Rides and Races - DC Pirates' Pillages and Plunders

i am hereby saying tonight will be the "decide as we go along" pillage. beginning with a few laps n' beers, followed by dinner somewhere (ethiopian? salvadorian? we'll decide later!) and drinks somewhere after that.

i'm going to HP now. come find me.
OR
call me, at (DC) 744five two twelve.

Announcing the first ever
Salty Dog Matinee Pillage!

July 9, after laps and cheese, we'll grab some beer and Sparks, and head to a theater to check in on our sea-borne brethren, cheering as they pillage the Spanish Main in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/piratesofthecaribbeandeadmanschest/).

We'll make the theater patrons cry as we pillage and plunder and pilfer our bloody black guts out.

Time and theater TBA.

sweet!

Hey, y'all sound like fun. Actually, you sound a lot like Faster Mustache (http://fastermustache.org), which I think is pretty awesome. Anyway, I'm a DC expat and I'm planning a trip back to the DC/Baltimore area in mid July and I want to ride with some cool people in between attending weddings and seeing old friends and stuff. I'm thinking of making a day of riding into town on the Rock Creek Trail, catching some museums, scoping out the Chain Reaction bike shop and hitting up the wed night time trials/barbecue before metroing it back out to the suburban hell of my youth. Any other suggestions of cool bike stuff to do while in town? Sadly, I didn't get into biking until I moved to Atlanta so I really don't know what's around.

Yarrr!
~David

When you know when your going to be in town hit us up. We plan rides about a week in-advance, sometime less. Just ride around town, its the best way to see things.

http://www.canmag.com/images/front/pirates/pirates2poster1.jpg
YARRRR!

There is a group of cycling kids (potential pirates?) from CM who plan on doing a cookout and then riding over to the DC premeire of B.I.K.E. at Silverdocs Film Festival at AFI this saturday night. in case you havent looked it up its a film about the Black Label Bicycle Gang in NYC. I say we pillage that **** and show them how be pirates.

DC Pirates' The Longest Pillage take the day off this summer solstice and pillage all day and night. 6/21 details to come....

There is a group of cycling kids (potential pirates?) from CM who plan on doing a cookout and then riding over to the DC premeire of B.I.K.E. at Silverdocs Film Festival at AFI this saturday night....I say we pillage that **** and show them how be pirates.

Yarrr!

(Assuming that I'm back on the bike, of course)

Hurray, I've just caused enough trouble at work so that I may end up going to San Diego A LOT!!!! hopefully, there is a short flight to MnG.

Meanwhile B'Locks is holding my roadie hostage after another adventure in Chi-land and a century and a half of soaking in Iowa. You better treat her right!

WHO HAS MY "2 SECONDS" MOVIE?

It was due back a week ago, I left it at poop's and now I am ****ed...

Spud, what is CM?

is that rhetorical (http://cm-dc.mahost.org/)?

Just so you don't get taken in by the p. diddy style stealth marketing that is going on around the B.I.K.E. movie at Silver docs. Here is the history of the first BLBC before the NYC chapter became "content" for all of the madison avenue interns in brooklyn.

http://summerburkes.blogspot.com/2005/02/hard-times-hangover-club.html

One of the quirks about NYC is that very little is original there. NYC is to promotion what detroit is to cars and ironically, the midwest is the origin of much of what NYC claims. Tall bikes, bike jousting and freak bikes are all midwestern traditions. We ought to recognize this because otherwise we are denying the value of those who don't live in the big cities. And that is most of us...

While you are at it, check out rat patrol. They have been at it for a while and are so great. I especially like the peace corps outreach division.

They also have links explaining the history of tall bikes. For some reason it is a minneapolis thing. Winter brings boredom I suppose, scandanavians do get things done, and it is kinda flat.



http://summerburkes.blogspot.com/2005/02/hard-times-hangover-club.html

No, I was thinking of a place...

Has anyone heard from dirty photon?

I am gonna be charged $40 bucks if I cannot get that movie back...

I left it at poops after the last critical mass, but it got swapped.

American flyers is still there...

anyone?

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Spud, which kids from critical mass? Some were cool.

tall bikes are all over the place, and which people know about is more about how much they market (jacket patches? stickers?) and how much they travel for events like Slaughterama, Bike Kill , and Mpls' Chino.

Rat Patrol is based about 4 blocks from me. They're super nice but I'd say far smaller than Black Label. But they market.

Ah - my trip to Austria/France got ****ed courtesy of United Airlines and the wonderful Dulles baggage crew.

What time is the Saturday BIKE premire festivities?

Spud, which kids from critical mass? Some were cool.

Mike, Amy, Chelsea, probably a few more whose names i dont remember.

Just checking in and sayin hi. See y'all next week. I'll be riding a shiney new Austrian roadie!

More pirate outreach.
Mike oughta be a pirate, Chelsea is leaving too soon.
Amy?

There were some difficult kids who gave me a headache.

Two ideas come to mind,

regular friday night bike parade (like CM) but less political, to build up numbers.
And greater outreach and color for CM.

last CM was good but pathetic for summer in DC.

