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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 in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 15, 2011 at 8:42am

Todays Swag:

Permalink Reply by dan brown on June 15, 2011 at 8:43am

sweet. hey - do those (white) reflectors light up ? (I got one yesterday and see it has a button on it)

 

DB

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on June 15, 2011 at 8:46am
Which checkpoint had all that stuff?  My wife woosed out of riding due to the rain.  While she is a pagan she isn't THAT KIND of witch that melts in the rain -but I couldn't convince her.  I was sleeping in today but I should run out and get me one of those hats and the other neat stuff and do my morning errands.
Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 15, 2011 at 8:47am

yup, about 3 settings that I can see; solid on, dim flash, bright flash



dan brown said:

sweet. hey - do those (white) reflectors light up ? (I got one yesterday and see it has a button on it)

 

DB

Permalink Reply by dan brown on June 15, 2011 at 8:49am

there are chainlink stickers; but they go fast. they are great for bike tubes and helmets.

 

the bookmarks make great spoke cards btw (thanks julie ;-)

 

DB

James Baum said:

I spent 10 minutes trying to peel the back off of the chainlink "sticker" until I realized it wasn't a sticker.   Alcohol might have been involved.  I eventually just taped it to my tool box...
Permalink Reply by Melanie K on June 15, 2011 at 8:58am
Which stop was that? I didn't see any caps at Lincoln/Wells/Clark. Or maybe those were only for special people that belong to the secret society of cycling cap keepers.  

in it to win it said:

Todays Swag:

Permalink Reply by in it to win it 8.0 mi on June 15, 2011 at 9:08am

It was Lincoln/Wells/Clark

Also had some nice coffee with real cream and sweetener; good warmup for this AM.



James Baum said:

Which checkpoint had all that stuff?  My wife woosed out of riding due to the rain.  While she is a pagan she isn't THAT KIND of witch that melts in the rain -but I couldn't convince her.  I was sleeping in today but I should run out and get me one of those hats and the other neat stuff and do my morning errands.
Permalink Reply by Melanie K on June 15, 2011 at 9:17am
I knew it! You must be part of the secret cap keeper club- no such happy hats were there when I arrived.  Sorry, I am a big giddy with coffee today.

in it to win it said:

It was Lincoln/Wells/Clark

Also had some nice coffee with real cream and sweetener; good warmup for this AM.



James Baum said:

Which checkpoint had all that stuff?  My wife woosed out of riding due to the rain.  While she is a pagan she isn't THAT KIND of witch that melts in the rain -but I couldn't convince her.  I was sleeping in today but I should run out and get me one of those hats and the other neat stuff and do my morning errands.
Permalink Reply by Chris B on June 15, 2011 at 9:46am
I really wanted to stop by the green city market this morning to stop by the pitstop, but I wimped out and took the L, which was so crowded I wished I was on my bike after all.
Permalink Reply by JeffB on June 15, 2011 at 9:55am
They weren't out for the taking.  You had to stop at the Clif bar table and one of the people there had them.  I apppreciated the seat cover more than the cap.  But I missed out on the light-up reflectors

Melanie said:
I knew it! You must be part of the secret cap keeper club- no such happy hats were there when I arrived.  Sorry, I am a big giddy with coffee today.

in it to win it said:

It was Lincoln/Wells/Clark

Also had some nice coffee with real cream and sweetener; good warmup for this AM.



James Baum said:

Which checkpoint had all that stuff?  My wife woosed out of riding due to the rain.  While she is a pagan she isn't THAT KIND of witch that melts in the rain -but I couldn't convince her.  I was sleeping in today but I should run out and get me one of those hats and the other neat stuff and do my morning errands.
Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on June 15, 2011 at 10:06am

Day 3:

 

The Polish Triangle pit stop had the nice velcro-type pantleg keepers like last year.  I got myself a new one as well as a sweet tire patch/lever set from Rapid Transit and RT coupons.   The patch kit is nice because it come with 3 levers that snap together like the Pedro's levers but not so honking big.   3 of them take up less room than 2 Pedro's so I think the Pedro's levers will live in the tool box from now on next to the Kool-Stop jack.     

 

I also snagged a neat laminated spoke card and a bananaphone.  The reception was terrible (must have been AT$T)-so I ate it.  

 

Thanks to the Polish Triangle staffers for staying open a little past 9AM so us laggards who didn't want to get out of bed this rainy morning could still get some swaggage. 

Permalink Reply by Liz on June 15, 2011 at 11:37am
I picked up a pant leg strap and some coffee on bum island, they let me hang out and get stuff without a bike since I had crutches and an active trans membership.  I was going to grab a water bottle but didn't want to get greedy since I wasn't on bike. I was hoping to be well enough to bike in at least one day this week, but its not in the cards.

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