So from time to time people recall what their induction to point83 was like. I thought it would be nice to gather these in one place. Often times in the beginning it's hard to wrap your head around what you are getting into, but after you've stuck with something for a while it's neat to look back at where you began. Take a little time to do some digging and find some key dates, forum posts, pictures and compile a brief narrative (in a document). Then once it's semi polished post it as a reply to this thread. Below are some ideas for specific details to note.
Date of my first point83 ride:
Ride destination:
Ride Thread:
Bike I was riding:
Introduced to point83 by:
Point83 Riders I knew before point83:
Pictures:
#history
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joeball
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:48 am
Joined: 24 Jul 2005Posts: 6037Location: Ether
I'll go first....
Date of my first point83 ride: Thursday 4/14/2005 (inferred)
Ride destination: Golden Gardens
Ride Thread: http://seattlebikes.livejournal.com/55803.html#comments
Bike I was riding: Red Fixie with bullhorns
Introduced to point83 by: Critical Mass/Derrick
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Lee, PJdiddy,
Pictures:
Closest picture I could find was of the April 2005 CM, I'm on the bottom right in Yellow. More photos here:
http://www.metrodigital.com/mass/2005/apr/index.html
Some more back history:
I'd known Lee since college, in 2001 we were getting into mountain biking. By 2003 the interest had gone to road bikes, then building bikes and 2004 saw experimentation with fixed gears and critical mass. I'd met Derrick and Jake(jryde) through Critical Mass and usually joined the group that rode from Red Square to WLC.
Eventually Lee and I heard about point83 putting on races and having Thursday rides too. Initially I felt like going on a slow blocking traffic ride once a month was enough. Thanks to gmail coming online in 2004 I had some achives to dig in to to find evidence. Below is the e-mail thread that lead me to pin 4/14/2005 as my first ride.
On Apr 7, 2005 12:40 PM, Lantius wrote:
i was wondering if any of you cycling types wanted to check out the
.83 seattle sprint series tomorrow if it's not too nasty out.
they're meeting at uwajimaya at 9pm but the racing is somewhere in
georgetown i think. interesting people and bikes, and prizes if you ride
hard.
also, i think andre and i are joining them next thursday (14th) for the
leisurely urban ride at 7pm. and of course critical mass is at the end of
the month - 29th - downtown at 6pm (udistrict at 5) and the midnight race
series continues at greenlake that same night.
just some riding options for y'all.
Lee
Part of my reply
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, joeball wrote:
Cool page
what is the significance of point83 though, Not sure what the friday plans hold yet, we'll see what the weather is like.
Lee followed up with
On Apr 7, 2005 Lantius wrote:
i was trying to figure out what distances that made nice. .83 km is about 900 yards, that's the best i came up with.
looking back in the livejournal though i see this:
so it could just be a random thing they picked out. mabye i'll ask.
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A few weeks later. Apparently the hotdog stand opened up in 2005
On Thu, 5/12/2005, joeball wrote:
...Like I said I will be home at 6 so if you want to just meet me there.
I saw a hotdog stand at Westlake square yesterday, grand opening 2.50$
we could just eat down there, beers later, we could pack some if we
On Thu, 5/12/2005, lantius wrote:
...i can roll to your house for 6pm, that is kosher. bringing beers along is the way they do things on point83, of course i am a snob and only drink bottles not cans. i'm sure derrick or somebody will have a case of pbr (they always do.) 2.50 hot dogs sound fine, but of course we can also eat a bit at your casa as well....
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By mid May I was pretty excited for each week's ride.
On Thu, 5/19/2005, joeball wrote:
....So I am stoked for the ride today, you are going right?....
henry
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:09 pm
somewhat piggishJoined: 05 Aug 2005Posts: 5415Location: on porch with shotgun
Date of my first point83 ride: Tuesday, Aug 9 2005
Ride destination: Bothell
Ride Thread: http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=113
Bike I was riding: A sweet hybrid that i'd recently stolen from my dad's garage and ridden the STP on.
Introduced to point83 by: Livejournal!
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: There were none.
