Chimbly, my parents are at my place, so please knock when you go to pick up the polo mallets and see if you hol don to them until I get back, thanks!

bestest ride ever, thanks for a great idea LBK!

well didn't make this one (obviously), but I def. want to come out and meet everyone. My buddy and i started a bike 'gang' in the town i used to live. We rode on sundays at 1pm and i was just thinkng about how much i missed those rides. It was really laid back, did about 30 miles total and stopped half way through to talk shop and eat chip-whiches.

When I first started it there was 3 or 4 of us that would meet, ride then end up back at my house where I would show peeps how to do simple maintnance on their bikes. By the time i moved there was about 30 of us, we had monthly meetings, petitioned the city for bike lanes and bike path funding, lead group rides for people that didnt ride much so they could feel more comfortable riding on busy streets, had a bike recyclery and were looking for store fronts to start a co-op bike shop. It was really amazing.

now i would just love to meet a group of people to just ride/hang with on the weekends. Is the sunday ride a weekly thing?

chimblysweep - did you do one of the check points at the Rico alleycat? You look really familiar...

+/-t

https://www.flickr.com/photos/38438631@N00/sets/1794646/
Haines pics are up.

Good ride! Great weather (for january)! Cool peoples! (except for drive-by snarks from roadies) Who could ask for more. I'm all for making weekend ridey-rides a regular thing. Here's to the pirates, cradle to grave!

This is awesome. Well done, and how cool that things gelled and grew hair like that.

You should come meet/ride/hang w/us. I think they sell chipwiches at the haines club house even, if you don't do grilled cheese. Which don't make no sense to me but to each his/er own. Yeah, and lurkers should come out too. Lurkers need to start participatin.

Spud,

Hey! It's Amanda! I finally signed up!

Spud,you ar esuch the man!

couldn't have said it better.
you all are more than just my pirates, you're my family.

i love it.

hey Amanda,
there is something familiar about 'mannakai'...
so youre racing this weekend, right?

OK ALL, bike shopping tomorrow, kalavinka and depot and cycle...something. COmmunter bikes are free locked everywhere here, this is nutz

NYC crew is arriving Sat, thanks spud for playing booking agent, but next time, book something other than the smellest of the guys

Yup! Are y'all doing anything before the race?

anyone else work downtown and ride during lunch hour? hit me up. while it's over 50 degrees i'm back on the lunch hour haines point kick. you should join me.

Bah, today doesn't work for me. I had a random project thrown at me, and can't get away.

BTW, I put that new stem on, it makes the benotto an entirely new bike!!

hey ,check the midnight frostbite thread, Chimbly had posted a list of events!

See you all Fri ... late or Sat.

I'm picking up the mallets, and i'll see you folks at sherwood at 7, RAIN OR SHINE.

i got a rather disturbing phone call from a fellow pirate asking whether the game was on for tonight, since it's (*EEK!*) gently raining. I remind you that pirates are hearty and polo is funner in the rain. I also remind you that we recruited two new people who should be coming and cannot be let down.

thus,
see you at 7pm at sherwood.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chimblysweep/sets/1828015/

NEW RULE: tink is not allowed to drink alcoholic beverages from glass bottles at polo anymore. why? because, even though he didn't show up for polo last night, his presence was felt, in that glass from his bottle-breaking last week flatted spud this week.

spud, care to elaborate? who's a ******lips?

ps - in case i haven't told y'all this lately, you rock, pirates.

Dear Pirates,

I hate my knee. I have had to dock my ship in port if you will. The pain got so bad on my ride a few days ago that I road home with one leg. Being a good pirate I yelled, Yar! at everyone that looked at me funny.

I plan on resting it till Sat. I don't think I will race, but plan on representing anyhow.

I hate being landlocked.

alright now, give me a break here
what have I become?
pirate public enemy #1?
listen that glass could have come from anywhere!
How do you know it was from me?
Damn that freakin tree that got in the way of my bottle throwing skillz
For real this is a big city we're talking about here.
Ya'll need to reckognize the dangers.



but still -

spud,, sorry brother. Getting a flat is good for you. It builds character n stuff.

Dyno,, you're the man with the plan. Thank you for the presence of mind to bring the dustpan. Way to be prepared right?

tink,, no more 40oz on the playing field without hand knit 40 coozie and breakage protector.

the rest of you's,,, carry on. nothing to see here. move along.

frostbite and such... discuss

why don\t they make bike shorts in brown? brwon is the new black, isn't it....discuss

will be back in the USA by Fri Morning!, so call me if you need anything *in the afternoon(

Hey, Pirates!

Thanks for a great time last night!
Hope to see you all again soon!

Amanda

pnc - tired of blaming your Brooks?

high mileage pirates,
okashii and i will be on HP tonight starting aroun 530. call or ride the wrong way to find me.

WILL THERE BE hp ACTION THIS weekend, my legs are rubber from not riding for 3 weeks.

Only if you wanna go puke in two rivers.
I don't know what rubber legs have to do with that.

I was so inspired by LBK's perfectly framed over-the-head shot that I made this DC Pirates wallpaper. I was also inspired by the fact that I have expensive Adobe software that has sat fallow for far too long. But be fore-warned it's designed for 1024 X 760 resolution.