Date: 9/17/2009
Destination: Seahurst Park, the Barrel, 9 lb
Thread: http://point83.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7491
Bike: 199? Bridgestone RB-2 (which i still ride!)
Introduced by: Ryan Wreyford
People I knew: I had met Ryan once.
Date of my first point83 ride: Friday, September 25th, 2009
Ride destination: Greenlake midnight race
Ride Thread: this one, I think
Apparently i share first ride with Ride Bikes.
Bike I was riding: 1999 Gary Fisher Tassajara f'n mtb
Introduced to point83 by: DFL: Lord Fatron whom I met that evening
point83 riders I knew before point83: Ryan Handschug
It was a good evening. First critical mass, followed by an art show house party, where I met Lord Fatron, drank whiskey and found out about the race. Picked up the whiskey raptor spokecard that night.
Next ride was the 2011 FHR, Derrick asked if i had read the waiver. I said no. He said it didn't really matter. It just gave the end location and btw we were now married. That asshole never calls.
claudia
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 7:26 pm
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I can't remember my exact first ride, but Meg was involved. One of my earliest rides was at the Waterwheel on August 23, 2013 found on JoeBall's Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8130268@N04/9605391287
I creeped the forum for a few years before I finally joined, because computers are like, confusing for me.
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Worstcasescenario
Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 7:55 pm
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This is A+ reading, folks.
My first Thursday ride is hazy, but it involved riding to a totally packed Fremont Dock, where there was a baseball game on (must have been Game 4 of the NLCS, because that was the only playoff game played on a Thursday that season, according to Wikipedia). Only, I can't find a ride thread for that night to confirm...
At the time, I rode a Kona Paddywagon. I was invited by Brotorff, who I knew from woodworking school, and I knew Archie and Paul a little bit (we 4 had ridden the NinetoFive together that past June). I had also DNF'd Archie's Bok Bok Bok alleycat a couple weeks before. I don't remember much from that night, but I remember coming out of the Dock, getting on my bike, and falling over right there on the sidewalk, and wanting to just lay there forever. I rode back to my van, which was conveniently parked in Ballard, and slept in it.
I only rode a few Thursdays before I got a job that made getting up on Friday impossibly hard, and forgot all about you people until I met Ben in 2016 and he told me about the Disaster...
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 9:53 pm
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Showed up to West Lake with an MB-3 and butterfly bars, no lights. White-knuckled through Ravenna park gravel, following Wang. Barely rode 15 miles, and almost couldn't walk the next day because muh legs hurt.
Thanks, Wang, for introducing me to Point 83 and generally making sure I didn't die on the first few rides.
Edit: not quite from the first one, but in that era - you can just tell my next words are going to be "well, actually..."
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Posted: Tue May 30, 2017 10:03 pm
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Moira wrote:
no lights
Seems to be a common thing among first time riders... I recall some exceptionally dark times in Discovery Park on one of my early rides when I had totally insufficient lighting
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Dan
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 10:30 am
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I found you fools on the internet before I moved to Seattle in January 2014 but it took me a few months to get up the nerve (and to stop scheduling Thursday night classes) before I was able to go on my first ride in July. We rode to North Seatac Park where Rogelio cut up a watermelon and we enjoyed some late night summer sun. Next we rode over to the Barrel, (since the Dead Baby Downhill was starting there next week) where Joby brought around a tray of shots and invited us to choose our own garnish out of a rock glass full of pickled vegetable matter. From there we mashed downhill to the Chelan and I jumped in on a song with Mohawk Mike before heading home around two AM.
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 11:19 am
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Dan, did you also forget about the DIY'd cheladas at N. Seatac Park? Or the swarms of mosquitoes which feasted upon us during our time there?
I remember that ride because soyoung was in town and on my way home from closing-out The Chelan I decided to ride up the waterfront, sat down on one of those benches north of the fishing pier, fell asleep and woke-up at sunrise. That was my first "ditch nap" experience...
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key lime
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 4:20 pm
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Date: Sometime in 07?
Destination: I don't remember
Thread: what now?
