YES! but only if TONY DANZA comes along. god DAMN I love me some TONY FUCKING DANZA!
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langston
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:06 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
So this has been percolating on another thread, I wanted to make it it's own and grow legs.
The Precept: 24 Hours on a bike.
The Goal: Raise some money to put kids on bikes, win prizes and damage your taint. Also celebrate my 27th birthday.
Where: Indoor and out, Indoor location TBD with snacks, movies, beer, painkillers, and of course rollers for inclement weather/darkness/personal safety
What will I do for 24 hours?! : Ride your bike. Learn to pee into a bottle. Do pushups if you fall off. Ride on organized lap trips to get miles on your feet and to keep you busy, rollers when you get tired.
Save the Date. 1.20.07
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Aaron
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:57 pm
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I hate when people say, "save the date". Fucking annoying. This ride does not sound like fun. I tried it once. What are you going to do if you have to take a shit? I don't think TBC will approve.
lantius
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:01 pm
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i suspect if they need to take a shit, aaron, they will ride by your lawn. then you can yell at them to get off it!
Aaron
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:05 pm
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I was just joking! Was I being grumpier that Lt. Sean?
The ride sounds like fun.....for a while.....then later not so fun.
So Langie-Dangy, what date should I save?
I vote for starting in the evening that way when you have to sleep when it is over, it will be at night.
jillita
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:34 pm
Joined: 13 Oct 2005Posts: 744Location: the westside
I think a 24hr race is something this city totally needs to see. It'd be even more rad (and get more $$ as a bennyfit) to open it up to squids and TBC and whothehellever wants to ride. Having been the den mother to friends who did 24 Hours of Canaan, I have to suggest having it all outside, like a big loop around town. If you do it inside you'll have kittens being sacrificed and big pink elephants doing bad things to Derrick. Outside, you could have a 20 mile loop with checkpoints and if people want to hallucinate they can have all the space they need and even crawl under a tree to cry.
Or we can just have a 24 Hour Party People moviethon and wait for the new Joy Division movie to come out.
Hayduke
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:07 pm
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New Joy Division Movie? Do tell...
joby
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:14 pm
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My 24-hour-bike ride suggestions:
1) Let's go some place. Staying inside or doing a loop over and over again sounds really boring.
2) Let's start early in the morning. Staying awake the day after you stay up all night is really tough.
3) Let's not be pedantic about staying on the bike every single second. If I need to take a shit, I'm going to use a toilet. If the only food available is in a grocery store, I'm going to walk in to the grocery store.
jillita
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:16 pm
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Hayduke wrote:
New Joy Division Movie? Do tell...
There was a lot of press about the film coming together last year. It will be based on his widow's book, "Touching from a Distance," which wouldn't exactly help nominate Ian for any Husband-of-the-Year awards. She's a co-producer too, so it should be factually accurate. I'd like to assume they've begun filming. Maybe out next year? more
badhill
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:25 pm
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Yes! Seattle to Bellingham to Seattle!
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dashap
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:47 pm
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Teams? What about teams? If it isn't a point-to-point, Seattle-Bellingham-Seattle kind of thing, maybe we could do like teams of four riding all the hell around town with sleep and drinking breaks for 2 or 3 of the members of each team while the other one(s) pedal furiously.
Finn
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:19 pm
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Spirit of the challenge:
"No one can spend 24 hours a day on a bike."
Y'all remember that movie, Cool Hand Luke? 50 eggs? Well, I couldn't beleve 700 cyclists weren't ready to step up to such a challenge when I first read it. So I called it out. I believe it can be done, and I'm prepared to try and to fail. I'm not looking for a macho death race, but if it was easy, everyone would do it, right? Let's get cushy bikes and ride them really slow untill it ceases to be a good idea. If somebody makes it 24 hours, awesome. If somebody takes five to move their bowels, fine. Consider it a long, unsanitary stoplight. I only mentioned the piss jar for dramatic effect. In my book, the only thing cooler than riding 24 hours is riding 20 and finding out it's a challenge fit for a tougher man* than I. It's an experiment, not a walk-a-thon, friends!
