Originally Posted by
maxine
I took a quick glance at that site, funny stuff!! It appears my FCN is 7, if I did it right. (I assume it has to be based on your commuting bike, or it wouldn't make any sense.) I can't really play along, though, since I almost never see any other bike commuters on my route. The few I have seen have been on the other side of the road.
Same here. I see no one except at the very beginning of my commute, but they are heading the opposite direction.
Originally Posted by
maxine
One time, though, a dude passed me, rather triumphantly, I thought
while I was riding on the base. (He and his bike were much skinnier than me and my Trek 520.) He rode onto my facility, too, with me fairly close behind (all vehicles have to stop for an ID checkpoint, so everyone bunches up.) As soon as we took off again, his single small rear pannier promptly fell off. I stopped (single lane road, zero shoulder here, and a lot of car traffic chuting out of the checkpoint); he reattached, we took off again. Fifteen feet down the road, it fell off again. I made some commiserating noises, and then took off past him. Yeah, that's right, my ????ass but RELIABLE bike won the day!
Hurray for Max! That should have been worth mega points!
The game is not thought out properly:
If you pass someone who looks like they have a
lower FCN than you, then you should get
negative points making you a 'bigger fish' and increasing your status, but when you pass someone who looks like they have a
higher FCN, then you should get no points.
If you get passed by someone who looks like they have a higher FCN (i.e., small fish/lower status), then you should get
positive points making your FCN more positive and lowering your status. They, of course, would get
negative points, thus increasing their status.
But, this is based on the premise that every commuter is playing the
Silly Commuter Racing (SCR) game. Of course, the underlying truth of this is that #itsnotarace.