Pictures: There were none.
now with 50 percent more EVILJoined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 10566
Date of my first point83 ride: Thanksgiving 2004
Ride destination: West Seattle, Alki Beach
Ride Thread: probably on live journal
Bike I was riding: 100 dollar craigslist mountain bike GT
Introduced to point83 by: A few of us from Critical Mass wanted to ride more than once a month, and we picked Thanksgiving to have a night ride on. Lots of people didn't have family around for the holiday, so we wanted to do something as a group. Thursday's weren't officially picked as a ride night for a while longer, and we didn't have a name until the ride where we went .83 miles to the J&M in a downpour
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Colin, Jryde, Dean, Theresa, ... and a couple other people on the ride who are long gone and whos names I'm blanking on
Pictures: I don't think there were any pics from that first night, but I did recently run across a hard drive with tons of my early point83 photos from that first year (mainly 2005 pics, i'll get them online soon)
ride bikes
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:26 pm
Joined: 12 Oct 2012Posts: 1493Location: Pundercover
Date of my first point83 ride: Friday, September 25th, 2009
Ride destination: Greenlake midnight race
Ride Thread: this one, I think
Bike I was riding: 2004 Kona Kahuna FS/XC mtb
Introduced to point83 by: An intoxicated male atop a tall bike during that month's Critial Mass ride who invited us out to race and party at the monthly midnight Greenlake race
point83 riders I knew before point83: um, soyoung? Maybe a few others through the loosely-organized UW crew of Critical Massholes
Pictures: I wish I had pictures of the affair. My roommates at the time and I decided to do our first "Tour de Franzia" at CM that month. So we hooked-up CamelBak hoses to spacebags of boxed vino and the rest is a blur. Pretty sure my friend who now works for JJ's got away with drinking an unsheathed tallboy of Oranjeboom in Red Square because UWPD didn't know what it was. Also pretty sure he emptied his stomach contents into the street between the U-District and Greenlake when we were on our way over for the race. I for sure blacked-out mid-Mass while crossing the Ballard bridge and didn't regain cognizance until the next afternoon
I think I'd heard of point83 as early as 2008. But I never made it out on a ride nor to a race until 2009. I finally transitioned to a road bike in 2011 and a very hazy two years later started actually showing up weekly.
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caustic meatloaf
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:36 pm
Joined: 06 Dec 2010Posts: 1235537Location: a hammy melange...
First ride: Christmas Tree burning 2011
Ride Destination: Golden Gardens
Ride Thread:http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8819&highlight=
Bike I was Riding: 1998 Schwinn Paramount
Introduced to Point83 by: Rory. But I posted for about a month before I actually went on a ride
Pictures: I have none. I got duper drunk, and kinda wobbled my way home.
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lantius
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:58 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
See the History Thread for some links back to LJ and other old stuff.
I'm pretty certain 4/14/05 was my first ride. Andre, I don't remember if you were on that ride or not - I thought you weren't able to make it in the end. I don't see you in the photos, but I do see a youthful me:
Anyhow, Andre already mined my emails for most of my good recollections.
I have a distinct memory of someone (maybe IRO Mike?) showing off on the Terminal 91 bike path and crashing into the bushes - but that may have been a later ride that spring. I also remember powering my fixie up the hill out of Golden Gardens and wondering about the creaking.
This was the bike I was riding:
The next morning:
Kerry
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:29 pm
Joined: 16 May 2013Posts: 24
joeball wrote:
So from time to time people recant what their induction to point83 was like.
I'm sure that many would also like to recant their introductions but then you wouldn't have much of a thread.
I'll stop nitpicking. Resume your adorableness. Livejournal reminiscing is the best.
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langston
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:30 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
Date of my first point83 ride: July-ish 2005
Ride destination: don't remember
Ride Thread: it's somewhere on SeattleBikes
Bike I was riding: Raleigh Racing USA
Introduced to point83 by: Captain Brad, we rode the bus to Lynnwood and together and one day he showed up with a spoke card. I got a job downtown and began riding Critical Mass, then .83
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Just Brad, I wanna say
Pictures: that'd be great, I have photos of that first summer but I remember coming home from my first ride and gushing to my roommate how much fun I had a lot more than I remember anything about the ride itself. Here is a photo from that link of Brads from Derrick's post, that I'm in short sleeves and basketball shorts makes me think it was from the summer.
