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Bikes and Riddles: Easter Alleycat Team-up · Monday, April 18th, 2022

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Organized by: Settare Shariati.

Start: Monday, Apr. 18th, 11:00 am
End: Monday, Apr. 18th, 3:00 pm
Pre-trip meeting location: over email

Description:

An Alleycat is a bicycle race that's meant to simulate a day of bike messenger work. It can be a competitive event, or a casual urban scavenger hunt type of event where you bike from place to place, solving riddles and finding clues showing you where to go next. It's tons of fun as a group activity.

There are some cool folks in Vancouver's urban bike scene, and one of them (Tyrone Siglos) is organizing monthly Alleycats, the first of which on the upcoming Easter Monday. There's going to be a competitive and a casual group, with an entrance fee of 15$ and 10$ respectively.

The competitive one is recommended if you're a fast, confident city cyclist with no fear of cars (but you're going to lose to the actual bike messengers anyway). The casual category will be more like a scavenger hunt around a neighbourhood, with some riddles and clues leading us to some nifty things we may have never noticed before.

I'm going to join the casual group, and I thought it might be nice to team up with some VOCers to do it together as a team. If you're looking for a fun way to spend a couple of hours outside and on a bike, you should join me! All bikes and abilities are welcome. I encourage anyone who wants to get into biking but doesn't have friends to ride with or is new to the area to join, and feel free to reach out to me or to the organizer directly if there are any questions.

What you need:
- A functioning bike
- A phone with a navigation app
- Snacks
- Rain gear just in case


There won't be a pre-trip (as this is an independantly organized event, not by me), and I'll probably send an email closer to the date to figure out where to meet up before the race.

If there are people interested in doing the competitive race and want to find each other, you can also use the sign-up tool - but who are you kidding, you're in it to win it yourself so you probably don't want to team up with anyone.

 

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Hope to see you there!

Posted: 2022-03-29 10:51:52
Last modified: 2022-03-29 13:17:59