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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Drop ride\, the second installment!
CONTACT:Mark (usually seen on a tall bike)
DESCRIPTION:Cancelled\, rescheduled for sept 5th for\nDROP RIDE.\n\n  
 There was a bit of confusion last time\, some people thought the entire 
 description was a joke and it would be a "normal pedalpalooza ride" and 
 many others genuinely thought I was just going to take off full blast and 
 drop everyone\, which is also incorrect. I like to ride bikes fast\, and I
  also like to ride bikes with my friends\, this ride is the fastest ride 
 on the pedalpalooza calendar that I know of\, rolling at 18 mph on the 
 flats a speed at which others who ride quickly on a regular basis can not 
 get dropped\, but we will be going hard up the hills\, and I will wait at 
 the top of hills a bit\, but people will also be dropped. Last ride 
 started with 45 or so people and ended with 20-25...\n\nAre you looking 
 for a safe ride during which you won’t get dropped?!?\n\nNeither am 
 I!\n\nNo drop rides are great\, this is not one of those.\n\nAm I leading 
 the ride? That implies I won’t be trying to ditch all of you!\n\nRoute is 
 ~20 miles and 1800’ of climbing because there’s no better place to drop 
 people than in the hills!\n\nTo be honest\, you can actually drop people 
 really effectively by running red lights and stop signs too\, but I’m 
 pretty sure we’re not supposed to talk about that in ride 
 descriptions?\n\nAnyone that shows up with their buddy to make a little 
 team to try to breakaway is doing it wrong and they will be excommunicated
  from the ride\, every other person on the ride is your enemy\, bonus 
 points if you believe you are also your enemy! There will be no 
 alliances\, only drilling\, you drop people with your legs\, not your 
 brain.\n\nTypically you're not supposed to pass the ride leader on rides\,
  but if people aren’t passing me on this ride I’m going to be big mad! 
 This ride will not be a success unless I get dropped! This ride is all 
 about the dropping!\n\nLastly\, this ride is not a joke\, and it is a 
 joke\, but it will also actually happen\, and people will get dropped\, I 
 will be on my road bike\, but won’t go as far as wearing spandex (EDIT: I 
 have received specific instruction from Rudy to get after it\, so I need 
 to wear my Jersey that is specifically reserved for such occasions\, so I 
 have to wear spandex with it)\, but we will regroup at the top of hills\, 
 unless we don't.\n\n We will actually have a couple stops to 
 regroup\n\nThere may be a plaid pantry stop if everyone wants to have a 
 mountain dew shot gunning contest\, but only if every person is in the 
 contest. OHHHH\, I just realized that I could drop so many people with a 
 fake store stop!!!! Pull in\, wait like 20 seconds then just full blast 
 sprint through a red light\, GONE! Up! The! road! But now that I've tipped
  my hand I can see pulling in for the store stop and me immediately 
 getting boxed in/corked so I can't pull this off?\n\nI just had a pretty 
 uncomfortable thought\, is it not actually all about the dropping? Maybe 
 the dropping is just an excuse to go so hard that your brain kicks down 
 that primo cocktail of endorphins that puts the rosiest of tints on the 
 world around us? Why do we need an excuse to do that? I could ramble on 
 about the fact that we don’t actually need an excuse to do that but that 
 would probably get a little deeper than is warranted in a Pedal Palooza 
 ride description\, so for now\, we are going to acknowledge that we do 
 need an excuse to do this\, and this ride is that excuse!\n\nThe route 
 will be from Ladds\, over Tabor\, over Rocky Butte\, back over Rocky 
 Butte\, then back over tabor back to Ladds\, so people could shorten it by
  not dropping down the north side of Rocky Butte and coming back 
 up.\n\nLastly\, it is undignified to use one's lack of a freewheel or 
 gears as an excuse for getting dropped.\n\nHere is a link to a ride with 
 GPS track of the ride\, https://ridewithgps.com/trips/124366717\n\nHope 
 you like riding bikes!\nMeet at 5:45 roll at 6:15\nEnds at Ladds 
 Circle\nhttps://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-17788
LOCATION:Ladds circle\nTBA
STATUS:CANCELLED
DTSTART:20230830T004500Z
DTEND:20230830T022800Z
CREATED:20230820T225707Z
DTSTAMP:20230820T225707Z
SEQUENCE:5
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