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derrickito
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:31 pm
now with 50 percent more EVILJoined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 10566
Date of my first point83 ride: April 22nd 2010
Ride destination: Chrome Van? cowen park, hula hula (I have no memory)
Ride Thread: Donnerstag 22.4.10 - Swap Meet Edition. and apparently there was a bizarro thread, can't find it.
Bike I was riding: Mercian circa this build: Honjo Profile by Andrew_Squirrel, on Flickr
Introduced to point83 by: Internet search or Maile or Ryan Lemke or Jeni
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Maile or Ryan Lemke or Jeni
Pictures: Jeni took a photo! IMG_9524 by adaenn, on Flickr
#history
Edit: I think technically my first P83 event was this: 02/19 First Ever Seattle Midnight Mystery Ride MMR by joeball, on Flickr
Maile and I both got traffic tickets that night when a cop pulled us over for running red lights downtown while traveling at approx 4mph uphill
Edit #2: Apparently I tried to stalk you fools back in 2007 right after moving to Seattle:
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gsbarnes
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 1:59 pm
Joined: 15 Aug 2006Posts: 2666Location: No Fun Town, USA
First ride: Tuesday (of course), August 22, 2006
Ride Destination: Georgetown
Ride Thread: http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2523
Bike: Some black Marin MTB, later stolen from my garage
Introduced to Point83 by: Someone (The Stranger?) writing about the guys who got arrested by the King County Transit Cops. My first .83 event was taking my kids to the finish line of the fundraiser race/BBQ in Woodland Park:
Pictures: I got nothing. But someone 'borrowed' my Swiss Army knife on that first ride (bottle opener) and I never got it back. I'm still bitter.
Riders I knew before I rode: none, although later I spotted a couple of my kids' preschool teachers on rides (I did not invite them; they found the group independently).
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theereilly
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:15 pm
Joined: 29 Jun 2012Posts: 157Location: Central District
Date of my first point83 ride: February 11, 2012
Ride destination: Black Raven
Ride Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9847&highlight=black+raven
Bike I was riding: My Nishiki International
Introduced to point83 by: Jason
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Jason
Pictures: Pics in thread.
We ended up at College Inn Pub. I showed up wherever I went that night smelling of IPA and cheap whiskey. It was another month or so before I made it to a Thursday night ride. I was in school, so I dropped out to ride with you idiots. I know I made the right decision.
Date of my first point83 ride: 06.19.08
Ride destination: Carkeek
Ride Thread: http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=79183&highlight=#79183
Bike I was riding: Raspberry Terry Symmetry (24" front wheel, 700 back). ended up dying on another .83 ride when I ran in a bollard.
Introduced to point83 by: My friend Dawn told me about this ride she heard about. I don't think she ever actually went on a ride.
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: None
Pictures:
History:
So about a year before I went on a ride I joined the forum and biked down to WL but when I arrived there was just a big group of dudes so I took one look at them said 'fuck that" and just kept on riding. It wasn't until a year later I actually got the nerve to do one.
In fact I did a Greenlake race and a couple Slow Sundays before .83.
When I posted on .83 that I was going to come out that night and would bring whiskey everyone thought I was a sock puppet because a lot less girls rode back then.
I missed the ride start and when I got to Carkeek everyone was totally blotto. The one other girl was drunk crying laying on a bench. Apparently people had been drinking Tangeraide. If I remember right it was a combo of Tanquiray and Gatorade. Thankfully it had all been consumed before I got there. I also remember leaving Carkeek made it ten feet and fell over on my bike. I quickly got up and told everyone I had hit a rock. There was no rock in sight, obviously this was before I quit drinking. Derrick kept telling me they aren't usually like that, which they really aren't. For some reason I kept coming back.
