Pointless Prize – Real Supple Ride – #FSrealsuppleride
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Going into my fourth year of Freezing Saddles in 2020, I have yet to acquire a road bike, y’know: curly bars, fast skinny rubber, and relatively lightweight. Up until now, and continuing into ’20, I have used mountain bikes 99.99% of the time, usually shod with fat, draggy, and/or sticky MTB tires. The down side is that it’s obviously harder to get as many miles with the same effort, but the plus side is that it’s usually a …
REAL SUPPLE RIDE!!So for 2020, I’m doing a competition for those like me that are using fatter, wider tires, but 2″ or 50mm is the minimum to qualify. It’s a point multiplier thing, and the fatter your tires, the bigger the reward.
Use the following hashtags ENDING IN THE APPROPRIATE NUMBER in your Strava titles on your qualifying rides:
- #FSrealsuppleride2 – if your tire is between 2″-2.9″ wide (or 50mm- 74mm). This will multiply your mileage for that ride by 2 for #FSrealsuppleride points.
- #FSrealsuppleride3 – if your tire is between 3″-3.9″ wide (or 75mm- 99mm). This will multiply the mileage by 3.
- #FSrealsuppleride4 – if your tire is 4″ wide (100mm) or bigger. This will multiply it by 4.
Notes:
- If you are using different width tires for the front and back, they both must be at least 2″ or 50mm wide. For example, if you are running 700×38 in the rear, and 700×50 in the front, this will not count because the rear tire doesn’t meet the minimum width qualification of 2″/50mm or greater. If you are using 2″ in the rear and 4″ in the front, use the tag for the width of the skinnier tire, in this example #FSrealsuppleride2.
- It doesn’t matter if the tire is slick or has knobbies. It’s the width that counts.
- It doesn’t matter the wheel diameter. If you have 20″ x 2″, that qualifies as much as a 26″ x 4.8″ tire.
- If your points for the ride is 40 or more, I might want to see a pic of your setup either here or on Strava, so take a pic and attach it to the ride or post on this thread. You don’t have to do it every time for the same setup. I know, it’s random. For example, if doing a 20 mile ride with a 2″ tire, that’s 40 points. Pic, please
- I’m going by the width that is printed on the side of the tire, not by measuring (with a caliper, etc.). I know it’s rare that a tire is usually as wide as printed on the tire (because of rim widths, pressures, manufacturer optimism, etc.)
The FS developers said that it shouldn’t be too hard to do a points board, so the winners will be the top folks (# TBD) with the highest sum of FSrealsuppleride points. I’ll make TBD prizes.
Although I’m not counting my own rides towards the prize, I’m going to tag my rides to see how I fare amongst other FSrealsuppleriders. Here’s some of my quiver:
#FSrealsuppleride by ricky d, on Flickr
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Woot! So the realsuppleride Pointless Points board is up and running. Muchas gracias to Merlin for gittin’er’dun!
https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/generic/suppleride
As was predicted by Judd earlier, CBG has a YOOJ lead over everyone else. I know that my buddy Al S uses his mountain bike exclusively with 2.2″ tires that I gave him, so I’ll remind him to put the proper hashtag in his titles for eligible rides.
Take some pics of those realsupplerides (stationary or in action) and post them here.
I might have to bust out my 4″ slicks to try to catch up with CBG. I just gotta remember to not run them tubeless
Fat Tire Blowoff by ricky d, on Flickr@drevil 196547 wrote:
As was predicted by Judd earlier, CBG has a YOOJ lead over everyone else. I know that my buddy Al S uses his mountain bike exclusively with 2.2″ tires that I gave him, so I’ll remind him to put the proper hashtag in his titles for eligible rides.
Looks like Al updated his eligible rides with the hashtag and has jumped into the lead. Now it’s a competition!
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@consularrider 196865 wrote:
I’ve gone back and amended my ride titles for January 1 through January 9 to include #FSrealsuppleride4. I was back in the Midwest for the holidays and brough my Pugsley fat bike with me. It has 4 inch Dillenger studded tires for the winter.
Yeah Chris! With the amount of miles you do, quadrupled with those tires, well, it’s going to be tough for the rest of us
Last night I rode with my Surly Black Floyd 4″ slicks, and talk about crazy oversteer. The tires grip the ground so well that even a slight turn of the bars makes it want to dive in. It’s a little scary riding with no hands when my fat bike is set up this way. It was nice to see my 10 miles turn into 40 points in the supple ride contest though.
Ritchey Commando with Surly Black Floyd 4″ Slicks #thatswussupple by ricky d, on Flickr
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