I think we ought to have more flags, costumes, freak bikes, and handouts.

Building coalition.

Has anyone heard from dirty photon?


I have heard from me and do not have your movie.

when you say it got swapped, is the case there? i left american flyers intentionally because it's godawful. did you check the american flyers case?

i think you have Amy and Chelsea confused, but yeah. weekly bike parades, huh? uh we had one for the pancake pillage, maybe more pillages need to be routed so we can hijack parades :)

oh and just the fact that Kevin Bacon is not in it and Heather Gray cries cause her career is about to be over once it premieres makes American Flyers about a billion times better than Quicksilver. not this has anything to do with me having any of the sought after DVDs.

about a billion times better than Quicksilver.

no arguments here

who is playing Polo tonite?

yeah ok, so seriously Kenton when are we celebrating your birthday?

Pirates,

Just a quick note to let you guys know that the fixed-gear story I wrote for the Post is coming out this weekend in the Sunday Source, with a few Pirate pics. Thanks for all your help. I had hoped to get out and pillage with you guys soon, but I tore my ACL playing hockey on Monday, so I wont be riding fixed or anything else for quite a while.

Cheers.

yeah ok, so seriously Kenton when are we celebrating your birthday?

I don't know. I have been celebrating all week. Any ideas?

Any know anything about Tink and the baby? That thing was do Tuesday.

Anyone know how to throw your old tires away? The trash guy would not take them.

Anyone know how to throw your old tires away? The trash guy would not take them.

fold it up, tie twine around it (or a rubber band). put it in with the other trash. i'd say recycle it, but dc has a moral objection to recycling. it'll just get thrown in with the trash anyway.

Jiminmisery, a torn ACL is almost tragic. Hope they will fix you up right...the first time.

DVD, all sorted out! but Am Flyrs is still at my place. Also, it is Jennifier not Heather Gray as the girl who had the NOSE@.

meanwhile, I have a bunch of frozen goat parts in my freezer, so if we want, we can smoke another goat for Kenton.

Allright, well the US Men's National Soccer Team didn't do very well against the Chech Republic in the World Cup. So, there's only one thing for it. I'm gonna have to go over there and yell encouraging things at them from the stands. See you some time after I get back on the 25th.

!!!! THE LONGEST DAY !!!!

In celebration of the Summer Solstice! WED JUNE 21 ST. There will be a darn to dust pillage!

So take the day off work, classes, etc and be prepared for a day of :

Miles Miles Miles
Beer
Home made Pizza
Nudity
Indulgence

We are teaming up with a bunch of CM kids, so this should be AWESOME

do you perhaps mean dawn to dusk?
or perhaps dusk to dawn is more appropriate?

If PNC is planing to get naked I don't know if I can make it.

!!!! THE LONGEST DAY !!!!

Thanks to the miracle of modern medicine, I have to go back in to get gauze stuffed into my wound (again), and start (another) round of (different) antibiotics. So if I'm healed up by the 21st, I'm definitely going to want to come and ride my f'ing brains out. I haven't been on my bike in two weeks, and it's not getting any more likely. Hate my life right now!

poor deuce.

dawn it!

dawn it!

is this some soap advertisement?

!!!! a darn to dust pillage!



Featuring George Clooney and a vampire bordello.

In other news. Go Team Codeine! Holla at all my injured peops. I too have been off the bike for going on two weeks. But my bionic ear is workin great since I had my paranoid adenoids removed. Ah, summertime.

Happy Belated DFL Birthday, Booger!

I'm so out of it.

Anyone up for some riding or socializing tonight?

Pitch dark on the Mt Vernon to Potomic Mills to catch the X-men?

i'm not too sure about catching the x-men, i think they could easily overpower us ****in mutants. but i'd go riding. when are you going to be back on the bike LBK? Duece? photons i've seen riding, ready for some long rides?

also there is a serious lack of DC representation in the postcard-spokecard exchange (http://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?p=2587697), what gives?

I'll do a ride next week when United returns my bag with the locks and the shoes :)

also there is a serious lack of DC representation in the postcard-spokecard exchange (http://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?p=2587697), what gives?
I never got my Christmas exchange card! I may have mentioned that I'm bitter about that!

re: back on bike
I may hop back on this week, but then i'm gone on vacation for 2.5 weeks! :) :D :rolleyes: ;) :)

Pitch dark on the Mt Vernon to Potomic Mills to catch the X-men?
The mt vernon does not go to potomac mills.

riding, ready for some long rides?

there IS the "longest day"

we"ll need to set up ways of meeting up for people who can't get the whole day off work/school

with the people who are intending to go (CM kids), I'm thinking about a 1/2 century day, to this park and that park. i.e. billy goat trail, great falls ... it would be great if we can find a place to go swimming (that will not make us SIQ).

i think he meant Potomac Yard

IM BACK!!!
tink! chimbly!

anything planned for this weekend?

bike to silverdocs B.I.K.E dc premiere

We can flesh out the plans for longest day at/after AFI tomorrow.

Anyone interested in the waba swap tomorrow? I think I should get rid of some stuff.