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Events/Alleycats/Races: >> FASTFORWARD: The Official Unofficial Bicycle Film Festival Race 7.16.08 @ 5pm

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    • CommentAuthorcroth
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2008 edited
     


    Please note new start time. Earlier flyers said 7pm.
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    you're going to have us heading straight down the ramp at the dirty bird into either that turn or going straight through the construction?

    fuck yeah i love that ramp
    • CommentAuthorcroth
    • CommentTimeAug 6th 2008 edited
     
    The start time on this race was changed to allow people to see as many of the programs at the Bicycle Film Festival as possible. To do this race you can catch the first three shorts in Program 4, but you have to leave the theatre before or during Pedal. Pedal is an older film and I think a lot of people have already seen it, while Program 5 and 6 are chock full of newer and very relevant films. The race finishes at the ICA in time to catch both of those programs.

    Fast riders will finish in just about 1 hour. There are a couple of hills. One of the proposed courses for the Boston 2009 NACCC bid will be featured in this race.

    Race is free to anyone holding a Festival Pass (which gets you in to all the movies in the whole festival for $27, buy online: http://bicyclefilmfestival.com/2008_site/boston/), or $5 for anyone else.

    Prizes/Awards at the Bikes Rock! Afterparty at Great Scott in Allston.

    anyone who wants to volunteer to work a checkpoint, contact croth...
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    Of course this has to be tax holiday weekend, meaning working. DANG IT!brian QG: 4) Columbus tubing is Italian, rather than from Ohio like I originally thought. This sounds nice.
    • CommentAuthorPugatch
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    i gotta work all tax weekend as wellThink of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world
    • CommentAuthormindchalk
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2008
     
    you can race vicariously through me. it might not be a fast vicarious race though...you may want to race vicariously with someone sporting much larger legs.out of true.
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    I think this rates a sticky!

    I also think that there are some special edition Helmets from BFF sponsors Bern Unlimited for the Winners!

    just a rumor though.im the mad midnight bomber what bombs at midnigh! yeah baby yeah!
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      CommentAuthorratattack
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2008
     
    stickied and edited to include time/date in the thread name.
    • CommentAuthorcroth
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008 edited
     
    CHECKPOINTS FOR TOMORROWS RACE:
    1. L Street @ the Beach in Southie
    2. Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline
    3. Polo Court, Smith Playground in Lower Allston
    4. Bloc 11, Union Square, Somerville
    5. Spice Street, Somerville/Charlestown
    Finish @ the ICA

    Things to know:
    Starts PROMPTLY at 5:15pm, 88 Black Falcon, Upper Level
    Each checkpoint is a "Box Office" where you will get a ticket to a movie.
    The ticket will have intructions as to where the"Theatre" for your movie is located.
    The "Theatres" are located near(ish) the "Box Offices" and will not be too difficult to find.
    You must go to the "Theatre" to get signed off on the checkpoint.
    You must turn in all of your ticketstubs to finish the race.

    I NEED CHECKPOINT VOLUNTEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! email me: junkernaut@gmail.com
    • CommentAuthordooshrocket
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008 edited
     
    spice st. in sullivan square charlestown right?

    edit: priscilla of boston, by the hood office park?oppinions like kittens
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    are these to be done in this order or does it not matter?its like watching a monkey swallow a hand grenade.
    • CommentAuthorcroth
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008
     
    Yes, spice street is in charlestown, actually...
    • CommentAuthorcroth
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008
     
    Done in order. Otherwise you will be backtracking to get to most of the "Theatres"
    • CommentAuthorcroth
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008
     
    Done in order. Otherwise you will be backtracking to get to most of the "Theatres"
    • CommentAuthordeadbolt
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2008
     
    ^emailed!Baron Fagrot: who teh fuck doesn't like a video of a walrus sucking its own cok? something's wrong with you.
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    same!^ride bikes for money not for fun(unless your drunk)
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      CommentAuthorMungoRocks
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2008
     
    I'll see y'all at the finish, I'll be bike-parking..To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
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    nooooo! i didn't check the race time until today... figured it'd be later, checked it at like 5:10.....

