Rides and Races - DC Pirates' Pillages and Plunders

Thanks for the hospitality, pirates. Sorry I missed out on the scavenger... stupid wheel. Next time!

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nice pictures sashae, mine will be up soon

Team DFL fo life!

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Post Savenger Hunt pics are up! Thanks Chimbly! It was fun! And we didn't even win!

PS I will not be at hains in the AM. it think i strained something sciatic. ouchie.

thanks for coming down, sashae-- pirates forever. hope you figure out the hub situation. that sucked.

anywho, congrats to team dfl for winning the cash and thanks to jonny5 for hosting a tasty bbq, goat free. see y'all at haines.

new question about the bike... what gear ratio would be good... its a trial frame but i want it to be fixed... what gear ratio should i do so that stopping doesnt send me over the handlebars and so that it isnt too hard.

new question about the bike... what gear ratio would be good... its a trial frame but i want it to be fixed... what gear ratio should i do so that stopping doesnt send me over the handlebars and so that it isnt too hard.

somewhere around 42-46x17 would probably be good. when are you coming up to DC again?

it's different for everybody. if you've got a road bike, just pick a gear and try riding around in it all day. of course, that only works if your wheels are the same size on both bikes, but it should get you pretty close. cogs are cheap, no big deal if you guess wrong.

new question about the bike... what gear ratio would be good... its a trial frame but i want it to be fixed... what gear ratio should i do so that stopping doesnt send me over the handlebars and so that it isnt too hard.

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Sashae, are those night pics at the FDR memorial?

New Photosets:
http://static.flickr.com/52/131541129_a434cb4829_m.jpg DFL Pillage (http://www.flickr.com/photos/specificpacific/sets/72057594111681901/)

http://static.flickr.com/54/136279687_95330f62f9_m.jpg pnc Pillage (http://www.flickr.com/photos/specificpacific/sets/72057594119059939/)

http://static.flickr.com/55/136302720_0da763f0cb_m.jpg Julie's Birthday Plunder (http://www.flickr.com/photos/specificpacific/sets/72057594119139127/)

http://static.flickr.com/51/137447281_536fb91899_m.jpg Sasha in DC (http://www.flickr.com/photos/specificpacific/sets/72057594120891934/)

um, our home team, the Nationals, are playing the PIRATES on Friday. 7pm. At RFK. conveniently located in the district, no bridge crossings for me!

who wants to sit in the cheap seats and get drunk on smuggled-in high life with me?

Chimbly: heading up to Phillie Fri afternoon on way to Brooklyn for 5 Buro, so will have to miss the game!
Sashae: it was fun hanging out with you! Love the pictures!

Um, rounding out an awesome weekend... Three cheers for the Segway man at Haine's today! Spud's my hero for the week.

Spud's my hero for the week.

W0000 H000

um, our home team, the Nationals, are playing the PIRATES on Friday. 7pm. At RFK. conveniently located in the district, no bridge crossings for me!

who wants to sit in the cheap seats and get drunk on smuggled-in high life with me?

I'd like to, but i'm not sure what work is going to do to my schedule. i'll definitely make it to DC sometime friday night. be sure to take a camera and ridicule and photograph and segway *******s.

Tuesday night ride of some sort, anyone want to plan a themed pillage?
Kenton where is our prize/bling photo?

Bling!

what's the dealie on making at picture at FDR my avatar?

what's the dealie on making at picture at FDR my avatar?

the dealie is you have to resize it and upload

what's the dealie on making at picture at FDR my avatar?

I think it has to be 64x64 or 5k ... whichever is larger?


Btw - I'm also going up for the 5 Boro Friday ... gonna miss the Critical Mass and the game. However, I'll be paying for it by riding the tour with with my family (slow all weekend :(). At least I got my miles and speed in this weekend thanks in part to the pirate pelaton which came to the PPTC ride yesterday.

I have created a DC Pirate userbar so you can rep in all the threads and other forums...and...whatever else you kids are doing these days. So here it is:

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How do I add that to my signature?

I have created a DC Pirate userbar so you can rep in all the threads and other forums...and...whatever else you kids are doing these days.


Dude, excellent design!

did anyone find one glove on saturday? jonny5? i'm missing a glove. *sob*

To add the DC Pirate userbar to your signiture you follow these simple steps:

1) Drink some lemon juice to keep the scurvey away
2) Right click on the userbar and save picture as
3) Uplaod the saved userbar to Flickr or a similar photo site
4) Do a little jig
5) Use bike forums' own image insert tool (the little mountain thingy) to add the image
6) Drink some more lemon juice, the usebar may have given you scurvey

When you try to fit everything into one weekend, damn it is a lot of fun.
Pirate Pelaton at PTTC was a blast!
Hide and Seek was fun
Cookout at J5 was a chill way to round out the day


This week
Crit Mass Fri,
Eating all the yummy stuff I miss about NY on Sat
5 Buro Sunday

Add this to it!

Thursday! Hains laps followed by :
"a bridge too Pho"
Start with "hero" laps with the "red and white train", you NEED to be geared and roadied if you even want to think about tagging on the pelaton.
Then form up and ride the bridges to rosslyn and get to the noodle shop before they close the doors on us. Believe me, it is worth it!

Form up at club house and leave promptly at 7PM.

Start with "hero" laps with the "red and white train", you NEED to be geared and roadied if you even want to think about tagging on the pelaton.
i've talked with folks about this and it's really just not true. if your gearing is right, you should be able to hang with the roadies. the problem is that most people are undergeared for the flat fastness of haines point, since we have to get to and from there somehow. But when I was riding the 3rensho 49x14, i could ride in the pack, no problems.

i've talked with folks about this and it's really just not true. if your gearing is right, you should be able to hang with the roadies. the problem is that most people are undergeared for the flat fastness of haines point, since we have to get to and from there somehow. But when I was riding the 3rensho 49x14, i could ride in the pack, no problems.
I'm with you on this one. Tagging on, no problem. Now, helping out in the wind, that's something else.

when are you coming up to DC again?

