Rides and Races - DC Pirates' Pillages and Plunders

yes, we play til we feel like going home or pillaging, there are lights, hasnt happened yet, depends how aggressive you play...getting out of bed is a potential source for death.

Piracy increases the risk by a factor of Pi^Pi!

Anyone up this afternoon/evening?

What time this evening? two,oh,twofour8nine8one,0,one

jonny5, it's polo night! 7pm, 14 & K, you know the drill.

Twas over at Farragut this afternoon, so I decided to scout out the "Sherwood" polo grounds. Saw nuthin at 14 & K that looks like a park or parking lot or anything suitable for a polo grounds. Only Sherwood in the phone book, is a Sherwood Rec Center in NE.

sherwood is what we call Lincoln Square. It's the park between 13&14 and I&K. and there may be a fountain in the middle, but we consider it quite "suitable"!

c'mon out!

ps - Pirates, 1 week till scavenging stupidity. Better stare at a map some.

...there may be a fountain in the middle, but we consider it quite "suitable"!

c'mon out! .....

So with an errant shot, we see water polo-cool.

Please save me from an evening of wrenching and wheel building... or come over w pie and beer DVD's and we'll all do some wrenching! Any takers? Sevtreeduoduedreedoodreewonikxnine

sherwood is what we call Lincoln Square. It's the park between 13&14 and I&K. and there may be a fountain in the middle, but we consider it quite "suitable"!


Actually, it's Franklin Park, but you can call it "Lincoln Square" if you want. :)

dood, josh, you're totally right. franklin, lincoln, all dead white guys important to the oldness of our young nation. i get 'em all screwed up. i believe it's franklin square though...

all i gotta say is: zing

dood, josh, you're totally right. franklin, lincoln, all dead white guys important to the oldness of our young nation. i get 'em all screwed up. i believe it's franklin square though...

Hey, that's why you can call it what you want... I did check, though, because I thought it was Franklin Square, too, but it is actually Franklin Park (although it is squarish, so, er, tomayto-tomahto, I guess...).

Hey, that's why you can call it what you want... I did check, though, because I thought it was Franklin Square, too, but it is actually Franklin Park (although it is squarish, so, er, tomayto-tomahto, I guess...).

The National Park Service officially lists its name as Franklin Square:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc29.htm

Franklin "Square" is rectangular.

Lincoln Square is a former name for the current Lincoln Park, site of the Emancipation Memorial, located on Capitol from 11th to 13th.

Laps n Cheese! 11 am. Hains Point. Ride backwards if you don't see kids on the corner by the tennis courts.

Thunder boomers beeee dammmmmed!

Really, it looks lovely out. Grey and mushy...fantastic laps n cheese weather really. Beeee therrrrrre.

Thanks EBK, BLocks, Rwind & mtbchica for joking with me and providing sanity advice on what to do after being slow motion T-boned. May be it was overly dramatic to have the fire dept and the police on such minor incident, but getting the police report was a good thing. Now to City Bikes for a damage estimate.

What happened?

What happened: It was really nothing, nothing at all, except that there was a car involve, heck, we had seen worst between pirates

Got in a warm up lap before meeting up with LBK and the rest.

I was riding outboard on the causway (re-versed direction) and saw LBK at the corner of the cause way and the parking lot. So I swung into the ped cross walk, rolling really slow because there were 2 cars at teh stop sign. The first one went , so I started to cross, the second car had the same idea and T-boned me. All was in really slow mo, but since I was clipped in, the bike tumbled with me. As I was lying in the intersection, clipped to the bike, I was glad that there wasn't another car to run me over.

hardly a scrape on me, but the bars got bent and the rear wheel needed a truing. All in all, everything was fine, the guy's insurance left me a voice mail. I think we can laught this one off. :)

Thanks for all the VM and PM of concern and good cheer! :)

glad you're ok, PNC.

so... scavenger hunt this sat! can folks pm, email, or something me so I have an idea of how many folks to expect? again, this is more of a fun, laid back, creative event... not a race!

Tuesday's Triangle of Death: A clockwise circumnavigation of the Arlington triangle. 2 - 3 Brew and grub stops along the route. Sherwood, 7PM tomorrow (Tuesday). bring lights and body armour.

Chimbly, please count me in for Sat, may be bringing a friend or 2

and... in anticipation... i will give the pirates daily hints. things you should be able to locate...

hint 1 (of 5)
the frederick douglass house

[QUOTE=meb]The National Park Service officially lists its name as Franklin Square:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc29.htm

Franklin "Square" is rectangular.
[QUOTE]

-I guess that beats my source (Google Maps, which listed it as Frankin Park). -D'oh! :o

Whats up pirates... everything going well in the District?

Ric, VA is chillin... slaughterama was the most fun i have ever had on a bike... came close to getting a cycle slaughterama 3 tattoo... and you kids should have seen my bike... i made myself a chopper.. It was very awesome... we drank... jousted...raced chariots... tall bike raced...played drunked tug-o-war, and of course the ever famous DRUNKED BIKE TOSS... it was an overall day of fun and drunk..i mean games... wished you could have been there...

Tuesday's Triangle of Death: A clockwise circumnavigation of the Arlington triangle. 2 - 3 Brew and grub stops along the route. Sherwood, 7PM tomorrow (Tuesday). bring lights and body armour.

