride meal!

[bikedavid]

Ice cream for dinner at Jubilee!

[CBGanimal]

Coffee after a really bad morning with my bicycle

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[Boomer Cycles]

Holy Quaxapalooza! Dairy Godmother in Del Ray, Alexandria among #BAFS2021 competitors, oh my!!

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[Catedrew]

#BAFS2021smallbiz – Oby-Lee’s at 3000 Washington Blvd. in Clarendon. Home to the interesting combination of crepes and Polish food. We indulged in Polish food this time. I’m not in the pic, but my trike and purchase are! I like this place because each outside table has its own private greenhouse for social distancing (and warmth). More info on this place here: https://www.obylee.com/

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[JoM]

Pupatella Pizza certified VPN. The pizza is made according to the 200-year-old Neapolitan technique in wood ovens.

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