Team 12

[wheelswings]

Hi Team 12! Do we have a Forum thread or a Strava club? If not, we can start here.
This is our roster:
Team 12:
AFHokie
bentbike33
bikingjenn
cyclingfool
IronMoney
KWL
millerj826
peterw_diy
Red Ryder
snugglefestival
timv
wheels&wings
Thavaradhara
We can discuss team names via Strava once we’ve got a club set up. I have a favorite name in mind, as some of you know.
Last night I met KWL – our acting team captain, plus peterw_diy, snugglefestival, and timv – our ringer.
I look forward to meeting the rest of you.
If anyone wants to get coffee this weekend at Best Buns or elsewhere, please holler! We can set something up.
Happy riding!! w&w

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[sjclaeys]

I hope to go and will post on the team 14 thread.

[Steve O]

I will be there representing Team Dos Equis – Bust Bollards, My Friends
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[wheelswings]

Friendly Reminder – please join us for Happy Hour at Cap City Brewing Co. in Shirlington tonight.
This is for all teams including (but not limited to) the mighty Cyclo-Paths. Everyone please come… it does not matter what team you’re on. w&w

[Teresa A]

Tim V and I will be there!

[Steve O]

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[Arlingtonrider]

Many thanks to wheels & wings and Team 12 for a very fun gathering last night! Wheels & wings gets major extra kudos for the cyclocross factor in most of her ride to the event.

[Judd]

Thanks Team 12 for hosting. It was great meeting everyone!

[kwarkentien]

Another enjoyable unholy alliance of colluding co-conspirators. Thanks w&w for arranging this summit.

[snugglefestival]

Tomorrow (Wednesday), the National Portrait Gallery is hosting its monthly Pop Quiz trivia night. The event is from 6:30 – 7:30pm in the Kogod Courtyard. The theme is Love Stories. I’m going and shared it with some folks on the Women & Bicycles group and so hope one or two other ladies will join as well. It’s open to all, so come down if you can! It’s free and you can bring your own food and drink, or purchase items from the cafe. All are welcome.

[KWL]

This morning’s chill prompted me to say “Thank You” once again to snugglefestive for the headbands, balaclavas and neck gaiters she handed out to Team 12 members at the HH. Mine kept my face & neck toasty warm today. Here is TimV modeling a combination of a headband and a gaiter.

[snugglefestival]

You’re welcome, KWL!

I’ve been working such long hours for the last few weeks and hit my limit today. I am so exhausted I can’t think straight. I was so very tired on the drive home that I doubted I’d be able to suffer through even a sleaze ride today. But then I changed into leggings, Uggs, a knee-length puffy coat, a hat, and my electric-green-pixelated-skull-houndstooth neck gaiter, put my hands in my bar mitts, and hit the road for a quick ride.

Two blocks later, a 30-something guy drove up next to me, slowed down his car, rolled down his window, and shouted out, “Oh my gosh, you look so cute!” I have no idea how someone could have looked at my fully winterized, puffy-coated, fuzzy-booted self and thought it was cute, but this made me laugh out loud and gave me just enough of a boost of energy to take my “long sleaze” route instead of my “short sleaze” route. Maybe it was the neck gaiter?! You all have to let me know if you start getting compliments from strangers because of them.

This is only the second time ever that a driver has slowed down to talk to me on my bike. The other time was last summer when I was biking on the road in McLean and an elderly guy slowed down and beckoned me over to thank me for riding in such a straight line and obeying the stop signs and lights. He said he’d been behind me for a few blocks and appreciated how careful and predictable a biker I was. It was adorable and made me feel great, as you always hear about rude drivers cursing and yelling at bikers, but here was a friendly driver going out of his way to say thank you to someone for being a good road-sharer.

On another note, I took the advice of the team and posted a pointless prize for Strava art. Check out the thread and submit an entry!

[KWL]

@snugglefestival 134873 wrote:

Two blocks later, a 30-something guy drove up next to me, slowed down his car, rolled down his window, and shouted out, “Oh my gosh, you look so cute!” …Maybe it was the neck gaiter?! You all have to let me know if you start getting compliments from strangers because of them.

Yeah, happens to me all the time.:rolleyes:

[AFHokie]

Fellow members of 12,
This is last minute & I posted last night on the Strava page, but wanted to post here as well:

In light of Saturday’s awesome weather forecast, I’m proposing a group ride. Snugglefestival suggested a ride to Carolina Bros BBQ. I was thinking we could meet at the Bluemont caboose (I think that’s relatively central for all) at 0900.

I hope everyone can make it, but realized this is a last minute plan. Please let me know if you’re interested so we don’t leave anyone behind.

[bentbike33]

@snugglefestival 134873 wrote:

Maybe it was the neck gaiter?! You all have to let me know if you start getting compliments from strangers because of them.

Wednesday afternoon, I passed a rider wearing the Snugglefestival signature hounds-tooth-skull neck gaiter and I said: “Team 12?”

Alas, no, he was from a rival team. I think it was 16.

[lordofthemark]

@bentbike33 135240 wrote:

Wednesday afternoon, I passed a rider wearing the Snugglefestival signature hounds-tooth-skull neck gaiter and I said: “Team 12?”

Alas, no, he was from a rival team. I think it was 16.

A closer look would have revealed that it was not hounds teeth and skulls, but an abstract geometric pattern, though in the same colors. That cloth having been available at the BikeArlington “Beer, Baklava and Balaclavas” event at New District Brewing, back in December (or was it November?)

And it was team 19.

Still a very striking Freezing Saddles moment.

Hope you enjoyed the rest of your ride

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