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10-27-09, 08:57 PM

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maxine

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Location: Pasadena, MD

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Originally Posted by NoRacer

Wussy.

<j/k>

Of course I rode. I needed something to talk about for the http://www.itsnotarace.org website.

So far, I'm the only one that I've seen that has an FCN (Food Chain Number) of 0 (zero).

[ Food Chain Number Calculator: http://www.itsnotarace.org/fcn-calculator/ ]

I took a quick glance at that site, funny stuff!! It appears my FCN is 7, if I did it right. (I assume it has to be based on your commuting bike, or it wouldn't make any sense.) I can't really play along, though, since I almost never see any other bike commuters on my route. The few I have seen have been on the other side of the road.

One time, though, a dude passed me, rather triumphantly, I thought

while I was riding on the base. (He and his bike were much skinnier than me and my Trek 520.) He rode onto my facility, too, with me fairly close behind (all vehicles have to stop for an ID checkpoint, so everyone bunches up.) As soon as we took off again, his single small rear pannier promptly fell off. I stopped (single lane road, zero shoulder here, and a lot of car traffic chuting out of the checkpoint); he reattached, we took off again. Fifteen feet down the road, it fell off again. I made some commiserating noises, and then took off past him. Yeah, that's right, my lardass but RELIABLE bike won the day!

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