Rides and Races - DC Pirates' Pillages and Plunders

and to anyone who says they have more fun than the pirates, all i have to say is

http://static.flickr.com/58/202238681_0176ec2b18.jpg

Please oh photo shop master photons, put yourself in the grill bag between me and spud...

http://static.flickr.com/58/201965653_1141847230.jpg

see!
now that's what i'm talking about.

Hey kids! Grilling a fruit pie is an easy way to get noticed at any sock-hop or ho-down! Just look at how many people noticed Nathan here when he started grilling his fruit pie:
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Please oh photo shop master photons, put yourself in the grill bag between me and spud...

since you asked so nicely

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

thank you, i'll be here all week

i wish i brought my camera so there could be yet another view of everything that happened...

Thanks again everyone for the invitational. Much fun.

Saturday was awesome, we should have another cookout soon, with a grill carrying contest.

off topic: I'm at the LOC today and yesterday, I see this awesome PINK thing with black skulls and crossbones, pink grips, pink deep V's and relative awesomeness... anyone know this bike? it's SS on a velocity flip-flop hub, no fixie on the other side. looks like custom paint/powercoat? I haven't a clue, but no markings on it.

If you only listened and showed up. (hint: check LBK's phot set)

Saturday was awesome, we should have another cookout soon, with a grill carrying contest.

Team World Champion Stripes Cycling Cap already won! next time its lug your own ****.

next time its lug your own ****.

Was there something that got carried in that was not essential and shared by everyone? (meat products excluded)

since you asked so nicely

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

thank you, i'll be here all week

Sweet! Next time we're totally doing backwards circles with the grill!

Looks like everyone had a freakin blast. Wish i could have made it. It was the birthday of a girl i have known since i was a fetus. Could not miss that for the world. See yall soon.

Hey is anything happening on wednsday? Polo? Cardoza? hint, hint...perhaps a Cardoza resurection?

there was talk of going to do the Time Trials in Rock Creek Park...

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i moved into my new office today in Dupont Circle
this my new cubicle

... yeah

i don't care if it is 100 degrees tomorrow,
F that
i'm biking

just so i can show up
all nasty and sweaty and then sit,,
and stink,,
in my little box.

/t27

since you asked so nicely

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

thank you, i'll be here all week

GG

i moved into my new office today in Dupont Circle
this my new cubicle


Jesus! They actually make you work in cubicles? I thought those were like a Dilbert urban myth, a relic from '80's open plan offices.

That isn't the norm stateside for office work is it? Because I'm looking for work and am not totally convinced I could do the cubicle living thing.

Jesus! They actually make you work in cubicles? I thought those were like a Dilbert urban myth, a relic from '80's open plan offices.

That isn't the norm stateside for office work is it? Because I'm looking for work and am not totally convinced I could do the cubicle living thing.
Living in a cubicle is rather unusual (I know a case), but working in a cubicle is not uncommon.

Britpac!!!! BritpAAAAAAAC!!! Where are you, man? There's another Londoner here and we want to make him feel at home in our humble thread. Britpac? Maybe he's out of town or something?

Anyway, I find the norm is a sort of semi-cubicle that where half the wall is about waist high so you can talk easily to your neighbor. Kind fo like this, but with lower walls.
http://www.kingdar.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10001/normal_cube-203.jpg
Now doesn't that just look as comfy as a country home? Just makes you wanna work doesn't it.

it is just like being in prison, but without the showers.

office space is prime real estate and not always tied to your responsibility, but often to who is the best brown noser.
however, shouldn't the people who popularized "The Office" know this? :)

i don't care if it is 100 degrees tomorrow,
F that
i'm biking

just so i can show up
all nasty and sweaty and then sit,,
and stink,,
in my little box.

/t27

**** yeah! i love being the stinky guy. nice panoramic, btw

The clothesline under my desk makes I.M. Pei cry.

Cubes suk. But yes we work in them. Tinks looks nicer than mine, but we got the same phone!