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jeni
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:10 pm
Joined: 16 Jun 2009Posts: 232Location: bmore
Andrew_Squirrel wrote:
Introduced to point83 by: Internet search or Maile or Ryan Lemke or Jeni
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Maile or Ryan Lemke or Jeni
Pictures: Jeni took a photo! IMG_9524 by adaenn, on Flickr
#history
that was the first time i met you Andrew! and it's because earlier in the day at work I got the following message from Maile... (sorry Maile, but it's so cute and i figure you're no longer intimidated!)
"April 22, 2010 at 1:28pm
Subject: ride tonight?
hey jeni! my bf andrew and I are thinking about finally showing up for a .83 ride tonight because it is meant to be really nice out. he is going to be in a rush to make it from work so he just wants to meet me there, but I am scared to show up by myself! I am kind of intimidated. are you going to be there? I would feel a lot better if someone I know is there. :)
lmk!
mm"
i love this thread. it's gonna take a while for me to compose my own post.
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caustic meatloaf
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:14 pm
Joined: 06 Dec 2010Posts: 1235537Location: a hammy melange...
man, looking at all the folks who started in '05 and '06 makes me remember how I was in '05 and '06. I was a different person then.
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rob
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 4:17 pm
Joined: 28 Jul 2007Posts: 1315Location: Columbia City
Date of my first point83 ride: May 3, 2007 (the Thursday before Ben Country 2)
Ride destination: Lincoln Park
Ride Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3933
Bike I was riding: My Felt, RIP
Introduced to point83 by: Alexis
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Alexis
Pictures:
My officemate Alexis had been talking up this weird group of bike hooligans that she'd ridden with a few times. There was this guy on a trike! A sport utility trike! And other crazy things. Stopped at 7-11, then along Alki. Helped some dude with a flat before the trail to the Lincoln Park beach. Then fire! And someone said to watch out for that Aaron fellow. Then bumming beers off of people. Then riding to the bread dumpster! Then some random guy who I haven't seen since crashed his bike into me. Then I dawdled and missed the next destination ( Hooverville, maybe?), and so then home. I think when all was said and done, about 40 miles that day, which I thought was pretty good for a Thursday night.
Alex
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 4:35 pm
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
Date of my first point83 ride: Feb 2007
Ride destination: Mercer Island -- Waffles
Ride Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3560&highlight=waffle
Bike I was riding: Kogswell P/R
Introduced to point83 by: Aaron Goss
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Aaron Goss, Prof Dave, Jimmy, rlotz
Pictures: don't have any
Historical note: I brought 2 (small/3gallon) kegs of homebrew on that ride. Since then I promised to make .83 beer at least 3 other times and never did. I haven't homebrewed in years.
My second ride was BC2.
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Bo Ttorff
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:03 pm
GO SEAHAWKS!! 12 for LYFEJoined: 20 Jul 2011Posts: 3092Location: King County
Date of my first point83 ride: June 2011
Ride destination: WLC, QFC, Magnolia park, Boxcar
Ride Thread: ?
Bike I was riding: fixed Raleigh super course (now Reilly's)
Introduced to point83 by: Archie
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Archie
Pictures:
FTFY
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-jason
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:14 pm
Command-Line KiddJoined: 17 Feb 2009Posts: 260Location: The Internet
Date of my first point83 ride: First Thursday ride I recall was 2009-04-30
Ride destination: Dog and Pony in Renton
Ride Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6984
Bike I was riding: Jamis Eclipse.
Introduced to point83 by: I stumbled across the FHR on the web
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: none
As a fresh arrival, I was searching for things to do in Seattle and stumbled across the FHR. That was actually my first point83 ride. I began lurking on the forum and showing up to Bike Sabbath. I eventually started regularly attending Thursday rides later in the spring.
The Thursday I believe to be my first was the night Ryan smashed his face due to the concrete lane separator collision.
axel
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:59 pm
Joined: 15 Feb 2013Posts: 1654Location: St Johns PDX
Date of my first point83 ride: 1/10/2013
Ride destination: Golden Gardens
Ride Thread: http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10262
Bike I was riding: 1x10 2006 Kona Jake the Snake
Introduced to point83 by: scumbag ex-girlfriend who left me after I moved to Seattle. #notbitter
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: futurenorth (J.Britton)
Pictures (in red jacket on the right):
I didn't even live in the city at the time or have an account on the forum.
