Club rides that were rejected

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" wrote:

http://www.bebikeclub.com/tourdedonut/ is a race where at the rest stop
you can eat donuts and you get 5 minutes off for each donut. The
winner often has a negative adjusted time.

Not the only one either - This one is more local to me:
http://www.lehighwheelmen.org/events.htm#donuts

Keith

Hey - that was MY ride!

We did that for several years. We called it the "Ten Tims Tour". We
connected up all the Tim Hortdn doughnut shops in the metro Halifax
and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia area in the most efficient pattern that we
could. At each one, riders had to eat a mini-dooughnut (called a
"timbit"). They also had to drink some coffee. Since there were ten
shops, one coffee was passed around like a chalice.

We even got tot he point that we at one time got the servers to stamp
the back of a tim-bit box. They got quite annoyed so we stopped that.

The Tim Horton's locations grew in number quickly to 21. At that point
it was a very long ride and we did not finish until well into the
dark.

Then, Tim Hortons began popping up in locations requiring a lot of
extra work - such as inside malls. These would require locking bikes
and wandering through the shopping centres.
A couple then went into hospitals, then a couple onto military bases,
and then finally in both the main area of the local airport, as well
as later upstairs in the tickets only security departure lounge of the
airport.

The final nail to doing the tour came with debates over "grey" Tims.
Kiosks were installed inside gas stations. We decided that if any
staff wore the donut shop outfit then it was an outlet.

Well, there are at last count 96 Tim Hortons in Halifax! We joke that
it would not be a week-long vacation tour to connect them, not to
mention the coffee -induced hysteria.

Gary Conrod
Halifax, Canada



On 4 Feb 2005 18:41:43 -0800, "Veloise"
wrote:

I need to find the old narrative from a club in Canada. They did an
all-night ride and hit **every** Tim Horton;\'s (donut shop) in the
metro. The rule was: they had to buy and eat something at every stop.
So they had some TimBits, and a TimPie, and some TimWater...

--Karen M.
happy to find lead articles on UseNet

Gary wrote:
Hey - that was MY ride!

Dang, I miss the Editor's Scrapbook in The Magazine Published By The
Organization That Used to be Known as L.A.W.

Of course these "rides" are going into my current rag, a local club
newsletter.


--Karen M.
backslid, but loving PageMaker over X-acto knives

Mike Kruger wrote:
I'm a club newsletter editor. Next issue we publish the new
ride schedule. I'd like to do a humorous sidebar on ride ideas
that were rejected. ...

It's in my newsletter, and gone to press. Hooray for the
bazillion-piece clip art CD! (Hotdog, coffee, donut, crash, beer
bottle, C-store, etc.)

I headed the piece by suggesting club members check out
useNet/Google groups. "Not spending enough time on the internet?"

--Karen M.
if my hardware would make a PDF, I'd upload it for all to enjoy...

Veloise wrote:
--Karen M.
if my hardware would make a PDF, I'd upload it for all to enjoy...

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-Buck

"Veloise" wrote in message
oups.com...
Mike Kruger wrote:
I'm a club newsletter editor. Next issue we publish the
new
ride schedule. I'd like to do a humorous sidebar on ride
ideas
that were rejected. ...

It's in my newsletter, and gone to press. Hooray for the
bazillion-piece clip art CD! (Hotdog, coffee, donut, crash,
beer
bottle, C-store, etc.)

I headed the piece by suggesting club members check out
useNet/Google groups. "Not spending enough time on the
internet?"

--Karen M.
if my hardware would make a PDF, I'd upload it for all to
enjoy...

My version is posted at
http://journals.aol.com/mikekr/ZbicyclistsZlog/
Getting pictures into an AOL blog isn't particularly easy, so
I didn't put my clip art in there.