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ParticipantUsed the wonderful day for some Rule 5ness. Custis + Headwinds = Hardening Up. Garmin had it at 64 degrees. Wow!
ParticipantLanterne Rouge. Person who actually competed, but completed the least amount of points.
Coldest ride. Would need to mash up strava & wunderground somehow.
Coffeenuer: Most rides with a stop at a coffee shop.
Looenuer: Most stops at a bathroom/porta-john. Possibly from next weeks beer ride.
Weekender: Person with the highest ratio of weekend miles to weekday miles. Some sort of award for those who don’t/can’t commute or ride during the week.
Nooner: Most rides during lunch hours (11am-2pm) during a weekday.
Heaviest Ride: Commuter with picture/scale verified heaviest bike/rack/pannier/trailer rides (idea is that this would be their regular commuting bike, no kid trailers or things normally not on the bike during their commute)And hey, I have a crash for #BAFS, even have the gratuitous strawberry picture as proof. Go Aye-Ayes!
Participant@ShawnoftheDread 40993 wrote:
I propose a third option: obvious. It’s a too-obvious connection to a target audience to be considered brilliant. More of a no-brainer, IMO.
Well, I know there are folks on here that are risk analysis folk, but I’m guessing Freshbikes figured the obviousness outweighed the risk.
ParticipantJanuary 16, 2013 at 4:58 pm in reply to: Freezing Saddles: Winter Bike Challenge (sign up open) #960039Participant@consularrider 40615 wrote:
I like my BikeArlington sticker that I’ve put on my two commuting bikes, “Can your treadmill get you to work?”
I have seen these on the W&OD as well, maybe it’s not a treadmill, but it’s the same essence of Gym.
ParticipantHeh that’s the river crossing the road bike riders didn’t appreciate during the Felix 24 race.
ParticipantThis?
January 9, 2013 at 8:20 pm in reply to: Va. transportation plan: no gas tax, higher sales tax #959506Participant@culimerc 40113 wrote:
Rather than eliminated it should be increased, potentially based on region. Higher in the more urban areas where incomes tend to be higher and traffic tends to be denser. That would incentivize using alternative transportation, lower wear and tear on the roads etc etc etc.
Terpfan alluded to this, so I spent some time looking:
TFA: http://www.transportation-finance.org/pdf/featured_documents/nchrp_20_24_62_virginia.pdf
“After years of controversy, the political compromise that moved HB3202 was that local governments in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads were authorized to levy taxes—the philosophical principle had been maintained.
The balance of the bill was put to rest when the State Supreme Court declared the legislation as unconstitutional because it gave taxing authority to regional authorities composed of both elected and appointed officials. Virginia’s constitution requires any tax increase to be levied by elected officials.”
Looking at http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/fcdot/cdot/funding/hb3202.htm, it does seem that (at least in Fairfax) there were no proposed increases in the gas taxes involved in HB3202.
ParticipantIt was the day my father took off my training wheels. My first ride without them was down our driveway, up the driveway across the street, turn around, and back up our driveway…
January 8, 2013 at 3:51 pm in reply to: Freezing Saddles: Winter Bike Challenge (sign up open) #959329Participant@rcannon100 39912 wrote:
If you came into the game with a low handicap, the easiest thing you can do to increase your score is bike every day. It’s going to be harder for someone with a high handicap who is already biking every day to increase their score by that much – they have to actually put in the miles.
Another analogy is League Bowling. You get your handicap (usually 90% of the difference between 200 and your average), and that gets added to your score every game. So usually the ringer team (i.e. the team that has no handicap) has to consistently bowl above 200 games to deal with a team with a 40-50 pin handicap. In the leagues I’ve bowled in, the team that usually wins isn’t the ringer team, it’s the team that showed the most consistency and increase in average over the length of the league.
With the Freezing Saddles, it’s a little easier for someone with a handicap to exceed that handicap than in bowling, but it’s also just as easy for the low or no handicap riders to come up with a “900” series than in bowling.
ParticipantGarmin 500, and all activities get uploaded to Garmin Connect, Endomondo, and Training Peaks. All Rides go on Strava and Ridewithgps.com, as there’s no need to put weight training and non-on-a-real-bike workouts there.
January 4, 2013 at 4:03 am in reply to: Pinecraft Neighborhood in Sarasota FL, almost completely car-free #958946ParticipantPinecraft is basically a trailer park smack dab in the middle of the Mennonite population there. I lived in Sarasota for 6 years, and had friends work at the really good Mennonite restaurants in that area, and other than the Mennonites, it’s not really all that car free. And although the roads there are nice and wide, with the greying population of Sarasota city and county (I believe Sarasota County is the 4th oldest county in the USA), I’d be quite afraid of riding there, even thru Bahia Vista and Tuttle.
ParticipantLets see, Since I bought my bike (first one in 25 years)…from Jul 14 thru Dec 31, I rode 604 miles. 171 days, 3.5miles per day average. over an entire year that’s 1288. So I’m going do resolve to almost double that at 2500 miles for 2013. If I’m going to get in shape to do Alpe d’Huez in July, I hope to far exceed 2500 miles.
January 3, 2013 at 3:23 am in reply to: Freezing Saddles: Winter Bike Challenge (sign up open) #958791ParticipantJanuary 2, 2013 at 4:40 pm in reply to: Freezing Saddles: Winter Bike Challenge (sign up open) #958707ParticipantSo instead of hopping in the car to go get more coffee from the store, Freezing Saddles (Go Team II) got me on my bike for my ~2.5 mile round trip. Success!
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