Love, Alabama
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badhill
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:22 pm
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Finn wrote:
Spirit of the challenge:
"No one can spend 24 hours a day on a bike."
Y'all remember that movie, Cool Hand Luke? 50 eggs? Well, I couldn't beleve 700 cyclists weren't ready to step up to such a challenge when I first read it. So I called it out. I believe it can be done, and I'm prepared to try and to fail. I'm not looking for a macho death race, but if it was easy, everyone would do it, right? Let's get cushy bikes and ride them really slow untill it ceases to be a good idea. If somebody makes it 24 hours, awesome. If somebody takes five to move their bowels, fine. Consider it a long, unsanitary stoplight. I only mentioned the piss jar for dramatic effect. In my book, the only thing cooler than riding 24 hours is riding 20 and finding out it's a challenge fit for a tougher man* than I. It's an experiment, not a walk-a-thon, friends!
Love, Alabama
*or woman
I already said yes damnit. Doing things until they're not fun anymore is the heart of science. And damned if I'm not a scientificist.
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gsbarnes
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:59 pm
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joby wrote:
My 24-hour-bike ride suggestions:
1) Let's go some place. Staying inside or doing a loop over and over again sounds really boring.
2) Let's start early in the morning. Staying awake the day after you stay up all night is really tough.
3) Let's not be pedantic about staying on the bike every single second. If I need to take a shit, I'm going to use a toilet. If the only food available is in a grocery store, I'm going to walk in to the grocery store.
Agreed with 2 and 3. For 1, as I've already said, I'm willing to alternate a safe indoor space with forays into the outer world. And if it's really in January, the weather has the potential to really and truly suck --- remember the Inauguration Day storm (1993)? Another reason to have an indoor safe area.
Doesn't the Guinness Book of Records have guidelines for similar endurance events? E.g., 5 minute breaks every hour? Or maybe I'm thinking of Hands on a Hard Body (another very apropos movie about a contest where the last person to take both of their hands off a truck wins: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0116481/).
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lantius
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:59 am
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the best time to start this is around 6pm. then, 24 hours later, it's 6pm again and just getting dark, so you are ready to go to bed and wake up solidly rested the next day. the hardest part of staying awake a full day, imo, is when it starts to get dark again your body really, really wants to you to go to sleep.
having pulled 24h (and 48h) stints at programmering i am pretty convinced this is not something that i want to participate in. but i will show up and provide support for a good chunk of it.
Stanglor
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:37 am
Joined: 28 Jan 2006Posts: 555Location: Wallingford
I did 24 hours on a bike on the Burke back in high school. I was doing a fund raiser for M.S. I second Lee's start just before it gets dark comment.
It's kinda cool, but it will suck. Pain killers and coffee will be your very best friends.
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dashap
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:45 am
professorJoined: 21 Jun 2006Posts: 1566Location: central district
Seriously, sure, count me in. I think that noon to noon would be best; then we wouldn't have to start right off into the dark. But I would defer to people who have lots more experience than me with staying up all night doing anything productive.
piratemolly
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:18 am
Joined: 25 Aug 2006Posts: 533Location: here, there, everywhere
ok so you've all got some good things already mentioned.
bathroom & purchasing food breaks: required
(i think i could eat while riding a bike?)
cushy bikes: yes!
raising money (collecting donactions for needy kids who want bikes): yes!
you could get bikeworks/bikery/bike shops involved, and invite EVERYONE.
because i think it's a darn good idea for any squidiot to ride a bike for as long as they can in support of langston's birthday.
also: i'm in. it's fucking stupid for my body, but i'll do it.
also: langston, if you need help in getting fundraising paperwork etc etc, i can help out.
mike.hahn
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:46 am
Joined: 20 Jan 2006Posts: 203
Maybe we can get sponsored by the makers of these:
freemywrld
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:22 am
Joined: 30 May 2006Posts: 374Location: Lost
I fear not the 24 hours of wakefulness (started the ride 2 weeks ago having already been awake 28 hours... got home right about the 36 hour mark) but I am definitely in favor of not trying to break our asses on some crazy hill climb marathon. Comfy bikes, plenty of pit stops, and maybe some fun activities along the way is the way to go. If this is on a weekend that isn't in the next 2 weeks, then I'm game. Otherwise, I work too much and will have to bail short of the 24 hour mark.
