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  • #999283
    Fast Friendly Guy
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    “Easter Rubber Duckie”
    April 20, 2014
    Art by George Lewis and Dave P; Ride by Dave P

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    http://www.strava.com/activities/132427309

    19.1 miles Drawing Only
    44.5 miles Full Ride

    I was looking at Strava posts and I saw George Lewis’ ride entitled, “04/16/2014 Washington, DC” http://www.strava.com/activities/131045879 It reminded me of a duck’s body, but the head was just a square shape. I send George a message saying that all he needed was a little fine-tuning and a new head and the result would be a STRAVA art ride of a rubber ducky!. I invited him to redo this ride together, Easter Sunday. Well, George couldn’t make it, and Easter was the perfect day for this subject, so I rode it alone. This ride stretched from the heart of Georgetown (Duckie’s backside) to Adams Morgan (Duckie’s beak) Along the way I saw plenty of embassies, hotels, and some fine looking homes! The tip of Duckie’s head actually touches Kalorama Circle! I saw Bike Arlington’s, “Dickie” on my way to Georgetown and invited him to join me. It seemed only appropriate: (Dickie <=> Duckie) but he was expected at home, so in the end it was just me, the Duckie, and a beautiful spring afternoon!

    #999284
    Fast Friendly Guy
    Participant

    @chris_s 83221 wrote:

    It appears that Strava only shows an approximation of your route to other people (presumably as a privacy/security measure).

    Here is how it looks for me when I go to your godzilla ride: [ATTACH=CONFIG]5338[/ATTACH]

    Mystery solved!

    Anyone else see this undesired “smoothing” of my drawing rides on STRAVA, say compared to the jpg files I post on the forum?? I am shocked! I always see my drawing with full street by street detail! When I look at others’ rides on STRAVA I always see street by street detail of their rides.

    Honestly I’d like to know if anyone else has noticed what Chris_S sees! If so, I’m going to contact STRAVA and find out what’s going on. Thank you for your help. Any documentation, such as the screen shot that chris posted would be very helpful. Thanks everyone.

    Dave

    #999301
    Tim Kelley
    Participant

    @Fast Friendly Guy 83231 wrote:

    Anyone else see this undesired “smoothing” of my drawing rides on STRAVA, say compared to the jpg files I post on the forum?

    Yup. My guess is that you either have to be logged in, or maybe even a follower of yours. Like Chris S said, probably for privacy concerns.

    Some people were asking the same thing on our Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/BikeArlington/posts/619976958070824?stream_ref=10

    #999600
    Fast Friendly Guy
    Participant

    “Sweet Polly Purebred”
    April 26, 2014
    Art by Dave P; Ride by dkel, rockford10, the boys and Fast Friendly Guy

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    http://www.strava.com/activities/134502810

    3.4 miles Drawing Only
    32.6 miles Full Ride

    For those too young to remember, Sweet Polly Purebred is the girlfriend of ”Underdog” a popular American cartoon character from the 60’s and 70’s—This drawing was planned for a nearby cemetery because the roads were so suggestive of this image. Some off-road excursions were required to make the details of Polly’s face and I had to use a little finesse, walking the bike with light steps between the graves! The cemetery spectacle was even more amusing, because I made this ride/drawing with 4 other cyclists, a family, (dkel, rockford10, and their two boys, 10 and 12). Everyone was eager to try GPS art riding, and I invited them to join me because these quiet roads were perfect for younger riders! At only 3.4 miles, this is one of the shortest drawings so far, and we ate lunch at an outdoor café afterwards. It was a perfect spring day, and dkel and I enjoyed an additional 30-mile ride looping around Arlington.

    #999605
    Fast Friendly Guy
    Participant

    DKel enjoying our spring ride
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    Rockford10 and boys
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    A young GPS ride artist
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    #999725
    Fast Friendly Guy
    Participant

    “Fore!” (GPS Bike Ride Art: Golf Club)
    April 28, 2014
    Art by Dave P; Ride by Dave P

    http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2554911

    4.4 miles Drawing Only
    5.1 miles Full Ride

    Officially my simplest GPS bike ride art drawing. It was a lunch ride with a trip to the library. In fact, this is the only drawing I’ve made that can claim to be totally unplanned. Peter De pointed out what I had made, and I agreed, so here it is!

    #999733
    mvs202
    Participant

    These are all awesome. BTW, we’ve got Dave Pomeroy presenting his Ride Art at Thursday’s Bike Hack Night, including the 70-mile Godzilla drawing.

    #1000258
    Rockford10
    Participant

    Thanks Fast Friendly Guy for a great time last weekend! I’m just getting to look at the pictures I took of the drawing process. A fun day was had by all (even if the littlest boy and I didn’t always portage through the graveyard!).

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    #1000467
    Fast Friendly Guy
    Participant

    Rockford10 you’re welcome. The pleasure was all mine.

    #1000794
    Fast Friendly Guy
    Participant

    “Yikes! I Forgot My Clothes!” (GPS Bike Ride Art)
    May 3, 2014
    Art by Dave P; Ride by Dave P
    029

    http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2585832

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    7.4 miles Drawing Only
    13.5 miles Full Ride

    Details of her face required riding and walking my bike around the elementary school. Follow the link and use “Satellite Map” to see the obstacles I had to skirt. This was a super fun ride on a beautiful spring day!

    #1000819
    JimF22003
    Participant

    Nice! The head has sort of a sphinx-like quality…

    #1000834
    W Odie
    Participant

    @Fast Friendly Guy 84859 wrote:

    “Yikes! I Forgot My Clothes!” (GPS Bike Ride Art)
    May 3, 2014
    Art by Dave P; Ride by Dave P
    029

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    #1000853
    brendan
    Participant

    @W & Odie 84904 wrote:

    Walk Like An Egyptian

    Bike Like An Egyptian!

    #1000887
    Mikey
    Participant

    @Fast Friendly Guy 83704 wrote:

    “Fore!” (GPS Bike Ride Art: Golf Club)
    April 28, 2014
    Art by Dave P; Ride by Dave P

    http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2554911

    4.4 miles Drawing Only
    5.1 miles Full Ride

    Officially my simplest GPS bike ride art drawing. It was a lunch ride with a trip to the library. In fact, this is the only drawing I’ve made that can claim to be totally unplanned. Peter De pointed out what I had made, and I agreed, so here it is!

    Ah, a southpaw.

    #1003607
    Fast Friendly Guy
    Participant

    June 7, 2014
    Art and Ride by Elizabeth MacGregor & Dave P
    030
    Strava link: http://www.strava.com/activities/150546442
    Ride with GPS link: http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2787648

    16.5 miles Drawing Only
    16.8 miles Full Ride

    This is my first art-ride since my May 10 accident, but I’m back with lot’s of new ideas! Liz’s ride with Anne on May 26, 2014,(http://www.strava.com/activities/145816229) was the inspiration for this GPS art-ride drawing. Liz and I replicated her ride with some added drawing details and embellishments, so it was a new ride for both of us. Liz and I enjoyed a beautiful early summer Saturday morning that took us through quiet residential neighborhoods, gravel roads, and shady streets for some parts (hind legs); and busy thoroughfares with sprawling suburban shopping malls for other parts (the bushy tail). The adventure factor cranked up as we cut across lawns and a new-home construction area (base of the tail) culminating with bushwhacking through woods, skirting fences, a wet-footed stream crossing and stepping lightly over and through poison ivy (squirrel’s back)! I can’t remember a ride I enjoyed more! Liz is so much fun to ride with–a really great adventure ride partner!
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