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BTW Week: Swag

Day One:  

  • Yummy Caribou(?) coffee and Cliff bars -NOM!
  • Sweet hydration bottles filled with fliers and goodies (no stickers though, unfortunately.)
  • Nice people and a handy mechanic to lend a helping hands to those who might need it.
  • XRT/ATA/MoS&I-branded cuff clip (although both mine and my wife's fell off the first half mile after the pit stop :(  I think we need some training on how to put these things on.  I'm used to the old-fashioned velcro-type.

Not too bad!

 

Kinzie is not yet finished all the way to Wells.  It's only the first 1/4-mile East of Milwaukee and then it is back to the same-old same-old bumper-car course. 

 

Right now they are talking about BTW week on WBEZ.  It'll be a good week.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Kenseth on June 17, 2011 at 11:36am

LOL @ "leaves".    Also, my girlfriend gets the leg strap.  She always bothers me to borrow mine.  Thanks ATA.  What a great day to ride in on Kinzie, get food and relax in the sun. 

 

PS.  Look to Jackson for the next buffered bike lane ;)


James Baum said:

He might need a wide-angle lens and require putting the extra leaves into the table to get it all on there!

 

I've been trying not to be too greedy this year.  So far I've kept it down to 4 water bottles between the wife and I, 4 leg straps, some stickers (and non-stickers "bookmarks" that turn into stickers if you put packing tape over them!) a patch kit, a bunch of literature and a spoke card, and let's not forget gallons of coffee and other foodstuffs.  The Cliff Bars are yummy but the banana and other fruit was by far the better morning breaking-fast choice. 

I've got enough water bottles to last the year I think -but I'd love to get more stickers/patches/buttons/blkinkies, and maybe a hat or T-shirt or something like that.  Hopefully the 2 hours I spent yesterday afternoon rebuilding the crap plastic SRAM twistgrip that claymored on me earlier in the morning will hold up and I won't have to ride home again on a 90 Gear-Inch single-speed.

 

Permalink Reply by Mark Kenseth on June 17, 2011 at 11:52am

Great t-shirt!



David Barish said:

Kudos to the designer of this year's BTW Rally T shirt.  I  like the hint of the Chicago flag with the star and city colors inside the bike wheel.  Its very cool, very Chicago and very cycle. Its always great to see hundreds of different kinds of bikes and bikers milling around the plaza.
Permalink Reply by Tiberculosis on June 17, 2011 at 12:53pm

Awesome design, we'll see how it translates into an awesome t-shirt. There's a reason you generally don't see shirts with images this big on them, shirt can't breathe through all that ink. I'll save mine for cooler days.

Permalink Reply by Stephanie on June 17, 2011 at 1:51pm

This whole week was a ton of fun for me, being pretty brand new to the bike commuting thing. I really pushed myself to ride more often than I normally do, including to the rally today, and I made friends with many lovely people this week.

 

And I got myself a kickass t-shirt!

Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 23, 2011 at 9:54pm
When do competition results show? My company had about 50 riders; cool imo.
We are starting an annual traveling trophy for male/female riders with most miles for btww. I took many long routes last week, find out tomorrow!
Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 24, 2011 at 1:29pm

Yup, got the most miles trophy for our company.  Only 105 for the week, but I'll take it.

We did have 51 riders which is up from 23 in 2010; hopefully we can double again next year!

 

Permalink Reply by Rich S on June 24, 2011 at 3:26pm

Our company went from 5 last year to I believe 10 this year so not a huge turnout but we have only about 45 or so employees. 

 

On a positive note, at the B2WW pitstop we volunteered at, some nice rider gave us some seat covers.  He mentioned that his daughter had hand-made them.  It was raining that day too so it came in handy as I had been using a Jewel bag all along.   

in it to win it said:

Yup, got the most miles trophy for our company.  Only 105 for the week, but I'll take it.

We did have 51 riders which is up from 23 in 2010; hopefully we can double again next year!

 

Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 24, 2011 at 3:32pm
That's awesome and thanks for volunteering.  This was probably the worst btww weather in recent history...

Rich S said:

Our company went from 5 last year to I believe 10 this year so not a huge turnout but we have only about 45 or so employees. 

 

On a positive note, at the B2WW pitstop we volunteered at, some nice rider gave us some seat covers.  He mentioned that his daughter had hand-made them.  It was raining that day too so it came in handy as I had been using a Jewel bag all along.   

in it to win it said:

Yup, got the most miles trophy for our company.  Only 105 for the week, but I'll take it.

We did have 51 riders which is up from 23 in 2010; hopefully we can double again next year!

 

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