As far as start times go.. I've done all day after being up all night, all night after being up all day, and half days on either side of the dark. Being awake 24 hours and beyond tough no matter how you slice it. Oh, and if you start drinking, its best not to stop - just maintain - otherwise the wave of sleepies is painfully lame (for me, at least). PBR toast at sunrise!
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SeditiousCanary
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:59 am
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freemywrld wrote:
I fear not the 24 hours of wakefulness
Ditto that. My personal record is about 60 hours without sleep, one hour nap, 18 hours no sleep, one hour nap, 18 hours no sleep, 8 hours sleep.
Oh, the joys of breaking up with your girlfriend after Christmas, moving cross country by plane, and going to a Sci-Fi convention with your friends and screwing a skinhead girl.
langston
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:28 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
Seattle Weekly is IN as our first sponsor! They're kicking in advertising space, and notes on the website. I wouldn't be suprised that if/when this gets larger they pony up in addition.
I'm looking for more sponsors:
Web site design: critical for encouraging other sponsors and adding credibility
An Indoor location for the overnight and when the weather is yuck, and to host the awarding.
Schwag (duh)
Chances to promote to other cycling groups and communities. Cascade, Randoneurs, etc. The indoor location will ideally allow the posting of signs and banners
Food & drink : 24hrs is a A LONG TIME. People will be needing food and if we can feed them it would be a great chance for branding within a loyal and desirable demo.
Stanglor
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:28 pm
Joined: 28 Jan 2006Posts: 555Location: Wallingford
If you can get your shit together/ducks in a row you could try hitting up Cycle U for the indoor portion. They have space and are just off the BG trail.
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langston
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:42 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
Stanglor wrote:
If you can get your shit together/ducks in a row you could try hitting up Cycle U for the indoor portion. They have space and are just off the BG trail.
I just talked to Craig at Cycle U. He found the idea exciting and was into it and he had some great bits of advice to share.
Their space has room for about 20 cyclists at a time, which I think would be a bit too small for our needs. I hope it is, at least! They might be up for a sponsor spot as things develop. I'm going to hit them up for a gift certificate for one of their training classes once I have a proper mediakit assembled. Thanks for the lead, Jamie.
gsbarnes
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:00 pm
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langston wrote:
Stanglor wrote:
If you can get your shit together/ducks in a row you could try hitting up Cycle U for the indoor portion. They have space and are just off the BG trail.
I just talked to Craig at Cycle U. He found the idea exciting and was into it and he had some great bits of advice to share.
Their space has room for about 20 cyclists at a time, which I think would be a bit too small for our needs. I hope it is, at least! They might be up for a sponsor spot as things develop. I'm going to hit them up for a gift certificate for one of their training classes once I have a proper mediakit assembled. Thanks for the lead, Jamie.
Speaking of Sand Point, I'd ask the CycleU guys or Cascade whether they think you could grab one of those old hangars for the event. That should be enough room, and they put on short-term events there all the time (Bike Expo, for example).
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bobhall
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:18 pm
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I like the idea of a ride up to Bellingham as part of the ride. Shit, we've got 24 hours to kill, so why not? I know that route the like back of my hand, and it actually wouldn't be that bad in the dark as long as there's a big group of bikers.
gsbarnes
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:18 pm
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bobhall wrote:
I like the idea of a ride up to Bellingham as part of the ride. Shit, we've got 24 hours to kill, so why not? I know that route the like back of my hand, and it actually wouldn't be that bad in the dark as long as there's a big group of bikers.
I'd really rather have the option of not going through the Puget Sound Convergence Zone twice on January 20, 2007. Maybe the weather will be great, but I certainly wouldn't count on it.
