The Bike Samaritan Prize

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@kwarkentien 154314 wrote:

Here’s my very late entry. Dates back to our first “snow” of the season. Riding from the FMR Trail in Madison Manor over to Roosevelt Street, I was flagged down by a woman who was hopelessly lost while trying to deliver a kugel. Seems Arlington’s penchant for streets that are discontinuous had bolluxed this poor lady as she was in the 1200 block of Quantico but needed to get to the 1000 block. So I offered to lead her there on my bike. I navigated around and about to connect over to the needed address and she told me I was a “mensch.” This being Saturday, I wished her “Shabbat Shalom” and continued on my merry way. A little biking with a mitzvah.

I’m curious – was this 1/7? If so, the kugel’s destination was my house. It was a luckshen (noodle) kugel with fruit jam on top, and it was spectacular. Thank you for your service.

[kwarkentien]

Indeed it was! So now I know where you live!!!!

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@kwarkentien 155371 wrote:

Indeed it was! So now I know where you live!!!!

I figured that it was unlikely that there would have been two separate errant Quantico Street kugel deliveries in the last six weeks. Too bad you didn’t come to the door!

[kwarkentien]

Next time. But I’ll be demanding kugel or brisket when I do. [emoji41]

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[KLizotte]

@SarahBee 155364 wrote:

First entry this BAFS season: was biking on four mile run and saw a cyclist with her bike flipped upside down underneath one of the overpasses. It was a beautiful day so lots of cyclists out, but no one stopped or even asked if she was okay. She had cross chained in her big chain ring and her chain fell of her cassette and was jammed between her spokes and her cassette. An easy fix albeit a little greasy. I have her a quick tutorial on shifting and was on my merry way. Moral of the story is if you ask someone if they are ok and they say “I think so”, they probably aren’t.

For this reason I now carry disposable latex gloves in my saddle bag.

[Judd]

Komorebi and I swept up a Corona bottle that someone had smashed across the entire width of the Branch Trail today just in time for the family of four bikers that came through. Quit spiking bottles on the trails, y’all.

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@Judd 155412 wrote:

Komorebi and I swept up a Corona bottle that someone had smashed across the entire width of the Branch Trail today just in time for the family of four bikers that came through. Quit spiking bottles on the trails, y’all.

Should have picked it up in your tires as planned, I’m very disappointed in you two.

[Greenbelt]

https://www.strava.com/activities/877466626 😮

[rcannon100]

Mensch Nomination: Tania Pierce for being my riding partner on today’s 30 mile Bikenetic gravel ride. An act of kindness and patience.

[Sunyata]

@rcannon100 155881 wrote:

Mensch Nomination: Tania Pierce for being my riding partner on today’s 30 mile Bikenetic gravel ride. An act of kindness and patience.

Bob, in case I failed to mention it as I was huffing and puffing up Bull Run Mountain yesterday, you are my hero.

[cvcalhoun]

And in today’s adventure, I reported this tree down on the CCT, just south of Fletcher’s Lock, to DC 311.

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[Judd]

Nominating Bob James for Good Samaritan. During the pie ride last Saturday, Sunyata’s Garmin unexpectedly ate through all of its battery just halfway through the ride. Bob was kind enough to lend his battery charger despite Team 15 and Team 10’s fierce competition for first place.

Class act that Bob James.

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[cvcalhoun]

@Judd 156446 wrote:

Nominating Bob James for Good Samaritan. During the pie ride last Saturday, Sunyata’s Garmin unexpectedly ate through all of its battery just halfway through the ride. Bob was kind enough to lend his battery charger despite Team 15 and Team 10’s fierce competition for first place.

Class act that Bob James.

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Hmm, I suppose I should have mentioned my similar incident of being a Good Samaritan. The day of the first happy hour, Edelweiss (who is not on my team) was having issues with Strava. Since she and I had done the same ride from the happy hour to Bethesda, I sent her a copy of my ride file (https://www.strava.com/activities/828056614) to upload to Strava, so she could get credit for the ride.

[Brett L.]

Another nomination for Team 7’s Closebr. Must’ve been tough not eating that free food! :p

https://www.strava.com/activities/887881768

[cvcalhoun]

And another one this morning. I found a big sign lying face down across the sidewalk this morning. My first impulse was to stand it up. But when I did, I discovered it was a sign saying, “Sidewalk under construction. Use other side.” Kind of reminded me of the Epimenides paradox (“All Cretans are liars.”); if the sign was up, you couldn’t use the sidewalk because the sidewalk was under construction, but if the sign was down, you couldn’t use the sidewalk because the sign was blocking it. However, I managed to put the sign face down again, then drag it onto the grass so it would no longer block the sidewalk.

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