General Cycling Discussion - One post = One mile

As the first round of BFC members are quickly reaching the 1000 post milestone, I was thinking maybe we should lay down some ground rules. Such as, everytime one posts, he/she has to go outside and ride their bike at least one mile (trainers don't count).

Joe, since you have the 30 seconds between posts rule in place already, maybe you should up it to 5 minutes, as to give us all a chance to get on the bike and ride around the block.

Just a thought.

Dag!

I've got a lot of posting to do!

;)

One mile is onyl two laps around thr block...I think my mom would start to object after awhile. Its a good way to keep us all honest though.

Hee Heeee. That's a great idea! Think of the mileage some of us would be doing.

There would be a couple of runners up for the Olympics from Bikeforums.com!

Originally posted by Steele-Bike
Joe, since you have the 30 seconds between posts rule in place already, maybe you should up it to 5 minutes, as to give us all a chance to get on the bike and ride around the block.


?? It takes me that long just to tie my shoes. Of course half of that time is spent figuring out which shoe for which foot. :(

That would mean I'd have to do 10,000 posts a year (and a hundred on Sunday when I do my next century). I don't know if I'd get time to do that.

Chris

ugh. I guess that means I'm already over 1,700 posts behind this season alone. I'll never catch up now.

I don't mean to be nit-picky, but I believe you've got it backwards. Ride one mile for every post, not one post for every mile riden.

Just sort of FYI, you know?

5 minutes to ride a mile? I know people who can run a mile in 5 minutes. Anyway, that sounds like a good idea. But I think you should just have to do the mileage within 24 hours because there is no way I can stop work and go ride a mile :)

Hmmmm, one post~one mile. The way I have been riding, that means I am way behind on posting! Even for an old windbag like me, there is only so much to say! And, I am sure not going to cut down on the amount of riding I do!:D

So, ride when you can, post when you can, and enjoy!!

I believe, if you have a lot of miles, and not so many posts, then you have a surplus.

I wouldn't worry about trying to post so much. I think the original idea was that you would have to put in at least one mile for each post. I think it was to encourage people to ride at least as much as they post, not so much to post as much as they ride. :)

That would be an interesting requirement, though, to have to ride a mile. We would need some kind of telemetry on the bikes, or a way to upload a certified output from a fancy cyclocomputer to the BF server. :D The server would then lock you out from posting if you hadn't ridden your previous balance of miles.

Have fun. Ride more.

Jonathan

Ok, so what happens on days when you ride but don't post? Can you carry it over to the next day and do extra posts or what?

Chris

No. See, we're still missing the point. The point, as I understand it, is thus:

For every post a member of this here forum posts on this here forum, the above member must then ride one (1) mile on his or her bicycle.

The point, again as I understand it, is NOT:

For every mile a member of this here forum rides on his or her bicycle, the above member must then post one (1) post on this here forum.

The above is not an example of what the proposed idea is, but rather what the proposed idea is not. I repeat, it is not IS, it it NOT.

I hope this has helped.