Bike: an old nishiki 10 speed w/ suntour barcons and 27" wheels
People I knew: if only I knew then what I still don't know
I had recently made the upgrade from a bicycle I'd bought at target to something that had squealy chromed wheels that don't brake good when they're wet, I taught myself how to work on bikes by upgrading too many times, and eventually had to replace when the seattube broke at the bottom bracket one day when I was biking home with a giant load of groceries in my "SEE ->-> ME" RELoad bag. I was living in a group situation in Wallingford that would later come to be known as Dino House after the cyclists took it over. I was killing myself trying to maintain something near a 4.0 GPA getting a biochem degree at UW while running a research project at the same time. There was this tall, punky biker chick that sat in the back row of the 3rd year biochemistry lecture hall by me*. She told me about some bike group that rode bikes and drank beer and had fun on Thursday nights and the idea of having fun on a school night sounded insane to me. I don't remember much of my first rides, other than the revelation that Ben the Angry Hippy used to do drugs with my cousin in rural SW Minnesota in high school, figured out while sitting at the Carkeek Fire Pit.
Later it turned out you were the people I'd seen while riding the chilly hilly with a friend, all yelling "ARRR!" and flapping jolly rogers and looking like you were having way more fun then the disapproving Cascaders. I remember wishing I could ditch my slow buddy and his dad to catch up with y'all - and eventually I did.
*Ash, does anybody know what happened to her? She used to hang out with Beard and Cass and she wasn't around much after I started to ride more often.
derrickito
Posted: Wed May 31, 2017 7:32 pm
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She was on Facebook last I saw but now I don't see her online
Might have dumped her facebook. She was good friends with denny I remember. He might know where she landed. I think she went to med school a while back
I got weirded out at the nakedness and then decided... fuck it. this is way more fun than being a responsible adult. Followed Moira and wang(?) and her dude at the time home to cap hill. He got a flat, but I pressed on after asking if they were good.
It looks like I had a pretty good time. It didn't occur to me until just now that there were pictures. This is amazing. I remember feeling weird that I didn't know anybody. Now I recognize everyone in the pictures. What a weird feeling.
The pants off dance off evoked the same reaction as LWC:
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Joined: ~ Apr 25, 2013
Destination: What turned out to be a Joby fueled Slip and Slide Ride
Bike: Giant Escape
People I knew: Only Andre G. from a drunkin encounter on the bus
I was told to meet up for a ride on any Thursday at 7 in Westlake by Andre while he was drunk on the bus. My life would never be the same.
Being out shape and not very acclimated to riding yet, I followed you weirdos into the park and was given a glass of Joby juice(I didn't know the rules yet). I woke up at home on the floor not knowing how i got there, the night was a blur.
Holy shit, didn't realize I had been riding since 2013
papapace7
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:03 am
Joined: 30 Aug 2014Posts: 190Location: Olympia, WA
I don't remember exactly when my first ride was, but I think it was in 2014. It all got started when I attended an Adventure Cycling expo hosted at Swift Industries (I think during the Spring) in Ballard, and I recognized Fancy Fred from Evergreen (it's a small college). During our conversation at that expo, he described a group of cyclist enthusiasts and their various adventures, and that led me to travel from Auburn (where I was going to school) to Seattle a Thursday night.
I was riding a Black Cannondale T-800 (stolen a year ago) at the time.
Again, I don't remember the date because I was added to the thread until at least a few weeks after the first couple of rides I did. I didn't know anyone besides Fred at the time, but if memory serves I think I might have met Ethan during that ride, since he's another TESC alumni.
What I remember most of all is (and is kind-of a cliche) my first .83 fall during my first ride, and that involves my tire becoming entrenched into a rail track in Fremont. Miraculously I was I able to jump off the bicycle and land on my feet.
Time flies.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:24 pm
Joined: 13 Dec 2005Posts: 1930Location: balls deepx
p sure it was the Sick Fuckin Rager where goss did his first blatant gossin' about
goldie
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 9:25 am
Joined: 02 Jul 2014Posts: 32
Date: 8/2/2012?
Destination: ?
Thread: ?
Bike: old peugeot single-speed fit for someone ~6" taller than myself
Introduced by: Katie G/Nick/Stephen
People I knew: Katie G/Nick/Stephen
I had just moved cross-country with a new romantic partner (Hi Brian!) like 5 days before. Being new to town, I couldn't tell you what those early ride destinations were and I honestly don't remember a lot of specifics; that was a hazy, happy-nervous time for me what with all that new partner, new side of the country, new city, new job, and new bike friends. The 3 things that stick out for me are
(1) how awesome it was being part of a giant rolling fun-times party all the time
(2) a lot of hill-induced rage, mainly directed at my partner (Hi Brian!), because both my bike and my thigh muscles were kinda shitty (and I hailed from flatlands).
(3) nudity! so much great nudity!
I don't come out as much these days, but what better way to celebrate 5 years this August than with a good old-fashioned pants-off dance-off?
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