It would be 3 weeks before I packed up all my things into a U-haul and moved out of Portland.
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limpyweta
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:36 pm
Joined: 23 Sep 2008Posts: 740Location: North Beach
Date of my first point83 ride: 9/23/2008. It was one of the largest casual Tuesday rides ever with no fixed agenda. Brandon, Kalen, Henry, Cameron, Uncle Martha Ben, Monica, Derrick, Henry, Miles, Katie, Rogelio, Greg B., that guy who had that Hollow Earth Radio show, some fixie dude who was too cool to be there on Tuesday and was reminded it wasn't Wednesday, and a bunch of others I forgot.
Ride destination: They went to that bar east of Changes, on the corner of the same block, as the first stop, then I lost them at a light.
Introduced to point83 by: Noam G., through some email bomb in like 2006 when the Stone Way bike lane was getting controversy, forgot about it, reminded from SeattleDIY when I had more time. Now I make time.
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: 0. ¡I love yall!
Pic, of the following Thursday:
There was also a fish gut fight, among other things.
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fatasian
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:37 pm
dick wang's fatherJoined: 26 Aug 2008Posts: 1707Location: devenshire
Ride thread: ??
Bike I was riding:
Giant Cypress
Introduced to point83 by: BTM’s Critical Mass (looking for a weekly ride)
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: None
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the dreaded ben
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:16 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
Date of my first point83 ride: 6/16/2005
Ride destination: alki, then the owl & thistle for derrick's birthday. in between an 12 pack of pbr.
Ride Thread: before the forum
Bike I was riding: 1x1, what else?
Introduced to point83 by: someone mentioned it as i was handing out beers at critical mass
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: dreadlocks
Pictures: i didn't have an internet then, or a camera, so how about a little help here!?
the dreaded ben
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:17 pm
Grumpy GreebJoined: 20 Aug 2005Posts: 5329Location: flavor country
rob wrote:
Date of my first point83 ride: May 3, 2007 (the Thursday before Ben Country 2)
Ride destination: Lincoln Park
Ride Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3933
Bike I was riding: My Felt, RIP
Introduced to point83 by: Alexis
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Alexis
Pictures:
My officemate Alexis had been talking up this weird group of bike hooligans that she'd ridden with a few times. There was this guy on a trike! A sport utility trike! And other crazy things. Stopped at 7-11, then along Alki. Helped some dude with a flat before the trail to the Lincoln Park beach. Then fire! And someone said to watch out for that Aaron fellow. Then bumming beers off of people. Then riding to the bread dumpster! Then some random guy who I haven't seen since crashed his bike into me. Then I dawdled and missed the next destination ( Hooverville, maybe?), and so then home. I think when all was said and done, about 40 miles that day, which I thought was pretty good for a Thursday night.
Also almost all the rack mutilation in those pictures is from hauling 10L of wine and all those ridiculous sandwiches the whole way on BC:V while getting rad. That along with a frolicking marathon on Blake Island was the birth of "Fancy Fred"
Introduced to point83 by: Alex Wetmore, who I'd internet-known since at least 1999 starting with fucking Usenet! (rec.bicycles.tech)
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: crossed paths with Colin and Badhill Brandon IRL, knew Rory and Jimmy from Alex's sphere of bike internet. Also had crossed paths with Derrick, Jerf, Lee, BTM, and Pete Jr. on the nerd internet repeatedly and recognized them after a little bit.
I'd come across the old livejournal group a bunch of times, but didn't live in Seattle until 2008, and only made the leap after Alex commented on his blog that he'd be taking his new self-built bike to the Greenlake race: http://alexwetmore.org/?p=600
I showed up late, ended up joining the race mid-lap and bringing in the caboose with his wife Christine. He recognized my bike from the internets before I spotted him myself.
