Rides and Races - DC Pirates' Pillages and Plunders

whats a strumey archer??

whats a strumey archer??
http://www.velorution.biz/images/pashley_roadster_black_l.jpg
great old-timey 3 speed bikes that totally rocked during the 50's

i think he was refering to your trying to make the basso a 3 speed.
if you did, i imagine you would opt for an internal hub like this one

http://www.bicycleworkshop.co.uk/smsimg/8/50aw.jpg

the problem is, I imagine you're going to run into spacing issues with the rear dropouts.
meh.. what do I know.. ask ze german,
if anyone could make it work, it's my bet that he could.

nice bike btw.
push that curvy hotness all over RV

~t27

i love the sprung saddle on that thing. yeah, what tink said. man, i need to use more image tags.

that'd be for making it a two speed fixed gear, and is pretty complicated i think. sheldon has an article on it here:

http://sheldonbrown.com/awfixed.html

i doubt it's worth trying, i'm just a sucker for strange bike setups. either way, enjoy!

Making a run out to Rockville and back in about a 1/2 hour. Anyone else have the day off?

there's going to be a thing going down tonight
you know what i'm talking about.
polo skills drills
it's about time we got better.

holler if you're up to it
call my cell
five7one.two3nine.5three7nine

there's no telling where we'll be

This is at the usual time right?

the problem is, I imagine you're going to run into spacing issues with the rear dropouts.
meh.. what do I know.. ask ze german,
if anyone could make it work, it's my bet that he could.

Steel frames don't have spacing issues. Besides most internal gear hubs are around 120mm OLD anyways. ;)

thanks for moving rum runner to next week, was feeling kinda sick. I would like to be out for recruiting tomorrow night, but can we meet at Hains? I would like to get some laps in.

btw: I believe that SA 3 spd hubs are 110! You have not lived until you open one of those sugars apart and see all the paws, springs, keys and gears.

btw: I believe that SA 3 spd hubs are 110! You have not lived until you open one of those sugars apart and see all the paws, springs, keys and gears.
It's THE SECOND ANNUAL TRI STATE MARGARITA RELAYthat is next week.

And there might be some models that are 110mm O.L.D., but most are somewhere between 115mm and 119.5mm. (http://www.sturmey-archer.com)
:p

This is at the usual time right?

it's like this..
i'm getting off of work in 10 minutes

half an hour from that point i will have picked up a sixer
and peddled my way around dc for a minute

now i plan on heading back to virginia sometime while the sun's out
company would be appreciated
its kind of hard to work on polo drills by yourself.

call the phone

kisses
~t27

TONIGHT.
if it's raining, meetup at home base (Warehouse, on 9th St) instead. If it's clear, meetup at sherwood.

If it's nasty, we'll drink more and ride less. If it's nice out, we'll ride more and drink a tad less.

BE THERE. 7pm, rain or shine!

:p

zing!

ok, pirates. it's raining. i'll see you, and your flyers, at Warehouse/Home Base tonight... right??

yeah i'll be there

I'll be at work. Glorious, glorious work. Anyone need a lift to the bike swap on Saturday? Got room for 2.

tell me more about this saturday bike swap.

WABA swap (http://www.waba.org/new/ride_with/index.php)

ah. can't go, but if you see a 49-51 lugged steel touring frame (as if!) gimme a call.

probly too late to do any good, but here's a flyer

http://www.geocities.com/brserker/margarita.jpg

Effin sweet! I have that night off. Why'd I think that was Friday?

probably cause you thought about some 48 dollar pedals and got confuzed...lucky!

they were $4899.99 and are the best pedals ever!

sure beat those damn atacs and spds

Sorry folks,no recruiting for me tonight. If I'm lucky,I'll get out of here by 9. Today has not been a fun day. :(

BTW,has anyone PM'd/e-mailed/called the lost Pirates(EmMildew,Justin,Waitforme,etc) to see if they can make the TSMR?

itd be cool to see them, but i think they are too busy; otherwise they would be looking/posting here themselves, right?

Hi Pirates,

I was sent here from a post I put up about polo. I moved to the Baltimore area recently from Milwaukee. I used to play some pick-up polo games there.

By what set of rules do you play, and when, and is it pick-up style or do you have teams all picked out official like???

We basically had no rules other than no weapons (except the mallets of course), and we only had a few get knocked unconcious, and only one guy had his hand skewered.

Ahhhh I miss it.

