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rdrey
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Japillahan wrote: i would like a downtown fixed gear criterion. brakeless.
the stop would be the end. This is already done... in Brooklyn. Here is the 2009 website of the Red Hook Criterium. I remember seeing a short on this in BFF too. Brakeless fixed only.
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charizard
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2010 5:51 pm |
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| Bunny-hopperJoined: Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:37 amPosts: 5
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so i'm living in quito ecuador right now, but i like to keep up with what is going on in msp for when i come back, and the alley-cat scene here is AWESOME.
some fun ideas from races i've done here:
1. all races i've done have been in teams of 3 (except for an all girls race i organized which was teams of 2) its a totally different experience when you do it in a team.
2. naked picture in traffic.
3. picture with a policeman. (technically illegal in ecuador which made it interesting)
4. go to a karaoke bar and sign a particular song.
5. one team member has to do zig-zag with a bike polo ball and get a goal before you can leave the stop.
6. pedal a bike taxi in the smallest circle possible 5 times which carrying your other team mates (my teammate almost threw us out of the cab and then almost threw up)
7. i did one where at 5 different stops you had to eat a banana, rice, stale bread, chug a liter of water, and then this drink here called avena. and let me tell you- quito has HILLS and i threw up twice.
8. there was one where there were 2 manifests, and after you completed the first one you had to climb up a rock wall to the top to get the second manifest.
some fun ideas from alley-cats in quito. And i WILL bring bike street drag racing to minneapolis when i get back in august.
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JAE
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:27 pm |
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Alleycat wherein all riders must use those new NiceRide Mn bikes....>>>
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Tigerbeat
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:01 pm |
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JAE wrote: Alleycat wherein all riders must use those new NiceRide Mn bikes....>>> +1
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Jerbear
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:25 am |
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JAE wrote: Alleycat wherein all riders must use those new NiceRide Mn bikes....>>> Nice! Gotta find a kiosk every 30 mins to keep going.
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JAE
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:25 pm |
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| GC ContenderJoined: Sat May 23, 2009 8:30 amPosts: 58Location: NE MPLS
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JAE wrote: Alleycat wherein all riders must use those new NiceRide Mn bikes....>>> Sorry, scratch that idea >> NiceRide Mn puts a $250 hold on your card,,, good luck with that NiceRide
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eviljelly
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 4:26 pm |
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I would think most people aren't using their credit cards right up to the limit all the time.
EDIT: Toned down the lulz
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poorimpulsecontrol
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| Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:25 am |
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| EscapeeJoined: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:32 pmPosts: 2473Location: MINNEAPOLIS
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switch yer front wheel with a partner stop.......
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cheffelipe
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| Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:15 pm |
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poorimpulsecontrol wrote: switch yer front wheel with a partner stop....... Did that with Radlerin last stupor bowl, she was rocking studs which she totally didn't need. Gave her my wheel and switched bikes.
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myhoopdie
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:26 pm |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:39 amPosts: 274Location: Uncle Franky's.
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Pedalpub alleycat. About the best idea I've had in years, and refined on the last night riders at Pizza Luce. I mean, come on. There ARE two pedal pubs. Let's race!
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dasunt
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:17 pm |
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Yes, Pedalpub alleycat!
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Jerbear
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:47 am |
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| King of the MountainJoined: Fri May 04, 2007 6:30 amPosts: 1833Location: Lyndale 'hood
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My understanding is (I've never been out on the PedalPub) that they don't just let you go anywhere you want and they provide the driver. It's also kinda pricey considering the cost of participating in your standard alleycat.
Checking their website tells me:
$190/hr for 2-3 hrs on a Friday or Saturday
There are standard pubcrawl routes
Custom routes - $100, plus $3/mile round trip from PedalPub garage to starting point
On the flat, the PedalPub travels at a maximum speed of approximately five miles per hour
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myhoopdie
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| Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:55 pm |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2010 1:39 amPosts: 274Location: Uncle Franky's.
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Truth. But a man can dream, can't he? I'm sure we could get the gear ratio on those puppies set up to cruise.
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Zebrakeys
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:08 am |
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| Secretly prefers SchraderJoined: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:58 amPosts: 2072Location: Northeast.
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Jerbear wrote: My understanding is (I've never been out on the PedalPub) that they don't just let you go anywhere you want and they provide the driver. It's also kinda pricey considering the cost of participating in your standard alleycat.
Checking their website tells me:
$190/hr for 2-3 hrs on a Friday or Saturday
There are standard pubcrawl routes
Custom routes - $100, plus $3/mile round trip from PedalPub garage to starting point
On the flat, the PedalPub travels at a maximum speed of approximately five miles per hour The nice ride guys got it up to approx. 13 miles an hour. WHOOOOAAAAAA
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dannypaws
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| Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:40 am |
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| In a gear most men use only on the downhills!Joined: Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:58 pmPosts: 271
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love the smith ave to ramsey hill idea. I would love to do a race with no stops but just a sort of quick and brutal route...
Or merge the brakeless fixie idea with the summit death race! Maybe move it over to the grand hill so that nobody dies... just imagining everyone trying to skid down the summit hill and hearing all these tires blowing out at once...
so here's some random ideas:
get the squeak out of some mafac brakes. and the rims have to be the annoying ones with the weird design on the breaking surface that makes it a bitch. I could work that stop cause I could put the squeak right back in them.
have some hubs taken apart and make people put them back together in the right order. loose bearings plz.
have a bunch of chainring bolts painted a certain color. at the stop you have to put one of them on your bike and at another stop you have to take it off and give it back.
apple bobbing is also fun!
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