I had somehow forgotten the connection, but on that very same ride I punched a stripper with braces!
We ended up at the Fremont Fire Pit, and some dipshit took a bunch of us to get pallets all the way from the back corner of the Fred Meyer. They took off with their pallets while I was getting started, I put my left glove on to hold the pallet, but was holding the bars in the drops with my right.
Guess which side I laid down when I missed a minor curbcut?
I ditched the pallet, but it took me almost an hour to find the firepit again, I kept going back and forth between there and the fremont bridge, but somehow was merging onto Leary right before being able to see the flames.
That's AFTER cleaning it up at home around 4AM. My hubs were coated in blood, it was soaked into my shellacked bar tape, and splattered all over my cranks, front brake, everything. I rode home on the perfect wave of drunkenness, and washing the gnar out with booze sure helped!
The wound on the medial knuckle of my ring finger was a deep hole that took weeks to heal over and there was a large persistent bruise. I kept freaking out thinking I'd chipped the bone or something, it started to feel like there was a fragment floating around in there associated with nerve pain.
At some point in late January my knuckle gave birth to a jagged piece of gravel a bit bigger than a lentil
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dashap
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:14 pm
professorJoined: 21 Jun 2006Posts: 1566Location: central district
Date of my first point83 ride: Legend has it that my first ride was the time we went to Jack Block Park and Derrick nutpunched me, (9/21/2006) http://327words.blogspot.com/2006/09/bad-yogi.html and while that was certainly ONE of the first rides I went on, I know I went on a couple before that. The first that I 327-worded about was this one one 9/7/2006 http://327words.blogspot.com/2006/09/bike-gang.html.
The first contact I had with .83 that I recall was Chris Nygaard's "Bruise, Brews, and Brewed Race," http://327words.blogspot.com/2006/06/brews-brewed-and-bruise-race.html which was in June of 2006. I got stoned with 80's Jeff and Evil Mike and felt like I belonged, so I think I may have come out for a few rides that summer before September.
Ride destination: I know we ended up drinking at the CIP and decided to go for a late night swim afterwards (when we got rousted but the cops), but as I read the ride thread it looks like we may have gone to Golden Gardens first.
Bike I was riding: My beloved Rivendell Rambouillet, stolen from my backyard shed later that summer.
Introduced to point83 by: I first heard about it from Denny's friend, Erin, who worked at La Panzanella Bakery, where I'd stop for bread after yoga; I was always on a bike; she told me about this gang of bike riders she knew.
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: No one, really; I may have met Aaron at his shop once or twice.
Pictures: Only in my mind's eye.
garywashere
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:28 pm
Joined: 04 Oct 2013Posts: 226Location: Shelbyville
Date of my first point83 ride: 8/1/13
Ride destination: Slip N Slide
Ride Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10543
Bike I was riding: My blue bike
Introduced to point83 by: Stephen and Nick
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Stephen, Nick, Katie, Jenelle, Tim, Brian, Erin. Also, Kerry, Wang, and Tom via the internets
I had just arrived in town on the 24th of July, didn't make it to that weeks ride. My first ride was the slip n slide and bush gardens afterwards. Coming from the upstate, NY rides we (stephen, nick, katie, jenelle, brian, erin) used to go on, there were so many more people and it was way more organized and equally as drunk. I didn't get too wasted-faced on this ride as I didn't stop for beer beforehand, nor drink that much of the juice at the slip n slide.
My 2nd ride was the DBDH the next day... thaaat was a different story. The downhill was amazing and the post dh activities in Georgetown were really fun. So fun, in fact, that I fell over at least twice on my way back home, somehow lost a brake pad, my phone died which was my only way of finding my way back home, and out of frustration, i threw it and completely broke it. While figuring out what to do underneath some overpass (sodo? west seattle? i honestly have no clue where I was), a van taxi came out of nowhere like a guardian angel and took me back to Ballard where I went to bed... The next day was rough.
So the slip n slide and dbdh were my two days of my first Point 83 rides.
