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@drevil 203493 wrote:

1/1/21 – During your ride, take a pic of the number “2021” on 1/1 and post in this thread before the end of that day. Caveat: can’t be handwritten. Happy hunting!

1/1/2021: “2021”

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POINTLESS PRIZE: QUAXAPALOOZA

As the wife of a local small business owner (Maryland Meadworks), I am sponsoring a pointless prize to encourage supporting your local small businesses on your bikes (aka Quaxing).

How to play:

1. Go for a Quax — support a local small business by buying something (any amount) and picking it up via bike. One point per business, and yes, you can do more than one per day, but need to log separate Strava rides to each stop. You only get one point per distinct local biz (so yes, you can come 100 times to Maryland Meadworks, as well you should, but you will only get 1 point for the first visit…)

2. Take a picture of you (wearing a mask), your bike, and your purchase (or if it was a service, perhaps the signage or some such that represents that service) outside as many different small businesses as possible.

3. For your ride to count, use #BAFS2021SmallBiz in your Strava ride title AND include the name of the place you visited, e.g., #BAFS2021SmallBiz Maryland Meadworks (shameless plug, right?) And upload the related photo to the same ride.

4. Please play safely: For example, picking up your takeout / growlers (of mead, or even things… that are not mead) curbside (on your bike!)! Again, please take your selfie OUTSIDE the establishment, masked, to set a good example for how COVID-safe cyclists are!

5. What constitutes a local small business? I’ll give broad leeway on this. Frankly most every business (esp restaurants) is in such pain right now, I’m likely to give a lot of slack. I just want you to go out for a ride, stimulate the economy and help keep your neighbors employed. And yes, I’ll allow you to more than one of a local chain if you differentiate the tags — i.e. “#BAFS2021SmallBiz Vigilante Hyattsville” AND “#BAFS2021SmallBiz Vigilante College Park” would each count for a point.

6. Prizes? I’ll buy the top 3 winners a giftcard ($75, $50, $25) to their favorite local business. (Even if it’s not Maryland Meadworks!)

Forum post: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18120-Pointless-prize-Quaxapalooza
Facebook post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2497564127026657/permalink/3534812539968472/
Leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/BAFS2021SmallBiz
Quaxing: https://momentummag.com/quaxing/

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@AlanA 203309 wrote:

Geeze. All these team posts already. I thought they used to wait until the new year to show them. I hope I’m on your team!! You are a great leader and inspiration to others!

Chuck Pena told us to set up our team posts and our strava groups now so that we “hit the ground pedaling” LOL!

But none of us knows who’s on our teams yet except for Chuck (and the teams will not be localized).

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I hate to say it but I think we should reschedule this.

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It absolutely influences my biking behavior. Two years ago-my first FS- I started riding weekends in addition to bike commuting which was a big change and introduced me to group rides and the proteus herd.

Last year with the team points cap structure, I would ride at least a mile every day and ride enough each week to earn the 100 mile team maximum (so 170 points per week) including riding 50 miles a day the last two days of the competition. It also sometimes meant I’d ride a little less on weekends if I’d already almost ridden my max during the week (my commute is 18 miles round trip)

This year’s point structure has made me commit to 10+ miles a day. Sometimes I’m tired or it’s rainy and I wish I could just sleaze but I don’t because I don’t wanna give up the 45 extra points my team gets for miles 2-10.

When FS ends in March I always take a little break from riding -like maybe a day or two—and then go through a period of existential angst. If I ride and don’t earn points — does it mean anything???

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Millie and I are meeting there at 1pm

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Start location changed to Peet’s! see top post

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Crepe ride sunday 2/2

– Meet 10AM at west hyattsville metro in front of the colorful mural for group photo https://www.wmata.com/initiatives/art-in-transit/ait-west-hyattsville.cfm)
– Ride Sligo creek trail to downtown silver spring
– Eat delicious crepe brunch at Fenton cafe
– Return to hville via Sligo creek trail
– Enjoy a Freezing saddles happy hour at Maryland Meadworks (beerneuring points)
– Rumi can guide anyone who needs to return to w hville metro
– Optional pub crawling up route 1 can be accomplished for additional beerneuring points (streetcar 82, Franklins, denizens) or coffeeneuring points (vigilante)

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Yes Mead counts towards beerneuring
Sunday 1/19/2020 noon-3:30 freezing saddles happy hour during my shift At Maryland Meadworks. ride to the meadworks and show your helmets to get half off ur first glass of mead. You can even stash ur bikes inside the taproom during that time and I’ll snap a picture of you with your mead on your smartphone for FS documentation purposes. And there are many other places on route 1 to pub crawl to before or after — streetcar 82, sangfroid distillery, pizzeria Paradiso, Franklin’s brewpub, denizens, etc.
http://Www.marylandmeadworks.com
4700 Rhode Island Avenue, Hyattsville Md
(Next door to Shortcake Bakery)

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SAT MORNING GROUP RIDE: Hyattsville area peeps! saturday jan 11 @ 9am: Coffee ride (coffeeneuring points!). Meet at the riverdale park train station (location below) and we’ll take the trolley trail north till we meet up with Millie. Ride around (minimum 10 miles, mostly easy trails). Stop at College Park Vigilante. Bring lock, keys, cash/credit card, Strava/gps, sunblock .

Rhode Island Ave & Queensbury Rd
Riverdale Park, MD 20737
https://goo.gl/maps/iF1idfkLvn29DZao6

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SAT MORNING GROUP RIDE: Hyattsville area peeps! saturday jan 11 @ 9am: Coffee ride (coffeeneuring points!). Meet at the riverdale park train station (location below) and we’ll take the trolley trail north till we meet up with Millie. Ride around (minimum 10 miles, mostly easy trails). Stop at College Park Vigilante. Bring lock, keys, cash/credit card, Strava/gps, sunblock .

Rhode Island Ave & Queensbury Rd
Riverdale Park, MD 20737
https://goo.gl/maps/iF1idfkLvn29DZao6

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I am bartending at Maryland Meadworks from noon-2pm today Sunday 1/5. Mead counts towards beerneuring and the meadery is right off the trail in Hyattsville, so bike over and ill give you a 50% discount on a glass of mead if you say you’re a freezing saddle participant during my shift. And I will take your picture for your required documentation….

Sunday: 12pm – 7pm
Maryland Meadworks
4700 Rhode Island Ave.
Suite Bee
Hyattsville, MD 20781

Maryland Meadworks is located on the southern end of Hyattsville (aka SoHy), next to Shortcake Bakery at the intersection of Route 1 (Rhode Island Ave.) and the Northwest Branch bike trail.

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Another Sunday 1/5 group ride leaving from proteus in college park at 10:30am down to vigilance in Hyattsville and then back (coffeeneuring!)
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