The Best Sock Game – Pointless Prize

[Sunyata]

Okay… Freezing Saddles has started and due to the logistics of getting the teams set up, I totally failed on the details of my pointless prizes. Whoops.

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So, here is how you go about joining in on the Sock Game pointless prize competition:

Step 1: Wear awesomely cool socks (on your feet) while riding your bike (outside) so that the world can see that you have great sock game.
Step 2: Take a photo of you wearing your awesome socks (on your feet) with your bike in the picture (outside).*
Step 3: Post that photo in one of two places:
a) On Instagram. Please use the following hashtag (if it is not hashtagged properly, it will not be judged since I am lazy and will only look at photos using the hashtag search function): #BAFS2017SockGame
b) Here on this thread if you are a non-instagraming participant.

See, how simple is that?!

Now… How do you actually WIN?

I will silently judge you. Well, more specifically, I will silently judge your sock game. I will pick my top ten favourites and then post them for the forum to pick their favourite. The owner of those socks, or at least the person who was wearing the socks for that particular photo, will win another amazingly fun pair of socks**. Probably from BlueQ because their socks are the funnest.

*Bonus points awarded if the photo can also be used for wheels&wings’ “The Warming Climate” prize.
**The winner will need to kindly let me know their sock size and if they have aversion to strongly worded sayings on socks… 😎

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[Steve O]

Here are some more of my entries already submitted on Instagram
Blue socks don’t make you feel blue
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Wheels&wings belated bday socks, accompanied by music
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Skeletally accurate socks. My friends say they can see right through me!
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Skulls on socks; St. Patrick’s day sock entry. Is my shoe a sock or is my sock a shoe?
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[Steve O]

And my final entry, capturing the essence of Freezing Saddles
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I had a bunch of others I didn’t enter: Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas seasonal ones that I never quite felt the mood for. Wore the cool elk socks at the FSLNHPP, but didn’t enter them.

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[Kitty]

I fell asleep before being able to post these, because I have so many banked! (Plus I’m home sick today so I slept in late…) I hope you can accept these Sunyata, I worked hard to put this collection together, I just have not been able to get online much lately. (I have the Strava links to prove they were legitimately taken during BAFS 2017):

#6 – Bikes, Baklava, and Balaclavas — Representing Team 19! (Ride of the Penguins)
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The Penguin socks that started it all! As seen at the HP100.
Strava Ride – Jan 29

#7 – “When on the “Car-free Diet” your socks better match!”
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Bike Arlington socks for when you errandneur hardcore.
Strava Ride – Feb 5

#8 – I’m the biking bridesmaid
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White socks with rhinestones for errandneuring to a fancy-pants bridal shop for a dress fitting
Strava Ride – Feb 11

#9 – Valentines Day Sock of Love!
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These were the socks I wore when I got married. No really, I’m serious!
Submitted for proof:
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Strava Ride – Feb 14

More to come! I think I’ve overloaded the uploader…

[Kitty]

Final push part 2:

#10 – President’s Day, Anchors Away!
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Because for a while Secretary of the Navy was a stepping stone to the Presidency
Strava Ride – Feb 20

#11 – Return to the “Capital Wasteland”
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I’d spent the weekend in Boston at a videogame convention, and this was my first ride back. These socks are in reference to Fallout 3, a game that takes place in a post-apocalyptic DC
Strava Ride – March 13

#12 – “When Irish Bikes are Riding…”
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St. Patty’s Day socks, worn all day: on the commute ride, at work, at a friend’s birthday party in Ad-Mo, the trip home where I beat everyone back who took the metro by 30-40 minutes by biking… Luck of the Irish!
Strava Ride – March 17

#13 – A Meditation on Precipitation
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I was going to wear these for the miserable weather that greeted me as I got ready for the Vasa ride, but decided they might be frowned upon at a family-friendly event, so I wore them to the final party at HP instead!
Strava Ride – March 19

There were some other days when my sock-game was on, but I forgot to take a photo. As your opening post meme says, the struggle is real.

[Birru]

@Kitty 157501 wrote:

#11 – Return to the “Capital Wasteland”
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I’d spent the weekend in Boston at a videogame convention, and this was my first ride back. These socks are in reference to Fallout 3, a game that takes place in a post-apocalyptic DC
Strava Ride – March 13

O_o I had no idea those socks existed! They are 😎 … SPECIAL.

[Author]

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