My cube isn't the worst thing I've ever seen. I'd rather be here than some of the "offices" i've seen. You know, the ones on the inside fo the building without a window so it seems like you work in a cave. I at least get a window in my cubicle.

But I'm the office dirtbag. Tight jeans, t-shirts, tattoos, and slip-ons. I totally am a misfit here. I kinda like it...

I really don't miss my cube back at Pearl Izumi:
http://www.pearlizumi.com/page.php?page=kidswork6
(I'm really surprised that picture is still sitting around on the site.)

But rivetting as this talk of cubicles and stinkage is, I must bid adieu. I'm off to Hawaii, to pillage (sin bicicleta) amongst the lawyers and the surfers. See you all in two weeks!

I'm off to Hawaii, to pillage (sin bicicleta) amongst the lawyers and the surfers. See you all in two weeks!

Have fun with my friend, jerk.

My cube's not bad ... mainly the work sucks ... I wish I could work in a place where being a dirtbag was acceptable.

BTW - was anyone at Screen on the Green last night? I saw a ton of bikers :)

I wish I could work in a place where being a dirtbag was acceptable.


I don't know if its accepted... I just do it. My boss told me he liked my shirt today though.
http://allmenlikebirdsmustdie.com/shop/tees/yrb.jpg
Yeah robots.

so i just got a phone call from a very excited friend. he just bought a late 70s derosa nuevo classico with suzue hubs, mavic ma3s, gatorskin tires, and the other components i'm unaware of. he said he got a really got deal so i told him to bring it down to dc and let me ride it.

point being: who wants to go out to hains some day(probably next weekend) when he brings it down and do some laps until hes more comfortable (unless he is already comfortable) and then go pillaging and maybe end up with a swim and/or some food somewhere?

also, a pillage is being thought up for noah deuce's return from paradise. it will probably have some sort of hawaiin/tropical something. maybe fruity tropical cocktails and hawaiin punch for team shirley temple? the date on that will be tuesday august 15.

Hey awesome, I will be back from my trip on the 18th. We had one this year but how about another Rum Runners?

Tiki Bar opened up on Clarendon Blvd ...
Dreamo's used to have an outdoor beach bar...
The Big Hunt?
There's also Zanzibar on the waterfront, but I think its more of a club than a bar ...

have great trips deuce and rpc.

on sunday i'm gonna volunteer at the citybikes criterium. (http://www.hubracing.com/criterium/rfk2006/) it's dc's only pro race and should be a good time. goes from eight till four something.

New Photoset:
http://static.flickr.com/45/159658186_aed5c8a258.jpg Cha-Ruzu Front Wheel (http://www.flickr.com/photos/specificpacific/sets/72157594154600404/)
:)

oh man thats some beautiful stuff you have there spud.

Tonight at 6:30 we will be meeting at Sherwood. Photons and I are going to be heading over hit some trails in the direction of Vienna. We have no goal or planned route, but everybody is more than welcome to show up and ride. We will call this a "I'm going ****ing crazy and need to ride my bike" pillage. Bring something to drink and come ready to ride. This should be fun. Hope to see many there.

*If we are gone when you show up, give a call. Three15 Seven29. Forty-eight14.

*edit: we are not going to Revolution first.

Running around Hains point Saturday was a lot of fun. I wasn't even dead last in my first race! In my second race, Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run was on the radio, and when the race started, Gn'R's Paradise City was on! It was good to put some name to face. Morrison, wearing his pirate shirt. Baldylocks gave me a spokecard. Well, I'm rocking it now. Some Pirate s*** on my wheel! I was wishing I had that grilled sausage and zuchinni the next day at work. Next time, don't let me be lazy and make me throw stuff in my bag.

I want to put together a ride for Monday the 28th. I am finding other people off on Mondays now, and am going to make a monday ride work. Haven't totally planned it yet, but it will start around 5:30 at 32nd and Bunkerhill RD, Mt Rainier, just on the other side of the NE DC borderline. This is my old neighborhood and there's cool stuff to see, the house that the kid who inspired The Exorcist story had lived and scared his mom, Blood Run/Dueling Grounds where DC and Bladensbug noble-men went to duel. Where a local militia lost to British forces who ended up burning the white house. An old gangster gambling den. Even more..so much fine history. I'm hoping to end it at Franklin's Restaurant in Hyattsville, good food, not cheap, but it's local and Chuck brews ale there!