    i even saw raff at like 4:45 and didn't put two and two together that he may be heading to the race.

    oh well. hope everyone has fun and/or rides safeTake as little of the road as you want, and as much as you need.
    • CommentAuthorChromeLugs
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2008
     
    Who won?I prefer 49x16
    • CommentAuthorpete
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2008
     
    I worked the last checkpoint, 25 folks at the start, 18 or so finished. Met a bunch of folks, but didn't really get names down; also got some fans of the pink bike afterwards.
    • CommentAuthormindchalk
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
     
    i'll let croth announce the winners or whatever.
    fun fucking race though, great checkpoints (sadistic, but great)
    hope to see the helmet-cam video soon!out of true.
    • CommentAuthordeadbolt
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    ^^i was really excited about your bicycle for sure
    i think i told you to make sure you were back to claim it by 11 or it was MINE
    i'm assuming you did, bum OUT!Baron Fagrot: who teh fuck doesn't like a video of a walrus sucking its own cok? something's wrong with you.
    • CommentAuthorcroth
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    Thanks to everyone who came out to race. I think we had around 25 starters, and I got 16 manifests turned in before I went in to watch the films. I'm not sure what happened to the rest of the starters, but I know there were a couple of people who flatted out early in the race. As far as I know, nobody got hurt and everyone had fun. That's what I call a successful race. Hills dudes had to climb: G Street Southie, Summit Ave Brookline, Walnut St Somerville. Thanks again, yo! What's next?

    Results:
    1. Peter Bradshaw (in exactly 1 hour)
    2. Gary B (less than one minute back)
    3. Eric Pederson (with Lucas in tow filming)
    4. Jacques/Matt P.
    5. Jacobs
    6. Brandon, riding strong!
    7. Harrison
    8. Wenzday (Top Female, Only Female: what's up with that, Ladies!?)
    9. (manifest missing? anyone remember)
    10. (manifest missing? anyone remember)
    11. K.Laba
    12. Chris Butters
    13. Benjamin J.
    14. Phil
    15. William G.
    16. Tom Fuckface

    and this is the course as i would have run it (17.6mi):
    http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2174588
    • CommentAuthorAnjin
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2008
     
    Great race. Thanks for putting it together. I had a great time and was totally spent the whole race. The hills made for some funny/awkward walk-passes. Ha. Checkpoints were smooth and the checkpoint workers did a superb job.
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    awesome race craig!
    this was my route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2183930

    i was on and off again with lucas, jacob, peter, and erik through out the race.
    looking at my entire route, there are definitely some places i could have shorted, though the corners cut through the park in the opening, marine st, through LMA, and over the cambridge/franklin st pedestrian overpass helped. a road bike would have helped too.

    big congrats to peter for winning the race and the folding bike (now that i just won one as well we'll need to have folding bike sprints... maybe i'll start messengering on it)
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    honestly now, how many of you ran your shit up summit ave?
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    kilgore_trout: folding bike sprints...


    foldsprints?

    I took a different route out to summit than the winners but we all ended up in coolage at exactly the same time. I kept apologizing to Lucas for what was probably some of the most boring footage ever. and then I fucked it up for both of us at the end.

    http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2184050oppinions like kittens
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    deleteradio:honestly now, how many of you ran your shit up summit ave?


    i most definitely did. i was 2/3 the way up in the lead when all of a sudden jacob, lucas, erik, and david (at least) came swarming up and passed me to the top.
    it seems like from sothie to summit was really the only major possible difference in people routes.
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    Thanks a lot to Craig, that was so fun!
    never been up Summit Ave before. I mean, I could imagine from the name that it was going to be a climb but when I turned the corner, I was like oh fuck.
    wonderful!

    looking forward to the next one.
    • CommentAuthormindchalk
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2008
     
    i ran.
    i busted ass trying to catch an SUV for a ride up.
    got ahold of him.
    and he stopped.
    i ran from there...out of true.
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    anyone got pictures from this?

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