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langston
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:21 pm
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bobhall wrote:
I like the idea of a ride up to Bellingham as part of the ride. Shit, we've got 24 hours to kill, so why not? I know that route the like back of my hand, and it actually wouldn't be that bad in the dark as long as there's a big group of bikers.
yeah...um no. On your birthday you can get your friend's lost and exhausted in terrible weather. We're throwing this party in town, where we can hide inside when the weather turns to shit.
bobhall
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:18 pm
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langston wrote:
bobhall wrote:
I like the idea of a ride up to Bellingham as part of the ride. Shit, we've got 24 hours to kill, so why not? I know that route the like back of my hand, and it actually wouldn't be that bad in the dark as long as there's a big group of bikers.
yeah...um no. On your birthday you can get your friend's lost and exhausted in terrible weather. We're throwing this party in town, where we can hide inside when the weather turns to shit.
Wuss!
langston
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:20 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
bobhall wrote:
langston wrote:
bobhall wrote:
I like the idea of a ride up to Bellingham as part of the ride. Shit, we've got 24 hours to kill, so why not? I know that route the like back of my hand, and it actually wouldn't be that bad in the dark as long as there's a big group of bikers.
yeah...um no. On your birthday you can get your friend's lost and exhausted in terrible weather. We're throwing this party in town, where we can hide inside when the weather turns to shit.
Wuss!
hardly. I actually want people to come to my party. Good luck finding 10 people to do that ride in mid-january.
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:33 pm
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langston wrote:
hardly. I actually want people to come to my party. Good luck finding 10 people to do that ride in mid-january.
Let alone commit to riding for 24 hours straight.
TrikerTrev
Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:55 am
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Anybody opposed to the addition of a triker on this touture test?
If no, then i'm game. I really don't care about the route...i'm not scared of the PSCZ..it's fucking Jan anyway, the weather is likely gonna suck ass either way ya go. I'm guessin theres no support vehicles if ya bust something?
Not to mention the date is right around my b-day too, so it's personal ta boot!
langston
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:12 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
So after seeing the Bat Cave, can anyone point me towards who to talk to about having the indoor portion of the 24hr Ride based out of there?
oh, and can I get a sticky?
henry
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:26 pm
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Is this going to be sticky for the better part of two months? That's pretty sticky, like Pooh's Paws.
I think this sounds totally FABOO!! I'd prefer an actual destination because I have a short attention span & I too would like to take a crap if needed. You could do stopwatches if you want to be exact about riding 24 hours. If you stop to "drop the kids off at the pool" & it takes 10 minutes, then thats 10 minutes of riding you have to make up. As far as support goes, I,m sure you could round up some people who want to help but don't want to injure ther taints.
langston
Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:32 am
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lantius wrote:
having pulled 24h (and 48h) stints at programmering i am pretty convinced this is not something that i want to participate in. but i will show up and provide support for a good chunk of it.
Gotta go with Lee and Aaron on this. I've had enough experience with sleep deprivation combined with physical exercise to know it's rough. I may do it, I may not.
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TrikerTrev
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:21 am
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Bout time y'all stickied this...jeeze-us!
I'm down with the Sea/Bel/Sea or something idea 'cause single point destinations are easier mentally to reach then an ass load of laps. Having the ability to stop for deposits, chow, drinks, ect should be a given. Starting in the evening would probably be the best since we'd only have to fight the sleep urge during the first night, thus safer.
My concern...If we do a point-to-point ride through an area that is'nt accustomed seeing a bunch of freaks on bikes in the middle of the night puts the accident factor is pretty high...even higher if the weather goes to shit. I don't know what route we would take, but I'd rather be safe while being tired, cold and in pain; Thus a localized ride might be a better plan.
Could someone put together some route maps we could all chew on?
langston
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:05 pm
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 5547Location: Columbia City
DamnageD wrote:
Could someone put together some route maps we could all chew on?
Taking offers for Ride Captains. PM me if interested.
I'd like to send something off every 3 or 4 hours with a "bell lap" on a few rides. Captain gets to pick their favorite ride and will get a tshirt or something special.
I'm envisioning a version of your traditional alley cat race; but a meta-checkpoint race, with each ride having a stamp. This way no one is racing anything but exhaustion.
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