Left to right above: my roommate at the time Scott, his girlfriend Rachel, can't remember the middle guy, Joseph (in the background, now goes by Jose), and skinny Lee.
Things clearly haven't changed much:
justgarth
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:49 am
Joined: 04 Apr 2011Posts: 802
Date of my first point83 ride: March 31st, 2011
Ride destination: Sully's Snowgoose
Ride Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9020
Bike I was riding: One of so many LHT's
Introduced to point83 by: Cienna Madrid and her SLOG
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: None that I realized; a surprising number of ladies who swore you people off after a few rides
Pictures: zilch
We rode through the UW wetlands, we got beer at the QFC, we got rad on the greenlake bmx tracks ( I think I ran into Tictoc?), and I drank a bunch of other people's beers. I learned that it was some guy named Joby's birthday and watched someone run their bike into a Benz. Never looked back.
tehschkott
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:33 am
daywalkerJoined: 09 Nov 2007Posts: 6108Location: Hatertown
Introduced to Point83 by: It's complicated
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: It's complicated
Pictures: I can't believe there are actually pictures but here we go
Technically my first Point83 ride was a Joby ride. We bicycled to the Dog and Pony in Renton (map is in the blog post) and then back up the other side. I was so sore the next day I could barely walk. Somehow I'd twisted my ankle so grabbed a cane and limped to work. On the elevator up to the office, this guy I didn't know was like, what happened, hurt yourself riding bikes? Actually yeah, how did you know?
It was Ray. He was fixing a copier in my building and he'd been on the ride the night before. LOL.
I found Point83 after having ridden Slow Sunday and Critical Mass through the fall/winter of 2007. Eric Stata, Suzanne Hyphen, and Chris Hunter (all of whom I knew through Spice Alley - don't ask) pointed me to the rides. I'd been avoiding Point83 which was too cliquish for my tastes - SSR was an animal in it's own right and I didn't see the point. We even had our own mailing list (the Safety Third mailing list). Also, I was avoiding Henry which I don't think I've ever told anyone before. So there you go. Secrets out.
I'd found bikes and started riding/working on them after breaking up with my girlfriend Amanda of 5 years. I didn't really know what to do with myself at that point - the breakup was amicable but she'd gotten pretty much everything in the divorce (house, cats, furniture, friends, social circles) and all I had was this career in IT. Henry was friends with her through our old roommate Austin - their shitty Ska band (redundant) would play in our basement every week for... ever zomg. Anyhow, I was trying to put some distance between that life and this new one I was carving out, and blam - there's Henry right in the middle of it all. Silly I know. I guess you just had to be there.
Well, turns out Henry rarely showed up even back then, in January Gretchen had a Point83 brunch ride that went to Carkeek, most everyone who rode Slow Sunday was also riding Point83 by then (Nova, Aden, the Kats, Dave Bordley, Brandon Martin-Anderson, among others) so I went ahead and showed up. Later I think I may have brought the Wreyford Boys and Ali in after they'd split off from SSR and started their own drunker, shorter Sunday ride called Smashed Up Sundays (which amounted to them stumbling across Cal Anderson Park to a bar on the other side to watch the game). Or maybe we all just started showing up. Alas, it was through SSR that I also met Monica, Margaret, Rob, Uncle Martha, Ryan O, Nygaard - fucking J - and a bunch of others. So by the time I actually rode .83, I'd already met most everyone before hand.
wowsa, i haven't seen that pic in forever. i stole that a long time ago from the internet and modified it for seattle critical mass when i helped organize.
it's great reading the paths that brought people into the group. i ask the question "how'd you find us assholes?" lots to new people, this thread is expanding that question.
kalen
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:33 am
Joined: 10 Apr 2007Posts: 342Location: Olympia, on the farm
Date of my first point83 ride: Aug 3rd, 2006
Ride destination: Somewhere south
Ride Thread: http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2416
Bike I was riding: Trek 520, same as today
Introduced to point83 by: Kori
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Kori, Nick, Colin
My first ride was a couple weeks earlier, but the first one I remember clearly was this. It was the night before the Dead Baby Downhill (but I hadn't even heard of that), and we went somewhere south, and ended coming back into downtown and bringing out bikes up to Mobius cycles. There was some sort of latenight art show going on, and I remember Denny playing footdown in the middle of the shop.