I'm seeing a play some high school kids wrote about the Georgia Avenue 70 bus at 6:45 tonight. Have fun on the Towards Vienna Trail adventure.

Mike, that ride sounds awesome. I don't get out until six and I work in Georgetown, so I don't think i'd ever be able to make it. Dang.

Man I won't be able to make either of the rides for tonight -- work sucks.

We did hire a new Systems Admin though, so I'm switching shifts to an actual 9-5 but it won't happen for a few more weeks.

Anyone going to CM this week or is that a bad word now? :)

Though CM is not a pirate event, pirates are DC area cyclists and have a vested interest in the effect that CM has on cycling in this town. It can work for us if we are involved and against us if we are not. Also there is beer afterwards.

I would like to do it, I would like to work with other available pirates and I would like to make it fun?
Anyone interested?

Boombox, fliers, flags, costumes, freak bikes, route and finishing line (bar/restaurant).

I will ride my DH bike in costume, anyone with me?

i wont be here friday. i'm going to philly for the weekend. anybody need anything from up there?

i'm riding CM this month, i'll wear my DH/georgetown helmet!
boomboxmike and i are going to work on fliers tomorrow night.

so,

you people do anything on thursday nights? I'm thinking about swinging through if I have the time or the means tomorrow afternoon. I'm in nearby baltimore. If so, have spud or poopn get me on the horn.

Bell is lsow on getting info back to me.
However I am sitting on few helmets here.

Anyone need a really big high end Giro?
um, lets see what else I have?
I know I have one or two more.

Chris and Noah can buy helmets at 2/3 from the shop.

I got some reflective spray...interesting.

I am trying it on a helmet shell, knickers, and maybe I will do a frame.

Anyone want to try? BTW who is in the greater central plateu region (AM, columbia heights and mount pleasant)

so,

you people do anything on thursday nights? I'm thinking about swinging through if I have the time or the means tomorrow afternoon. I'm in nearby baltimore. If so, have spud or poopn get me on the horn.

Dude, you can't be this close and not drop by and visit. Thursday evening is roadie madness at hains point. you have my digits!

I can't miss the pivotal day of the month! Like the full moon, the call of Critical Mass pulls the tide in my veins! I will be there friday with two cowbells and the Incendiary Flag of Fire, and of course, a soundtrack. I'll be there by 6 to incite a discussion on how people want to ride and where people want to go, and push my own agenda of a NorthEastward ride. I want to hang out afterwards -somewhere with beer and popsicles.

Bring something that makes noise with just one hand, we'll be a real rockNrolling band this Friday!

Yay to more boomboxes!! I want more people to blast it. Walkmen to ipods -a dangerous trend. We can't be so isolated to ourselves. Share your tunes with your neighbor and bring back the boombox! Make an outdoor gathering a party with just 6 size D batteries! Bring your tunes on a boombox! The mixtape lives!

And more flags too! Oh, man just imagine it! A crowd of bikers with flags! My next flag to make will be a black flag with a white fish in the middle, I thought fish bones at first, but just may do a Catfish -most of which in the Anacostia river have cancer due to vehicle emission runoff according to the Anacostia Watershed Society.

I made my neighbor a Flag of Fire for their birthday. They are so happy that it has been erect on the front porch for over a week now, for the world to see.

I thought we decided against CM discussions last month.

I thought we decided against CM discussions last month.

I think we decided to stop talking about the rights or wrongs on CM. I don't have a problem with people reminding other people about the ride. Just remember that CM is NOT a pirate ride.

I think we decided to stop talking about the rights or wrongs on CM. I don't have a problem with people reminding other people about the ride. Just remember that CM is NOT a pirate ride.
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