Actually spud, i should be up there in like 3 weeks... im going to greece with my parents and i get back a week before they do, so i figured i would drive up to DC to ride with the pirates and bring a friend fro NOVA with me... it's the kid who is getting the wheels from gil. Hopefully I will have the basso done by then also.

chimbley: missing a glove? haven't seen anything. i'll look around the backyard again. maybe Awesome's using it as a nest. or a chew-toy. also, wassa name of that bike group that pays people to bike to work?

chimbley: missing a glove? haven't seen anything. i'll look around the backyard again. maybe Awesome's using it as a nest. or a chew-toy. also, wassa name of that bike group that pays people to bike to work?

Biketown. It's sponsored by Bicycling Magazine.
http://www.bicycling.com/biketown2006/home.html

Actually spud, i should be up there in like 3 weeks... im going to greece with my parents and i get back a week before they do, so i figured i would drive up to DC to ride with the pirates and bring a friend fro NOVA with me... it's the kid who is getting the wheels from gil. Hopefully I will have the basso done by then also.


You would absolutely hate the Basso I just built

i can't imagine hating that basso. it's got an understated elegance, like it doesn't need your approval.

also, in my dehydrated delirium i managed to lose my keys on saturday as well. i used them to unlock my bike from Asylum, and that's the last time i saw them. anybody see some on the ground? nondescript keyring, three regular keys (one with a pink plastic thing) and one little key with a black top. getting back into my apartment was a *****, not to mention clipping my bike lock in front of murky coffee :mad:

anyway, good times on saturday. way to go pirate peloton for "winning" the old fat guy training ride (if only they had known it was a race) and great times at the hunt. thanks again chimbly for putting it on.

i can't imagine hating that basso. it's got an understated elegance, like it doesn't need your approval.

also, in my dehydrated delirium i managed to lose my keys on saturday as well. i used them to unlock my bike from Asylum, and that's the last time i saw them. anybody see some on the ground? nondescript keyring, three regular keys (one with a pink plastic thing) and one little key with a black top. getting back into my apartment was a *****, not to mention clipping my bike lock in front of murky coffee :mad:

anyway, good times on saturday. way to go pirate peloton for "winning" the old fat guy training ride (if only they had known it was a race) and great times at the hunt. thanks again chimbly for putting it on.
How did you lock your bike in front of "murky coffee" (whatever that is) without a key? I can only open or close my locks with a key. Maybe you lost it there?

You would absolutely hate the Basso I just built

would i now? got any pics? I would like to see it.

How did you lock your bike in front of "murky coffee" (whatever that is) without a key? I can only open or close my locks with a key. Maybe you lost it there?

yeah, i spent a loooong time looking around that whole area, i'm pretty sure they're not there. thanks though. it was a cable lock, and i don't lock it to put it in my bag. so i locked it up before i even realized my keys were gone. they're pretty much replaced, but there's one that could still do me some good.

Couple scavenger hunt pics:
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Isn't CM Fri? Will it be done in time for the game?

sounds like folks can't make friday's game. suck.

and i'm out for tomorrow night. i don't even get on the train in philly till 9pm.

Dear All,

I am going to Spain. I will be back in 2 weeks. I will try to rent a bike and get drunk. I will be drunk alot. I am bring my pirate T, so I can get drunk and ride in Spain. I will get drunk and ride with you all when I am back. Look for me Sunday, the 21 of May for Laps and Cheese. I will miss you all.

Bonnie voyagie!!!

when do you leave Kenton? Need stickers?

Spanish steps?
Spanish Harlem?
Spanish cuffs?

ha no such thing

Spud I put my Shirt design up on my Flikr account here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/85055809@N00/139310383/in/photostream/)

when do you leave Kenton? Need stickers?

Thursday Afternoon. I have four or five.

It does not escape me that this week is already busy what with A Bridge To Pho on Thursday and CM on Friday. But with this Saturday being Free Comic Book Day I simply had to float this idea:

Comics and Cutlasses Pillage
Saturday May 6, 2006
Leaving from Sherwood at 4:30
Pillaging Wisconsin Ave from Georgetown to Tenleytown
and every comic shop along the way.

Thursday
"Hero laps" Hains anytime
"A Bridge Too Pho", meet up at the club house and leave NLT 7:10 and hit 3 Bridges to the Pho place in Rosslyn. Or meet us at Pho 75 in Rosslyn , you must get there well before 8 to get let in.

wait wait wait...
there's a pho75 in Rosslyn ?!!

Where the hell have I been?

btw.
I'll have the mallets tonight if people are playing.

its next to the ABC
while you've been at Lamaze classes

No polo for me tonight, but I will try and make it to Pho tomorrow, drinks at Dremo's after Pho, let it be so!

Pillaging Wisconsin Ave from Georgetown to Tenleytown
and every comic shop along the way.

You realise that once we hit Wisc,it's just a straight line,up a steep hill,on a busy road?

If I may make a humble suggestion;I'd start it earlier,then run from Tenley to the CCT,run that to Big Planet in Bethesda,and then get everyone back to Adams Morgan in time for cheap beers at Asylum. Either that,or run it off Wisc through some of the hilly sideroads,swinging back to Wisc to stop at a couple bars.

Gonna be in Brooklyn by the time the Comic pillage comes around.

Can you burn up my collection of crap (i.e. Aera 88)

Yeah, I'm passing on polo tonight too, I need to do laundry to take with me to NY this weekend. Perhaps 3 bridges tomorrow though.