Strava Ride Art

[Fast Friendly Guy]

A Sailing We Will Go!
January 25, 2014
http://www.strava.com/activities/108906146

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Drawing: 7.4 miles
Full ride: 26.4 miles

Every neighborhood has secrets hidden in its streets!

I had to carry my bike over the barrier at Logan Circle to keep my jib line straight. I found streets for all my lines, except for one (diagonal at the bottom of the jib) I could have just used N St, but the diagonal looked so much better! I rode on N St with my gps off, then turned it back on when I reached Thomas Circle, hence the straight diagonal. I used a parking lot for the flag at the tip of the mast

[Fast Friendly Guy]

Mr. Smiley Arlington McLean–A Bicycle Self Portrait (Dec 15 2013)

[Fast Friendly Guy]

Strava Ride Art Jan 24, 2014

http://www.strava.com/activities/108697522

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Drawing only: 11.1 miles
Full Ride (in two parts) 14.5

It was a Friday and I went from MU Campus down to Java Shack and then back to my office in Ballston. When I uploaded my freezing saddles lunch ride, I said to myself, that’s the head of a baby chicken! I looked around and George Mason Dr. was the perfect connector I needed to complete my chick! I used the Bluemont Connector path for the front leg, and made a wrong turn–but it looked better than my plan so I kept it–now there’s a little meat on that chicken leg!

Awwwww……….I love baby animals!
“Remember, Son, a good winter bike is a chick magnet.”

[Fast Friendly Guy]

Title: I Found Nemo!
Date: January 20, 2014

http://www.strava.com/activities/107791087

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Drawing Only: 8.1 miles
Full Ride: 40.6 miles
Comment:
I can’t remember how I got the idea for this but RFK Stadium was the perfect fish-eye. I had to carry my bike up and down stairs to get to the perimeter of the stadium, and until I actually rode it, I didn’t know if stadium perimeter would be blocked to passage-thankfully it was not. I considered using E Capitol St Bridge to make this into a swordfish, but I decided the body was the wrong shape for that species–so instead, after climbing the jersey barrier with my bike, I walked on the grass to try to make puckered lips, but made them too small to really show. Lincoln Park Square is such a fertile source for radiating vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, so important in every Strava artist’s toolbox! (see Dreams of Spring-Jan 20 ’14)

[Fast Friendly Guy]

City Writing—Happy New Year!

January 4, 2014
http://www.strava.com/activities/103951103
Zoom for details

[Fast Friendly Guy]

I know you’re out there!

Eminva did a masterful Pig/dog– http://www.strava.com/activities/107823107
Dasgeh did an amazing sideways hobbyhorse– http://www.strava.com/activities/106163900
Peter K did an ostrich (sorta) thing– http://www.strava.com/activities/108903374

Come join me! You don’t need to be a bicycle Michelangelo; you just need a GPS, a Strava account, and an imagination!
Post your Strava Art in this thread

Dave P

[dasgeh]

To be fair, mine was completely unintentional. And is a Rorschach test of how dirty your mind is.

[americancyclo]

We all live in a yellow…
http://www.strava.com/activities/109395195
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[Fast Friendly Guy]

@americancyclo 75712 wrote:

We all live in a yellow…
http://www.strava.com/activities/109395195
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Shawn, Very creative! I like the way you used Folger Park to create your propeller diagonals. I do the same thing with parks, circles, and open areas (like the mall) We must compare notes and share techniques!

[americancyclo]

@Fast Friendly Guy 75940 wrote:

Shawn, Very creative! I like the way you used Folger Park to create your propeller diagonals. I do the same thing with parks, circles, and open areas (like the mall) We must compare notes and share techniques!

my technique is ridewithgps and my garmin 800. even that fails me on a pretty regular basis

[Fast Friendly Guy]

@americancyclo 75955 wrote:

my technique is ridewithgps and my garmin 800. even that fails me on a pretty regular basis

Shawn,
Same here, ridewithgps and my garmin 810. Lots of planning to pick a route that minimizes backtracking (not always what you’d think if you were drawing by hand)

I also employ back-up recordings on my Garmin Oregon 650, edge 200 and sometimes iPhone. As a purist, at heart, I limit my drawings to follow streets, but take advantage of parks, parking lots, fields (open spaces) to draw between streets (you did this on your propeller and I’m doing it on my elephant, taking advantage of artistic opportunities on the national mall between Wash Mon and Smithsonian). Also, I discovered small doesn’t work because GPS resolution is insufficient for any art contained in an area less than one-half mile in diameter–see my Raffa Festive 500 Patch at the very tip of Hanes Pt.
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Festive 500 patch variation–This is what it was supposed to look like!

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This is what actually got recorded!

http://www.strava.com/activities/102866148

[DismalScientist]

@Fast Friendly Guy 76005 wrote:

I discovered small doesn’t work because GPS resolution is insufficient for any art contained in an area less than one-half mile in diameter

Tell me about it…:rolleyes:
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?5285-Mow-my-lawn-for-Strava-glory

[Fast Friendly Guy]

@DismalScientist 76008 wrote:

Tell me about it…:rolleyes:
http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?5285-Mow-my-lawn-for-Strava-glory

Dismal, you are the Joan Miro of Strava Artists
http://app.strava.com/segments/4549900

[americancyclo]

@Fast Friendly Guy 76009 wrote:

Dismal, you are the Joan Miro of Strava Artists
http://app.strava.com/segments/4549900

That sir, is an affront to my sensibilities.

But it gives me wonderful ideas.

[JimF22003]

I challenge somebody to do a Jackson Pollock…

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