BTWD Ride Leaders

[Ben Kochie]

Hey, I need to start getting people signed up to lead/sweep bike to
work day rides so I can get the website up to date ahead of time.

Please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNKblRNU1VMSHRSYmkwbVdIQjd5Q1E6MQ

[Ben Kochie]

Thanks to everyone signing up so far. We have 4 bayway people and one
each for skyline and millbway. It would be nice to get one more ride
leader for the other two rides.

[Ben Kochie]

Also. Does anyone want to lead an east bayway?

[Nathan Dushman]

On May 3, 9:37 am, Ben Kochie <sup...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also. Does anyone want to lead an east bayway?

Is there demand for one? I'd consider it. I stop in Menlo Park, but
that's far enough to meet up with the standard Bayway and the timing
could work.

Nathan

[Scott Crosby]

I'd kinda favor less splintering, more mass on the main routes.  more people = more fun.

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[Jason Thorpe]

On May 3, 2012, at 10:48 AM, Scott Crosby <scr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd kinda favor less splintering, more mass on the main routes. more people = more fun.

+1 to the BTWD MEGA POSSE

-- thorpej

[Ryan Anderson]

I was kinda near the front last year on BTWD, and watching the line of
people showing up at the water stop was amazing.

It was bikes as far back as I could see, along the route.

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Ryan

[Ben Kochie]

True. I just wanted to see if anyone was planning to do it. afaik,
there isn't much demand.

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Nathan Dushman <n...@abtech.org> wrote:

[Guilherme Germoglio]

hm.. I signed up to lead skyline (or sweep, considering my speed), but it seems that the good old bayway will be more fun. 

[Nathan Davis]

I've done Skyline the last two BTWDs, and I'd be happy to help lead a ride again this year (probably sweep realistically) if needed. If not, I'll probably join the peloton for Bayway this year.

-- Nathan

[Peter Chang]

2012/5/3 Scott Crosby <scr...@gmail.com>:

> I'd kinda favor less splintering, more mass on the main routes.  more people
> = more fun.

to tie threads together, if all 1500 sf2g-ers + random
bi(cycle)-curious show up we could take over the roads on all the
major routes.

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[Julien Silland]

I was planning on doing Skyline this year again — I feel like I'm getting my share of large group rides with FFFF already and I haven't ridden Skyline in much too long. IIRC, the Skyline group was between 15 and 20 ppl, so I think there is demand for it. Happy to lead or sweep as needed (to RWC only).

-j

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[Peter Colijn]

If it's skyline yer after, come out for some rides during 5d1w. I'm
with Scott on this one, it's awesome to have a huge group riding
bayway on BTWD.

Peter

[Peter Chang]

2012/5/3 Peter Colijn <caff...@colijn.ca>:

> I'm with Scott on this one, it's awesome to have a huge group riding
> bayway on BTWD.

and we can enilyks like last year!

\p

[Ryan Anderson]

Hell, with that many we might as well just take a lane on 101.

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[Nathan Dushman]

Tying a couple things together here... the motivation for doing an
east bayway would be to allow more people - particularly those living
in the east bay - to join in the fun. I wouldn't present it as an
alternative to BTWD Bayway. However, I am thinking about substituting
a middle-east bayway for Skyline during 5D5W, since I expect to get my
fill of Skyline the week after during 5D1W.

Nathan

On May 3, 1:58 pm, Peter Colijn <caffe...@colijn.ca> wrote:
> If it's skyline yer after, come out for some rides during 5d1w. I'm
> with Scott on this one, it's awesome to have a huge group riding
> bayway on BTWD.
>
> Peter
>

[Amanda Robinson]

Two years ago, I 'led' the East Bay contingent onto BART to meet up with Bayway. That worked fine; there were only 2 other riders.

Hard to say if more people would ride down the East Bay, if that option were available. But I doubt it would really splinter many people off to offer an East Bay option--especially if the messaging is something like 'Live in the East Bay? Then do the Middle East Bayway with ___, meeting at ___ place at ___ time'

As for Skyline on BTWD... You can do Skyline any time. I'm not all that particular, especially since I'm not sure I can BTW that D, but that's just my 2¢.

[Brett Lider]

I co-led Millbway last year. I'd like to think that might earn me a Bayway lead spot this year.

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[Dan Yang (Millbrae-Santa Clara)]

I just signed up to lead a Millbway ride for BTWD...

[Peter Chang]

2012/5/3 Amanda Robinson <amanda....@gmail.com>:

> As for Skyline on BTWD... You can do Skyline any time.

last year, there were a surprising (to me) number of people doing the
skyline variant. that being said, i'm all for the bt(f)wd horde.

\p