Team 17 Thread
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@Mtansill 184601 wrote:
Looking forward to meeting the team at Happy Hour!
Yay- Millie, we’re on the same team again this year! Thanks for co-captaining and getting the Strava page set up, Erin!!!
@chuxtr 185349 wrote:
Go Team 17!!! Anyone have any good ideas for our team name???
Wheezing Straddles!
Breezing Paddles!!!
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Oh… you said good ideas.
@drevil 185377 wrote:
Wheezing Straddles!
Breezing Paddles!!!
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Oh… you said good ideas.
Ricky – Where the hell do you find these photos of me???
@drevil 185391 wrote:
For our team name, as a nod to our captains (both from Michigan), I propose a nod to the cultural juggernaut from Detroit: Vanilla Ice and his one-hit song
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This gets my vote!
Chuck aka chuxtr here aka the guy responsible for putting together this year’s teams. Also sponsoring the #FS2019coffeeride and Points per Mile pointless prizes. I live in Arlington aka Amazonville, just off of Columbia Pike sort of near Fort Myer.
My third year of playing FS. Was a team captain last year but just here for the popcorn this year. I’m one of the handful of token ex-racer, roadie, elitist, snobs amongst all of y’all.
I don’t commute. Just ride my bike to ride. Mostly on actual roads. As a former bike messenger, I’m probably more immune to cars/traffic than a lot of other cyclists. But no longer worried about how fast I ride, so just as happy to be on the bike trails at a relaxed pace. Love coffee rides and hope we can either ride together to coffee or meet up for coffee as a team sometime. And would love to do a team ride to/meet at Duffy’s Irish Pub in DC one weekend. The owner is a good friend and happy to accommodate an unruly group of cyclists for lunch. They have a fully enclosed beer garden area that we could use for bike parking since during the winter no one is likely to be sitting outside. If any of y’all are interested, I’d be happy to lead a hill ride if you feel like engaging in a little sado-masochism. You know what a sadist is, right? A masochist who practices the Golden Rule. I actually lead a hill training ride on Wednesday nights during the “riding season” (April-September). People are always surprised at all the hills in Arlington and how steep some of them can be. A typical hill ride is ~20 miles and ~2,000 feet of elevation gain but I can adjust it downwards. Just remember that what doesn’t kill you … well … doesn’t kill you. Coffee afterwards, of course!@Emm 185385 wrote:
So…introduce yourselves everyone!
rickyd. Mountain biker through and through, but riding off-singletrack isn’t so bad if the trails are muddy.
I live and work in College Park, so my commutes are short since I work from home. I used to race very poorly on mountain bikes, but I have a bum heart and can’t push too hard anymore.
I don’t own a road bike. I ride mountain bikes with slicks and can’t go as fast as my tucked down, aero-helmeted brethren (cough, Chuxtr
). I prefer slick-tired MTBs because it’s easier to hop and play around on them, one method that keeps me entertained when riding on asphalt. In fact, I started the Silly Rabbit Trix pointless prize this year, so try some, film it, and post it up!Cap’n Millie and I ride together not too unregularly, and I’ve ridden with Cap’n Emm on big group rides. Looking forward to riding with the rest of you!
@drevil 185403 wrote:
rickyd. Mountain biker through and through, but riding off-singletrack isn’t so bad if the trails are muddy.
I live and work in College Park, so my commutes are short since I work from home. I used to race very poorly on mountain bikes, but I have a bum heart and can’t push too hard anymore.
I don’t own a road bike. I ride mountain bikes with slicks and can’t go as fast as my tucked down, aero-helmeted brethren (cough, Chuxtr
). I prefer slick-tired MTBs because it’s easier to hop and play around on them, one method that keeps me entertained when riding on asphalt. In fact, I started the Silly Rabbit Trix pointless prize this year, so try some, film it, and post it up!Cap’n Millie and I ride together not too unregularly, and I’ve ridden with Cap’n Emm on big group rides. Looking forward to riding with the rest of you!
For the record, my other bike is a slick-tired MTB (with a second set of wheels with knobbies if I have to venture out in the snow … like this weekend). I actually call it my FS steed because I’ll ride it a fair bit for FS when I don’t have time to do a “real” road ride and want to make sure I’m contributing to my team. With platform pedals, easy to just get out on it for a ride. Especially all those sleaze rides!
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