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Rcannon100 is too busy slacking to correct anyone

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These are Bike Arlington questions, not Freezing Saddles questions. The reaction buttons are a little buggy because Bike Arlington hasn’t had the budget to upgrade the software that runs this forum. It’s unfortunate, but they have a lot of priorities and not enough funding to get to all of them.

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@Steve O 203748 wrote:

If you don’t know which screw is which, try them both until you note your derailleur moving the chain in.

It is a well-known fact that limit screws follow the USB Superposition Law whereby any action taken (tightening or loosening either screw) will move the derailleur in the wrong direction until you have tried every combination.

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Team #69 will be displayed on the leaderboard but all miles will count negative.

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Yeah, technically this is going to be a little complicated. I like the video idea.

For example, a lot of us in the dense parts of the city often do rides of less than 2 miles with a grocery store stop in the middle. If you don’t turn Strava off, you can get a ridiculously slow time. I guess it’s honor system like everything else here, but the videos would be fun. I want to watch drevil almost fall over try to trackstand every six inches up some giant hill, and I’m sure everyone else does too.

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@mwolf00 203341 wrote:

…I’ll be riding out there anyways…

If you are not on a team, MAKE SURE TO LOG YOUR MILES ON STRAVA. If you get added to a team later, your miles since 1/1 WILL COUNT, but not if you don’t log them on Strava.

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Reminder – chuxtr LOVES to create teams of late registrants, so if you have friends who are on the fence, encourage them to sign up.

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I think there is a question about daily or yearly mileage. But it’s hard to distinguish between, say, someone who does the trainer all winter and then century rides every weekend when it’s nice, and someone who rides every day for transportation but never more than 15 miles in a day.

It’s not random (although that has been suggested). Currently chuxtr is the arbiter of the Super Secret Algorithm of Team Choosing. He wasn’t the first, and is unlikely to be the last.

Friends don’t enter into it – you can request to be on a local team, but I think that’s DC vs VA vs MD, not you and your 10 buddies.

And then there’s the discussion about what the actual goal of this whole thing is. Do we want to maximize everyone’s mileage, meaning we need all the teams competitive? Do we want to maximize participation in the side games, meaning the competition is fine but it’s not the focus? Do we want to encourage as many people as possible to ride through the winter and find out that, with a bit of the right gear, it’s totally doable for normal people in all but the worst weather? The answer to “what is the point of BAFS” varies wildly among participants.

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This is a discussion every year, and we haven’t really found the answer. A lot of people put in a lot of work to get competitive teams, and it seems to fail every year.

Some people ride consistently year round. Some people do a lot extra for BAFS. Some, like my wife, ride year round but only bother with Strava during BAFS.

If you have a brilliant idea to ensure maximum competitiveness right up to the last day of the competition, we’d love it hear it. Some year my hope is for it to come down to three or four teams desperately sprinting around Hains Point right up to the stroke of midnight at the Freezing Saddles Last Night Hains Point Party.

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@sjclaeys while the beerneuring challenge is one of my favorite parts of the game, I fully support your decision. The lack of breweries is really going to make BAFS tough for me – in prior years, I could get the kids to go for long-ish bike rides if we bribed them with candy and screen time at breweries, where we could also warm up before venturing back. This year it’s going to be tough to motivate them with no destination/reward.

Have you thought about changing the rules instead of cancelling? Instead of tasting on-site, you get the point for doing curbside pickup at a brewery?

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See what happens if one more person types or quotes “shrubbery”

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6) Drop the speed limit on the Parkway to 25 and put speed cameras every 100 yards.
7) Make the trail wide enough so that two roadies in going in opposite directions can pass two CaBi tourists going in opposite directions and no one remembers it happened 5 minutes later
Repave the awful section just south of the 14th St Bridge
9) Put the entire trail under the domain of someone who understands trail users
10) Don’t invite the person who suggested a traffic circle to any more meetings
11) Yeah, 2 and 4 sound good to me too

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Yes, looking for a rear rack for the Bridge Club. Our bike rack for the car was totaled along with the car, but it doesn’t fit the new one anyway. Trying to find a hitch rack for the car that were happy with, but that’s a question for another day.

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@FFX_Hinterlands 202945 wrote:

I would take a look at Handsome Cycles out of Minneapolis. I love my Devil and it’s been going strong for years.

Good looking bike.

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Bringing this thread back up – we ended up replacing the derailleur. Bike shop was able to save the wheel. And then we got rear-ended while driving with the bikes on the back and that was it for the Linus. After waiting forever, Bicycle Space finally got us a beautiful blue Bridge Club.

Now I’m looking for a rear rack. Anyone have recommendations? I figured there would be a way to look up racks by fit (I have a disc Bridge Club, what rack can I get) but if that exists I haven’t seen it.

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