Chimbly, please count me in for Sat, may be bringing a friend or 2

PNC, glad to hear you're okay after that. A slow moving car should've seen a slow moving bike - WTF?

Tuesday night's forecasted for rain, is this a rain or (moon)shine event?

Any word about chain reaction? are they ever going to reopen?

i heard they gave up on bicycles and have started collecting old/broken segways to fix up and sell and teach neighborhood kids how to be segway mechanics and instructors.

tee hee!

i noticed today there's a new segway store on I St across from SHerwood. They had a demo model on the sidewalk with golf clubs in a little thingey on it. Tee hee!

*point and laugh*

I love the Segway, you get all the advantages of walking, but without all the dignity.

tee hee!

i noticed today there's a new segway store on I St across from SHerwood. They had a demo model on the sidewalk with golf clubs in a little thingey on it. Tee hee!

*point and laugh*

After the Hains debacle and pirates scattered to the wind to beat the storm that was brewing, Rince and I saw a guy coming down the sidewalk on that model, complete with golf clubs, and TALKING ON HIS CELL PHONE. It was... beyond the words we have in this language to accurately describe such a tool. shudder.

sounds like it was without all the dignity.

tee hee!

i noticed today there's a new segway store on I St across from SHerwood. They had a demo model on the sidewalk with golf clubs in a little thingey on it. Tee hee!

*point and laugh*
When LBK and I left the accident scene on Sunday a guy on a segway (I think it was their large model with the "offroad" tires, or should I just say their "SUV model") came the other way on the sidewalk. Besides the luggage rack, he had a big golf bag with clubs attached to the segay. And he was on the phone!!!

JInx! 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10!

LBK you are to fast for me!!! :p

tee hee!

i noticed today there's a new segway store on I St across from SHerwood. They had a demo model on the sidewalk with golf clubs in a little thingey on it. Tee hee!

*point and laugh*

They had a store in the Georgetown mall. Lasted less than a year. :p

BTW,nice avatar. Plate 'o shrimp! ;)

team pirate... anyone interested in hitting the Midwest Alleycat Jumpinships, Columbus OH on May 13? T'would be one of my last pirate roadtrips... *sniff sniff*

there's no bus there, so it would be pirates in a car. who wants to come?

PNC if its not raining is your ride going to be hill crazy? I just need to know for the knee.

There will be a few sprinter /short hills, moderate gradient.
The advantage of riding the triangle clockwise is that you climb very very very slowly. then bomb downhill like mad into geotown. Riding it anti-clockwise is the hilly killer.

Riding is about fun, and 20 miles wet in the dark is not fun, so if it sucks, rain date will be Friday (barring scheduling conflicts).

re: Ohio, not can do for me, got a wedding to attend.

May 28, 29, 30. The Triple Crown. Baltimore>DC>Richmond. Yeash.

scavenger hunt tip #2:
bring a plastic bag to hold perishable or nasty items.

scavenger hunt tip #2:
bring a plastic bag to hold perishable or nasty items.
No, I won't pick up dog poo! :eek:

and... in anticipation... i will give the pirates daily hints. things you should be able to locate...

hint 1 (of 5)
the frederick douglass house

bring yer patch kits :D

bring yer patch kits :D

and U-Lock

Geico called and said to take my bike to a shop and send them the receipts. that was rather easy

Geico called and said to take my bike to a shop and send them the receipts. that was rather easy
I'm glad you don't have a big hassle over this.

that is nice get both wheels trued, btw did the person get a citation?

Geico called and said to take my bike to a shop and send them the receipts. that was rather easy
Oh, and have them check the frame alignment.

Spring's bringing out everyone! I'm all set for this Arlington Triangle of Death deally! Off topic, slightly - Sighted in DC this morning:

1) Bright pink fixie with no markings, a flatbar, and I think a Fiz'ik pave saddle? Ulocked outside of Bank of America on Vermont Ave? Anyones? It looked great - all minimalistic!
2) A pink bianchi w/ gears less than half a block further down. I think I saw the rider going into the building, messenger-like with a skull and crossbones in pink in a plastic thing on one of the straps. Anyone we know?

i know of two pink fixed riders... one's a powdercoated steamroller, very small frame, ridden by the best knitter in town. the other is a nyc bikes frame, bigger, ridden by the nicest messenger/photographer on earth.

Sighted in DC this morning:

1) Bright pink fixie with no markings, a flatbar, and I think a Fiz'ik pave saddle? Ulocked outside of Bank of America on Vermont Ave? Anyones? It looked great - all minimalistic!

Funny, when I first learned of a fixed gear community I thought of it as sort of small.

Now it seems like I see a few fixies every time I leave the apt. and they're never the same ones. And I don't know who any of them are.

This might change when I start work at the bike shop.

Geico called and said to take my bike to a shop and send them the receipts. that was rather easy

not so fast. it SEEMS easy, until Geico's like, hey, we don't want to reimburse you for this or that. You gotta get the driver to agree to pay for the bike shop work, and then have Geico reimburse him/her.

(This same thing, the slow run-over, happened to me once in Boston. I remember how funny it was to be clipped in to the pedals and slowly falling over while baning on the hood and screaming, hey, don't run me over!)

Weird thing I've been noticing lately:tiny bars. I've seen 3 or 4 bikes in the past 2 weeks with bars that were like 12" wide. And none of them had grips. Okay,I can see how they'd help when threading through traffic,but you've got zero leverage for turning.