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I’m on my way to Bikenetic now!

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This is a picture of 2 of the 4 of us that were on this ride, does this count towards #groupridegroupie? It’s the same ride that Serdar posted as the Guru.

 

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The real Team 18 is: https://www.strava.com/clubs/1343591

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This was 1 of 3 on this car – it also had the baby with sunglasses posted earlier, and a cute Baby in Car sticker too.

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We have teams live on the site! However, we’re still missing the team IDs for teams 2, 3, 18, and 20. If the team captains for those teams could post a forum thread with a link to their Strava teams we will amend it.

Folks won’t show up on the leaderboards now unless:

1. We can identify the team ID and have added it to the site
2. They have joined the competition team

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My favorite light overall is the Laserlight core – you have to order it from the UK, but it projects a super-cool laser image of a bicycle in front of you.

I also like the camera combo Fly 6 Gen 3 and Fly 12 Sport lights from Cycliq. These both have USB-C charging, which is great. I use a Corki out front mount to hold both my Garmin 1030 bike computer and the Fly12, and the Cycliq saddle rail mount to hold the rear light in place. The velcro straps and rubber divots that come with the Fly6 failed multiple times for me – but the extra saddle rail mount is super solid. I also have a Don Peregrino rear light as a backup – USB C rechargeable also, super light and durable.

The Lumos helmet is great, and even has turn signal and brake light capabilities. I prefer having a 1000 lumen light strapped to my helmet too – Sadly Light in Motion is out of business, I’ll have to find another manufacturer for the next one I buy.

I ride at night at least as much as I ride in the day, so having triple or even quadruple redundant lights is really important for me.

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I’m planning on activating the teams on the Freezing Saddles site at Noon EST tomorrow.

I’ll be opening up a Zoom call at 11 AM Saturday and will work on Freezing Saddles stuff from 11 to 1 PM, including:

1. Getting the 2025 competition teams fielded on the site
2. helping folks get development environments set up who drop by
3. working on active issues from our backlog, probably including some of the library upgrade and infrastructure as code issues

Richard Bullington-McGuire is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Freezing Saddles development session – team rollout
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Realistically it is unlikely that we will find a remedy for this one, so you might need to be content with the freezing knowledge that you biked in the cold and that makes you made of sterner stuff than the average cyclist. We don’t mess with geographic coordinates of rides, there would be no end of tweaking and poking at individuals rides otherwise, and if Strava doesn’t send us geolocation data for a ride there’s not much we can do about it.

Also, most of the leaderboards will convert to team participants only with the exception of https://freezingsaddles.org/people/friends which you will land on once teams are assigned, if you are not on a team. I would encourage you to reconsider joining a competition team – even if you only ride 20 miles the whole competition you are embodying the spirit of the game here!

This is an all-ages (14+) all-abilities event and it is supposed to be fun for everyone first and foremost.

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Quincy from the W&OD trail to Glebe has almost entirely cleared bike lanes now!

The W&OD has some icy patches in Shirlington close to the trail head but is otherwise clear to the Custis trail. Custis is clear from the W&OD to Quincy.

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Sorry about that! I made a bad update to the sync code that I fixed and re-synced the rides.

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There was a problem from about Noon until just a minute ago with rides syncing that I have fixed.

Rides from today should now be on the site.

Refusing to join a bike tribe is valid!

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consularrider, you are welcome to and encouraged to hashtag the rides #decasleaze, that will make the tag cloud on the home page glow. Feel free to report your rides here if there is something notable about the Decasleaze, but only if that increases the fun for you.

It is not necessary to win, that will be determined by the official Decasleaze leaderboard.

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Brandon, I’ve actually been thinking about this for a while, if you want to sponsor it we can make it live this year.

Check out the Bonus Completist Prize #231 issue. There are a maximum of 55 bonus points available every day… but you have to ride at least 10 miles a day to get all of them. We haven’t built the leaderboard for this yet but could totally do it if you wanted to sponsor it.

We also have the Points Per Mile pointless prize leaderboard, that is unsponsored so far this year. That’s more geared towards getting the most points for the least amount of miles.

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I’m likely to have a bunch of #CABI rides this week – and I love this prize! See also the Supple Ride leaderboard, which I just tweaked so it automatically counts #CABI rides as 2″ tyre rides.

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Thank you Serdar for organizing today’s ride – alas we had only 4 participants so technically this ride was not eligible for the prize with the rules as written.

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