HelluvaStella

Will do. Many may question why you followed the statement "you are a big bear" with "i'd like to see your frame sometime" but I know what you mean. Pictures of the frame will be up soon, I'll probably pick it up Thursday.
Peace

maxknee

oh because we have held conversations before and you know how i am unable to mantain a straight line through a conversation. and you are a beast/bear at riding bicycles

ryand

dear philadelphia,

i may be a resident again starting in 2007. other than pretzel ride and thrashin thursday, do you guys do a lot of group rides?

love,
ryn

maxknee

we be tryin. like fridays but they sort of fizzled. dont worry i will try to organize some more

ryand

i love dc because we do a lot as a group. i love my pirates. we have picnics and stuff too, and i am setting up a holiday potluck on what is possibly one of my last weekends. we also have wrenching parties and other events. if i move up there, which is pointing towards yes, would you guys be interested in doing events such as i have listed?

maxknee

i am very down with that.

ryand

hey max, if nobody in nyc is setting up a new years eve alleykitten, wanna help plan one with me?

edit: (if there is one in ny, anybody gonna go up?)

maxknee

are you reading my mind? an i always wanted to set up an alleycat.

shoot me a pm or something

babychris

im down to go with you if theres something.

ryand

pirate road trip if its on. and youre always welcome at pirate events chris.
(but then again, we welcome anybody)

HelluvaStella

I'm down for the group events (especially riding, wrenching and rum drinking). And the alleykitten sounds sweet, here or up in NYC, where ever.

shark!

pleaseeeeeeee. i think i speak for a lot of people when i say this lack of alleycats is depressing

ryand

i have a place to stay in new york, i'd have to ask how many people can crash there though. spud says it sounds like the new york one will be happening, but i'll be sure to let you guys know when i find out.

and also, since max and i both want to put on a race anyways, there will be a valentin's alleycat/kitten. one day, two routes. one for first timers/out of towners/people who just want a nice easy fun ride, and another for people who want to have a longer ride with more things to do, and probably quite a bit more difficult.

that is gonna be saturday, february 10.

HelluvaStella

Yesss. Me and the lady are ready for a cute, fuzzy, gentle alleykitten. May I request no slush on the roads and a temperature above 55 degrees? Didn't think so

ryand

Its Philly in February, you have a 50% chance of that wish being true.

Its either nice or ****e in that city, theres no ehhhh.

maxknee

sorry luke.

yes alleycat and alleykitten on the same day

ryand

max, are we going to use the same start/finish for both races? I think definately same finish is a good idea at least. And then to the same bar(or house party if anybody wants to offer that up) afterwards for the announcement of winners and a nice celebration.

the kitten is promised to be fun, silly, short, and cute.

the cat will be a good race though.

edit: that first part probably could have been PMed. oh well.

HelluvaStella

Meh, that's ok. I'll be there anyway. Yay races!

ryand

I second the YAY RACES. How many of you philly kids would be wanting to go to NY for New Years if thats where the race is?

shishi

for the kitten, for the dumbo race in NYC, they did two manifests, but that was for everyone, you could do that and have one race (short and long).

Same start and finish, just make them go seperate ways at the start.

ryand

we are doing two different manifests. we have been communicating via PM about checkpoints and how we want to run in. we're farther along than you guys probably think.

shishi

cool...might have to come down for this.

ryand

it is definately suggested.

maxknee

shh keep your mouth shut. !! huge secret

shark!

+1 definitely