The next day, I was invited to something starting on Beacon Hill at the Church of Bicycle Jesus, which led to my first DBD.
I had been running into a bunch of .83ers at critical mass, and had heard about it from Kori and Nick, but never went on a ride until that summer. I already knew Colin from dumpster diving, but didn't know about .83 from him.
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rory
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:49 am
Joined: 13 Sep 2010Posts: 158
Date of my first point83 ride: greenlake race of champions: April 30 2007
Ride destination: greenlake race of champions
Ride Thread: http://www.point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3919
Bike I was riding: a trek, i think.
Introduced to point83 by: alex
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: alex, Val
Pictures: none that i know of, unfortunately
TorreyK
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:36 pm
Joined: 02 Sep 2009Posts: 1116Location: White Center/Burien
Date of my first (THREAD DOCUMENTED) point83 ride: 9/3/2009
Ride destination: Anarchy point followed by Rogelio/Denny's House
Ride Thread:
Bike I was riding: The same brown crosscheck I ride today.
Introduced to point83 by: Rogelio and the regular Greenlake Racers
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: Messenger Fred
Pictures:
I began critical mass towards the end of 2008, and proceeded to try Greenlake racing at the beginning of 2009. My first ride was a non-threaded Tuesday ride with Greg, Ray, the Wreyfords and others at the end of august 2009. We rode very fast from Red Square (numerous dropped riders), through downtown and back north to Golden Gardens to meet up the the "Nowegian Drinking Club" of Ballard. I don't know the story behind the group or their p83 connection, but they seemed inviting. Later, the Wreyfords were heading back to the hill for a night cap and I thought they were trying to ditch me because they were pulling so hard on the Burke. I held their wheels and followed them for quick beers at Amante Pizza and a wobbly ride home.
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limpyweta
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:13 pm
Joined: 23 Sep 2008Posts: 740Location: North Beach
TorreyK wrote:
Swedish Drinking Team of The World
FTFY, and the Wreyfords were members. That night was awshm btw. really, really wish I looked harder for a pen I was so stupid.
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Rogelio
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:22 pm
Joined: 31 Jul 2007Posts: 3092Location: Pos, aya, por la Corona-Alta-Madera y que no.
Date of my first point83 ride: August 28, 2007
Ride destination: Red Square/Northgate Taco Trucks/Gasworks
Ride Thread: We ride 8/23!
Bike I was riding: Matte Black SE Lager fixie
Introduced to point83 by: Seattle DIY Website
Point83 Riders I knew before point83: None.
Pictures:
I lurked for a wee bit after finding the forum off of the Seattle DIY site. I went to a wrench party at Nygaard's where I met Nygaard and SurlyKat, after which I decided "they seem okay." So I grabbed my bike and came out on the next Tuesday, back when everyone went to or worked at the UW, and Tuesdays were still a thing. I double flatted on a road gap near collenade park, thanks to not checking my air pressure before leaving the house, rode up to Northgate for tacos, then down to Gasworks where a bunch of Christian folks were sliding ice blocks down the hill, "the rest is all Sketch.skullfucking, falling down the hill, iceblock races, pulling sketch out of blackberries stuck like a fly in a spiders web....you get the picture."
I'd forgotten about that ride as the next Tuesday, It's Tuesday, Let's Go Drink Absinthe Tonight! made such an impression on me and involved this magic moment:
Over the course of the evening, I managed to tip over six times, the first couple because it was my first night on clipless, that latter because I was dronk. Returning to the city on the BGT, I drunkenly plowed into the blackberry bush ravine/ditch along the trail. Rescued by Derrick from my prickly situation, we proceeded to Matthews beach where I proceeded to puke out the 22oz barleywine ale and all the homemade absinthe which I had so thoughtfully introduced to my empty stomach. That's what I consider my first proper .83 ride: instead of just observing, I had joined in the festive stupidity.
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