I'm old now, wife, kid, cat, house, (payments), but I'd like to get into a game or two if I can find time.

i think the baltimore folks have their own games going on. i know there was actually an article in the baltimore sun (or was it the post?) about a respectable group of 30-somethings that play polo on grass in bmore...

ours is on pavement, the rules are no footdown and no high-sticking, and we play every other Wed.

Hey, look.

It's sort of that I'm really busy, and sort of that it's such a huge ****ing pain in my ass to get into the city with my bike. I mean, for me to come from my house even on a weekend is over two hours round trip on the Metro. That sort of blows.

So, yeah. I'm going to try to come Tuesday night. I'm looking to meet y'all in Bethesda around 8ish and I have Chimbley's cell # and will call if I am late or you guys are or whatever.

Also, I am moving in July, and one of the non-negotiable things I'm looking for is riding distance to the city, so there you go. Hopefully I will be able to be more around.

Ha-ha! Got one to come out from hiding. :p

Question: would it be good/bad idea to print a couple of dp's fliers and post them at local bike shops?

Oh,and however crappy it was last night,riding in the cold and rain,it was like 10x more fun than I was having at work.

Ha-ha! Got one to come out from hiding. :p

Question: would it be good/bad idea to print a couple of dp's fliers and post them at local bike shops?

Oh,and however crappy it was last night,riding in the cold and rain,it was like 10x more fun than I was having at work.

it would be an excellent idea. as well as sticking them into the spokes of bikes that are locked outside.

Is anyone riding tonight? My thrice-patched, still-leaking tire has kept me off the bike all week.

not doing too much riding, but i'll be at rhino bar at six (i know, i know. the location was not my choice)

i will be eating lots of pasta tonight.

Last chance, if anybody wants a lift out to the bike swap tomorrow pm me.

i have to work tomorrow otherwise i'd go and look for 48 dollar pedals.

there was some talk of a w&od extravaganza tomorrow sometime. i get off work around 2 i think and if its not raining or looking like rain i'm going to hit the trail and get some more miles in.

full week ahead: the Tri-State Margarita Bike Relay tuesday, Polo wednesday, Bike-To-Work-Day and Nationals Pillage friday.

the shirts are ordered and being screened, 8 bucks each and i hope to have them for the baseball pillage.

and dont forget we have a hat trick of alleycats (all nearby) coming up at the end of the month.

They came in the mail today and they were in fact 48 bucks. And they got here in a day(!?) Also they were made of solid gold and pollished with children's tears.

solid gold? melt the suckers down and buy some new ones anda new frame with the change.

Or maybe a front brake...

YO... tink...or chimbly or whoever is doing the shirts.... im trying to get one... im on summer break so ill be up in the pirates' territory more than you think.... lets pillage *****ES... oh CHEA

yeah i have some extras, when are you coming up? bring some other richmond kids with you.

yeaaaa! ok, so it wasn't fixed, but i rode 103.3 today! thanks, photons, for riding with me part of the way.

tips for unsupported centuries: food. drink. rest. the three things built into supported centuries for a reason.

Where'd you go? W&OD? Just thiink of all the fun you missed. You could've gone to Silver Spring and seen 7 bikes at the bike swap... But I did finally get a front brake.

only seven? anything cool there, besides a front brake?

Not really, there was some ok stuff and a lot of junk. I was looking for stuff for Re so I was being picky, but not a lot of people or bikes. Bummer. And the brake actually came from a store. It was 48 dollars.

sucks about the swap.
i rode my place to the custis to the end of the W&OD to the other end of the W&OD to 4 mi run to the mount vernon to 14th st bridge to my place. 103. think of it as "arlington triangle +"

great ride, thanks for pressuring me into going farther than planned, and for not making fun of me when i turned around early. i bonked pretty hard at the end, but feel like a century is in the near future. perhaps a pirate century? who's down?

Next Sunday perhaps?

Nice run Chimb's! I did a century today too - just a metric though ;) Some mountain climbing in upper MD where we got caught in the rain half way through!

I did a half century friday, food and water are definitely needed, should have stopped for more...

Thanks for the reply to my polo question. I'll search the baltimore paper sites. In case I don't have luck, do you have any clue where/when the baltimore folk play? It will be closer to home than DC, not that DC is that far, but with gas prices these days, being what they are, and it would probably be more than I could take to bike 40 miles from work, then play polo, then ride back home 55 miles.