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]

@consularrider 209281 wrote:

Sweet Science has opened (about two months ago?) in the former Java shack/Commonwealth Joes location near Courthouse. it looks like they did a build-out

Thanks for sharing!!!

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[Boomer Cycles]

Misha’s Coffee ☕️ in Old Town Alexandria, for a #FS2021coffeesnobride after which [mention]HokieBeth [/mention] and I ran into [mention]Fast Friendly Guy [/mention] and rode along through DelRay!

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[JoM]

Lunch at South Street Under, Ricky was masked up when he ordered, just forgot to take a pic until after we started! Veggie hummus sandwich & quiche and a side of fruit.

[JoM]

Hip City Veg in Chinatown

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[rumipumi]

OK, The winners are:

1st prize: Leslie T👚 86 Quaxes! A $75 gift card to the local small biz of your choice (or 3 different $25 giftcards or whatever!)
2nd prize: Komorebi L 67 Quaxes! A $50 gift card to the local small biz of your choice!
3rd prize: Chris Randall 61 Quaxes! A $25 gift card to the local small biz of your choice!

I will be reaching out to each of you via Facebook Messenger to arrange to get you your prizes, which you have all absolutely earned with your incredible loyalty towards supporting small businesses during this pandemic.

TO EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED: As the wife of a small biz owner, I can assure you that folks like you — not just these winners but every single one of you who spent some money in your community — are ESSENTIAL to our survival. You are our heroes. Especially this winter when many of us lost all but our most loyal diehard customers when folks (understandably) didn’t want to come out in the cold / covid! But you showed up, on your bike, and bought stuff and are saving your communities. Thank you!

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